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Westborough Center Pastimes – April 19, 2024
Westborough Center Pastimes – March 15, 2024
Historical Society Program: Classical Ballet and Music from Southern India
Westborough Center Pastimes – February 16, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Old Colony History Museum Welcomes Two New Additions to Its Growing Team
Podcasts
Episode 397: Kathleen DuVal, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
396 Carpenters’ Hall and The First Continental Congress
395 Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776
394 Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness
Episode 393: Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden, Politics and Political Culture in the Early American Republic
Beyond the Commonwealth
Create, Connect, Catalyze: YouthReach in FY24
12.13.2024 Erik Holmgren, Manager of Advancement and Strategic Partnerships; Amy Chu, Program Officer; and Käthe Swaback, Program Officer Creative Youth Development | YouthReach New Bedford Whaling Museum High School Apprentices participating in a Seaweed public...
Celebrating our Arts-Vibrant Communities
12.12.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs SMU DataArts’ Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2024,Ranked by Per Capita Supply, Demand, andGovernment Support for the Arts A week ago Mass Cultural Council celebrated the news that Massachusetts...
HLI Takes Public History to the Streets
By Andrea Jones, Director, History Leadership InstituteWith Nicole Martinez LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Curator, Indiana Historical SocietyDoes our daily grind stand in the way of creating necessary change in the field of public history? With the constant Zoom...
Mass Cultural Council Seeks $28M in the FY26 State Budget
12.11.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Budget Mass Cultural Council, the Commonwealth’s independent state arts agency, is primarily funded each year through the Commonwealth’s General Appropriations Act, often referred to as the annual state...
What’s the Mass Leads Act Got for the Cultural Sector?
12.10.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Yvonne Hao, Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development and member of our governing Council, speaks at a ceremonial bill signing event for the Mass Leads Act in Cambridge. In March Governor...
Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
By Joan H. Baldwin Decades ago, when I was offered my first job as a county historical society director, I felt like the saint of neglected objects. I worked in the proverbial privileged, white person, helping a wealth of things speak in new ways. Along the way, I’d...
New documentary series highlights the Black experience in western Massachusetts
“Legacies: Stories of Black History in the 413” premieres Dec. 12 on NEPM TV. Black art, history, faith, and culture converge in a new three-part documentary series exploring the Black experience in western Massachusetts. “Legacies: Stories of Black History in the...
Looking to Develop Artist Space? Get Early Advice from a Code Consultant.
12.06.2024 Jay Paget, Program Director Artist Space | Mass Cultural Facilities Fund Mother Brook Art & Community Center, Dedham (former Avery School) Mass Cultural Council has a suite of resources to help with the acquisition, design, and build-out of creative...
Massachusetts Ranks 3rd in the Nation for Arts Vibrancy
12.05.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Today Mass Cultural Council celebrates news of the Commonwealth’s two-year stretch as the 3rd most arts-vibrant state in the nation, as ranked by SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research. In the...
Episode 399: Jeremy Schipper, Denmark Vesey’s Bible
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/399_Schipper.mp3 Denmark Vesey’s failed revolt in 1822 could have been the largest insurrection of enslaved people against their enslavers in United States history. Not only was Vesey’s plan large in scale, but Charleston...
Opportunities & Resources for Orgs – Dec 24
12.02.2024 Mass Cultural Council Staff Opportunities & Resources Musical Instrument Petting Zoo at Boston Symphony Orchestra, part of the Fenway Cultural District’s Opening Our Doors 2024 event. Photo: Annielly Camargo. Each month Mass Cultural Council shares a...
Equity Progress Report (Sept-Nov ’24)
11.27.2024 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager Diversity Equity and Inclusion A regular report on our equity work Breaking Down Barriers Coordinator Christopher Robinson provides ASL interpretation of the feel of the music as Boston Landmarks Orchestra...
We Need You at Museums Advocacy Day 2025
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Watch: The Speech is the Star
To commemorate our 50th anniversary in 2024, we produced a series of short films that revisit the Mass Humanities archive. The Speech is the Star examines the explosion in popularity of the Reading Frederick Douglass Together program, from its first public...
Episode 398: The Shawnee-Dunmore War, 1774
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/398_Dunmore_War.mp3 After the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), Great Britain instituted the Proclamation Line of 1763. The Line sought to create a lasting peace in British North America by limiting British colonial settlement...