STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Quality of Life
AGENDA DATE: June 23, 2021
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):|910|DEPARTMENT: Office of Arts and Culture
EXECUTIVE: Joey Zapata
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Authorize Supplemental Agreement No. 2 to the consultant services contract with Southroad Pictures, LLC, for additional services to expand the scope from a 15-minute short film to an approximately 26-minute broadcast-length documentary on the Hall of Negro Life - Not to exceed $15,800.00, from $43,800.00 to $59,600.00 - Financing: Office of Cultural Affairs Gift and Donations Fund ($9,600.00) and NPS African American Civil Rights History Grant Fund ($6,200.00)
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BACKGROUND
On May 27, 2020, City Council accepted a grant from the National Park Service (NPS) for $50,000.00. The NPS made funding available to the City of Dallas under the African American Civil Rights Grant Program to document, interpret, and preserve the sites related to African American Civil Rights in the 20th Century; and for creation and sharing of a body of research and educational material about the 1936 Hall of Negro Life at Fair Park.
The grant-funded project will document primary sources through oral histories from scholars and people who lived through the Civil Rights movement, as well as research to discover lost and archived information about African American history and Civil Rights events in Dallas. The project will culminate in a video, resources for the creation of a traveling exhibit, and podcasts and will enable this important story to be told to current and future generations in Dallas and beyond. The video was originally proposed and planned as a 15-minute short film. After a bid process, Southroad Pictures, LLC, was selected as the consultant to create the film and serve as research partners.
In the course of community engagement and research into the Hall of Negro Life, more information, narratives, and items than would fit into a 15-m...
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