Kansas Humanities Council Awards Fall Grants
Date: December 3, 2007
TOPEKA - The Kansas Humanities Council recently awarded $72,615
in Humanities and Heritage grants to eleven organizations.
HUMANITIES GRANTS
Humanities grants are public programming grants and support those
projects that engage the general public with the work of the humanities.
Grants awarded in the Humanities Grants category:
KTWU, Topeka ($16,490) for Sunflower Journeys,
2008. Thirteen half-hour programs related to the history, heritage,
and culture of Kansas. David M. Kendall, project director.
Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, Lawrence
($6,450) for The Road to the Civil War. Support for research
and development in a three-part PBS documentary series, The
Road to the Civil War. The segments explore Kansas's role during
the pre-Civil War years between 1830 to 1860. Gilles Carter, project
director.
Confucius Institute of the University of Kansas,
Overland Park ($7,558) for Kansas City Chinese Film Festival
2008. A five-film festival in March 2008 exploring the theme
of "Shanghai: Between the Past and Future." The festival
will feature classic and contemporary films from China and bilingual
film discussions in English and Mandarin. William M. Tsutsui and
Sheree Willis, project directors.
KPTS, Wichita ($10,000) for Greensburg.
Support for the completion of a one-hour documentary about the 2007
Greensburg tornado. Brian Schodorf, project director.
William Inge Festival Foundation, Independence
($7,100) for Humorous Social Criticism, Parody, and Satire as
Seen Through the American Theatre. A four-day event featuring
conversations with prestigious playwrights and film discussions.
The 2008 festival features the work of playwright Christopher Durang.
Peter Ellenstein, project director.
Wichita State University Libraries, Wichita ($4,242)
for Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country. Humanities
programs presented in conjunction with the national traveling exhibition
Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country. Cathy Moore-Jansen,
project director.
Kansas Center for the Book, State Library of Kansas,
Topeka ($4,295) for Kansas Reads...In Cold Blood. Statewide
humanities programs and discussions about Truman Capote's book In
Cold Blood as part of a one book/one state project. Emily Sitz,
project director.
The Concerned Citizens of Old Quindaro, Kansas
City ($6,000) for In Unity There is Strength: The African American
Experience. An exhibit interpreting the history of the former
slaves who escaped across the Missouri River to Quindaro Township
and the religious, educational, and business community they established
there. Jesse Hope III, project director.
HERITAGE GRANTS
Heritage projects are in partnership with the Kansas State Historical
Society and support the preservation and study of local cultural
resources, including oral history projects, basic research, best
practices, care of collections, cataloging/indexing, and language
preservation. Grants awarded:
Thomas County Historical Society, Colby ($3,500) for Promoting
a Sense of Place with Digital Images and Audio. A project to
convert audiocassettes and VHS tapes to a digital format. The video
and audio collections document life on the high plains, interviews
with Northwest Kansas World War II veterans, and oral history interviews
with descendants of Thomas County's early settlers. Sue Taylor,
project director.
Collyer Community Alliance Association, Collyer
($3,480) for Honoring Our Immigrant Past. A project to
catalog and preserve oral histories and photographs of Irish, Czech,
and Volga German immigrants and their descendants. The immigrant
settlers' photographs and artifacts will be on display in the Sod
House Museum/Visitor's Center. Donna Malsom, project director.
Greensburg Convention and Tourism Promotion Committee,
Greensburg ($3,500) for Greensburg's EF-5 Tornado Oral Phenomenon.
An oral history project to interview twelve survivors of the catastrophic
May 4, 2007 tornado in Greensburg. Janice Honey, project director.
A non-profit organization with 35 years experience, the Kansas
Humanities Council conducts and supports community-based programs,
serves as a financial resource through an active grant-making program,
and encourages Kansans to participate in their communities.
For more information about other KHC grants, contact the Kansas
Humanities Council, 112 SW 6th Ave., Suite 210, Topeka, 66603, e-mail
info@kansashumanities.org
or visit online at www.kansashumanities.org.
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