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Please join us for a special public event on May 23 featuring work by veterans who took part in a recent workshop with Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent David Wood and internationally known photo journalist Andrea Wood. For details, click HERE.
Welcome, Anthony Poore, our new executive director! Read more about Anthony HERE.
Saturday, May 26, 2018
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
Our Humanities to Go catalog features over 200 programs available to groups throughout New Hampshire.
Our book discussion program for adult new readers opens doors into the world of books and ideas.
We support local cultural and educational institutions by awarding grants for innovative programs.
Anders Carlson-Wee was a professional rollerblader before he studied wilderness survival and started hopping freight trains to see the country. He has bicycled across the United States twice, hitchhiked to the Yukon and back, and walked on foot across Croatia and Bosnia through the farm villages of the Dinaric Alps.
As chants of "This-is-what-democracy looks-like" filled America’s streets this spring, New Hampshire Humanities offered veterans in our state the chance to take a deeper dive into the topic at an intensive writing and photography workshop supported by the Federation of State Humanities Councils, the Pulitzer Prizes, and The Mellon Foundation. What does democracy look like? What does it mean to serve your country?
The documentary that swept the nation last fall, Ken Burns’ THE VIETNAM WAR, is now available through our Humanities to Go program. In partnership with NHPBS, short films from Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s PBS documentarycan be booked as separate Humanities To Go events (the host site must provide a DVD or Blu-ray player).
Why is understanding African American history in rural New Hampshire relevant to all of the state’s inhabitants, not just people of color?
With support from New Hampshire Humanities, the Center for the Advancement of Art-Based Literacy will offer a 5-day summer institute from June 25-29 for New Hampshire teachers who have English learners in their classrooms. The workshop will be held on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University.
New Hampshire Humanities is an independent nonprofit which depends on contributions from individuals, corporations, foundations, and civic organizations in order to offer free public programming that fosters lifelong learning, reflection, and respectful conversation.
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