(CARLSBAD, CALIF.) — California Humanities has announced the recent round of Humanities For All Quick Grant awards. NEW VILLAGE ARTS has been awarded $5,000 for its project entitled SAVING STORIES: A Connection Toolkit in the Age of COVID-19.
The Humanities For All Quick Grant is a competitive grant program of California Humanities that supports locally-initiated public humanities projects that respond to the needs and interests of Californians, encourage greater public participation in humanities programming, particularly by new and/or underserved audiences, and promotes understanding and empathy among all our state’s
peoples in order to cultivate a thriving democracy.
Project Director, Aleta Barthell, describes the project: “My goal is to create a tool kit that helps families and writers connect with individuals in assisted living facilities and skilled nursing facilities at this moment when their isolation has been greatly increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will orchestrate interviews with these storytellers currently in isolation by dramatists who will develop those interviews into monologues that will be performed by professional actors and shared virtually with families and the public virtually through New Village Arts Theatre.” “These projects will bring the complexity and diversity of California to light in new ways that will engage Californians from every part of our state, and, will help us all understand each other better,” said Julie Fry, President & CEO of California Humanities.
“We congratulate the grantees whose projects will promote understanding and provide insight into a wide range of topics, issues, and experiences.”
A complete list of all Humanities For All Quick Grants can be found on the calhum.org website here. California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment of the Humanities, promotes the humanities – focused on ideas, conversation and learning – as relevant, meaningful ways to understand the human condition and connect us to each other in order to help strengthen California.
California Humanities has provided grants and programs across the state since 1975. To learn more visit calhum.org,
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