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January 2007 |
LEH Newsletter
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Prime Time Family Reading Time® |
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On January 13 and 14, approximately 80 participants, including panelists from New Mexico, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, attended the first Prime Time Family Reading Time® Training Workshop in the new Education Center at the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in New Orleans. The cutting-edge technology aided Prime Time staff and consultants to bring a top-notch training to new scholars, storytellers and site coordinators. “Our new technology and spacious meeting rooms allow the presenters and recruits a cohesive, first-class training within our own headquarters,” said Prime Time Director Faye Flanagan. In 2006 Prime Time completed 29 sites in Louisiana, representing 20 parishes, and 92 sites in 13 other states that were funded from external sources, totaling 121 sites nationwide. Each year the number of bilingual Prime Times increases—an indication of the need of immigrant families to learn English and Prime Time’s ability to help families develop literacy. “We are so pleased with the glowing reports we are receiving from bilingual Prime Time sites in New Mexico, Georgia and Louisiana,” said Miranda Restovic, Assistant Director of Prime Time. Go to Prime Time Family Reading Time webpage...
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LEH Awards Event to Recognize Humanist of the Year, Others: March 24th |
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Richard Gruber, executive director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, has been named the LEH’s “2007 Humanist of the Year.” “Humanist of the Year” was one of several humanities awards winners named by the LEH Board at its Dec. 15 meeting. The LEH annual humanities awards ceremony honors Louisianians who have made outstanding contributions to the study and understanding of the humanities. The 2007 ceremony will be held March 24 at Houmas House Plantation and Gardens in Darrow, La. at 12:30 p.m., just south of Baton Rouge. Tickets to the Awards Ceremony at Houmas House are $40 each and may be purchased by sending a check to the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, New Orleans, LA 70113. To buy tickets on line, Click here, complete the form and write in the note box that this on-line payment is for tickets to the Awards Ceremony at Houmas House. For a complete list of 2007 LEH award winners...
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Teacher Institutes & Teaching American History Institutes |
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The LEH is pleased to announce its 2007 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. All humanities teachers, librarians, principals, and assistant principals are invited to participate in LEH’s 2007 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. Three hours of graduate credit and/or 45 Continuing Learning Units (CLUs) + a modest stipend are available for those satisfactorily completing the course. To learn more about a particular institute, please contact the instructor directly. To learn more about the LEH’s teacher institute program, please contact Gary Talarchek, Associate Director, at 1.800.909.7990 x123 or talarchek@leh.org. Learn more about a particular institute...
The LEH, in partnership with Caddo Public Schools and LSU in Shreveport, will hold the second series of summer institutes for Caddo public school American and Louisiana history teachers at LSU in Shreveport in June 2007. This will be the second summer in a three-year $1 million grant the LEH and Caddo Public Schools received from the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching American History program. In addition, the LEH, working with Orleans Public Schools and Loyola University New Orleans, will conduct four institutes in June at Loyola for Orleans public school American history teachers. This is the final year of the $1 million Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education. More information...
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RELIC: Readings in Literature & Culture |
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The winter/spring schedule of RELIC programs is available on
the RELIC link of the LEH web page. It offers an interesting
and widely ranging selection of program subjects for libraries
in all parts of the state. Of particular note are new programs
that will be tested in several pilot sites. "The Creole Identity
and Expericne in Louisiana Literature and History" will take
place in Lake Charles, Kinder, Monroe and East Jefferson.
�Battleground Lousiana: Civil War Events and Experiences�
will be available in Winnsboro, Shreveport, and Oak Grove.
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Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine |
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The Winter 2006/07 edition of Louisiana Cultural Vistas
premieres in mid-December with a cover story by Jed Horne
about Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding of New Orleans,
excerpted from the author's book, Breach of Faith, with
photographs from The Times Picayune. Other feature stories
include a history of printmaking in New Orleans by Jessie
Poesch, retired professor of art at Tulane University; a
biography of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New
Orleans, by Martha Ward; a survey of historic murals by
Xavier Gonzales that once graced the New Orleans Lakefront
Airport; an essay on the "joy of learning" by the late,
renowned historian Stephen Ambrose; an excerpt of Jason
Berry's novel Last of the Red Hot Poppas; a photo selection
from Robert Tebbs's images of Louisiana plantations, circa
1926; and a complete listing of documentary films available
for rent through the Louisiana Humanities Resource Center.
Subscribe to LCV today! Support the Humanities!
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Grants Available to Writers and Documentary Photographers |
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Writers and photographers exploring Louisiana-related
cultural topics may be eligible to receive special grants up to
$4,000 through the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
The LEH announces the availability of grants to authors
writing on Louisiana humanities non-fiction topics, such as
literature, history, languages, music, cultural anthropology,
folklife or other humanities disciplines. Grants of up to
$4,000 also are available for photographers to document
various aspects of Louisiana�s diverse culture. All awards
must culminate in a completed book-length manuscript.
Novels and poetry are not eligible. The deadline for the
publications and photo-documentary grants under the LEH�s
Louisiana Publishing Initiative is Feb. 15, 2007.
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American Library Association Grants |
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Grants available from the ALA Public Programs Office. Major support for these projects has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). For complete details, including applications, visit the Public Programs Office at www.ala.org/publicprograms. Grant opportunities include:
• We the People Bookshelf on the "Pursuit of Happiness" (collection development). Applications due Jan. 31, 2007
• "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World" (traveling exhibit). Applications due Feb. 9
• "Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country" (traveling exhibit). Applications due Feb. 9
• We the People "Picturing America" (American art/history resources). Applications due March 19
For questions or assistance, contact 800-545-2433, ext. 5045 or publicprograms@ala.org. Go to www.ala.org/publicprograms to learn more... |
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