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Describe the Raising the level of literacy in the arts is an act of social justice. Boca community benefits de Oro Festival is a project building a pipeline to a more literate of this event culture within the city of Santa Ana. Organizers recognized a void and envisioned a space where youth, students, local artists, residents, local colleges, grassroots art collectives as well as local art institutions could come together to learn about one another, to promote, and share opportunities to perform their stories through all available artistic mediums, thus Boca de Oro was born. The project is a pipeline project to build a literary culture and the belief is that all art creates literacy and allows us to better understand and navigate the world. Boca de Oro welcomes over 5,000 students from local schools, colleges and more and has hosted over 100 BIPOC Authors a year since it began. Seeing is believing and the creation of a community commons where students can meet their future professors from local colleges and professional artists in every field builds relationships that create a pipeline for the youth in our community to aspire to. The event makes visible the amazing talent right here in Santa Ana as we'll as within the Orange County Region. This event engages people at every age, every race creed and color. Amount Requested 7000.0 Proposed Use of These funds will pay over 32 artists honorarium. The curatorial Funds function of these artists, authors is to bring together a themed event for the day of Boca de Oro. They bring together artist, poets, writers and other specialist areas. Curators develop ways in which presentations, performances and artworks can be interpreted, through the event exhibitions and or presentations. Their work involves organizing exhibitions and presentation, arranging artist line ups, identifying themes. All of these tasks require curators to work with fellow artists and colleagues through conversation, education, pulling together collateral for promotion including bios, headshots, and assisting with design and marketing of the event as well as attending meetings with organizers, communicating with artists and preparing them for the day of the event. One example is the Global Voices which has participated each year with writing workshops and last year brought over 50 artists from around the world to share their amazing poetry the event curators included Kit Bacon Gressit and Sara Marchant from Writers Resist Collective.