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Michigan
Humanities Council has many programs to assist in reaching its mission
by encouraging and supporting a variety of activities which bring scholars
and the public together to examine culture.
Michigan Arts
& Humanities Media Project
In 2006, the Michigan Humanities Council and the Michigan Council for
Arts and Cultural Affairs partnered with Michigan Public Media to create
several new video segments about how arts and culture play a vital role
in economic and community development.
Michigan's Arts &
Humanities Radio Program
Michigan Radio, in cooperation with Michigan Public Radio Network (MPRN),
launched the Arts and Humanities Radio Project in 1997. Since then, hundreds
of reports have been produced about the Arts and Humanities in Michigan.
Reports profile artists, performances and cultural organizations; examine
arts issues and trends in artistic thinking, in music, dance, theater,
poetry, visual and multi-media arts; and look at religion, art history
and criticism, social science, and history. The project has garnered numerous
national and state awards including the Clarion Award given by the Association
for Women in Communication.
Michigan's
Arts & Humanities Touring Program
The print and on-line directory, a joint project of Michigan Humanities
Council and Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, provides schools,
libraries, museums, civic and service groups, festival organizers and
other organizations in Michigan a wide variety of cultural programming
opportunities in the fields of dance, music, storytelling, theater and
visual arts.
Grants Program
Michigan
Humanities Council's grants program emphasizes collaboration among
cultural, educational and community-based organizations and institutions
to serve Michiganians today with public humanities projects that have
the staying power to help position communities to meet the challenges
of the 21st century.The
Grants Program reflects the Council's determination to expand and sustain
the access of Michiganians to the humanities by making the best possible
use of federal support, by increasing the role of private and public
non-federal support, and by strengthening programs through the power
achieved in partnerships. An archive of previous
grants is available by linking here.
The Great Michigan Read
The Michigan Humanities Council selected Ernest Hemingway’s The Nick Adams Stories for its new statewide literature and literacy initiative, The Great Michigan Read. More than 200 organizations participated in The Great Michigan Read. Each of the following libraries and cultural organizations will participate through discussion groups, speakers, film series, and other programs that focus on The Nick Adams Stories, author Ernest Hemingway, and the people and places of Michigan.
Key Ingredients:
Michigan Foodways
In
2007 and 2008, the Michigan Humanities Council will partner with the Smithsonian
Institution and the Federation of State Humanities Councils to bring Key
Ingredients to six of Michigan’s rural communities with populations
of less than 10,000. In addition, the Council will sponsor a state version
of Key Ingredients called Michigan Foodways and will assist local communities
in flavoring the exhibit with their own kiosks. Key
Ingredients offers a multitude of opportunities for local organizations
to link their own collections, stories, history, culture, and local food
specialties to the panoramic story told in the exhibition.
Poetry Out Loud
Recitation and performance are major new trends in poetry. There has been
a recent resurgence of poetry as an oral art form. Poetry Out Loud, builds
on that momentum and encourages youth to learn about great poetry through
memorization and performance. The program helps students master public
speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary
heritage. The Michigan Humanities Council hosted the first state poetry
recitation competition on March 25, 2006, at the Wharton Center. The program
is a partnership with the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs,
the NEH, and the Poetry Foundation.
PRIME TIME Family Reading Time ®
PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME ® program will be implemented between February and November 2008 at four Michigan libraries: Butman-Fish Branch, Saginaw; Campbell Branch Library, Detroit; Hoyt Public Library, Saginaw; and, South Haven Memorial Library, South Haven. The award was presented by PRIME TIME Inc., an affiliate of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH), and the American Library Association. Based on illustrated children's books, PRIME TIME is designed to help Spanish speaking English language learners bond around the act of reading and talking about books. It models and encourages family reading and discussion of humanities topics, and aids parents and children in selecting books and becoming active public library users.
We
the People
A limited number of grants from $5,000 up to $20,000 are available from
the Michigan Humanities Council (MHC) for projects fitting the thematic
focus of We the People, an initiative of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. We the People supports projects that explore significant events
and themes in our nation’s history and asks that these lessons be
shared with all Americans. The initiative intends to strengthen the teaching,
study, and understanding of American history and culture.
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