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RELIC offers adult readers the opportunity to
engage in diverse and intellectually challenging
reading and discussion of literary and historical texts
in the humanities in local libraries across the
state.
Two new RELIC programs, Louisiana's Civil War and Creoles in Fact and Fiction are going to be available in 2007. The subjects are in response to recommendations by scholars, libraries, and the reading public, and will undoubtedly generate equal amounts of light and heat about aspects of our culture and history as Louisianans. | ||||||
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The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has
donated thousands of books valued at over $57,000
to help the Friends of New Orleans Public Library raise
money for the city’s devastated library system. “The
LEH donation is outstandingly significant in several
ways,” said Friends president Marcelle Saussy. “First,
it enables the Friends to raise money
for the devastated New Orleans Public Library system
through the sale of quality books. Second, with our
twice-weekly sales our two organizations are putting
books into the hands of readers during this time of
shortage of library facilities. And third, it provides
readers with books of great interest to them. Books
with a local and/or regional focus are the most in
demand.”
Please click here and help Rebuild the New Orleans Public Library! | ||||||
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Upcoming LEH Grant Deadlines:
LEH Outreach Grants Preliminary application deadline: August 15 Final application deadline: September 15 Award announcement: October 16 LEH Public Humanities Grants Preliminary application deadline: September 1 Final application deadline: October 2 Award announcement: December 2006
New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots
Music
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Attention all humanities professors at Louisiana
colleges and universities!
Request for Proposals 2007 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study Preliminary application deadline: September 4 Final application deadline: October 2 Award announcement: December 2006 | ||||||
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The Prime Time Family Reading Time® August, 2006
Training Workshop was a great success! Forty-six
participants, including our esteemed panelists from
across Louisiana, Georgia, South Dakota, and
Oklahoma joined us August 3-4, for the two-day
event held at the historic Le Pavillon Hotel in the
heart of downtown New Orleans. Prime Time Family
Reading Time® has recently concluded its Spring
2006 season with 13 Louisiana sites, despite the
devastating effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on
many of our communities, and 41 out-of-state sites
for a total of 54 sites across the nation. The
Training Workshop kicks off our Fall 2006 line up of 15
Louisiana sites, and 45 out of state sites, for a total
of 60 planned sites across the nation.
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New Orleans Nightscapes
photo essay by Frank Relle
Roads Scholar: Nick Spitzer and the Origins of American Routes interview by Michael Sartisky San Francisco, New Orleans and Disasters of the Centuries by John T. Magill Reperceiving Place by Richard Campanella Rebounding from Rita by Eric Cormier, photographs by Lori Waselchuk Across Morehouse and West Carroll Parishes with Catharine Cole foreward by Joan B. and Jack McLaughlin, photographs by Lee Estes | ||||||
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A SMITHSONIAN EXHIBIT
Old Courthouse Museum Natchitoches August 15-October 6 Museum Hours: Mon.-Sat., 9-5 pm For more information call: 318-357-2270
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The LEH has released a 35-Year Report
summarizing the organization’s
investment and impact in Louisiana. Established in
1971, the LEH has invested $38.5 million in humanities
programs and projects that have reached people and
community organizations in every parish in the state.
An audience of more than 70 million people has
benefited from all LEH-supported programs. If you
would like a copy of this report, please contact the
LEH.
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**American Creole: New Orleans Reunion
premiers Tuesday, August 29 at 9 pm on LPB and
nationally on Thursday, September 7, 9 pm on PBS.
Check your local listings. This one-hour film follows
the diaspora of one Creole family of musicians spread
around the world, taking New Orleans' sound with
them as they helped pioneer jazz, rhythm & blues,
and rock & roll, and who are now struggling "to bring
the music home" post Hurricane Katrina.
**The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc. will present its annual Words & Music Festival November 1-6, 2006. This year's programming theme for the general reading public is The Impact of Hispanic Cultures on U. S. Life & Literature. For complete details, visit wordsandmusic.org **2006 Governor's Arts Awards Call for Nominations-Each year, in conjunction with the Office of the Governor and the Office of the Lt. Governor and Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, the Louisiana State Arts Council recognizes and honors outstanding service within the cultural economy - our artists and performers, arts businesses, corporate sponsors, and educators. For more information, go to http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/GAA.shtml | ||||||
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Suite 300 New Orleans, LA 70113 Phone: 504.523.4352 Fax: 504.529.2358 email: lahum@leh.org website: http://www.leh.org | ||||||
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