✨️We are thrilled to celebrate the three national Emmy Award nominations received by the California Documentary Project R&D and Production grant recipient FREE CHOL SOO LEE in July! We congratulate filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi.
📺 Best Documentary
📺 Outstanding Historical Documentary
📺 Outstanding Promotional Announcement: Documentary (for the Independent Lens film teaser)
🎧 Check out this new episode of @portofentrypod, a @kpbs podcast series telling the stories of people whose lives are impacted by the US-Mexico border. Here, they explore what is keeping residents of Tijuana from a better quality of life. The answer took them by surprise!
The newest season of Port of Entry spotlights Shapers and Visionaries of the borderlands. Supported by California Humanities through the California Documentary Project.
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The Right to the City. New episode out now! 🎧
🥳 Congratulations to @voiceofwitness on completing programming as part of the inaugural Civics + Humanities Middle Grades Grants cohort! Read more about this intergenerational program below 👇🏽
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This year, we expanded our intergenerational storytelling project with middle school students and elders in the Bay Area! ✨
Multilingual learners did oral history interviews with residents at Sequoia Living, a nonprofit that provides affordable housing and services to seniors.
We supported students and elders in exploring personal connections to history, culminating in an engaging field trip to @oaklandmuseumca. Students shared about their families’ journeys, and seniors shared personal stories from notable moments in California history, from Japanese incarceration to the Black Power movement. 🎤 📢
Interested in collaborating with VOW on oral history education to inspire critical thinking, social-emotional learning, and community engagement? Learn more at link in bio or reach out to: mailto:[email protected]
This project was made possible with support from @california_humanities. Video credit: @a.j.a 🎥
✨️ On July 16, 2024, California Humanities staff came together in Riverside with @thepublicsquare, @ucrarts, and @ucrchass to discuss hate and resistance in the Inland Empire, part of our @nehgov-supported United We Stand initiative.
📺📃 Read our highlights and watch a recording of "How Does the Inland Empire Strike Back Against Hate?" **linkinbio**
❤️ Thank you to our amazing panelists and audience!
🖼 Our team enjoyed a quick trip to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (@thecheechcenter) in Riverside, which hosts one of the world's foremost collections of Chicano art. "The Cheech"—a public-private partnership between @riversideartmuseum, the @cityofriverside, and comedian @cheechmarin—has hosted California Humanities-supported exhibits such as "Land of Milk and Honey" (Feb-May 2023), as well as the museum's inaugural exhibit "Collidoscope: A De la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective" (Jun 2022-Jan 2023).
🗓 Don't miss "Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist," an exhibit originally supported by California Humanities at the @mcasandiego, opening at the Cheech on August 31!
✨️Interested in how a local history museum carries out community outreach to build a new exhibit and public program series? Last week, a few California Humanities staff were fortunate to visit the @suttercountymuseum in Yuba City, where later this summer, with support from a Humanities for All Project Grant, they will launch a new permanent interpretive exhibit about Black history within Yuba and Sutter counties.
Thanks to director Molly Bloom and Humanities Advisor/community member Gwen Ford for pulling back the curtain and sharing with us the museum's multi-year process of making this a reality!
💻 Full post **linkinbio**
🎶Creating a New Muslim Music Tradition🎶
Congratulations to Muslims for Progressive Values for a successful celebration of their Muslim Musical Mosaic Project this past weekend in Los Angeles! This was the culmination of several music-focused “salons” with members of the Muslim American community over the last half year.
This California Humanities-supported project is exploring the role of music in the life of Muslim communities in LA and across the nation, and how Muslim Americans understand and interpret their traditions in the musical work they create, produce, and listen to.
Read more and see photos from the event at our **linkonbio**
📽 Courtesy of @mpvusa
Congratulations to Father Gregory Boyle, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this month alongside 19 other awardees at the White House.
In 2016, California Humanities interviewed Fr. Boyle as part of our "We Are the Humanities" initiative, inviting prominent Californians to explore what the humanities mean to them.
In 1988, Father Greg started Jobs for the Future (JFF) to transition local gang members into “legitimate” jobs that would allow them to cut ties with their violent past. JFF eventually morphed and expanded into Homeboy Industries, currently the world’s largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program.
👏🏽 Our Government Relations and Community Outreach Manager Nancy Olivares represented the humanities at the @caforthearts' second annual CA Arts & Culture Summit in Sacramento last month! We recognize all the ways that the arts, like the humanities, are vital to our health, culture, and communities.
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Nancy Olivares, Government Relations & Community Outreach Manager at California Humanities @california_humanities, joined @caforthearts for Arts Advocacy Day because she believes that #ArtWorkisRealWork and creativity is essential to our communities!
Check out our link in bio to learn how to be involved in the arts advocacy work.
#ACCM2024 #CAisCreative #InvestCAArts #ArtWorkisEconomicWork #fundCAArts #CreativeEconomy #ArtsAdvocacyDay
Today is #GivingTuesday! Give the gift of humanities in California. A gift to California Humanities will connect Californians to one another through humanities-based projects and programs, eye-opening cultural experiences, and meaningful conversations. Give to California Humanities as part of #GivingTuesday. Donate now: https://bit.ly/49Rnq2T
Congratulations to Oakland Museum of California for winning the 2022 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s highest honor for museums and libraries making significant and exceptional contributions to their communities!
https://bit.ly/3Q8MHf5
We Are More: Stories by Queer Comic Artists—Vivian Kleiman
Not long until our next #ArtofStorytelling exhibit opening!
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