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32 High Schools Selected for State Poetry Recitation Contest
December 17, 2008, 3:09 pm
The Michigan Humanities Council announces that students from 32 Michigan high schools will participate in the Poetry Out Loud program (see complete list below). Each participating school will receive standards-based curriculum materials to use. These materials include print and online poetry anthologies containing nearly 500 classic and contemporary poems, a teacher’s guide, and a CD of recitations by well-known actors and writers. More high schools are participating in Poetry Out Loud this year than previous years. Since its inception,about 1,700 Michigan high school students have participated in the program.
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26 Schools Awarded Picturing America in Michigan Grants
December 3, 2008, 9:31 am
The Michigan Humanities Council announces up to $500 is available to Michigan K-12 schools and libraries involved in the Picturing America program to help pay program and travel costs to one of 12 partnership museums during the 2008-9 school year. The grants are available ONLY to Michigan’s nearly 1,000 schools participating in Picturing America, a National Endowment for the Humanities initiative that helps students gain a deeper understanding of America history through the study and understanding of its art.
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$101,379 Awarded for Humanities Programs
November 24, 2008, 3:55 pm
The Michigan Humanities Council announces seven organizations from across Michigan will receive $101,379 to help support public humanities programs. The grants are part of the Council’s Michigan People, Michigan Places … Our Stories, Our Lives program which emphasizes collaboration among cultural, educational, and community-based organizations. Receiving grants are seven organizations in Lansing, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Jackson, and Marquette.
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45 K-12 Transportation Grants Announced
November 19, 2008, 2:30 pm
The Michigan Humanities Council announces 45 grants totaling $21,373 to K-12 schools across Michigan to help pay transportation costs for trips to cultural programs or institutions in this school year. The transportation grants provide support to accredited public or private K-12 schools in Michigan with one grant for up to $500 to attend any Michigan Humanities Council- or Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs-funded museums, galleries, cultural venues, and programs such as music, dance, theatre performances, and cultural/art exhibits.
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$30,408 Awarded for 156 Cultural Programs
November 13, 2008, 2:25 pm
The Michigan Humanities Council (MHC) recently awarded $30,408 in Arts and Humanities Touring Program grants to Michigan organizations to support 156 artistic and cultural presentations in 19 counties between October 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009. The Council also announced that cultural presenters interested in being listed in the 2009-2012 Michigan Arts & Humanities Touring Directory must send their applications to the Council postmarked no later than this Friday, November 14, 2008.
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Michigan Humanities Council Launches New Website
October 29, 2008, 10:24 am
The Michigan Humanities Council announces it has launched a new design of its website, www.michiganhumanities.org. The new website was created to enhance the image of the Council as one of Michigan’s prominent cultural programming organizations and to respond to the public’s need to better access information about engaging in public humanities programs.