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Lake Charles - "Banners: The McNeese
Arts & Humanities Series" (through May 30)
15th annual music,
art and humanities festival, featuring
Charles Kimball, Gary Joiner, Ryan Brasseaux
and Craig Colten, McNeese State University.
Napoleonville - "Madewood-Peabody Trio
Institute Outreach Program" (May 15-20),
Informance series, Madewood Plantation
surrounding The Peabody Trio.
Lafayette - "The 2nd Annual Cinema on
the Bayou Film Festival" (May 23-27), 2nd
annual Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival.
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The Louisiana Cultural Vistas Spring
2007 issue is now on newsstands and is also
available on-line in its entirety in digital
format, with
each page of the print version vividly
captured and
easily accessible. The staff at Louisiana
Cultural
Vistas welcomes feedback from our on-line
readers.
Here are the stories we're working on for
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Caddo and Bossier Parishes - The
Community Foundation of Shreveport-Bossier
supported four PRIME TIME programs in Caddo
Parish. Broadmoor Branch Library offered a
bilingual PRIME TIME, February 27-April 3,
targeting Hispanic families in the community.
This highly successful 6-week program reached
about 61 participants per session for a total
attendance of 366 participants. Atkins Branch
Library implemented their PRIME TIME program
during the same period. Southfield School
again targeted Providence House residents as
the audience with students, teachers and
parents serving as volunteers during the Feb.
27-April 10 program. Belcher Presbyterian
Education Center completed a program under
this grant in 2006.
Lafourche Parish - R. E. "Bob" Miller
and Major Equipment and Remediation funded a
successful PRIME TIME site at Chocktaw Branch
Library, Feb. 28-April 4, reaching about 53
participants per session for a total
attendance of 320. Anyone wishing to sponsor
a PRIME TIME program in their community
should contact LEH Director of Development
Mike Boyle at 504-620-2485 or Project
Director Faye Flanagan at 620-2485.
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LEH is sponsoring four summer Teacher
Institutes for Advanced Study across the
state for middle and high school history and
social studies teachers, curriculum
specialists, librarians and principals.
Funded by the LEH and state of Louisiana, the
institutes are designed to help educators
find new ways to engage in and teach the
humanities. Applications are now being accepted:
Nicholls State University - "Greatest Thoughts, Deepest Feelings: The Power of Poetry," June 18-July 12. Grambling State University - "Civil Rights in Louisiana from Huey P. Long to Ernest 'Dutch' Morial," June 4-28.
Southern University in Baton Rouge -
"Voices of Freedom," June 5-July 12.
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Several popular RELIC programs are continuing
around the state this month. Two highly
anticipated pilot programs on Creoles and the
Civil War in Louisiana are taking place in
several locales. Public comments, scholar
evaluations have been enthusiastic and lively
discussions are occurring in Ruston
(to May 15), East Jefferson (to May
16), Haynesville (to May 3), Oak
Grove (to May 31) and Kinder (to
May 31). On May 17, Alexandria is
poised to start the last pilot program "The
Creole Identity and Experience in Louisiana
Literature and History" (ends June 21).
These programs show the genuine interest
Louisianians have in reading and discussing
their own history. They also say a great deal
about the commitment of Louisiana's public
libraries, university faculties and the LEH
in promoting the humanities in communities
large and small.
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The LEH is currently in partnership with
Caddo and Orleans parish public school
systems in two $1 million Teaching American
History (TAH) grants funded by the U.S. Dept.
of Education. In both programs, the LEH will
sponsor summer institutes in American history
to help improve teacher skills and content
knowledge. This summer, three summer
institutes will be held at LSU- Shreveport.
Four institutes are scheduled in New Orleans
at Loyola University. Both universities have
waived tuition and most fees. Teachers in the
New Orleans area program will receive $1,500
stipends and $1,000 stipends in Caddo. All
teachers receive three graduate credits in
American history, 45 CLUs, $150 in teaching
materials, and Loyola University and
LSU-Shreveport tuition waivers - a $3,250
total dollar value for Orleans teachers and a
$1,600 dollar value for Caddo teachers. The
LEH has submitted new applications for
similar projects in Calcasieu, Lincoln and
Ouachita parishes.
Teacher workshop in Shreveport
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May 1: Public Humanities Grants
May 15: Outreach Grants |
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Lessons Learned: Disaster Planning &
Recovery - Caring for Your Collection, Caring
for Your Staff
May 21 in New Orleans, May 22 in Lake Charles and May 23 in Monroe Learn from those whose institutions have been impacted by a range of disasters, including fire, hurricane, and an unforeseeable event that resulted in the deaths of three staff members. Sessions will explore what museums can do to mitigate damage to their artifacts and how institutions can better help their staff members deal with post-disaster grief and trauma issues.
Grant-Writing from a Funder's Perspective
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