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Twenty additional organizations receive LCCF grants
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has awarded emergency relief grants from the Louisiana Culture Care Fund to an additional 20 organizations in 13 parishes.
Read MoreLEH distributes 24 grants from Louisiana Culture Care Fund
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the first round of 2021 emergency relief grants from the Louisiana Culture Care Fund to 24 organizations in 17 parishes.
Read More64 Parishes nominated for nine Press Club of New Orleans awards
We’re excited to announce that LEH’s 64 Parishes magazine and its contributors have been nominated for nine Excellence in Journalism Awards by the Press Club of New Orleans.
Read MorePRIME TIME Introduces Spark Box
Community organizations are invited to help spark a love of reading by signing up to distribute Spark Boxes provided by LEH’s PRIME TIME Family Reading program.
Read MoreSmithsonian’s “Water/Ways” exhibition begins new tour May 29
The new tour of Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street exhibition “Water/Ways” opens Saturday, May 29, at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve’s Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center in Thibodaux.
Read MoreBright Lights Online: Conversations with 2021 Humanities Awards Winners
This summer the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities will host Bright Lights Online, a series of live virtual conversations with and about the recipients of the 2021 LEH Humanities Awards.
Read MoreLouisiana Culture Care Fund will reopen for applications May 21
Following the passage of the American Rescue Act, LEH’s Louisiana Culture Care Fund, a grant program providing operational funding to humanities organizations and other cultural entities, will reopen May 21.
Read MoreJoshua Rothman in Conversation with Erin Greenwald
Join the LEH and 64 Parishes Editor-in-Chief Erin Greenwald for a conversation with historian Joshua Rothman on his new book “The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.”
Read MoreLEH announces next Museum on Main Street tour
The Smithsonian Institution and LEH have partnered to bring a tour of the Museum on Main Street exhibition “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” to Louisiana in April 2022. Applications to host the exhibition are open now.
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