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Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
Representatives from Illinois nonprofit organizations are invited to join us for this special grant application and resource day. During the workshop, you'll learn about the many ways in which the Illinois Humanities Council provides support for nonprofits, while making important connections and creating potential collaborations with other local organizations. Schedule of events:
Read our Community Grant guidelines. The next grant application deadlines are April 15, 2010 and July 15, 2010. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The New Harmonies exhibition, provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Museum on Main Street Program and the Illinois Humanities Council, examines the on-going cultural process that has made America the birthplace of more music than any place on earth. The exhibition provides a fascinating, inspiring, and toe-tapping listen to the American story of multi-cultural exchange and offers communities an opportunity to celebrate their music traditions as they come to understand the origins of various roots music genres including; blues, country and western, gospel, jazz and folk. The Opening Ceremony will feature Chris Vallillo, folk musician and Illinois State Scholar for this project. New Harmonies will be on display in Danville between April 10 - May 23, 2010. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The publication of The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter is a "mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race," as described by its publisher, W.W. Norton. For many, it is a long overdue examination of America’s endless and often lopsided discussion of race. Painter, a Princeton emerita professor of American history, covers a lot of territory in her book, beginning her story in Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist. She then looks at white slavery, a historical fact given slight scholarly coverage, by most accounts. Her point about slavery, she says is “that the people who get caught up are vulnerable aliens. …It’s who can be caught up and victimized.” | ||
