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Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Hyannis, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Mattapoisette, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Andover, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $1,500
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Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Duxbury, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Winchester, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Holyoke, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Haverhill, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Waltham, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-05-06
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Lynn, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-31
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Worcester, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-31
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-31
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Yarmouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-31
amount: $1,500
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Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Plymouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-31
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Natick, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-31
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Hadley, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-31
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Taunton, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-03
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street sponsorship
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-03
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Hatfield, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-03
amount: $500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Quincy, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-03
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Jamaica Plain, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-03
amount: $500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Sturbridge, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-03
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Salem, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-03
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Newburyport, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-03-03
amount: $1,500
Online Programs supported by Bridge Street sponsorship
Lexington, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-02-11
amount: $1,500
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Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Haverhill, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-02-11
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
Pittsfield, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-02-11
amount: $1,500
Online programs supported by Bridge Street Sponsorship
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2022-02-11
amount: $500
Screenings, including Q & A and artist workshops, to raise awareness about street art and public art. The goal is to encourage youth and graffiti enthusiasts to paint on legal graffiti walls, to expand possibilities for street artists and motivate them towards public art contributions and a positive difference.
Mass Humanities funding will support research and pre-production of a verité documentary film depicting the unique, tight-knit, majority-Latinx Chelsea community battling COVID-19 and its aftermath, as told through the voices of its residents.
Malden, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-09-17
amount: $20,000
Faces In The Crowd: The Turner Sisters Of Boston & The Art of The Peddler DollNational Black Doll Museummore
An interactive exhibit about Massachusetts-based African American doll artists Marie Turner and Grace Turner, their collection of handmade "peddler dolls," and the multi-volume guide to same which they authored. Mass Humanities funding will support research, exhibit materials, document printing, speaker and presentation event reception costs.
New archival research on slavery in Medford and the people enslaved by the Royall family, in order to relaunch website interpretation through a new virtual exhibit, tour revisions, and community conversations about the local history of slavery and its legacies today. Mass Humanities funding will support scholarly research, writing exhibit text, and exhibit design.
The Slave Is Gone: The Show That Talks Back to Apple TV’s DickinsonThe Jones Library, Inc.more
Mass Humanities funding will support a humanities advisor, research assistant and website designer for the podcast site of The Slave is Gone: The Show That Talks Back to Apple TV’s Dickinson. This will feature episodes and capsule stories and images collected and written by the researcher and advisor of lesser-known locals of Native, African-descent, white Yankee and immigrant background, some gender non-conformists, and largely known to Amherst’s most famous daughter.
Resiliency in Chinatown: Stories of Survival and Community BuildingChinese Economic Development Councilmore
Mass Humanities funding will support research, design, video production, exhibit panels and event costs. The materials that will be produced will be used for special events in the community, walking tours, websites and community forums. There will be personal accounts of hardships, struggles and accomplishments by community members.
Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-09-17
amount: $20,000
Mass Humanities funding will support group building and preparation of young adults in First Generation, the gathering of their and their family’s stories, development of stories into presentations/performances for the public, accompanied by facilitated dialogues, and the creation of a small book archiving past and present FG stories.
Interpretive Exhibit Design for a new African American Cultural Heritage Center in the Hometown of W.E.B. Du BoisClinton Church Restoration, Inc.more
Interpretive exhibits and programming for an African American heritage site and cultural center at the Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington. Mass Humanities funding will be used to formulate specific components that address the themes and goals outlined in CCR’s interpretive plan. Work will entail research and the development of program content, exhibit narratives, schematic-level designs, graphics, and media treatments.
Great Barrington, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-09-17
amount: $20,000
New Bedford Whaling Museum Common Ground: A Community MosaicNew Bedford Whaling Museum (Old Dartmouth Historical Society dba)more
Mass Humanities funding will support the following major activities: Story collection by Museum staff; Identification and refinement of stories’ emerging themes; Digital collection, storage and archiving of documents, photographs and audio and video recordings; Collaboration between curatorial and education staff to bring previously underrepresented audiences to the Museum and its website via programs and workshops.
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-09-17
amount: $20,000
Mass Humanities funding will support the creation of a shooting script, treatment, trailer, and a ten-minute work sample that is necessary to raise funding for the production and post-production of the film.
Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-09-17
amount: $11,919
Our Town/Nha Vida (Our Town/My Life)UMass Dartmouth, Archives and Special Collectionsmore
Documents the Cape Verdean community of Dartmouth. Mass Humanities funding will support the payment of oral history interviewees and interviewers, the humanities advisor, and an immigration researcher.
North Dartmouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-09-17
amount: $17,600
Three online virtual bilingual tours of Puerto Rican- and Latinx- majority neighborhoods in Holyoke. The tours will be created under the guidance of the Holyoke History Room and will combine contemporary history (audio/video/family photographs) gathered from current local residents with historical images and text describing these neighborhoods in earlier eras.