04 / 9
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.” | ||
04 / 10
Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
New Harmonies tracks the unique history of many peoples reshaping each other into one incredibly diverse and complex people - Americans. It also promises a fascinating, inspiring, and toe-tapping listen to the American story of cultural exchange with its multi-media components. As a unique traveling exhibition, it is full of surprises about familiar songs, histories of instruments, the roles of religion and technology in shaping new sounds, and the continuity of musical roots from the colonial period to modern day punk and hip-hop. New Harmonies will display from April 10, 2010 through May 23, 2010. | ||
04 / 11
Start: 4:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Warren Brown Mark Twain said "Inventors are the creators of the world-after God." This presentation is a first-person Chautauqua style program by Warren Brown as Mark Twain. You will journey on water, land, and air sharing insights from the "Diaries of Adam and Eve" to friendships with inventors and thoughts about Galileo and Newton. "I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."- Mark Twain. | ||
04 / 12
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04 / 13
Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
New Harmonies tracks the unique history of many peoples reshaping each other into one incredibly diverse and complex people - Americans. It also promises a fascinating, inspiring, and toe-tapping listen to the American story of cultural exchange with its multi-media components. As a unique traveling exhibition, it is full of surprises about familiar songs, histories of instruments, the roles of religion and technology in shaping new sounds, and the continuity of musical roots from the colonial period to modern day punk and hip-hop. New Harmonies will display from April 10, 2010 through May 23, 2010. Start: 4:30 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Lee Murdock
Lee Murdock has uncovered a boundless body of music and stories in the Great Lakes region (16 CDs and 2 books so far). There is an amazing timelessness in this music. Great Lakes songs are made of hard work, hard-living, ships that go down, and ships that come in. The music is grounded in the work-song tradition from the rugged days of lumberjacks and wooded sailing schooners. Murdock comes alongside with ballads of contemporary commerce and revelry in the grand folk style. Making folk music for the modern era, Murdock's work is a documentary and an anthem to the people who live, work, learn, and play along the freshwater highways of North America. | ||
04 / 14
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:30 pm
This event is co-sponsored by the Project on Civic Reflection, the Interfaith Youth Core, the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, and Critical Encounters: Fact & Faith. Start: 7:30 pm
A Road Scholar Program by John Hallwas An exciting lecture and slide presentation-that delves into the dark side of Illinois history from the frontier killers at Cave-in-Rock to later horse thieves, bandits, and murderers. Groups such as the Brown Gang, the Johnson Gang, and the Berry Gang - and outlaws like Joe Brice, Ed Maxwell, and Frank Rande - will be discussed, and then slides, based on lithographs and historic photographs, will depict some of the outlaws and the locations associated with their nefarious activities. The lecture will also include comments on the early lawmen and vigilantes who tracked down the desperadoes. | ||
04 / 15
Start: 5:00 pm
"Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance," by Atul Gawande Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a discussion-based program that brings hospital staff together monthly to reflect on the larger mission of medicine through facilitated conversations about literature. | ||
04 / 16
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
In 1982, a small group of students at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia arranged a picnic for those who could not afford to go home for spring break. According to Sharon Toomer, a freshman at the time and one of the organizers, the event was named “Freaknik” in a nod to the various cultural uses of the word, such as a dance called “The Freak” and Chic’s popular song “Le Freak.” Approximately 50 people showed up the first year, and the gathering became an annual event that grew in popularity. | ||
