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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
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
Episode 392: Kathryn Gin Lum, Religion and Race in Early America
Episode 391: Katie Schinabeck, Government in Colonial Virginia
Beyond the Commonwealth
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...
AASLH Announces New Location for the History Leadership Institute and Opens Registration for 2025 Cohort
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$7.2M Invested in Cultural Organizations Statewide
11.14.2024 Sara Glidden, Program Manager Cultural Investment Portfolio | Operating Grants for Organizations Visitors at the New Bedford Whaling Museum Our cultural life thrives because of the work of countless arts, humanities, and sciences organizations across the...
New Cultural Districts Designated in Holyoke, Watertown & Westfield
The City of Westfield, located in the Greater Springfield region, is a midsize community with a suburban feel and a mix of neighborhoods. Westfield has transformed significantly, evolving from an agricultural and industrial center into a thriving community with a...
Governor Healey Addresses Council Members
11.13.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Today, the gubernatorially-appointed governing body of the Mass Cultural Council convened its 164th business meeting at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, in Boylston. As the Commonwealth’s...
A New Strategic Framework
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEOAASLH staff, committees, and Council have been discussing the organization’s strategic direction off and on for the past several months. In this post, I would like to lay out the broad outlines of how we got to where we are today...
The stories behind meaningful objects – Betsy More
Elizabeth (Betsy) More, program director at the Jewish Women’s Archive, explains how the first commercial edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, “exemplifies the power of coming together communally and collectively to tell our stories.” On October 24, we hosted a workshop...
Gaming Mitigation Fund Now Accepting Applications
11.12.2024 Lillian Lee, Program Officer Gaming Mitigation Fund Feet Keep the Beat at Arts at the Armory. Photo: Joni Lohr Photography. A new cycle of the Gaming Mitigation Fund is now open. The Fund – established under MGL chapter 23K, section 59 – provides grants to...
The stories behind meaningful objects – Lani Asunción
On October 24, Mass Humanities hosted “The Future of Storytelling” workshop in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Grantees were encouraged to bring in meaningful objects and share their significance with the group, focusing on the influence of these...
The stories behind meaningful objects – Brian Lim
On October 24, Mass Humanities hosted “The Future of Storytelling” workshop in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Grantees were encouraged to bring in meaningful objects and share their significance with the group, focusing on the influence of these...
Be Human
A message from Executive Director Brian Boyles Earlier this year, Mass Humanities unveiled a new brand and a redesigned website, along with a new tagline: Be human. When the two words first came up in our discussions, I wasn’t so sure. I was taught that a tagline is...