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JCAL's Humanities SeasonJamaica Center for Arts and Learning$ 10,000JCAL's Humanities Season includes JCAL Talks, a speaker series spotlighting Queens-based thought leaders; and JCAL Reads. And we’re piloting an archive-focused Oral History Project for JCAL's 50th anniversary in 2022.JamaicaNew York City
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Exploring Hidden African American History: William Voris in Rye, Little Liberia in Bridgeport, Seneca Village in NYCCommittee to Save the Bird Homestead$10,000We will offer a hands-on opportunity for the public to participate in an archaeological dig on land once owned by William Voris, a 19th-century African American entrepreneur. A series of lectures will follow exploring hidden African American history.New YorkNew York
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“Making Noise About Silent Film: Conversations About Cinema, Culture, and Social Change”Wharton Studio Museum$5,090“Making Noise About Silent Film" examines the social & cultural impact of early film and explores the way that it helped to shape public opinion, define racial & gender attitudes, and foment social change in the early decades of the twentieth century.IthacaCentral New York
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Pathways through the DarkThe Niagara Arts & Cultural Center$10,000The NACC will host creative writing & art workshops focused on sharing the personal stories of those who have visual impairments, their friends and family. Then exhibit and publish the results to empower, connect, and build community.Niagara FallsWestern New York
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Peg Leg Bates Resort: The Legacy of a Black Resort in the CatskillsArts Mid-Hudson$10,000There are three distinct parts focusing on Peg Leg Bates' legacy: to highlight the work of Bates himself, the history and context of his resort for Blacks in the predominantly White Catskills and, the experience of being a guest at the resort.PougkeepsieMid-Hudson
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The Dr. Joan Maynard Lecture SeriesSociety for Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant History$5,000The Series will feature a diverse range of academics, writers, artists, public servants, and/or activists invited to share their knowledge and insights of African-American cultural heritage and its importance to current and future community building.BrooklynNew York
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THE CIVIL WRITES PROJECTJust Buffalo Literary Center$10,000To support a series of facilitated discussions, youth & adult workshops, and Racial Healing Circles centered on Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, forming the bedrock of Just Buffalo’s 2022 CIVIL WRITES PROJECT.BuffaloWestern New York
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Native Nations Festival 2022Seven Generations of Stewards$9,425Native Nations Festival is a free Native American event representing Native nations across North America. It's focus is on educating our attendees on Native American culture, history, foods and social issues that effect our native communities.CorningSouthern Tier
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Being Agents of Change: Re-imagining and Working to Bring About Equity and JusticeUnderground Railroad Education Center$5,000The urgent need to address the issue of systemic racism in America cannot be overstated. Agents of Change will bring together a diverse, multi-age audience to examine how all of us can be agents of change working toward an equitable and just society.AlbanyCapital Region
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Harlem is Healing Video Dialogues and Public Art ExhibitionNew Heritage Theatre Group$10,000This project will produce eight video dialogues and four walking tours and educational materials for a public art exhibition spotlighting heroes who have kept Harlem strong in the face of sustained racial injustice and the siege of COVID-19.New York CityNew York
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"The Artist as Witness" Conversation SeriesFiveMyles$10,000Humanities scholars discuss NYC's recent history with 5 older artists, mapping the artists' role in community building, the influence of architecture and real estate on their lives, and their participation in New York's social fabric over the years.BrooklynNew York
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"Small Community, Big Ideas: Greater Oneonta," a new permanent exhibition at the Oneonta History CenterGreater Oneonta Historical Society$10,000In April 2022, the Greater Oneonta Historical Society will open "Small Community, Big Ideas: Greater Oneonta." The permanent exhibition will use objects and interactive and digital components to explore the history of the town and city of Oneonta.OneontaMohawk Valley
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Black History Matters 2022National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum$5,465Black History Matters will provide informational sessions on American history in formats which may provide increased understanding of the impact of 400 years of racial injustice which will develop attitudes and convictions that will end racism.PeterboroCentral New York
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Flipping the Narrative: Stories Untold, Voices Unheard Catablog Pilot ProjectGreater Hudson Heritage Network$5,000The Flipping the Narrative Catablog Pilot Project will build a unique online tool to highlight objects held in NYS heritage organizations that have been created by and center on the stories and voices of BIPOC, LGTBQ+ communities and women.ElmsfordMid-Hudson
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LongTable : Lorna C. Hill's Theatricality and CommitmentUjima Company$10,000Ujima's Long Table project combines the elements of theatre craft and political commitment to the humnaities. What was the community impact of Lorna C. Hill's work as an artist, activist, teacher and a humanitarian?BuffaloWestern New York
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Memoir Writing for an Equitable Earth/ Where Racial and Environmental Justice IntersectHerstory Writers Workshop$5,000The project engages public humanities students and members of Long Island’s hidden communities disproportionately impacted by environmental injustice in shaping stories for public presentation, publication and inclusion in the humanities canon.CentereachLong Island
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AIDS Crisis In Rochester: A Community RespondsOUT Alliance$9,018Using AIDS archival collections, the project will develop a series of interactive community building dialogues on AIDS Crisis In Rochester to look at the local response from a PWA’s ( People With AIDS) and grass roots organization perspective.RochesterFinger Lakes
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Shakespeare with Military Veterans: Community Dialogue to Bridge the Veteran-Civilian DivideDE-CRUIT$9900DE-CRUIT will offer a series of veteran-civilian dialogues to allow the public to learn from a diverse group of veterans about their use of Shakespeare's verse to overcome the trauma of war and the challenges of reintegration into civilian life.New YorkNew York City
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Clarissa Uprooted Exhibit (CUE) Theme: Black Joy, Culture and Progress in mid-20th century RochesterThe Center for Teen Empowerment10,000Clarissa Uprooted Exhibit (CUE), developed by “Intergenerational History Ambassadors” (IHAs) will focus on lessons from Clarissa Street, the once thriving African-American residential, cultural and business community in Rochester, NY’s Third Ward.RoxburyFinger Lakes
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Anna is Anta: La Reina Remains the QueenSiren - Protectors of the Rainforest$5,000Born Anta Madgiguene Ndiaye,Princess of the Wolof people, sold and enslaved became Anna Kingsley, plantation owner and freedom fighter in Florida and Haiti. What was the role of African women in the foundation of American life circa 1800?BrooklynNew York
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Reinterpreting the Interpretive Plan: Black History of the Benjamin Patterson InnCorning Painted Post Historical Society$5,000The Corning-Painted Post Historical Society will spend 10 months working with leaders in the Black community as we work to reinterpret our 225-year-old tavern to include and highlight stories of Black people for general audiences and school groups.CorningSouthern Tier
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Who Writes History? The Medium is the MessageArts Westchester$10,000"The Medium is the Message” is a discussion and presentation that examines the role the news and journalism plays to represent marginalized communities. Scholars in Journalism and similar departments will look at how the history of media has evolved.White PlainsMid-Hudson
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The North Side Speech and Debate TeamNorth Side Learning Center$10,000The NSLC is starting a speech and debate program to give under-served middle and high school students in the SCSD an opportunity to study the art of rhetoric, compete at virtual tournaments, and host public debate events for the Syracuse community.SyracuseCentral New York
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Movies That MatterThe Jewish Museum$10,000Movies That Matter is a free documentary-screening program that engages middle and high school students and their teachers with issues of social justice. Each screening is followed by a Q&A discussion with the film’s director or subject.New YorkNew York City
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The North Country Rights of Nature: How to Constitute the Moral Rights of Northern New York WaterwaysSt. Lawrence University$10,000The North Country Rights of Nature project focuses on creating a “bill of rights” for northern NY’s waterways, addressing the moral implications of protecting our local rivers amidst climate crises, and laying the groundwork for future legislation.CantonNorth Country
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Black History & Culture of Fort Greene - Storytelling PlatformFort Greene Park Conservancy$5,000In 2022, FGPC will launch the Black History & Culture of Fort Greene: Storytelling Platform, providing opportunities for community members and scholars to preserve, connect to, and engage with the rich Black cultural & social history of Fort Greene.BrooklynNew York City
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Warrior Chorus New York: American DemocracyAquila Theatre Company$10,000A humanities program about the meaning of democracy by the men and women we asked to fight for it. A public engagement series led by veterans and scholars based around classical Greek and American historical texts to address the meaning of democracy.KatonahMid-Hudson
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Cave Canem’s Spring 2022 Public Core ProgramsCave Canem Foundation$5,000Cave Canem’s Spring 2022 virtual public programs will increase Black poets’ exposure to new audiences (students, poetry lovers, arts professionals, and academics), increase audience exposure to Black poetry, and are open to the general public.BrooklynNew York City
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The Masters of Craft Talk SeriesRoots. Wounds. Words.$10,000Led by today’s most acclaimed storytellers of color, the Masters of Craft Talk series provides BIPOC storytellers with opportunities to deepen their literary craft across genres such as creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and more.BrooklynNew York City
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Coney Island Stories Podcast: Growing Up in Coney Island, 1930s-2000sConey Island History Project$8,915Season 2 of Coney Island Stories, our podcast produced from oral histories in the Coney Island History Project’s archives, will feature eight episodes about growing up in Coney Island through the decades, from the 1930s through the 2000s.BrooklynNew York City
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The Black Index Program SeriesHunter College Foundation on behalf of the Hunter College Art Galleries$10,000Organized in concert with the exhibition "The Black Index," The Black Index Program Series centered around four participatory events that address the profound anti-Black violence and ongoing loss of Black lives experienced in the United States.New YorkNew York City
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Civil Rights, Race, and Gender Equity: Pan Am’s Diversity in FlightPan Am Museum Foundation$10,000A humanities panel will explore how racial diversity changed the airline industry, interpreting stories from early African American employees. How did the employees see the Civil Rights movement and did they feel they were part of a larger change?Garden CityLong Island
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The Cultural Sensitivity Enhancement ProjectSeneca Nation of Indians$9,999Joe Stahlman, PhD, Director of the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, has designed a series of four presentations on Cultural Sensitivity Training. The project will provide funds for printed materials as take-aways and promotional materials.IrvingWestern New York
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Citymaking: Urban Salon Series in Newburgh, NYThe Fullerton Center for Culture & History$10,000To host a salon series in Newburgh, NY featuring 8-10 authors. Our program aims to increase public knowledge and discussion about citymaking and will be hosted at non-traditional sites to attract new voices to the conversation.NewburghMid-Hudson
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Jazz & the Creative Influence of IslamThe National Jazz Museum in Harlem$10,000A five-part “Jazz & the Creative Influence of Islam” series will tell the story of musicians whose lives as Muslims formed connections among their religious/cultural experiences in the worlds of Islam and jazz, and their influence on jazz today.New YorkNew York City
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Indigenous Women's Voices SummitThe Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre$10,000The Indigenous Women's Voices Summit celebrates contemporary Indigenous women-identified artists and scholars and sparks dialogue on Indigenous history and leadership through a month of arts programs and public discussions.HurleyvilleMid-Hudson
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Urban Word Poetry FellowshipsUrban Word NYC$10,000Urban Word will offer three deep-engagement arts/humanities fellowship opportunities for youth: the NYC Youth Poet Laureate/Federal Hall Fellowship, Urban Word Youth Leadership Council, and Black Girl Magic Fellowship.New YorkNew York City
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Infrastructure of EmpireErie Canal Museum$5,000As part of Erie Canal bicentennial commemoration, the Erie Canal Museum will develop an exhibit and programming for 2022 focused on the history of infrastructure and its impact on communities in Upstate New York.SyracuseCentral New York
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Redefining Narrative: A series of thought provoking conversations with scholars and leaders in the cultural sector.Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums$10,000Redefining Narrative is a five part video series that explores large questions about why our knowledge and understanding of history and the environment are being examined for new meaning and how our cultural institutions are changing to reflect this.CooperstownMohawk Valley
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Voices in the ClassroomVoices of a People's History of the United States$5,000Voices of a People’s History of the United States is expanding its education work four-fold to additional New York City public schools, including schools focused on transfer students and students with disabilities.BrooklynNew York City
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Voices of Today: Amplifying Youth Perspectives in the Humanities through Documentary Film and Community ScreeningsEducational Video Center$10,000EVC’s Youth Documentary Workshop and community screenings provide historically excluded youth with 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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Moving the Past Into the Future (REV)Third World Newsreel$9,600Film and panel events that link seminal activist documentaries from 50 years ago with current films and social media campaigns, for a dialogue on our evolving interactions with media for social movements and the possibilities for new paradigms.New YorkNew York City
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African American Voices of Democracy: From Hammon to Harlem to Hip HopWalt Whitman Birthplace Association$5,000This is a Four Part Series in which audiences re-listen to African American voices in the context of their time and place in American history, hearing them now in a way not heard in their time, with a recognition of their voices of democracy.Huntington StationLong Island
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The Triangle Factory Fire Memorial Dedication Book and Related EventsRemember the Triangle Fire Coalition$5,000The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire permanent memorial is scheduled to be unveiled in March, 2023. A book offering historical as well as contemporary context for the monument will mark the dedication and give focus to related public-facing events.New YorkNew York City
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The Play’s the Thing: Using the Dramatic Arts to Address InequityAndover Central School District on behalf of Cattaraugus-Allegany Teacher Center$4,200For an interactive dialogue and presentation at the Palmer Opera House to create a space for educators to discuss the role of theater in teaching equity to students while students participate in theater activities.OleanSouthern Tier
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Lasting Impact of a 1960's Urban Renewal Project on Hudson Valley Rivertown VillagePhoenix Theatre Ensemble$5,000A 1960's Urban Renewal Project in the rivertown of Nyack NY has long-lasting deleterious effects. Personal histories confirm emotional and psychological damage, but what we will never know is 'what could have been or what was lost.'NyackMid-Hudson
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Memories of Niagara FallsNiagara Falls Public Library$5,000A virtual exhibit of local history interviews and presentations that discuss differing perspectives on the history of Niagara Falls and the community.Niagara FallsWestern New York
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2022 Spoken Word Poetry WorkshopYoung Urban Christians & Artists$5,000YUCA’s spoken word poetry classes for young artists will allow young people in the Bronx to critically reflect on their experiences while creating digital poems to share with their communities.BronxNew York City
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MCNY Poets Café Writers WorkshopMuseum of the City of New York$5,000The Museum of the City of New York will launch the MCNY Poets Café Writers Workshop with Urban Word NYC to offer weekly workshops to explore humanities themes as inspired by the Museum's exhibitions through creative writing, poetry, and spoken word.New YorkNew York City
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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 Journey is a multidisciplinary arts integrated program that provides all ages a strong, hands-on, exploration of the social, cultural, and historical significance of the Erie Canal.BuffaloWestern New York
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The Art of the Victorian Letter: New Research and the Alice Austen House CollectionsFriends of Alice Austen House$5,000The Friends of Alice Austen House, Inc. (AAH) will launch a four session speaker series from 5/22-4/23 (one talk per quarter) highlighting photographic, women’s and LGBTQ+ history using Alice Austen as the launching point and common thread.Staten IslandNew York City
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Buffalo Metro Rail: A Design HistoryEl Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera$5,000Buffalo Metro Rail: A Design History is a series of public programs complimenting the exhibition, that discuss and celebrate the unique architecture, public art, and graphic design of Buffalo's Metro Rail system.BuffaloWestern New York
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Understanding Place: Creation of a Land Acknowledgement StatementLong Island Children's Museum$5,000The project convenes public conversations about land acknowledgements and conducts land history research to inform the creation of a statement for LICM. The approach is distinctive in its education and engagement of LICM visitors in the process.Garden CityLong Island
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Equality for All: Past and Present1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum$5,000The 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum and partners bring a representationally diverse season of programs: Empowering stories of principled leaders, past and present, who worked with and at the Meetinghouse for equality and respect for all.FarmingtonFinger Lakes
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This is Beacon podcastI Am Beacon$5,000Recorded and produced by local nonprofit I Am Beacon, This Is Beacon serves as a platform to tell our story, share our experiences, and celebrate our community. A podcast about the city of Beacon, told through the stories of those that call it home.BeaconMid-Hudson
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See Me NowArt Start$5,000Art Start will exhibit portraits and oral histories of NYC youth from historically marginalized communities in subway stations via digital liveboards, sparking dialogue around youth identities and self-determination in a public space.New YorkNew York City
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Who We Are: Community Conversations on Culture and PlaceLocal Learning: The National Network For Folk Arts In Education$5,000Building on previous documentation of cultural traditions in the Southern Finger Lakes, "Who We Are" introduces these traditions to regional audiences through media-rich presentations and facilitated conversations around culture and place.New YorkNew York City
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The Past is Present & The Future is NowYWCA of the Greater Capital Region$5,000This project will fund Black artists to portray and honor Black Trojans whose stories have been recovered from the historical record. Supported by education and community dialogue, it will create new narratives to counter racial injustice in Troy.TroyCapital Region
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Family Hour at Ignacio House – Sharing Stories of TransformationThrive for Life Prison Project$5,000Family Hour at Ignacio House is a 10-episode podcast, co-produced by returning citizens, that elevates the voices and interests of formerly incarcerated people as they reflect on their lived experiences before, during, and after incarceration.New YorkNew York City
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Flaherty NYC: ALLAKARIALLAK – TO APPEAR AGAINThe Flaherty$5,000FNYC’s 2022 Fall program ALLAKARIALLAK – TO APPEAR AGAIN, a 6-part screening and discussion series by Inuk artist Asinnajaq, proposes an Inuit rebuttal to Flaherty’s seminal and controversial film Nanook of the North on the centennial of its release.BrooklynNew York City
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Restorative Justice Conversations with Jo KreiterBethany Arts Community$5,000As part of BAC’s Season of Justice, artist and activist Jo Kreiter in collaboration with Hudson Link for Higher Education will unpack the concept of restorative justice as an alternative to incarceration.OssiningMid-Hudson
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Staten Island Mode: Exploring Memory and Identity Through DressSnug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden$5,000Staten Island Mode: Exploring Memory and Identity Through Dress, will be at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor in Spring 2023. Funding supports R&D (3 workshops) for this dress ethnography project in summer 2022 at Snug Harbor.Staten IslandNew York City
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What's Cooking Capital District?New York Folklore Society$5,000New York Folklore will present a series of foodways and food heritage presentations and demonstrations to take place in public venues, exploring community intersections through food, and addressing ideas of identity, community and sense of place.SchenectadyCapital Region
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A Staged Reading of "Show Trial"Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company$5,000A staged reading of the play, "Show Trial," which tells the story of Milada Horáková, a Czech politician, feminist, and leader of the underground resistance movement, who was tried by the Communist Party in the largest show trial in Eastern Europe.New YorkNew York City
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Dunham, Haiti & Liberation! A Celebration of Katherine Dunham’s LegacyCumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance$5,000A celebration of Katherine Dunham - groundbreaking African-American dancer, choreographer, author, anthropologist, and social activist. Cumbe will offer in-person and online programming to elevate this champion of African/Diaspora culture.BrooklynNew York City
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Black WhalersThe Whaling Museum and Education Center$5,000The Whaling Museum will research, design, and install a 2-year special 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.Cold Spring HarborLong Island
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Celebrating African Diaspora Culture through Community and ArtEverson Museum of Art$5,000In conjunction with the exhibition Sharif Bey: Facets and Juneteenth, the Everson Museum will host a free community day with humanities-based activities and events that celebrate African and African-American culture and heritage.SyracuseCentral New York
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Histories in Dialogue: Anne Frank & Martin Luther KingThe Anne Frank Center USA$5,000The Anne Frank Center promotes dialogue in schools and communities about difficult histories and their meaning for us today through peer education, theater, and traveling exhibits in order to bridge divides and to build communities of upstanders.New YorkNew York City
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Swept Clean: A Gilded Age Story of Loss and ReclamationHistoric Cherry Hill$5,000Through a place-based theatrical production and a lecture illustrated by material culture and costume reproductions, the two-part series, "Swept Clean" will explore the Cherry Hill household in 1884, the moment of its financial unraveling.AlbanyCapital Region
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Erasing Spaces and Faces: The Legacy of Urban Renewal in Saratoga Springs, NYCreate Community Studios$5,000Community conversations and art-making events, open to all members of our community to share stories, poems, songs, artwork and document oral histories that reflect their experience of displacement during urban renewal projects in Saratoga Springs.SchenectadyCapital Region
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Bruckner Mott Haven Garden @ 40: Translocal Histories of an Urban Green SpaceThe Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY$5,000A community-led project documenting how a multi-use garden grew into a hub of traditional/decolonial knowledge transfer; immigrant-led civic engagement and mutual aid; and community cohesion through arts, culture, food activism, and radical archives.New YorkNew York City
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Building Bridges: Prison Arts InitiativeKatonah Museum of Art$5,000Building Bridges: Prison Arts Initiative will engage women incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in guided dialogue and poetry writing in response to artwork on view at the Katonah Museum of Art.KatonahMid-Hudson
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Musicians for JusticeMusic on the Inside$5,000Musicians for Justice is a monthly series of online concerts featuring performances by musicians in reentry performing side by side with professional jazz musicians and leaders in criminal justice.New YorkNew York City
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Resurgence: Seneca Tradition and the Art of Marie WattThe Buffalo History Museum$5,000Resurgence: Seneca Tradition and the Art of Marie Watt, indigenous art gives voice to indigenous insights at the Buffalo History Museum. The exhibition seeks to foster a deepening relationship between guests, the Museum and our indigenous community.BuffaloWestern New York
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PKX Festival in the Youth Arts Empowerment ZoneThe Art Effect$5,000The Art Effect's Youth Art Empowerment Zone festival called the PKX Festival will offer free and accessible public programming around “Wonderland,” inspiring community connection and activation led by local youth’s visions for the city.PoughkeepsieMid-Hudson
