Sunday's Child UNITY and Courage Wall

Foo Foo Festival 2018

Sunday’s Child’s is happy to announce the UNITY project and Courage Wall, an interactive public art project to be built and on display in downtown Pensacola at the UWF Historic Trust’s Museum Plaza during the 2018 Foo Foo Festival celebration.

UNITY is a larger-than-life structure that celebrates our cultural uniqueness and strengthens our ties to each other. The project consists of 32 posts, each with identifiers such as, “I’m a parent; I’m a Veteran; I speak English as a second language; I identify as LGBTQ,” etc.  Participants tie colorful ribbons to posts that reflect their identities. Their ribbon intertwines with others’ to create a web of interconnectedness. In the end, we see that we are all connected by something, and it's our diversity that builds a strong and vibrant community. In addition to UNITY, the project will include the “Courage Wall,” a larger-than-life chalk board that repeatedly reads, "I wish I had the courage to..." and allows visitors to complete the sentence and share their own stories.

This public art gateway installation located in the heart of downtown Pensacola will highlight the unique characteristics of Pensacolians and the story of our city through a welcoming public artwork that supports cultural tourism, promotes diversity, and furthers the mission of both Sunday's Child and the Historic Trust of promoting diversity and collecting and sharing the stories of Pensacolians.