In this one-hour virtual session, Director of Grant-Making Joe Murphy will discuss the requirements for HNY Action, Vision and Quick grants as well as insights into competitive grant-writing in the HNY context. Ample time will be set aside for participant Q&A.
Join us for this short-term book discussion about food! Working with histories, novels, and journalism, this series exposes some of the issues that lie on our plates. Discussion will be led by Avalon Gupta VerWiebe of the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance (SOFSA). VerWiebe holds a Masters in Food Science from Syracuse University. The program may also include guest speakers and hands-on experiences. Texts include: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Diet for a Small Planet by Francis Moore Lappe In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan The Third Plate by Dan Barber We will take a look […]
“Changing the Game” Q&A with film subjects Advance viewing is recommended; films will not be shown during Q&A Middle and high school students are invited to view award-winning documentaries that examine current social issues such as representation and identity, immigration, and civil rights followed by Q&A sessions with filmmakers. Emmy award-winning filmmaker Michael Barnett’s insightful documentary illuminates a current and crucial civil rights issue: transgender inclusion in sports. Changing the Game takes us into the lives of three high school athletes—all at different stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and unique paths as transgender teens. Live virtual Q&A March […]
The Whaling Museum is hosting a project centered around a new exhibition exploring the role of Black mariners in whaling history, bringing into perspective a significant but largely hidden time in American history for the general public.
5 Oral History narrators will participate in a panel discussion before an audience of NYCHA tenants and other local leaders. Audience member will participate in a conversation that asks them to relate the project and organizing process to their own lives.
The Whaling Museum is hosting a project centered around a new exhibition exploring the role of Black mariners in whaling history, bringing into perspective a significant but largely hidden time in American history for the general public.
The Whaling Museum is hosting a project centered around a new exhibition exploring the role of Black mariners in whaling history, bringing into perspective a significant but largely hidden time in American history for the general public.
Humanities New York’s Reading and Discussion Program – James Baldwin’s America Mondays, March 20th, April 3rd, April 17th and May 1st, from 4-5:30 p.m. In HNY’s Reading & Discussion Programs, participants read a series of thematically linked texts over the course of several sessions. At each session, participants come together with others in their community to discuss what they’ve read in a conversation facilitated by a trained local scholar. In the series James Baldwin’s America, participants will read works by Baldwin and be led in discussion by Stony Brook University Distinguished Teaching Professor Georges Fouron each session, which will take […]
What Does It Mean to Be Civically Engaged in 2023? We will be exploring this question and connecting it to our personal lives as we read The Civically Engaged Reader. Interested? Please join us.
What does it mean to be an American in the 21st century? What does a model American do, and what responsibilities do Americans have to their communities and each other? How have the answers to these questions changed over the history of the United States? The participants in the reading and discussion program "American Politics and Community Today" will engage with these questions and others regarding politics and the current state of civic thought, feeling, and participation. online via Zoom The League of Women Voters of Albany County and Albany Public Library invite you to participate in a four session […]
The Best of Simple and Series Introduction ─ March 22, 2023 The Best of Simple ─April 5, 2023 The Return of Simple ─ April 19, 2023 Simple’s Uncle Sam ─ May 10, 2023 The Langston Hughes Reader ─ May 24, 2023 The Ways of White Folk ─ June 8, 2023
In this one-hour virtual session, Director of Grant-Making Joe Murphy will discuss the requirements for HNY Action, Vision and Quick grants as well as insights into competitive grant-writing in the HNY context. Ample time will be set aside for participant Q&A.
The Whaling Museum is hosting a project centered around a new exhibition exploring the role of Black mariners in whaling history, bringing into perspective a significant but largely hidden time in American history for the general public.
This program will explore the War of 1812 and its impact on global history from the perspectives of the fledgling nation of the United States, the border with our Canadian neighbors, the British empire and the concerted Native American collaboration
The Whaling Museum is hosting a project centered around a new exhibition exploring the role of Black mariners in whaling history, bringing into perspective a significant but largely hidden time in American history for the general public.
Through the figure of the silk worm, hiba ali’s exhibition maps family stories that feature swahili-indian ocean afterlives including sufi saint, bava gor, “roshan rui’, the cyclone, indian ocean servitude and slavery and the role of silk. Featuring videos, sound, weavings, and more, the work builds off of ali’s extensive research on the black indian ocean, which explores the history and continued presence of afro-descent communities from the black indian ocean and maps relationships between the arab world, south asia and the swahili coast of east africa. The exhibition is accompanied by a newly commissioned essay on ali’s work by […]
The Whaling Museum is hosting a project centered around a new exhibition exploring the role of Black mariners in whaling history, bringing into perspective a significant but largely hidden time in American history for the general public.
What Does It Mean to Be Civically Engaged in 2023? We will be exploring this question and connecting it to our personal lives as we read The Civically Engaged Reader. Interested? Please join us.
Through five Pulitzer winning novels, this series looks at how authors have depicted the striving to better oneself and achieve the American dream – and how, despite our efforts, we often end of up unfulfilled or clashing with other elements of society.