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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …