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A monthly serving of illuminating programs for all Granite Staters

C E L E B R A T I N G 5 0 Y E A R S I N Y O U R C O M M U N I T Y

Inside The Mind of a Genius:

LEONARDO DA VINCI

A film premiere & conversation with Ken Burns
September 12, 7:30 pm
Dana Center at Saint Anselm College, Manchester

New Hampshire Humanities will join Saint Anselm College, NHPBS, and the Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute to welcome Ken Burns for an exclusive early screening and conversation about his upcoming documentary on the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Telling the story of the unparalleled Renaissance artist, inventor, and humanist, this film is Burns’ first non-American subject and explores the work of the 15th-century artist and how he influenced future generations. This event is sure to sell out – get your tickets today!

Join us for our next Humanities at Home!
Friday, August 16, 5:00 pm on Zoom

As recent European elections show, the far right is making enormous gains in Europe’s largest and most powerful democracies. This includes Germany, which was presumed to be immune from far-right politics, having learned the hard lessons of the Nazi era. This talk will explore how recent expansions of German citizenship laws have led to new forms of racism and anxiety about the “wrong kind” of immigrants. Come explore how media and popular culture– including national sports– provide central stages for deciding who belongs in the nation.

RSVP HERE

About the presenter: Kate Zambon is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire. Her research in global media studies focuses on the politics of nationalism, race, migration, and cultural difference in Germany and Europe through the analysis of international sporting events, news, and entertainment media. Her book, Interrogating Integration: Sport, Celebrity, and Scandal in the Making of New Germany, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.

Please join us to celebrate 50 years in your community!

Tickets are now on sale for our most spectacular event of the year:
2024 Annual Celebration of the Humanities!

FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

GREGORY MAGUIRE, AUTHOR OF WICKED

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Tupelo Music Hall, 10 A Street, Derry, NH Ӏ Doors open at 6:30 pm

Tickets & details here!

NH Book Festival coming!

A first-ever statewide celebration of authors, conversation, and community will come to historic downtown Concord this fall in a two-day festival of live presentations, panel discussions, and book signings by more than 40 nationally known authors. Mark your calendars for the NH Book Festival on Friday and Saturday, October 4-5!

Designed for all ages, the festival features a keynote for schoolchildren with super-star author Kate DiCamillo on Friday morning, and an evening keynote by best-selling author Jean Hanff Korelitz Friday evening. Saturday’s events include a full day of free author panels and book signings, contemporaneous street festival with books galore, and will conclude with a one-of-a-kind Book-to-Screen program and film with Kate DiCamillo. For details and the schedule, please visit www.nhbookfestival.org.

New Hampshire Humanities is a proud funder of the inaugural NH Book Festival, through a Community Project Grant.

Keeping Faith: 250 Years of Shakerism in America

The 250th anniversary of the Shakers’ arrival in America is commemorated in a new exhibition, Keeping Faith: 250 Years of Shakerism in America, featuring ordinary objects with extraordinary stories of the earliest Shakers' experiences. The Shakers' faith, along with these founding stories, helped this religious sect become the nation's longest-lived utopian community. Visit for free on Saturday, August 10 at 1:00 pm. After that, the exhibit is included with Village admission. Click HERE for details.

This program was funded in part by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant.

Upcoming deadlines for Community Project Grants:

MINI Community Project Grant applications (up to $2K) are accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more here.
MAJOR Grant Deadlines:

Draft proposals are due September 15, 2024.
Final applications are due October 15, 2024.

For more information and to access the application materials, click here.

The staff of New Hampshire Humanities had a special visitor this week, Jennifer Militello, acclaimed poet and New Hampshire Poet Laureate (center). Jennifer shared her goals for her tenure, making poetry accessible for people of all ages – especially youth – and about the joys and challenges of living a creative life. We’re looking forward to collaborating on projects that ignite public conversations about the power of poetry, and working together to help sustain New Hampshire's vibrant literary culture. Learn more about Jennifer's extraordinary work at jennifermilitello.com.

We've all had "humanities moments..."

...those magic instances when our minds are tickled by new and unexpected knowledge, when we come to understand a contrasting view, or hear a story different from our own. Sometimes the stories break your heart. And sometimes they help mend it.

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