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connect a diverse audience of often Isolated groups —young, low income working families, older residents from across Santa Ana and the county, K- 12 teachers and students, college and university professors and students with local, grassroots, community artists and culture bearers. Santa Ana Suefia, in celebrating the culmination of ongoing collaborative Arts and Culture projects currently taking place at El Sol- each of which document and share the rich, diverse stories of our community — will help to create an expanded narrative of possibility for Santa Ana youth and families. Often, we are taught that history happens elsewhere, without having a sense of our own personal and community connections to the history around us. The TI Sol Intergenerational Letter Project" is a place for students, parents and the Santa Ana community to make those kinds of connections. El Sol Academy youth have been participating as students in workshops with UCI History Professor, Dr Ana Rosas and her university students, centered around a rich archive of letters written by the founding families of El Sol Academy, the first dual language school In the district. The letters tell the story of the founding of El Sol, the dreams of parents for their children, and, as such, illustrate, in a moving, personal way, an Important chapter of the history of Santa Ana, Featured for the first time at the event, these letters and histories will be shared with the public via an interactive viewing exhibit designed and built by the artists of Workshop for Community Arts. The event will serve as a book launch for a series of eight community - written, community -published cartonera children's books — the culmination of a 5-month project from Workshop for Community Arts (WCA') Travieso Press, facilitated by local artists Adriana 86nchezAlexander (writer) and Isidro Perez Garcia (artist) and hosted at Ell Sol Academy. Using fun on - site DIY printing presses, children and families attending the event will be able to crake and take home FREE bilingual children's books written by young Santa Ana authors from El Sol who worked in collaboration with an editor and local illustrators to produce children's books for the younger generation. El Sol students are empowered as they contribute as organizers, artists, docents, content Creators, exhibitors, performers, speakers and presenters at the event. For community participants, many will find a warm and welcoming sense of shared place --full of excitement, conversation and activities in art, community culture and history where, together, they will learn of previously unheard, eye-opening and impactful stories about the community In which they live, work and play. Moreover, participants from diverse backgrounds will interact and gat to know one another through shared experience, learning and hands-on activities. El Sol has been organizing public arts and culture events for the whole community since 201 B. Over 300 people attended our most recent event in spring of 2022. When surveyed, audience participants stated that the events were "very powerful" in stirring a community feeling of belonging and shared Identity, These events help us gather together to celebrate cultural heritage, help us feel connected and provide opportunities to rr>F:et and