May 4, 2018 For Immediate Release Media Contact: Jody Sahota 415.391.1474 (Oakland, CA) After a competitive process, 15 nonprofit organizations across the state were awarded Humanities for All Quick Grants (HFAQG) totaling $75,000 from California Humanities, the state-wide humanities nonprofit that helps connect Californians to ideas and to one another. …
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California Humanities Awards $302,000 to 14 New Documentary Projects
March 22, 2018 For Immediate Release Media Contact: Jody Sahota 415.391.1474 (Oakland, CA), California Humanities is pleased to announce $302,000 in awards to 14 new film, audio and interactive media projects through the 2018 California Documentary Project (CDP) grant program. From a film highlighting the origins of the disability rights …
Read More »California Humanities Launches Youth-Focused Democracy and the Informed Citizen Initiative
March 22, 2018 For Immediate Release Media Contact: Jody Sahota 415.391.1474 (Oakland, CA) California Humanities’ Democracy and Informed Citizen initiative, part of a new CA 2020: Youth Perspective and the Future of California suite of programs focusing on the lives and experiences of young people in California, will launch in …
Read More »California Humanities Announces Launch of CA 2020: Youth Perspective and the Future of California
March 15, 2018 For Immediate Release Media Contact: Jody Sahota 415.391.1474 (Oakland, CA) California Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of CA 2020: Youth Perspective and the Future of California, a new statewide initiative focusing on the lives and experiences of young Californians. CA 2020 is designed to engage …
Read More »California Humanities Grantseeker Workshop in Redding
California Humanities and Shasta Regional Community Foundation invite you to attend a free informational session about funding opportunities for humanities programming in Redding on Wednesday February 28, 2018 at 2:00 – 3:30 pm hosted by the Shasta Regional Community Foundation. Program staff will give an overview of our current grant programs: Humanities …
Read More »We’re Still Here: To be a Southern California Native American in the 21st Century
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO– Cultural Anthropologist Stephen O’Neil reviews and discusses some of the videos created for Orange County Public Libraries’ Acjachemen Community Stories project. Interview subjects will be invited to attend and to participate in the Q & A session. This is part two of a three lecture series, “The …
Read More »California Humanities Awards $75,000 For Latest Round of Humanities for All Quick Grants
December 21, 2017 For Immediate Release Media Contact: Jody Sahota 415.391.1474 (Oakland, CA) California Humanities, a state-wide humanities nonprofit, is pleased to announce awards for the third round of our new Humanities for All (HFA) Quick Grants Program. 15 organizations were awarded a total of $75,000 through a competitive grant …
Read More »California Humanities Awards $175,000 for Latest Round of Humanities for All Project Grants
December 13, 2017 For Immediate Release Media Contact: Jody Sahota 415.391.1474 (Oakland, CA) After a competitive process, 10 nonprofit organizations across the state were awarded Humanities for All Project Grants totaling $175,000 from California Humanities, the state-wide humanities nonprofit that helps connect Californians to ideas and one another. Over 65 …
Read More »California Humanities Announces the Nancy Hatamiya Arts & Humanities Fund
October 4, 2017 For Immediate Release Media Contact: Jody Sahota 415.391.1474 (Oakland, CA) As California Humanities celebrates National Arts & Humanities Month this October, they’re honoring the memory of longtime California Humanities’ Board Member and Chair Nancy Hatamiya, who passed away in 2012. Former California Humanities Board Chair Nancy Kikuko …
Read More »Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in LA profiled by LA Times and NY Times
Artist Dario Canul from the Oaxacan collective Tlacolulokos at work in the Central Library. Photo Credit: Al Seib/ LA Times California Humanities recently supported an exhibition entitled Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in LA, as part of the Pacific Standard Time: Latin America/ Los Angeles initiative by the Getty. Los Angeles Times …
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