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Joey Linnert will create living art sculptures at the final event form organic materials gathering from local neighborhoods and presented at the final presentation. Nellie LeGaspe that will engage residents to create masks using materials from the neighborhood to celebrate the diverse cultural roots of residents. Unidos will document the creative process by photographing and videotaping it. The resulting art and creative process will unify Santa Ana Neighborhoods using art and working with local artists to connect art with our neighbors and communities. At the final event, the masks, murals, portraits and living art on display. Each artist will present their result and the stories behind them. Participants will be asked to share their experience revealing the roses that grew from concrete. Community Benefit: The project is experiential and embraces Henri -Robert -Marcel Duchamp and the Da Da movement. The exhibition will be an active and interactive piece of art that explores and captures the faces of Santa Ana where they live, work and play. The city reveals itself through paintings, murals and photographs and video. The project will impact not only the Santa Ana art and cultural community but it will grow out from its community roots embracing the art and making it theirs. Everyone benefits. It will demonstrate the power art carries in storytelling and demonstrate that we can use our gifts to give back to others. The "Connected" portion of the Rose in the Concrete event will be a great way to engage youth from all over Santa Ana and provides them with a kinesthetic, artistic, creative way to voice their unique neighborhoods and cultures. This will be an enriching opportunity for the Santa Ana Arts community as it helps create a Santa Ana youth led public art display. The living art reveals the aesthetic value and beauty of art grown and gathered from the neighborhood and turned into art. It is art that continues to grow and rooted in the community at the same time and nurtured and then blossoms to unveil messages to live healthy which is a strategic goal of the City. These traditional ways harken to indigenous cultural customs from around the world. Connecting with the earth facilitates connection with one's roots. One practices the art of living by creating living art installations. Our project will have city residents stop and appreciate the roses in concrete in our city. Our mural can travel and be exhibited and can be used to promote the arts to the neighborhoods and involve them. More important, we are making a statement of change and transformation. Often, we focus on the violence or crimes in our city. We ignore the good things that goes unrecognized. The project is a creative act declaring that Art cares, Art is revolution, Art is culture, and Art is healing. 25D-18