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as of 10/23/08

• Michigan Humanities Council Planning Survey

• Picturing America in Michigan Museum Partnership available
• Poetry Out Loud Contest Open for High Schools
• K-12 Schools Scramble for Transportation Grants, Demonstrate Value of Arts & Cultural Programs
• Listen to September 2008 Arts & Humanities Radio Reports
• $15,000 Awarded to Rudyard Area Schools To Record, Learn About Local History
• Applications to Be Listed in the 2009-2012 Arts & Humanities Touring Directory Now Available
• Sign Up To Review Touring Program Applications
• Watch the latest video short, the "Michigan Youth Arts Festival"
• Limited Time Offer: Free Arts & Humanities Touring Directories
• $6,000 Awarded to WMU for Fort St. Joseph Open House July 26-27
• Photos and audio recording of Michigan Author Homecoming available
• Summer 2008 Michigan Humanities Council Newsletter
• Michigan Author Homecoming: Richard Ford, Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane return to Michigan for July 10 event
• Listen to The Great Michigan Read podcasts (rss, iTunes)
• $8,050 Awarded to Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for Humanities Project
• $136,000 Awarded for 13 Humanities Programs
• Charles White Advances to Poetry Out Loud National Finals
• Valerie Hemingway Six-Stop Michigan Tour April 23-29
• $49,772 Awarded for Arts & Humanities Touring Programs
• Steelcase Foundation Awards $10,000; Frey Foundation Awards $5,000 for The Great Michigan Read 
• "Bijou Orchestra" Video Short Named Best Cultural Video by MAB
• GVSU Awarded $15,000 For Film on Muskegon's Up from the Bottoms
• MHC awarded $60,000 for PRIME TIME reading program in Detroit, Saginaw, and South Haven

ArtPod Radio Podcast (rss, iTunes)
The Great Michigan Read Podcast (rss, iTunes)

• Council Grants Deadlines:
  • Michigan People, Michigan Places. Our Stories, Our Lives: Sep. 15
  • Arts & Humanities Touring Program: Aug. 25 - Sep. 10

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Dance Adjudicators Needed!

October 24-25, 2008
Michigan Story Festival, Mt. Pleasant. For more information, visit www.michiganstoryfestival.org or call 989-774-1885.

October 13 - December 31, 2008
Wayne State University Walter P. Reuther 100 No Greater Calling exhibit. Paint Creek Cider Mill Community Center, 4480 Orion Road, Rochester. For more information, email jlsaputo@comcast.net or call 248-651-8361.

Now Through January 4, 2009
Jaume Plensa exhibit and programs, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids

Through August 2010
Shipwrecks- A Deep Look, The Rise of the Self-Unloaders exhibits, Heritage Museum and Cultural Center, St. Joseph