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Card to Culture Shout Out – June
06.16.2025 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager Card to Culture ©Sally Chapman, Bubble #2, on display through June 30, 2025 at The Griffin Museum of Photography. Mass Cultural Council is proud to partner with the Department of Transitional Assistance,...
Welcome Disability Advisory Committee Members!
06.12.2025 Charles Baldwin, Program Officer Disability Equity Plan | Diversity Equity and Inclusion Understanding the value of creativity and inclusion, Mass Cultural Council has aligned its public service with strategies for equitable practices, including the release...
Announcing the AASLH 2025 Leadership in History Award Winners
For eighty years, the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) has presented Leadership in History Awards to establish and encourage standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, and interpretation of state and local history in order to make...
Announcing the AASLH 2025 History in Progress Award Winners
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Announcing the AASLH 2025 Albert B. Corey Award Winner
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2025 Reading Frederick Douglass Together events announced
We believe Frederick Douglass’ words belong in public spaces. Every year we provide grants to support readings of his influential address, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, in town squares, community centers, churches, museums, libraries, parks, and...
Registration Now Open for the 2025 AASLH Annual Conference!
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Opportunities & Resources for Orgs – June 25
06.03.2025 Mass Cultural Council Staff Opportunities & Resources Cambridge’s City Dance Party (2023). Photo: City of Cambridge. Each month Mass Cultural Council shares a round-up of grants, trainings, technical assistance resources, and opportunities for creative...
412 Joyce Chaplin, The Franklin Stove
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/412_Chaplin_v2.mp3 The winter of 1740-1741 was exceptionally cold in North America. And as Benjamin Franklin looked around his house and neighborhood, he saw a problem in need of fixing: energy going to waste as people...
Celebrating 45 Years of Joy and Community
06.02.2025 Lisa Simmons, Program Manager LCC 45th Anniversary | Local Cultural Council Program Recognizing the Local Cultural Council Program and the extraordinary members fueling its success Northampton Arts Council’s Salsa in the Park. This year marks an exciting...
Register for Passport to History 2025
To receive the FREE digital Passport to History 2025, type in your contact information below, select “I’m not a robot”, and click “submit.” A confirmation email with the passport link will be immediately sent to you. The post Register for Passport to History 2025...
Governor Healey Announces Regie Gibson as Massachusetts Inaugural Poet Laureate
05.30.2025 Office of Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll Poet Laureate | Press Release Governor Healey and Lt. Governor Driscoll applaud Regie Gibson, the state’s first-ever Poet Laureate. Today, at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Governor Maura...
Your Voice Matters: Vote in the AASLH Council Election
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LCC Member Nano Interview – May
05.28.2025 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager LCC 45th Anniversary | Local Cultural Council Program 2025 marks the 45th anniversary of the Local Cultural Council (LCC) Program, and one way we are honoring this milestone is to hear from the incredible...
Passport to History 2025 – King Philip’s War
How to Use Passport to History This virtual passport grants free admission for up to four people for their first visit to 4 local participating museums, as well as explore 10 sites with public historic markers, from June 2025 through September 2025. Visitors must show...