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as of 10/6/08

• Michigan Humanities Council Planning Survey

• K-12 Schools can apply for Transportation Grants to Cultural Events
• Picturing America in Michigan Museum Partnership available
• Poetry Out Loud Contest Open for High Schools
• Listen to September 2008 Arts & Humanities Radio Reports
• $15,000 Awarded to Rudyard Area Schools To Record, Learn About Local History
• Applications to Be Listed in the 2009-2012 Arts & Humanities Touring Directory Now Available
• Sign Up To Review Touring Program Applications
• Watch the latest video short, the "Michigan Youth Arts Festival"
• Limited Time Offer: Free Arts & Humanities Touring Directories
• $6,000 Awarded to WMU for Fort St. Joseph Open House July 26-27
• Photos and audio recording of Michigan Author Homecoming available
• Summer 2008 Michigan Humanities Council Newsletter
• Michigan Author Homecoming: Richard Ford, Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane return to Michigan for July 10 event
• Listen to The Great Michigan Read podcasts (rss, iTunes)
• $8,050 Awarded to Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for Humanities Project
• $136,000 Awarded for 13 Humanities Programs
• Charles White Advances to Poetry Out Loud National Finals
• Valerie Hemingway Six-Stop Michigan Tour April 23-29
• $49,772 Awarded for Arts & Humanities Touring Programs
• Steelcase Foundation Awards $10,000; Frey Foundation Awards $5,000 for The Great Michigan Read 
• "Bijou Orchestra" Video Short Named Best Cultural Video by MAB
• GVSU Awarded $15,000 For Film on Muskegon's Up from the Bottoms
• MHC awarded $60,000 for PRIME TIME reading program in Detroit, Saginaw, and South Haven

ArtPod Radio Podcast (rss, iTunes)
The Great Michigan Read Podcast (rss, iTunes)

• Council Grants Deadlines:
  • Michigan People, Michigan Places. Our Stories, Our Lives: Sep. 15
  • Arts & Humanities Touring Program: Aug. 25 - Sep. 10

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Dance Adjudicators Needed!

Now Through January 4, 2009
Jaume Plensa exhibit and programs, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids

October 7, 2008
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Book Discussion Group: Kaaterskill Falls. Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature-Identity and Imagination. "Between Two Worlds: Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming." Kellogg Community College Emory Morris Library. Contact: Martha Stilwell, 269-965-4122, ext. 2380 or stilwellm@kellogg.edu

October 9, 2008
9:30 - 11:00 am. Biography discussion series: Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir by John McCain and The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama. Part of the project, Gathering Our Community's Voices, For Now and Always. Cascade Township Branch, Kent District Library, Grand Rapids.

Through August 2010
Shipwrecks- A Deep Look, The Rise of the Self-Unloaders exhibits, Heritage Museum and Cultural Center, St. Joseph