1st Amendment-1st Vote’s Civic Leadership Action Summit, in collaboration with TheChisel.com, is held each October for that year’s 1st A-1st V Seminar cohort to refresh/refine issue-related Civic Leadership Action Plans crafted previously (student identifies issue she is passionate about and commits to take action with student collaborators, based on facts, to effect desired change). This Seminar follow-up is intended as final prep for Plan implementation in participants’ home school communities.
Mosaic Literary Conference
The Mosaic Literary Conference presents creative ways for keeping books and reading valuable sources of knowledge and creativity that help incorporate literature into existing curricula to explore course work focused on cultures and social studies.
How We Worked: Learning the Museum on Main Street
The Rensselaer County Historical Society (RCHS) partners with the Smithsonian’s 10 museum Pilot Project to develop an integrated humanities-based local work history exhibition set in the context of the national story. This is a hands-on opportunity for local professionals to learn the process and cultural framework used by the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) program. RCHS will convene collaborative panels to explore diverse input for an engaging exhibition onsite and at a community site.
Epic Forum Series: DEFAULT
Planning a series of community conversations around DEFAULT, a free thirty-minute touring play about Ethnic Studies and Culturally Responsive Education.
Parallel Lives: A History of Transgender Men
The Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project researches the history of transgender men and their contributions to Western New York from 1900 to the present, which it will then present to the public. In doing so, it expands the identities and the period of time typically covered in local narratives of LGBTQ history.
Strategic Plan for Accessible Folk Culture Collections
New York Folklore will convene a series of strategic planning meetings around the state with organizations that hold folk culture collections, to form a common vision for archival preservation and access, to study the effective allocation of human and monetary resources for collections’ care, and to devise a plan for a digital platform that can be used for collections’ holders to store materials and for users to access the documentary collections.
History of Native Americans in the Saranac Lake Region
Historic Saranac Lake consults with John Fadden of the Six Nations Indian Museum on the creation of an interpretive plan for an exhibit presenting the history of Native Americans in the Saranac Lake region.
Planning the North Country Art, Land and Environment Summit
The North Country Art, Land and Environment 2020 Summit will utilize the humanities and art to contextualize the climate emergency. The proposed Vision grant will bring together key stakeholders from educational institutions, museums, and nonprofits in the region to plan a series of panel discussions, workshops and educational exhibitions that will actively engage the history of northeastern NY to spark policy debate and climate action.
New Black Narratives into Core Materials
By building on existing research and through executing a series of scholarly lectures, the Morris-Jumel Mansion integrates the narratives of significant black figures of the home’s past into its core educational programs and interpretative framework.
Reimagining Immigration and Immigrants
The Reimagining Immigration and Immigrants project aims to change the perception of immigrants in the United States through its “Back to Y(our) Country” collaborative space, which will explore the relationship between traditional family recipes and memories, as well as the sensorial aspects of food and its origins.