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Full House: Illuminating Underrepresented VoicesThomas Cole National Historic Site$5,000The TCNHS will launch three interpretive tours that encourage group discussion and bring to light underrepresented voices in this nation’s history by illuminating the diverse residents of the historic property.CatskillCapital Region
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Virtual Video Visits1st Amendment-1st Vote$5,000.00Nine (9) virtual visits along Women's Rights Corridor/CNY, for high school-aged teens who identify as girls: Seneca Falls/Waterloo, birthplace of Women's Rights in America; Auburn-Harriet Tubman's chosen hometown & final resting place; Fayetteville-Matilda Joslyn Gage Museum, home of The Unsung Suffragist.AuburnFinger Lakes
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Fashion and Identity: Redesigning Historic Dress at SCHSSchenectady County Historical Society$5,000An exhibition exploring the historic importance of women’s fashion in the expression of cultural values and identity, and how those ideals have changed over time.SchenectadyCapital Region
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50 years of Creativity and Community: eba- Electronic Body Arts. A cultural history, interactive exhibition and examination of the impact made by an arts organization in Albany.Electronic Body Arts$2,500The eba exhibition will highlight how a small arts organization impacted life in the city of Albany over the past 50 years. The exhibition will showcase the performing arts, social interactions, community building, and socio-economic impact of eba.AlbanyCapital Region
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Let's Have a Conversation - Older Women Leading Extraordinary LivesColonie Senior Service Centers$5,000To challenge and redefine the notion that once women have hit middle age, their opportunity for greatness has passed. A series of conversations (podcasts) will profile women who paved new ways later in life and discovered hidden passions and talents.AlbanyCapital Region
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Street by Street: A Village as Remembered by StorytellersArts at the Palace,$5,000An oral history of the Village of Hamilton, NY, told through stories told by residents about the streets on which they live.HamiltonCentral New York
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Haudenosaunee Film FestivalFriends of Ganondagan$5,000The Haudenosaunee Film Festival provides Haudenosaunee filmmakers a culturally significant venue to share reflections of the Haudenosaunee experience engaging both Indigenous and non-Native audiences and will include Q&As and a Youth Workshop.VictorFinger Lakes
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Indigenous Women's Voices SummitThe Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre$5,000The Indigenous Women’s Voices Summit celebrates contemporary Indigenous women identified artists and scholars and sparks dialogue on Indigenous history and leadership through two weeks of arts programs and public discussions.HurleyvilleMid-Hudson
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ARRIVALS: Stories of Arrival, Exiliados: A Night of Poetry and Family Day: Connecting CommunitiesKatonah Museum of Art$5,000Using the exhibition ARRIVALS as a springboard, the Katonah Museum of Art will engage the community in conversations about immigration to the United States in a diverse series of public programs.KatonahMid-Hudson
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Jefferson Then and NowThe Jefferson Historical Society$3,086This project will consist of several short documentaries about the lives, history and customs of people of our Town as we enter into a changing era of economic development. The films will be comprised of oral histories, photos, and original music.JeffersonMohawk Valley
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10 Years and 30,000 Volunteers Later: Commemorating and Celebrating Community After the StormsNew York Folklore Society$5,000This project is a commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, portraying the storms' impacts on the Northern Catskills through a multi-media exhibition highlighting stories of community resilience and recovery.SchenectadyCapital Region
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Night of Philosophy and IdeasBrooklyn Public Library$5,000BPL’s Night of Philosophy & Ideas is a series of lectures, co-presented with the French Embassy’s Cultural Services, featuring philosophers and cultural performances over 12- hours. In 2021 it will be offered as a multi-day live-streamed event.BrooklynNew York City
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Living History at the New-York Historical Society: Black American Traditions and HolidaysNew-York Historical Society$5,000Living History features historical reenactors and replica historical objects, creating immersive experiences for families to explore periods of history. In 2021, Living History programs will be developed to celebrate Pinkster and Juneteenth.New YorkNew York City
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Alter-Worlds: Black Utopia and The Age of AccelerationNew York Live Arts$5,000The 8th edition of Live Ideas, “Alter-Worlds: Black Utopia and The Age of Acceleration,” will explore the second wave of Afro futurism as the groundwork for a future that is not bound up with the ideals of white Enlightenment universalism.New YorkNew York City
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Beacon 2021 Public ProgramLewis H. Latimer Fund$5,000Lewis Latimer House Museum will conduct a series of public programs promoting the African American inventor's historic legacy to accompany the exhibit of BEACON, an LED sculpture inspired by Latimer's 1880s patent drawings for electrical lighting.FlushingNew York City
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Spaces, Places, and Faces: Exploring Queer Public HistoryAmerican Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning$5,000“Spaces, Places, and Faces: Exploring Queer Public History” is a podcast series that looks at how the work of Queer historians, activists, educators, and archivists have preserved and reclaimed the telling of LGBTQ+ history.New YorkNew York City
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Why We Fight: Voices from the Struggle for Women’s SuffrageVoices of a People's History of the United States$5,000Why We Fight: Voices from the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage is a virtual event to celebrate the diverse (and lesser-known) voices of generations of people who fought for women to have the right to vote and the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.New YorkNew York City
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Art in Expanded Context: Identity, Gender, and RaceFiveMyles$5,000Conversation season connecting the art on display at FiveMyles with broader human issues, with the focus on identity, gender, and race.BrooklynNew York City
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Rethinking JusticeSociety of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; Columbia University$5,000Rethinking Justice is a series of remote critical discussion groups including formerly incarcerated people and community stakeholders, culminating with statements on issues like justice, freedom, responsibility, democracy, punishment, equality.New YorkNew York City
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HER EYES ONLY: Coreen Simpson & Gylbert Coker on Black Women’s Photography in the 1970sFranklin Furnace Archive$5,000Franklin Furnace & 10x10 Photobooks present Dr. Gylbert Coker, museum director, & Coreen Simpson, artist, in conversation about hurdles for Black women artists in the 1970s and how we can move forward today.New YorkNew York City
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NYICFF FilmEdNew York International Children's Film Festival$5,000NYICFF’s FilmEd program uses film to promote traditional literacy skills, media literacy, critical thinking, and social emotional learning around social justice, empathy, and understanding.New YorkNew York City
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Jazz & the LGBTQ+ Experience through the Lens of James BaldwinThe National Jazz Museum in Harlem$5,000National Jazz Museum in Harlem presents "Jazz & the LGBTQ+ Experience through the Lens of James Baldwin" in which we explore the intersections among race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and jazz through the writings and wisdom of James Baldwin.New YorkNew York City
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Amplifying the Youth Experience: Youth Documentary Workshop and ScreeningsEducational Video Center$5,000Documentary Workshop provides historically marginalized youth and underserved communities the opportunity to qualitatively explore the human experience and advance civic education through youth-produced films and intergenerational dialogue.New YorkNew York City
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Voices for Justice: The Role of the Artist in Social MovementsWomen's Housing and Economic Development Corporation$5,000Voices for Justice is an online series that creates an interactive forum for artists and activists to share their voices, art and work to start a dialogue on social issues and build strategies for the creation of a safe and equitable society for all.New YorkNew York City
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Beyond Symbol: Culture and ReparationsFourth Arts Block$5,000Beyond Symbol: Culture and Reparation is a series of online events intended to expand the dialogue on issues of cultural reparation, arts, and racial justice in New York City.New YorkNew York City
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History, Race and Gender in the AdirondacksBeyond Symbol: Culture and Reparations$5,000A series of conversations, programs and exhibits around topics such as racial inequality in the Adirondacks, persons of color in our regional history, the region’s role in the abolitionist and civil rights movement, and cultural appropriation.TiconderogaNorth Country
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Daring to Dig : Women in American PaleontologyPaleontological Research Institution$5,000Daring to Dig: Women in American Paleontology" is a temporary exhibit at the Museum of the Earth. The exhibit and programming will examine the challenges and successes of these women—past and present—as they strive towards scientific discovery.IthacaFinger Lakes
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Spirit of Tompkins CountyDiscovery Trail$5,000Spirit of Tompkins County is a community portrait project that seeks to celebrate the connection between people and place. This is a unique opportunity to creatively convey Tompkins County’s culture and celebrate our connection to diverse landscapes.IthacaFinger Lakes
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LGBTQ+ Community Archive and ExhibitFenton Historical Society of Jamestown$4,500The Fenton History Center, in partnership with local organizations and individuals, is attempting to build a community archive and exhibit dedicated to our LGBTQ+ community, after recognizing that this unique history was being lost through inaction.JamestonWestern New York
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A Known Colored WomanAfrican Cultural Center of Buffalo$5,000"A Known Colored Woman" is an original play exploring how Buffalo, New York activist and suffragette Mary Burnett Talbert exposed and challenged the Jim Crow system of juvenile injustice for incarcerated Black children.BuffaloWestern New York
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Traveling the Erie Canal: 200 Years of JourneysYoung Audiences of Western New York$5,000Traveling the Erie Canal: 200 Years of Journeys is an engaging arts integrated program with themes and subjects to provide youth and families with a strong, hands-on, exploration of the social, cultural and historical significance of the Erie Canal.BuffaloWestern New York
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White House/Western New YorkThe Buffalo History Museum$5,000Traveling the Erie Canal: 200 Years of Journeys is an engaging arts integrated program with themes and subjects to provide youth and families with a strong, hands-on, exploration of the social, cultural and historical significance of the Erie Canal.BuffaloWestern New York
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Struggle for Women's Suffrage: Politics and Race1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum$5,000Program series on the intersection of race and politics in the women's suffrage struggle, with a focus on African-American suffragists.FarmingtonFinger Lakes
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From Progressive Reformers to Lesbian Gathering Spots: Explorations of Same-Sex Relationships & Spaces in New York CityNYC LGBT Historic Sites Project$5,000Program series focusing on extant spaces associated with nineteenth- and twentieth-century LGBT women, including conversations about progressive reformers, radical activists, social spaces, and the women’s movement.New YorkNew York City
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Centennial Plus One: Celebrate and Defend the VoteHowland Stone Store Museum$5,000Opendore, the recently restored home of suffragist Isabel Howland, opens to the public, joining Seneca Falls and the Harriet Tubman Home on the New York Women's Heritage Trail.AuroraFinger Lakes
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WCI Film Festival and Lecture Series: VampiresUniversity at Albany Program in Writing and Critical Inquiry$5,000Film festival and program series on one of the world’s most enduring images -- the vampire -- and what it can teach us about reckoning, resilience, and rebirth.AlbanyCapital Region
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Ruderal Ecologies IIMedia Alliance$5,000Ruderal Ecologies II builds upon our 2018 Ruderal Ecologies: Grounds for Change conference, which brought together thought leaders in art, science, and environmental justice to explore the history and future of urban environments shaped by stress. “Ruderal" is an adjective that describes organic growth on waste grounds or among refuse ecologies.TroyCapital Region
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The Spirit Rooms of Lily Dale- Featuring scenes with the Fox Sisters, Susan B Anthony and Mae WestLily Dale Assembly$5,000Documentary film on the little-known history of Susan B. Anthony, the Fox Sisters, and Mae West and their substantial connections to Spiritualism, Lily Dale and the Women’s Rights Movement.Lily DaleWestern New York
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Pandemic Island: Creating an ArchiveOpen Doors$5,000Nursing home residents and their neighbors gather and preserve individual stories and other forms of creative expression in the time of Covid-19.New York CityNew York City
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Native New YorkSUNY Oswego/Tyler Art Gallery$5,000Art exhibition on the aesthetic diversity and dynamic character of the contemporary Haudenosaunee art scene in New York. Challenging dominant and often stereotypical ideas regarding what constitutes “American Indian” art.OswegoCentral New York
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Harlem Heritage Markers Project (HHMP)While We Are Still Here$5,000Thirteen markers will be unveiled and dedicated by various individuals, during a daylong bus tour with a professional guide. End-of-day program will highlight the work of J. Rosamond Johnson and Lawrence Neal, curated by Neal and Johnson scholars.New York CityNew York City
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ReEntry Theatre Program's "Radio Play"Civic Ensemble$5,000Civic Ensemble’s ReEntry Theatre Program is creating a new play for the radio and hosting a post production dialogue. The piece is developed by people who have experienced incarceration, based on oral history interviews that participants conducted.IthacaCentral New York
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Infusing Black Narratives into the Core Interpretation at Morris-Jumel MansionMorris-Jumel Mansion$5,000Expanding upon a 2020 HNY Vision grant, this project will further incorporate the narratives of Black individuals associated with the 1765 historic site into the core interpretation materials, both digitally and within the museum's period rooms.New York CityNew York City
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Art Start Portrait ProjectArt Start$5,000A multimedia creative project for historically marginalized youth to explore the complexities of their identities, offering a public-facing platform for self-determination, representation, and freedom.New York CityNew York City
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LibertyCon 2021 - Freedom Road: the Struggle for Justice ContinuesUnderground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region$4,855Focusing on the nation's unprecedented and long overdue examination of systemic racism in America, URHP connects the historical UGRR movement with the current struggles to dismantle injustice, oppression and the false idea of White as superior.AlbanyCapital Region
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La Historia del Bronx: Coloring Our HistoryCasita Maria$5,000BronX BandA, a Latin Jazz ensemble created by Casita Maria and artist Arturo O’Farrill, performs work based on Bronx oral histories. Funding will support an educational coloring book based on this work, so youth can explore their community's history.BronxNew York City
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Pandemics: Past and PresentHistoric Saranac Lake$5,000Historic Saranac Lake will host a series of public programs exploring our history as a tuberculosis sanatorium community, making connections to a wider historical context and to the collective experience of COVID-19.Saranac LakeNorth Country
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Rebuilding New York State History Day: Supporting Humanities Learning for AdolescentsSUNY Oneonta$5,000The Cooperstown Graduate Program seeks funding to support becoming the new home of the New York State History Day (NYSHD) program and to enhance history education throughout the State.OneontaMohawk Valley
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Writing the WatershedSchoharie River Center$5,000One-day literary arts and environmental humanities festival showcasing the place-based literature of the Mohawk Valley through workshops, readings, and performance.EsperanceMohawk Valley
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Views from the Watershed Audio TourCatskill Mountain Club$5,000An audio tour about the past, present, and future of NYC’s water supply in the Catskills region; and how water— and water infrastructure— is a social connector between rural and urban communities.MargaretvilleMohawk Valley
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Resource Hub: Connecting Students and Heritage Sites for Mid Hudson NY History DayGreater Hudson Heritage Network$5,000GHHN will create a resource hub of supplemental materials featuring area heritage keepers and local history collections in order to encourage wider student and community engagement in the Mid Hudson Region of New York History Day.ElmsfordMid-Hudson
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Community Conversation: Marginalized and Undeserved Groups in JamestownReg Lenna Center for the Arts$5,000Community conversation series connecting the broader Jamestown, NY community with its marginalized/underserved groups to increase public awareness of their challenges and also identify workable solutions to overcome these challenges.JamestownWestern New York
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Hear Our Voices: Memoir Writing to Heal Our Communities, Spirit and LandHerstory Writers Workshop$5,000Farmers, environmental activists, students in public humanities, land donors and community stakeholders will craft stories for verdant, sustainable and just use of our land.CenterreachLong Island
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Tideshift: Waterfront Freight Workers, Past to PresentWaterfront Museum$5,000This project will collect and share stories from waterfront workers who handle freight in and near Red Hook, Brooklyn and their descendants. These include pre-World War II barge families, former longshoremen, and today’s final mile shipping workers.BrooklynNew York City
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Exploring the Dramatic Sinking of the USS Scourge in Lake Ontario Using an Interactive Multimedia ExperienceRochester Museum & Science Center$5,000The RMSC will create an interactive multimedia experience for the Water Worlds exhibition allowing visitors to explore the sinking of the USS Scourge during the War of 1812 through first-person accounts including free African American crew members.RochesterFinger Lakes
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Shinnecock WhalersThe Whaling Museum and Education Center$5,000For designing an accessible, centralized, and long-lasting digital resource contextualizing the undertold whaling history of the Shinnecock people for the public to understand and explore.Cold Spring HarborLong Island
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"Pathway to the Ballot Box: An Immersive Theater Experience"Huguenot Historical Society$5,000A key part of Historic Huguenot Street's programming focused on women’s history and rights inspired by the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment.New PaltzMid-Hudson
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The Virtual Martin Luther King (vMLK) Exhibition at Molloy College: Days of Learning, Days of ServiceMolloy College, Digital Humanities$5,000Re-creation of MLK’s “Fill Up the Jails” speech, of which there is no known recording, complete with a virtually-redesigned architectural model of the place where the speech was delivered.Rockville CentreLong Island
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Social Justice in South Asian Classical MusicRaga Massive$5,000Anchored by 2 podcast interviews, movie screening, book club, and panel discussion, this 3-month series explores the sociopolitical realties of discrimination/disenfranchisement in post-colonial South Asia through the lens of raga-based art forms.BrooklynNew York City
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The Quick & the Dead: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha EditionWendy's Subway$5,000The Quick and the Dead is a multi-phase, yearlong program that highlights the life, work, and legacy of a deceased writer with a series of public events and commissions. This edition focuses on Korean American poet and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.BrooklynNew York City
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Mosaic Literary Conference: QueerLiterary Freedom Project$5,000This year the conference will focus on queer identity. After four years under a presidential administration that was hostile toward trans, queer, and non-binary femme bodies, how do we create an inclusive space to explore race, gender, and sexuality.BronxNew York City
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Launching Historic Reher's Bakery ToursReher Center for Immigrant Culture and History$5,000This project supports staff and consultants to develop interpretive, and evaluative tools for our Historic Bakery Tours program, and to lead tours at the Reher Center in summer/fall 2021.KingstonCapital Region
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Making Change: Immigrant ActivismIrish American Heritage Museum$5,000An exhibition and lecture series which highlights the role immigrants played in progressive politics in America. By showing that positive forces for change were led by immigrants, we hope to illustrate how newcomers make life better for everyone.AlbanyCapital Region
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Experimental Lecture SeriesPoetry Project$5,000The Poetry Project will present 6 events as part of its Experimental Lecture Series in 2021-22. Audiences will apply lecture concepts in a related group of gatherings focused on their own discussion and engagement with specific community action.New YorkNew York City
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Visual AIDS Book Launches: Frederick Weston/Samuel R. Delany, William Olander, and Darrel EllisVisual AIDS$5,000Visual AIDS presents a series of public programs to launch our three newest publications, which support, promote, and honor the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the cultural contributions of the AIDS movement.New YorkNew York City
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Confronting Racism at HomeWood Library Association$800Wood Library and Bristol Valley Theater will present a live webinar on how race comes up and is dealt with in family life, workplace settings, and in the community. The City of Canandaigua’s Diversity Task Force will co-sponsor the program.CanandaiguaFinger Lakes
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Humanities Program Series: Art for Environmental and Criminal JusticeKODA Arts$5,000Suite of programs to foster community engagement of under-served communities and deeper exploration of the forthcoming residency theme of Land + Environment, with a focus on environmental justice and criminal justice reform.BrooklynNew York City
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HVSF’s BAKE-OFF Community Playwriting SeriesHudson Valley Shakespeare Festival$5,000In 2021, HVSF will virtually produce our 6th Annual BAKE-OFF Community Playwriting Series in partnership with local libraries, offering our community the invaluable opportunity to participate in collaborative art-making.Cold SpringMid-Hudson
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this.OverflowingBuffalo Media Resources$5,000Exhibition and program series on queer memories, intimacy, and experiences.BuffaloWestern New York
