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Beyond the Commonwealth
Staff Picks for 2023
We asked our colleagues to tell us about the things they read, watched, listened to and worked on this year. Here’s our list of the experiences that moved us in 2023. Photo: Commonwealth Murals Raeshma Razvi, Program Officer, Expand Mass. Stories Ferrying to...
Episode 373: Adrian Weimer, The Gaspee Affair
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/373-_Weimer.mp3 The so-called “March to the American Revolution” comprised many more events than just the Stamp Act Riots, the Boston Massacre, and the Tea Crisis. One event we often overlook played an essential and direct...
Take Courage: Personal Agency and Mutual Encouragement
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Create, Connect, Catalyze: YouthReach in FY23
12.06.2023 Käthe Swaback, Program Officer Creative Youth Development | YouthReach “That’s My Fam Teen Poetry Slam!” at the 2023 Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, MA. Several teams competed at Cinema Salem including teens from Mass Poetry’s SW@MP program (Spoken...
Performing Arts Centers: Gaming Mitigation Grants Available
12.05.2023 Lillian Lee, Program Officer Gaming Mitigation Fund Promenade by Boston Festival Orchestra. Photo: Robert Torres. A new cycle of the Gaming Mitigation Fund is now open. The Gaming Mitigation Fund – established under MGL chapter 23K, section 59 – provides...
Supporting the Next Generation, Part 2: Takeaways
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Supporting the Next Generation, Part 1: Reflections
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Opportunities & Resources for Orgs – Dec 23
12.01.2023 Mass Cultural Council Staff Opportunities & Resources Lowell’s City of Lights event in the Canalway Cultural District. Each month Mass Cultural Council shares a round-up of grants, trainings, technical assistance resources, and opportunities for...
$810,000 Awarded to 54 State-Designated Cultural Districts
11.29.2023 Christian Kelly, Public Relations & Events Manager Cultural Districts | Press Release Gloucester Harbor. Photo: Visit MA. Today at Gloucester Stage Company Mass Cultural Council hosted an event with local and state officials and cultural partners to...
Episode 372: John Bickers and Diane Hunter, A History of the Myaamia
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/372-_Myaamia.mp3 Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Early America was a diverse place. A significant part of this diversity came from the fact that there were at least 1,000 different Indigenous tribes and...
Grants Sustain Impact for 17 Partners
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester Local organizations receive year a second year of funding. Communities around Massachusetts have important stories to tell and vital issues to discuss. In 2022, Mass Humanities committed to provididing sustained support for two...
Westborough Center Pastimes – November 17, 2023
Jack Straw Monument, Westborough, at the corner of Bowman Lane and Olde Coach Road. Click here to read the inscription. This essay is part of a new Westborough History Connections series called, “A Meeting of Two Cultures: Native Americans and Early European Settlers...
Estevan Rael-Gálvez, An Archive of Indigenous Slavery
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/371-_Rael-Galvez.mp3 Long before European arrival in the Americas, Indigenous people and nations practiced enslavement. Their version of enslavement looked different from the version Christopher Columbus and his fellow...
Card to Culture Launches New Program Guidelines
11.09.2023 Greg Torrales, Program Officer Card to Culture Actors’ Shakespeare Project production of Hamlet. In Mass Cultural Council’s strategic plan, one of our goals is to, “build and support programmatic practices that advance equity, diversity, and inclusion...
Arts on Prescription Bridges the Cultural, Healthcare & Public Health Sectors
11.08.2023 Käthe Swaback, Program Officer CultureRx [embedded content] Mass Cultural Council’s three-year CultureRx: Social Prescription Pilot program resulted in a deep understanding of successes, challenges, and the need for greater partnership to bring Arts on...