More than $58,000 in Grants Awarded to Oregon Nonprofits
Oregon Humanities awards grants for projects that reflect the power of new ideas about connection to place, community.
08 March 2010 | Permalink
Eighteen nonprofit organizations throughout the state will receive more than $58,000 in grants from Oregon Humanities (formerly Oregon Council for the Humanities) for public programs that reflect the power of new ideas to create conversation about some of Oregon’s most divisive issues, including immigration and the Columbia River Crossing.
The 2010 Public Program Grant recipients are as follows:
Albany—$3,900 to the Friends of the Albany Public Library’s “Modern Voices Reading and Discussion Group,” focused on books that deal with globalism, world cultures, and place and community.
Bend—$4,000 to the Deschutes Public Library’s “A Novel Idea . . . Read Together,” a three-week community reading project that celebrates a selected novel through music, art, food, lectures, readings, and discussions.
Crater Lake—$2,500 to the Crater Lake National Park Trust for their “Crater Lake Reflections Lecture Series,” four public lecture/discussions in Bend, Eugene, Ashland, and Portland that explore the current and historical relationship between Crater Lake and the people who live there and the impacts of modern climate change.
Enterprise—$5,000 to Fishtrap for the “Summer Fishtrap Workshops and Gathering on Matter and Spirit,” which includes intensive discussions about the theme, readings by nationally published writers, fresh writing on the topic, and a public invitation for open mic readings.
Eugene—$2,070 to the University of Oregon’s “Integrating Immigrants: A Community Conversation.” The University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center will direct and facilitate a day-long community conversation on immigrant relations in Lane County.
Fossil—$3,395 to the Libraries of Eastern Oregon to host the “Querencia Community Discussions,” through which noted scholars will facilitate community discussions at ten rural libraries focused on the themes of querencia (the place from which we speak our deepest beliefs). Students, seniors, and area leaders will be invited to share their thoughts and encourage multi-generational dialogue.
Klamath Falls—$2,500 to the Shaw Historical Library (Oregon Institute of Technology) for the “Three Migrations” exhibit tour catalogue and online exhibit, which will encourage viewers to consider their place in the migrations to Oregon.
Portland—$3,000 to Miracle Theatre Group for “Dialogues with Don Quijote: A Method to his Madness?” a conversation series that will accompany the play, El Quijote. The series will emphasize the timelessness and wisdom of Don Quijote in the form of three community dialogues focused on popular media, governance, and contemporary culture.
Portland—$3,322 to the Bosco-Milligan Foundation for “Re-Building South Portland,” which focuses on the historic neighborhood that was dramatically affected during the early 1960s Urban Renewal era. Includes two seminars and an exhibit that draw together the memories of long-time residents, and documents and commemorates that history in a companion exhibit at the Architectural Heritage Center.
Portland—$3,000 to the University of Portland for the symposium “Confluences: Water and Justice,” which will bring together leading experts to discuss issues about water and justice facing the world today.
Portland—$1,500 to the Jewish Theater Collaborative for their Kinderstransport Lectures and Talkbacks. Psychologist Aart Lovenstein, MSW Samuel Giori, and African refugees Djimet Dogo and Kayse Jama will lead talkbacks addressing refugee trauma. In conjunction with the performances, Dr. Natan Meir will present the public lecture “The Destruction of a People and Its Culture.”
Portland—$5,000 to the Architecture Foundation of Oregon for the series “Crossing or Convergence? Exploring the Columbia River Crossing.” With PDXplore, the Architecture Foundation of Oregon will present discussions and exhibitions at the Pacific Northwest College of Art that will draw attention to the current status of the Columbia River Crossing project and increase recognition of the project’s scope and impact.
Portland—$5,000 to the Oregon Jewish Museum for two lectures and the exhibition “Ernest Bloch: Framing a Vision of the World.”
Portland—$5,000 to the Oregon Children’s Theater for the “Children and Media Project,” which will engage the community in presentations and discussions of issues related to the multimedia reality faced by children in our society. Includes facilitated discussions following a special performance and documentary screening, and a discussion of pop culture icons in association with the world premiere of Small Steps.
Portland—$2,000 to MediaThink for the project “The Media Mindful Family,” a self-guided discussion program that builds media literacy awareness and skills, with an emphasis on supporting families.
Portland—$4,265 to Bitch Media for “Mad World: Gender, Advertising and Identity in a Mediated World,” which aims to generate discussion about how advertising informs our identities and ideas about gender by providing opportunities for dialogue and education through interactive presentations, community forums, interactive blogs, podcasts, reading groups, and articles in Bitch magazine.
Salem—$2,000 to the Salem Public Library Foundation for “Uniquely Oregon: Understanding how Oregonians Connect to their Communities, History, and the Land,” a four-week series that combines readings, group discussion, and conversation with scholars.
Salem—$1,370 to Mission Mill Museum for guest speakers and a public forum on the 2010 candidates for Oregon’s governor. These events are part of the third Sesquicentennial Speakers’ Series in winter/spring 2010: “Bipartisanship and Intolerance in Oregon Politics.”
Oregon Humanities connects Oregonians to ideas that transform communities. More information about our programs and publications, which include the Conversation Project: A New Chautauqua, Think & Drink, Humanity in Perspective, Teacher Institutes, Happy Camp, Public Program Grants, Responsive Program Grants, and Oregon Humanities magazine, can be found at oregonhumanities.org. Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust.
