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The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
has launched a $3.5 million Capital Campaign to
create a high-tech and first-of-its-kind educational
center to help expand its nationally acclaimed family
literacy and teacher professional
development programs throughout the state. “For
over 35 years, the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities has invested more
than $40 million to provide life-long learning
opportunities for all Louisianans,” said LEH president
and executive director Michael Sartisky. “Our capital
campaign will give us the resources to make even
greater contributions to teacher professional
development, family literacy, cultural tourism, and
support to our universities and cultural institutions.
The Center will be an integral part of the metropolitan
New Orleans educational, cultural, and non-profit
communities as we make the Education Center a true
community asset during rebuilding and beyond. ”
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The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities is
now accepting nominations for its 22nd Annual
Awards for outstanding achievement in the
humanities. Winners will be honored at the Annual
Awards event on March 24, 2007, at Houmas
House Plantation and Gardens in Darrow, LA.
Sponsored by Capital One Bank, the LEH Annual Awards honor Louisianans who have made outstanding contributions to the study and understanding of the humanities. The five categories are: Humanist of the Year Award, Humanities Teacher of the Year Award, Special Humanities Award, Humanities Book of the Year Award, and Award for Lifetime Contributions. In addition, the Board of Directors will announce its Chair's Award for Institutional Support. Nominations must be received in the LEH office no later than 5 p.m. on December 1, 2006. |
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We are pleased to offer an entirely redesigned
LEH website. In addition to dramatic visual effects,
we have enhanced functionality with navigation
buttons and links imbedded throughout the
structure. Visitors can directly subscribe with the
press of a button to both the LEH and Prime Time
Newsletters and also become Friends of the LEH or
Subscribers to Louisiana Cultural Vistas. Louisiana
Cultural Vistas will gradually assume a growing web-
identity; initially, we have incorporated select LCV
articles on the Website.
Our entire grant application and reporting structure is now downloadable as are all the materials and reports for Prime Time. Downloads can be found both in their respective departments and also collected in a Downloads section. We also have imbedded our 35- Year Report, 2005 Annual Report and Media Catalogue. Our entire grant application and reporting structure is now downloadable as are all the materials and reports for Prime Time. Downloads can be found both in their respective departments and also collected in a Downloads section. We have also imbedded maps to help friends and visitors find us. |
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As the term of the first Peer-Selected Poet Laureate,
Brenda Marie Osbey, is coming to an end in 2007,
the LEH is soliciting nominations for both the
Selection Panel and the Poet Laureate of Louisiana.
The LEH has been authorized by the Governor and
the State of Louisiana to oversee the selection of the
State Poet Laureate. The selection committee will be
soliciting nominations of poets either born or
domiciled in Louisiana at the time of nomination.
Nominees shall have published works in books,
anthologies, literary journals or magazines. The
selection committee will seek input from the general
public and the literary community and shall select
nominees who reflect the diverse cultures and
heritage of Louisiana. The selection committee will
deliberate and make its recommendations to the
Governor by January, 2007.
At this time, in effort to obtain broad input from the outset, the LEH is soliciting recommendations for members of the selection itself and for the Poet Laureate. Please submit the names and brief credentials of poets, university professors, or a representative of Louisiana State University Press qualified to serve on the selection committee. The deadline for Selection Panel and Poet Laureate of Louisiana recommendations is December 8th, 2006. Please submit recommendations to: Dr. Michael Sartisky, Chair, Selection Panel, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, New Orleans, LA 70113, or sartisky@leh.org. |
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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.
Past recipients include books such as Philip Gould’s “Louisiana’s Capitol,” Gwendolyn Midlo Hall’s “Africans in Colonial Louisiana,” Elizabeth Mullener’s “Eyewitness: Tales of New Orleanians in World War II,” and Jay Edwards’s “Plantations by the River.” For additional information about these and other grants, go to the LEH website at www.leh.org or contact John Kemp at the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 504-523-4352 ex 116 or at kemp@leh.org. |
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Two new topics, Creole Identity and the Civil War,
have been added to the RELIC lineup this season.
The American West, WWII, the Louisiana Purchase,
and Louisiana's Hurricane Experience round out
RELIC's exciting programs. Please join us for the
coming season of RELIC, our lively and stimulating
adult reading and discussion series. Go to our link for
the full Winter/Spring schedule and location of RELIC
sites across the state.
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“Gathering at the Waters: Embracing Our Spirits,
Telling Our Stories” was the theme at the First Joint
Conference of Librarians of Color held October 12-15,
2006 in Dallas, Texas. Faye Flanagan, Director of
PRIME TIME from New Orleans, Karen McPheeters and
Flo Trujillo from Farmington Public Library, NM, and
Victor Schill from the Fairbanks Branch of the Harris
County Library, Houston, TX discussed successful
bilingual and/or bicultural PRIME TIME programs
implemented in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas.
Prime Time staff would like to thank colleagues from
New Mexico and Texas for presenting and offering
their diverse experiences with bilingual and multi-
cultural Prime Time programming.
The sponsors of the conference were the five
associations of librarians of color: American Indian
Library Association, Asian/Pacific American Librarians
Association, Black Caucus of the ALA, Chinese
American Librarians Association and REFORMA, the
National Association to Promote Library and
Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish
Speaking.
The pilot of a Prime Time program with a writing component offered to displaced families at Renaissance Village, the FEMA trailer park in Baker, LA, concluded on November 6. Eight sessions culminated in a final writing initiative in which Prime Time children completed pen pal letters to orphaned Tsunami children living in India. The staple story time and discussion were followed by a party with pizza and cake and plenty of door prizes for participants. Mark your calendar! PRIME TIME has scheduled a January 2007 training workshop to be held in New Orleans, LA, January 13- 14. Participants from Louisiana and New Mexico have already registered, and anyone interested in attending should contact Shantrell Adams (adams@leh.org) or Faye Flanagan (flanagan@leh.org). |
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