Budgets are Value Statements
January, 2024 – Ongoing
A cohort of VT high school and college students and UVM graduates are collaborating on a media piece exploring the idea that ‘Budgets are value statements’, asking questions around how we allocate funds to build and maintain our social safety net.This film interrogates what is funded and what is not, and what this expresses about our collective values.
We are connecting with folks on the frontlines of this safety net, and also folks who have been directly impacted by these frontline services. Ultimately, we are asking us all to imagine what it might take, financially and culturally, to build a stronger, more robust safety net.
This film will be touring around Vermont libraries from January, 2024- December, 2026, as a companion to an art exhibit ‘Finding Hope From Within’, which is art created by currently and formerly incarcerated individuals in Vermont.