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May 10, 2013, 6:25 pm
On May 9, the Michigan Humanities Council Board of Directors approved funding for the spring 2013 major grants cycle. MHC received a total of 71 eligible applications for this cycle. Of those, 26 have been approved for a total award of $300,417. Those grantees will leverage an additional $910,281.
Major grants are awarded on an annual basis to Michigan nonprofits in support of cultural, educational and community-based public humanities programming....
April 22, 2013, 2:33 pm
On April 29, Forest Hills Central High School senior Richard Wu will take the stage in Washington, D.C., to represent Michigan at the National Poetry Out Loud competition. Wu is one of 53 students competing for the national title and an opportunity to win a $20,000 college scholarship.
Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition for high school students, presented by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation....
March 4, 2013, 11:58 am
The Michigan Humanities Council Board of Directors and staff are pleased to announce its new Executive Director. Erik Nordberg, a former MHC board member, will begin serving as the Executive Director on May 1....
February 26, 2013, 1:25 pm
After three rounds of poetry recitation, it was Richard Wu, a senior at Forest Hills Central High School near Grand Rapids, taking home the trophy and title of Michigan Poetry Out Loud State Champion. Wu competed against 36 other students from around the state in this national competition for high school poetry recitation....
February 13, 2013, 10:07 am
The Michigan Humanities Council is pleased to present the title of the 2013-14 Great Michigan Read. Selected through a grassroots campaign involving more than 55 librarians, literary enthusiasts and educators throughout the state, the 2013-14 Great Michigan Read is Annie’s Ghosts.
Annie’s Ghosts is part memoir, part detective story and part history. As the author, Washington Post associate editor and Detroit native Steve Luxenberg, tries to understand his mom’s reasons for hiding her sister’s existence, he takes readers on a journey into his mother’s world of the 1930s and ’40s, where he explores how a poor, immigrant family manages life with a child who has special needs....
February 5, 2013, 3:22 pm
On Feb. 22-23, nearly 40 high school students from across the state will arrive in East Lansing for a powerful poetry recitation competition and their chance to be named the Michigan Poetry Out Loud State Champion. Open to the public and free of charge, the competition will be held at the Hannah Community Center (819 Abbot Road, East Lansing), beginning at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, and at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23....
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