To honor Native American Heritage Month this November, we are proud to feature an interview with Marjorie Rhodes-Ousley, Assistant Director of the California State University East Bay C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology. She is the project coordinator of Against All Odds: Native Californian Stories of Endurance & Continuance, an …
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Libraries across the state participating in the 2018 Library Innovation Lab: Exploring New Ways of Engaging Immigrant Communities through Public Humanities Programming project are busy this month with a wide variety of engaging public programs. Here’s a sampling of what’s on in November; please visit our online events calendar to find out about …
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Every Family, Every Voice: Exploring the Immigrant Experience with Storyteller Antonio Sacre His tales of growing up biligually in a Cuban and Irish- American household have inspired children worldwide to gather their own family stories and become storytellers themselves. Record your own family’s story! Get a computer flash drive …
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Literature & Medicine® is a humanities-based professional development program for health care workers that engages clinical staff members in reading and discussion programs facilitated by humanities scholars. Literature & Medicine® invites caregivers to better understand and empathize with the experience of their patients – as well as their peers through …
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California Humanities staff will be attending and presenting at the National Humanities Conference in New Orleans on November 8-11. California Humanities staff, Lucy Boltz, Felicia Kelly, Lucena Lau Valle, and Debra White, will be presenting a new working group at the conference, Humanities Programming That Engages Immigrants. They will explore …
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The California Humanities Art of Storytelling exhibit WordsUncaged: Voices from Inside Lancaster Prison has been extended and will continue on view at our Oakland office through the end of 2018. Please send a message to jfry@calhum.org to make an appointment to see this exhibition. Words Uncaged, a project funded by …
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California. A state of almost 40 million people, with millions of stories to share. A state of writers, filmmakers, storytellers and artists. A state of innovators and thinkers. A state of open mind. For over 40 years, California Humanities has helped give voice to voices seldom heard. Through grants and …
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ORANGE– California Humanities’ grantee Punjabi American Women Oral History Project will be presenting a documentary film Walking into the Unknown: A History of Punjabi Women in California at SIKHLENS: Sikh Arts & Film Festival on Friday November 16, 2018 at 6:30 pm. We invite you to honor Punjabi women by …
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South of Fletcher: Stories from the Bowtie is a multi-platform storytelling project by Fonografia Collective, a project that received an Humanities for All Quick Grant from California Humanities. Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra have been working at the Bowtie parcel of land next to the L.A. River for the past year, talking to people …
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Born in Detroit, raised in New Orleans, and making California her home for the majority of her life, at the age of 97 Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest US National Park Ranger and an eloquent storyteller. We recognize Ms. Soskin’s past achievements and her current successes. Ms. Soskin’s memoir, Sign My Name …
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California Humanities A State of Open Mind
