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Beyond the Commonwealth
Episode 326: Maureen Connors Santelli, The Greek Revolution in Early America
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/326_Santelli.mp3 With Ukrainian sovereignty and democracy under attack, Americans have been wondering: Should our government be doing more than placing economic sanctions on Russia? Should I, as a U.S. military...
Spring/Summer Festivals Awarded $271,500
04.08.2022 Timothea Pham, Program Officer Festivals Fabric Arts Festival in Fall River. Photo: Andrew Kepinski. Spring is in bloom and the upcoming warm summer months welcome opportunities to celebrate new, vibrant festivals across the Commonwealth. Congratulations to...
Changes Coming to the Cultural Investment Portfolio Grant Program
04.06.2022 Sara Glidden, Program Manager Cultural Investment Portfolio | Diversity Equity and Inclusion Concert at Hopkinton Center for the Arts. Last October, Mass Cultural Council launched a Racial Equity Plan to strengthen and extend the Agency’s existing Strategic...
Loud, Naked & in Three Colors: the History of Tattooing in Boston at Eustis Estate
Apr 5, 2022Historic New England explores an art form that was once banned in Boston, but today is seen as a creative mode of self-expression. Loud, Naked & in Three Colors: the History of Tattooing in Boston is on view from June 10 through October 30, 2022, at the...
How States Are Preparing for the U.S. 250th Anniversary
Across the United States, planning for the U.S. 250th anniversary is gaining momentum. Federal agencies, state museums, local nonprofits, and history organizations of all types and sizes have begun to plan in earnest for the United States’ semiquincentennial...
Enrollment Open for Clemente Summer Classes
Worcester Clemente Summer Course visited Mass. Historical Society in 2021 Special topics courses offer more opportunities for Clemente students The Clemente Course in the Humanities offers a transformative educational opportunity for adults facing economic hardship...
Maple Sugaring at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm
Apr 1, 2022For the past two school years, students from the River Valley Charter School in Newburyport, Mass., have spent many of their days not in a classroom, but at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm. The arrangement started as both a pandemic-era mitigation strategy and a...
Welcome Lillian Lee & Greg Torrales
03.31.2022 Ann Petruccelli Moon, Special Assistant to the Executive Director & Leadership Team Lillian Lee (left) and Greg Torrales (right), Mass Cultural Council’s newest staff members. Mass Cultural Council recently welcomed Lillian Lee and Greg Torrales as its...
Reframing History Podcast Now Available
The new Reframing History initiative provides the field with a set of evidence-backed recommendations to communicate about history more convincingly and to build a wider understanding of what inclusive history looks like and why it is important for all of us. As part...
AASLH Statement on Montpelier Board and Montpelier Descendants Committee
AASLH urges The Montpelier Foundation (TMF) to honor its June 2021 commitment to treat the Montpelier Descendants Committee (MDC) as its full partner in restructuring the TMF Board of Directors. On March 25, 2022, the TMF Board voted to change its policy of shared...
Episode 325: Woody Holton, Everyday People of the American Revolution
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/325_Holton.mp3 What do we know about the American Revolution? Why is it important that we see the Revolution as a political event, a war, a time of social and economic reform, and as a time oviolence and upheaval?...
Creative Youth Development BIPOC Alumni Council Shares Their Findings
03.22.2022 Amy Chu, Program Officer Creative Youth Development Youth leaders created a zine to document their work in 2021 Last spring, nine alumni from Creative Youth Development (CYD) programs supported by Mass Cultural Council were chosen to be involved in a...
Racial Equity Progress Report (Jan – Mar 22)
03.22.2022 Cheyenne Cohn-Postell, Program Officer Diversity Equity and Inclusion A quarterly report on our anti-racism work Drawing class in an Armenian Museum gallery In October 2021, Mass Cultural Council launched a three-year Racial Equity Plan outlining some of...
Share Your Story: 6th COVID-19 Cultural Sector Impact Survey Launched
03.21.2022 Bethann Steiner, Public Affairs Director COVID-19 Artists, cultural workers, and cultural organizations: Please report economic effects of the pandemic by April 15 One year ago, Mass Cultural Council reported devastating economic impacts from COVID-19...
Westborough Center Pastimes – March 18, 2022
Two Simple Questions? My practice of local history is guided by two questions: 1) Who are we?; and 2) Why do we live here? I am sure that other people interested in local history may be guided by other questions—I’d love to learn what they are—but I have yet to add...
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