Vermont Humanities
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Using the humanities, we connect with people across Vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
Montpelier, Vermont
Joined November 2010
Visit us at https://t.co/uMuCEgFikO to check out our upcoming events and news!
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Using the humanities, we connect with people across Vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
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Join us at 4PM this afternoon in-person in Woodstock or streaming online for Snapshot, a free series of humanities talks in communities across Vermont. Register online or just drop in, the talk is open to all! https://t.co/dpviDN0AkV
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UVM professor Adrian Ivakhiv, founder of EcoCultureLab, introduces the rapidly growing field of Environmental Humanities, which is designed to address ecological crisis, climate crisis, dramatic...
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Poet, educator, and Vermont Book Award Winner Bianca Stone has been named as the newest Vermont Poet Laureate this week. Congratulations! https://t.co/NotCH4M4hw
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The 40-year-old from Brandon is the daughter of novelist Abigail Stone and granddaughter of the late poet Ruth Stone, who held the state position from 2007 to 2011.
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Sustainable Woodstock invites you a special Earth Day virtual screening of the film Inundation District, followed by a live Q&A with Director David Abel. We are proud to sponsor this event with a humanities grant. https://t.co/xOwhoED2F7
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Heads up, maple fans! Tomorrow's talk with Michael Lange on The Many Meanings of Maple at the Milton Grange Hall has been rescheduled to March 30 due to the incoming spring snowstorm. Stay warm! https://t.co/W9zzCrr8Lf
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This presentation examines the many meanings of maple sugaring. Maple is enormously important to Vermont’s economy, ecology, and heritage. Champlain College professor Michael Lange will discuss...
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Frequent Speakers Bureau presenter and Vermont Humanities friend Meg Mott is set to moderate her 10th annual meeting in Putney this year. https://t.co/bzBJqEp92J
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“Democracy is not going to work if everyone’s afraid of each other,” says Putney’s Meg Mott. “It can get kind of nasty, but I prefer that to the idea that everybody has to think the same way.”
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Tillie Walden's Forthcoming Graphic Novel Celebrates One of the Earliest Documented Lesbian Couples in America
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More than two centuries before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, at a time when women couldn't vote or own property, Charity Bryant and...
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Happy New Year! Today, 50 years ago, Vermont Humanities was founded. As we ring in the new year we do so with gratitude for those who guided us along the way. https://t.co/XiuCBCKq0d
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Today, January 1st, 2024, we celebrate our 50th anniversary with deep gratitude for our extraordinary founding leadership. We are grateful for the work of everyone who has had a hand in bringing the...
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Nominations for the 2023 Vermont Book Awards are now open to all! Nominate your books of excellent literary merit published by Vermont authors in 2023 here: https://t.co/v45lAuq1pR
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Nominations are now open for books of excellent literary merit published by Vermont authors in 2025. To be eligible, the author must live in Vermont more than half the year. Self-published books are...
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Take a stroll along the Winooski River to learn about mill history! The Heritage Winooski Mill Museum recently used an interactive mapping program called StoryMaps to update our walking tour, check it out below! https://t.co/TK5PQAXXju
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We are proud to sponsor the Non-Fiction Comics Festival this weekend at the Fletcher Free Library! The second annual festival will feature panel discussions, workshops, and exhibiting cartoonists creating non-fiction and autobiographical work. https://t.co/vBT66PK6cU
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Morrisville youth were honored at the VT Statehouse earlier this month for completing the 2023 Seven Days Good Citizens Challenge. The $500 prize money will be used to further develop civic themed programming at the library. https://t.co/Usd4P6EdWY
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A group of local youth were honored at the Statehouse Nov. 2 for their spirited work in completing the Seven Days Good Citizen Challenge last summer through a local club
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Black Punk Now is a new anthology co-edited by graphic novelist James Spooner, one of last year's Fall Festival presenters. Recently James talked with NPR's Code Switch about the anthology and the Black punk movement's relevance today. https://t.co/YaWl2ELza3
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More than a decade since B.A. Parker last dabbled in the Black punk scene, she heads to a punk a show, and remembers a question from James Spooner: "What is more liberating than a mosh pit full of...
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Join us at 5PM tonight right here at 11 Loomis Street in Montpelier for our Fall Festival Listening Party! We'll be listening to music and engaging in discussion with three dynamic presenters, Reuben Jackson, Melo Grant, and James Lockridge. More at https://t.co/MdMaKHYCiF
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Tonight in White River Junction, the Main Street Museum welcomes Joe Citro for an evening of readings and discussion with "The Bard of the Bizarre." Vermont Humanities is proud to support this event with a grant. https://t.co/wHU4tS5l6B
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Joe Citro, Vermont's most interesting author, comes to the Main Street MUSEUM to offer some insight into Vermont's wild & bizarre! This is a reading and discussion of 'Joe's Choice.' Mr. Citro is an...
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We are grateful to the @NEHgov for this funding to help Vermont's cultural sector rebound from July's historic flooding. Applications for the fund open now at https://t.co/CQyft2IEzH
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Join us at 1 PM for a new Snapshot event with René Pellerin as he recounts stories from his personal experiences as a DeafBlind person living with Usher Syndrome. This live stream is made possible by Middlebury Community Television. https://t.co/430cbA72Yt
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Many Vermont students went back to school this week, and the National Endowment for the Humanities has a Virtual Bookshelf toolkit at the ready for students, teachers, and families getting back to both virtual and in-person learning. https://t.co/JzoXw3suwE
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My Words in the Woods reading / presentation at the Silver Lake State Park pavilion in Barnard VT is just a week away! Admission is free, so come and join us there on Sunday, August 27th at 11:00am https://t.co/Q4TQsRSKNs
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With now fifteen published books, Geza is a prolific author of five thrillers, three memoirs, five poetry collections, one short story collection and one children’s picture story book. He has a...
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The State of Vermont's Agency of Commerce and Community Development has opened the Business Emergency Gap Assistance Program (BEGAP) and will begin accepting applications for grant funding today. https://t.co/SamsY2oGsz
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