Three Times Stronger
MassCreative’s Arts Matter Advocacy Day attendance swells as hundreds gather to celebrate state support for arts and culture.
Threats to the federal budget inspired many newcomers to join this year’s event. Marchers celebrated the arts and humanities with a festive parade before meeting with their state legislators to ask them to support an increase to the Mass Cultural Council (MCC) budget. The organizers want to see Massachusetts buck the White House’s priorities and to bolster support for cultural programming and grant making. READ MORE IN THE BOSTON GLOBE |
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Out of This World
The line was out the door for Somerville Museum’s economic history series launch at Aeronaut Brewing.
A sold-out crowd of 120 people signed up to catch public historian Edward Gordon at last month’s "An Economic History of Somerville." Despite the snowy weather, latecomers waited outside in line for a seat. They left raving about the program, happy to have brought history into public view and asking the organizers for "More history at breweries, please!" The series continues with events on immigration and Union Square’s commerce next month. ACT NOW FOR EARLY TICKETS |
Poetry, Prose, Politics
Five events mark the contributions of immigrants to our intellectual and cultural lives.
The spring lecture series at Berkshire Community College celebrates immigrant culture and language this month through the poetry of Martin Espada and the fiction of Jana Laiz. Internationally acclaimed poet Espada will present his latest book, and Laiz will host two events, one a lecture and the other a group discussion, both about her career in refugee resettlement. The two-part La Guagua Community Poetry Festival at Middlesex Community College opens with an evening celebrating poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat, and continues with a daylong festival the following day. FIND OUT MORE |
Tailor-Made
Mass Humanities awarded a 2013 pre-production grant to Seams, a documentary about Ireland and Britain’s complex relationship over the last eighty years. Seams poetically examines this geopolitical question through the memories and lives of elderly Irish women from the North and the South who participated in the war as factory workers and soldiers. Be among the first to preview Seams now that preproduction is now finished. WATCH THE TRAILER |
Epics Past and Present
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities team up for five events this month covering subjects from a 17th-century African warrior queen to social media’s influence over contemporary politics. You’ll find on our calendar events with Cass Sunstein, Linda Heywood, Susanna Siegel, Paul Starobin, Nia King, and Elena Rose. JOIN US IN CAMBRIDGE |
Mourning MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis 49 years ago today. Boston residents took to the streets with grief and outrage in homage to the slain civil rights leader. READ THE HISTORY |
Needed Now More than Ever
Mass Humanities Executive Director David Tebaldi offers a defense of our nation’s two major cultural agencies in an op-ed for the Berkshire Eagle. READ AND DISCUSS ON FACEBOOK |
What You Can Do
We have put together a primer about the National Endowment for the Humanities budget and what can be done to ensure the agency is not eliminated. FIND OUT MORE ON TWITTER |
Humanities Calendar
We list some of the best humanities programming in the Commonwealth on our event calendar. See what is happening this month at Mass Humanities. Publish your organization's public humanities events! FIND EVENTS |
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