ABOUT THE PROJECT   Pico Boulevard—unlike its more storied counterparts Sunset, Hollywood, and Wilshire—remains one of LA's great unsung thoroughfares. It runs from the heart of downtown to the Pacific Ocean and its ethnic diversity is extraordinary, even for Los Angeles. Three artists who live near Pico Boulevard have initiated a project called Boulevard Without Borders to document the people and places along this culturally diverse corridor. The project is designed to bring teenagers together from a wide range of Pico Boulevard's varied ethnic and religious communities in a collaborative process of photographing their own and other neighborhoods along the boulevard, as a means of building bridges among those communities. Students will be invited to participate through faith-based and other community organizations located on or serving residents of Pico Boulevard. (See our partner organizations listed below.) The eight-month project, from November 2007 through June 2008, will culminate in the presentation of a "digital mural"—a large-scale, dynamic photographic projection—in community settings. The project's goals include building bridges among the distinctive cultures represented along Pico Boulevard; engaging youth by teaching them the fundamentals of digital photography; fostering community pride among the teen photographers as well as among people in the community who will be photographed and who will view the photographs. Participating Organizations AIDS Project Los Angeles Beth Chayim Chadashim Holy Spirit Catholic Church Koreatown Youth and Community Center LA Voice Pico Youth and Family Center St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church Westside Jewish Community Center