Got stories? Time to share! California Humanities is accepting applications beginning July 1st for the August 4, 2014 deadline for Community Stories, our ongoing competitive grants program. California Humanities’ Community Stories grants program provides funding to support a wide range of community-initiated public humanities projects, including: story-based performances community forums websites video and …

A lively discussion last Thursday at San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium, How Far We’ve Come: LGBTQ Veterans and the Military, was the first of a series of five this summer examining the veteran experience. Moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Hillman, Dean of Hastings Law School, the panel included Retired Navy Commander, …

An American Mosque, a documentary about the Yuba City mosque destroyed by arson and the community affected by this hate-crime, will be broadcast on public television stations in observance of Ramadan. An American Mosque is a groundbreaking film about religious freedom and the struggle against intolerance.  Following the destruction of …

PLEASE NOTE: FEBRUARY 2014 APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF THEIR APPLICATION STATUS BY THE END OF JUNE. MANY THANKS! Does your community have a story to share? Community Stories supports public humanities projects that explore the California experience through story-based performances, panels, websites, video, radio, and exhibits. Since 2003, we …

The Anthropological Studies Center of Sonoma State University will present the results of its oral history project on the Japanese American floral industry in the Bay Area. Learn more about the project, hear speakers from the Japanese American floral industry, see the unveiling of the project website, and watch a …

Please join California Humanities at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre for the 2014 Frameline Film Festival’s opening night screening of The Case Against 8, a behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first made headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and …