Past Grants Awarded

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Implementing the digital exhibition of a program celebrating the culture and heritage of the long-standing Massachusetts commercial fishing industry, highlighting women both locally and abroad.

3 panel discussions, led by accomplished women of color, following 3 different plays in Company One's 2020 season, all connected by the theme of American stories.

A panel discussion on the political theories and practical differences between the right to vote and the right to be elected, comparing the US with countries where more women hold elected office.

Seven female students from Berkshire Community College will be guided in developing a public presentation -- to take place before the performance of Seven -- on 7 local women who have made a significant contribution to the world around them.

4 panel/discussion events on 4 aspects of voting: women's suffrage, civil rights movement, current barriers to voting, and teen voting.

4-hour panel and discussion event focused on problematizing the creation of monuments to memorialize historical events.

Writing workshops with those who are homeless, transitional, and recently-housed, culminating in publication of their works in The Pilgrim magazine and four public reading and discussion programs.

A discussion series with teachers from regional schools, featuring books about visual art and local artists.

A lecture and discussion event with civil rights activist and author Rodney Hurst and legal scholar David Harris.

Family-size group discussions of Dr. Seuss' book Oh, the Thinks You Can Think, led by a graphic facilitator who translates children's ideas into pictures, which are then displayed on a knowledge wall at the Dr. Seuss Birthday Party, the Museum's flagship event.

Two discussions with Billie Jean Young, creator of a one woman show on labor and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.

A panel discussion on the history of Black dance forms, kicking-off the Black Dance Festival

A discussion of voting rights and experiences with voting, focusing on past and present immigrant communities, with residents of The Point neighborhood in Salem

A series of free activities and programs for The Vote: A Divided Movement that Brings Us Together.

Support for the distribution phase of the Borderland documentary

A series of six online teacher professional development workshops on teaching civics content related to the new Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework, with a focus on how Lowell's underrepresented groups have fought, and continue to fight, for an equitable electoral process.

Training, collection, sharing and archiving of oral histories from the first families who moved twenty-five years ago on to the largest community land trust in Boston called Dudley Neighbors, Inc. (DNI).

Multiple community events, lectures, facilitated discussions, book groups, documentary screenings, hands-on projects, and performances centered around the history of voting rights.

Support for training on reproductive justice and engaging in dialogue across differences, to prepare WAM staff to facilitate post-show discussions, develop a post-production community dialogue event, and create playbill and educational lobby materials.

Support for a humanist to research in women's suffrage documents and history to provide materials creating a script and discussion format for four shows.

Development of school curriculum on "Partners in Protest: Massachusetts Working Women and their Struggle for the Vote" for eighth-grade civics classes in commemoration of the national woman suffrage centennial.

3 free public lecture and discussion events and one book discussion in coordination with an exhibit on the 18th-century writer and advocate for women's equality, Judith Sargent Murray.

A series of public events in Holyoke highlighting the literary, social, and historical importance of the Diary of Anne Frank.

A community-based oral history project, "The Untold History of Bhutanese Americans in Western Mass."

A three-part series, in partnership with the New Bedford Whaling Museum's (NBWM) Lighting the Way Project (LTW), that explores the subject of voting rights in our community.

Daylong programming for a multi-generational audience on the history of women's suffrage, including coverage of the contributions of the African American community, and a travelling exhibit on the history of suffrage in the Berkshires.

An exhibition to center around narratives of home, community, and intergenerational resilience.

A special half-day conference under the umbrella of the Kennedy Library Forums featuring three forums on the history and current relevance of the suffrage movement.

Development of school curriculum on "Partners in Protest: Massachusetts Working Women and their Struggle for the Vote" for eighth-grade civics classes in commemoration of the national woman suffrage centennial.

Design and implementation of a professional development series for K-12 social studies teachers that will include a one-day seminar (run twice) and a three-part webinar series on historical and contemporary challenges to expanding and protecting voting rights in the United States, each through a humanities lens.

Public programming offered in conjunction with the exhibition "Our Souls are by Nature Equal to Yours -- The Life & Legacy of Judith Sargent Murray."

A series of three public events focused on how we respond to art from different time periods.

A documentary film and discussion series with a unifying theme focused on what it means to be human.

Four panel discussions and a lecture centered on the relationship between images and words in graphic storytelling.

A series of three symposia on the theme of witch hunts through the lens of CST's production of The Crucible.

A series of four discussions of works by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., each chosen to be in dialog with a national or international holiday.

A panel discussion on Mass Rock Against Racism's history and the role of music in youth movements.

A series of four discussions, with four communities in Southeastern Massachusetts, of Paul Cuffe's history and legacy.

A public discussion of hip-hop and international youth culture, featuring AfH's teen artists and Global Artists in Residence, and scholar Elizabeth Rosner.