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Increase your Impact
Get a grant from Mass Humanities
Submissions for project grants are due this month and the deadline for research inventory grants soon follows. We’ll award up to $10,000 for each grant, be sure to make this deadline!
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The Meaning of July 4th
Who gets to be patriotic?
No more profound words were ever spoken about national pride than Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July address. Funds are available to help you host a reading with your neighbors and examine how race relations affect our national identity.
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Revisiting 1971
This International Women’s Day, witness Boston’s feminist history
The Mass Humanities-funded documentary film Left on Pearl highlights a significant but little-known chapter in the heyday of the Women’s Liberation Movement. The film captures the events of March 8th, 1971; catch its debut screening exactly 45 years later.
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GI Jews
Telling the stories of the 550,000 Jewish Americans who served
Less than 6% of World War II veterans are alive today and GI Jews captures their rapidly disappearing stories on film. Thanks to a Social Media Outreach Grant from Mass Humanities, those stories are being told in all possible formats: Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube, and their own site.
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Global Influence
Belmont World Film celebrates 15 years
A major cultural event, the Belmont World Film Festival, kicks off March 20th with the support of Mass Humanities. The award-winning and groundbreaking international films being screened will be paired with discussions, cultural performances, and ethnic cuisine.
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A Song of Hope
Jane Crow was Pauli Murray’s term for the double discrimination faced by black women. Her life was spent in defiance of that concept and is documented in the Mass Humanities funded film The Price of Survival.
SEE THE FILM IN THE MAKING »
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Begin Here
Children first meet some of life’s heftier concepts through literature in our Family Adventures in Reading (FAIR) program. Bring the kid in your life to a library near you this spring and watch them learn.
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Latina Legacy
Wistariahurst Museum opens their much-anticipated show Nuestras Abuelas on March 5th. Meet the curator, participants, and scholars who contributed to this Mass Humanities supported exhibit. Bring your grandmother along and add her voice to the collection using the oral history equipment that will be on hand.
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Sweet History
This year's SYRUP Festival in Shelburne Falls sheds light on the dawn of the local industrial era. World-class theatrical performers, puppeteers, and musicians will take the stage, including Mass Humanities grantee Piti Theatre Company. Join them on March 20th!
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Let Love Win
Vermont Humanities Council and documentary film producer Jeff Kaufman discuss Kaufman’s documentary The State of Marriage, which shows the struggle for same-sex marriage equality in Vermont.
LISTEN TO IDEAS MATTER »
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A Sensational Journey
The Perkins School for the Blind, where Hellen Keller and countless others were taught, was incorporated on this day in 1829.
READ THE HISTORY »
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Plato on the Playground
Kids need philosophy more than ever, Valerie Strauss argues in the Washington Post.
FIND OUT WHY »
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Shadrach Returns
The harrowing story of a brave escape from the Fugitive Slave Law, retold on Twitter, captures the attention of thousands.
FOLLOW ALONG »
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Humanities Calendar
We list the best humanities programming in the Commonwealth on our event calendar. See what is happening this month at Mass Humanities.
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