California Humanities A State of Open Mind
Applications due March 1, 2019. An interactive webinar is offered January 17, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Read More »Library Innovation Lab Application Window Opens January 1
THE INTERSECTION PODCAST
THE INTERSECTION PODCAST just released their second season: SHORELINE + SPACE PARK About the Intersection Podcast: The Bay Area is changing. The San Francisco skyline is filled with cranes. Dive bars and other beloved institutions continue to close. As we try to make sense of what’s happening, a simple narrative seems …
Read More »Trailer: No Más Bebés
From: Independent Lens No Más Bebés tells the story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late …
Read More »Trailer: Real Boy
REAL BOY is an intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates sobriety, adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes her own transformation from resistance to acceptance of her trans son. Along the way, both mother and son find support in their communities, reminding …
Read More »Grace Lee’s K-TOWN ’92 Tells a Different Story of LA Riots
Grace Lee’s K-TOWN ’92, an interactive web documentary, was supported by California Humanities through the California Documentary Project Production Grant in 2017. You can watch a clip of the interactive online documentary here until April 28, 2018: http://www.pbs.org/video/k-town-92-reporters-skhfmp/ Read an excerpt from Nina F. Ichikawa‘s Interview with Grace Lee “Grace Lee’s ‘K-TOWN …
Read More »Applications for Humanities For All Quick Grants Now Being Accepted
The application window for the second round of our new grants program, Humanities for All Quick Grants, is now open!
Read More »In Tune: The Arts and Humanities in the Golden State
Artist and educator Marc Bamuthi Joseph of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, led a conversation at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
Read More »1947 Partition Archive Project Director Interview
California Humanities recently talked with Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla, project director of Community Stories’ project The 1947 Parition Archive: California Story Scholars Program.
Read More »Library Innovation Lab
California Humanities is looking for a few (10, to be precise!), imaginative, creative, and committed librarians to participate in a new collaborative learning and capacity building project next year.
Read More »The Farmworker Movement in California: From Chavez Onwards
Noted director and playwright Luis Valdez, founder of El Teatro Campesino led a conversation the farmworker movement of the past.
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