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Beyond the Commonwealth
New Tribal Cultural Council Program Launches
10.01.2024 Jen Lawless, Senior Director of Program Operations Diversity Equity and Inclusion | Tribal Cultural Council Guided by the success of the Local Cultural Council Program Aquinnah-based artist, NaDaizja Bolling making a traditional twined sash. Her work...
Grow Your Audience with Our Festivals Toolkit
09.30.2024 Timothea Pham, Program Officer Festivals & Projects Boston Little Saigon Cultural District Night Market. Photo: Annielly Camargo. Are you a festival producer or part of an organization that puts on festivals or public events? Many of you work tirelessly...
Creativity & Recovery
09.24.2024 Dan Blask, Program Manager COVID-19 | Cultural Sector Recovery Grants Four Years of Pandemic Funding for Individuals in the Cultural Sector Cultural Sector Recovery Grant Recipient Hannah Lopez Vega, aka Hannah Schzde. The artist used part of her $5,000...
394 Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/394_Rosen.mp3 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
Governor Appoints Cultural Economy Advisory Council Members
09.20.2024 Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim DriscollExecutive Office of Economic Development Press Release Member of the Governor’s Cultural Economy Advisory Council at their inaugural meeting. Today, the Healey Driscoll Administration appointed members of...
YouthReach Awards of $1.87M to Support Creative Youth Development
09.20.2024 Erik Holmgren, Program Manager Creative Youth Development | YouthReach Boston Children’s Chorus singers perform at Symphony Hall for a sold-out crowd at their 21st Annual MLK Day Tribute Concert. Photo: Boston Children’s Chorus. “In an increasingly...
Westborough Center Pastimes – September 20, 2024
Westborough Chronotype – December 1, 1855, p. 4 Patent Medicines in Westborough When I was young, I became interested in patent medicines and medicine shows from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for a variety of reasons—one of which was finding in my local...
Grants for Creative Individuals: Apply by Oct 24
09.13.2024 Dan Blask, Program Manager Grants for Creative Individuals Felipe Ortiz (Grants for Creative Individuals recipient ’24), PACIFICO (2017), Acrylic on wood, 31″x32″ Mass Cultural Council believes that creativity is a vital part of a thriving society. We are...
Grant announcement: Apply for collection processing assistance and archival supply regrant – deadline Oct. 4, 2024
Institutional ‘Host’ Application for Archival Field Fellowship: Application Deadline: October 4, 2024, by noon, EST Through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory...
Episode 393: Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden, Politics and Political Culture in the Early American Republic
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/393_Political_Civility.mp3 The Constitution is a document of “We the People.” The ways Americans have supported, debated, and interpreted the Constitution since 1787 have played a vital role in the rise of politics and...
Apply Now for Creative Projects for Schools
09.05.2024 Amy Chu, Program Officer Creative Projects for Schools | STARS Residencies Fourth graders at Saltonstall School learn about renewable energy by building a working 5-ft wind turbine as part of a residency with Change is Simple. Photo: Change is Simple Inc....
Opportunities & Resources for Orgs – Sept 24
09.04.2024 Mass Cultural Council Staff Opportunities & Resources Express Yourself’s 2024: EXYO Planet Performance at the Boch Center – Wang Theatre. Each month Mass Cultural Council shares a round-up of grants, trainings, technical assistance resources, and...
In conversation with Cheryll Toney Holley
If you ask Cheryll Toney Holley to introduce herself, she immediately mentions her four children and eight grandchildren, all of whom are local to the Worcester area. This is because intergenerational bonds are a central cultural value for Holley, who identifies as a...
Gloucester, Forget Me Not
By Brian Boyles This article was originally published in The Relentless Humanities, a newsletter written by Brian Boyles. Subscribe here. Vessels of Slavery is on display at the Cape Ann Museum’s CAM Green Campus through Sept. 1. The clatter of lines against a mast,...
Equity Progress Report (July-Aug ’24)
08.29.2024 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager Diversity Equity and Inclusion A regular report on our equity work Young woman performing at Elevated Thought’s gallery. Photo: Gretchen Ertl. Since 2021, with the launch of our first-ever Racial Equity Plan (and...