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How much did you enjoy the Hayti Heritage Film Festival this year? Let #HHFF Know and enter a raffle for a Spring 2021 Tall Grass Food Box! #HHFF2021 #TheHerosJourney #BSFY

Monét Noelle Marshall stays imagining the possibilities and has challenged "Black people to share their dreams and how many stimulus checks it would take to make it happen" on her Instagram page Monday, March 15th 2021, as the $1400 stimulus checks begin to roll in. Our DREAM to launch the inaugural Live from the Fayetteville Street Corridor: an Art & Business Walk in the Historic Hayti District is being realized come Third Friday, April 16th 2021. It will take SIX (6) stimmies to purchase: 5 Amethyst (Purple) Tents 6 Card Tables 5 Chromebooks, 1 iPad Pro, and a dedicated MIFI device 6 Sets of String Lights 5 Boxes of Post-It Notes, Signage, and Printing Materials 6 Mobile Magnetic White Boards and make this DREAM a reality. If you're interested in investing in Our DREAM, there are five (5) ways you can do it: 1. Become a patron at our newly launched BE CONNECTED DURHAM PATREON site: 2. CashApp: $AngelDozier and add BCD LIVE from the FSC in the memo line.* 3. VenMo: @Angel-Dozier and add BCD LIVE from the FSC in the memo line.* 4. PayPal: angel@isetacademy.com and add BCD LIVE from the FSC in the memo line. 5. For large gifts that must follow 501c3 regulations, you may invest through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas at BE CONNECTED DURHAM & BEYOND . * While I tend to remain private about money matters, should you decide to invest via CashApp or VenMo, I ask you to do so publicly so that we can acknowledge this public gift. It's also important for our tax records :). I've got Amethyst Dreams to remember and I'm grateful to Monét for inspiring us all to dream wide awake. LIVE from the FSC is a response to the feelings of unwelcome and exclusion many of our neighbors experience after having attended art walk events on Third Fridays in Downtown Durham. This project is not to shame nor blame the status quo, but to model what equitable engagement looks like in order to restore mobility on the Fayetteville Street Corridor, to acknowledge the creative genius of our neighbors in the Hayti District, and to honor our ancestors who found infinite, creative ways to survive through extremely limited access and opportunity. In exchange, an offering I've established as my life's work, Manifesto as a Conceptual Teaching Artist, at North Carolina Central University's Teaching Artist Certificate Program , created & directed by Lenora Z Helm Hammonds : Artistic Prescription for Community™ to Realize Dreams Opening Soundscape: Dreams to Remember x Otis Redding Yoga: 30-Minute Yoga for Total Beginners x Jessamyn Stanley Meditation: Dust II Onyx: a Melanated Tarot Deck x Courtney Alexander XI Justice, Their Eyes Were Watching Gods, 2017 "Seek the truth that comes from Source instead of simply relying on collective biases to make your decisions or form your judgements. Use higher guidance to bring your life and relationships back into a state of equilibrium." pp. 39-40 Reality Check: their eyes were watching god x ZORA NEALE HURSTON "Janie stood where he left her for unmeasured time and thought. She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over." p. 72 Literary Art: We Will Not Cancel US and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown "... Instead of prison bars we place each other in an overflowing box of untouchables--often with no trial-- and strip us of past and future, of the complexity of being gifted and troubled, brilliant and broken. We will set down this punitive measure and pick each other up, leaving no traumatized person behind. We will not cancel us. But we must earn our place on this earth." p. 76 Closing Soundscape: Springtime Again x Sun Ra , Sleeping Beauty Thank you for your support. Angel Iset Dozier , Founder & Principal at Iset Excelsior LLC DBA Be Connected Durham

The content on our current website does not reflect the over 150 successful, 85% having been sold-out, artists & cultural worker events we've curated since 2015. We are building capacity, restructuring our mission statement and values, and are in the process of launching Live From the Fayetteville Street Corridor: an Arts & Business Walk on Third Fridays beginning April 16th. In the meantime, connect with us on Facebook and Instagram at @beconnecteddurham. Be Connected Durham is now fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas as Be Connected Durham & Beyond to reflect our upcoming projects and expansion throughout rural communities, beginning with Franklinton, NC in July 2021.

We‘ve been here since 2015. How do you engage a target audience around HIV cure research? We answered Dr. Allison Mathews’ question with hip hop music, live painting, and artistic expression wherein the audience became the creative problem solvers. We’ll be telling this story over the next few weeks, leading up to our three year anniversary. Come Be Connected and get so much more. Photograph: a love note left by a visitor after attending a Be Connected event on October 23, 2017. #onaTuesday

PATHWAYS TO CONNECTION, THE REIMAGINE DURHAM FREEWAY STUDY  PHASE 2 OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT HAPPENING NOW! A playbook of potential strategies for the corridor has been developed based on feedback from Phase 1 and is now available for the community to discuss. Click here  to download the Phase 2 handout to learn about the potential strategies and other study updates. Provide your feedback on potential strategies for the Durham Freeway in a new online survey at bit.ly/ptc2024survey . Which strategies do you want to see in your neighborhood? How should strategies be prioritized to meet your community’s needs? The survey is available until December 13. BIKE AND WALK PLAN UPDATE PHASE 2 KICKOFF The Bike+Walk Plan Update is kicking off their community outreach to learn from you where Durham can make improvements for safer biking and walking. The survey closes on January 17, 2025 and below is everything you need to contribute your thoughts to safer biking and walking in our community. bit.ly/durhambikewalk CURRENT SURVEY - MAP YOUR IDEAS survey is open until January 17, 2025 PROJECT PAGE

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Another product of the 2017-2018 grassroots effort to establish an equitable engagement policy within the City of Durham About the Course About the 1st Cohort and Tonight's Presenters

#accessibility #disability #inclusion #neurodiversity Be Connected Durham and the Fayetteville Street Corridor Fellows are committed to making all events and programming inclusive and accessible to all residents of Durham, including our community members with disabilities. If there is anything we can provide to ensure you have access to fully participate, please reach out to our accessibility advisor, Ashley Robbins, at ashley.robbins@duke.edu. Thank you to the City of Durham NIS Equitable Community Engagement (ECE) with the Department of Transportation for your continual support of this important work.

#HaytiStories #HaytiReborn "I wish I had protested..."

#HaytiStories #HaytiReborn "We've got to stop the stealing of this land from African Americans. I will fight until the end for this neighborhood."

#HaytiStories #HaytiReborn “Hayti is on the verge of being completely wiped out if we are not careful”

#HaytiStories #HaytiReborn "Hayti will be gone if we don’t talk about it…"