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fully realize our vision for an extraordinary event on South Main, which will introduce Santa Ana residents to transformative and lifelong creative and professional opportunities and technology - based creative career pathways. Since this is a new event for which we are requesting support, we have not yet added it to our website. If you visit our website, however, you will find substantial evidence that Media Arts has the capacity to present this event. MASA has successfully presented numerous public festivals, such as the OC Film Fiesta (now.in its 13th year), OC Dia del Nino Festival and the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival. We also have numerous years' experience providing classes and workshops focusing on digital media arts instruction and in utilizing Adobe Creative Cloud apes. Media Arts Santa Ana has also partnered with an extensive number of Santa Ana organizations, which we will invite to participate in this event, such as SAUSD, OC Musicians Union, Santa Ana Digital Media Center, Santa Ana College, Bowers Museum, Orange County School of the Arts, Arts Orange County and the Mexican Consulate, among others. The four months leading up to June 25 are sufficient time to organize, promote and present the SMART Walk. For this project, we will be engaging accomplished digital media artists to provide classes in creating Augmented Reality works, such as interactive computer art pioneer Lucia Grossberger Morales (aka Cyber Chica), who was one of the first women of color hired by Apple Computer. She was also the Coordinator of The Silicon Valley Festival of Electronic Arts and contributed an Augmented Reality piece to an exhibit at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana in 2020. Digital arts instruction, creation of artworks by artists and related public events leading up to the SMART Walk will take place at Media Arts Santa Ana's new center for media arts located at 17th and N Main in Santa Ana. While SMART Walk activities will primarily take place in Wards 4, 5 and 6, Media Arts Santa Ana's space is situated on the border between Wards 3 and 4, and we will also promote the SMART Walk, as well as events taking place at MASA's center for media arts to Ward 3 residents. Thus, this project will directly serve residents in four of Santa Ana's six Wards. The SMART Walk is first and foremost an arts related special event. It will feature booths with technology -based artists, technology demonstrations, and the creation of new virtual art works on South Main. While the event will also feature resource booths for organizations and educational/training programs that open up new career paths in technology -based arts for Santa Ana residents, the SMART Walk is NOT a career fair. Providing presentation opportunities, networking opportunities and pathways to careers in technology -based arts are central to MASA's mission, and the SMART Walk will open up a critical window to artistic and economic opportunities for Santa Ana's students and residents that they have