"Youngish" Folks Work to Restore the Art     of Conversation and Community.

A new group called Face to Face brings together free-thinking“youngish” people to connect beyond technology. It has organized two events in Greensboro supported in part by the North Carolina Humanities Council and is planning more for the summer. Face to Face’s three platforms include Word of Mouth, the Soapbox Salon Series, and GroundUP.

 

  • Word of Mouth involves offline friend-raising activities during which participants step away from their computers to plug into the art of conversation – up-close, uncensored, and emoticon-free.

 

  • The Soapbox Salon Series offers opportunities for content-rich dialogue on humanities-based issues that stem from the group’s mutual interests, from the arts and the environment to fashion and jurisprudence. Guest speakers introduce a topic and robust conversation on that topic follows.     
  • Face to Face’s action-oriented platform, GroundUP, stresses informed advocacy for positive social change. Here’s where the group’s investment in its community has a potential to produce far-reaching, measurable results.

Face to Face objectives include fostering a more culturally rich community and bridging gaps that can isolate young people. For details, write info@facetofacegso.com or visit www.facetofacegso.com

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Road Scholars Events

 

June 15 - Sylvia Payne:

We Have Stories to Tell -

Family and Personal Stories

Henderson County

 

June 24 - Anne Whisnant:

Grandfather Mountain

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The Untold Story

Ashe County

 

July 9 - William McNeill: Tango! The Song! The Dance! The Obsession!

Orange County

 

July 18 - William Anderson: Cherokee Removal

Avery County

Excitement Builds for New Harmonies 2010

 

Site coordinators from Mount Airy, Warrenton, Elizabeth City, Goldsboro, Mars Hill, and Shelby – the six North Carolina communities hosting Museum on Main Street’s New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music – recently gathered in Greensboro for a programming workshop to discuss logistics for the exhibit’s statewide tour. The tour, which kicks-off in March 2010, offers rural communities access to first-rate exhibits from the Smithsonian Institution and the opportunity to collect and showcase North Carolina’s distinct and varied musical traditions.

At the workshop, Beverly Patterson, MoMS 2010 statewide scholar and executive director of the North Carolina Folklife Institute, overviewed North Carolina roots music traditions. Piedmont blues musician George Higgs performed with guitar and harmonica on behalf of the Music Makers Relief Foundation. Other presenters at the workshop included national MoMS 2010 Tour Liaison Teresa Goforth; Russ Haddad, Director of Tourism Development, NC Division of Tourism; Sally Peterson, Folklife Specialist at the NC Arts Council; William McCrea, Associate Director of the NC Museum of History; and Sion Harrington, III, Military Collection Archivist with the NC Division of Historical Resources.  

Anticipation for MoMS 2010 continues to grow! To learn more, contact MoMS Statewide Coordinator Darrell Stover at dstover@nchumanities.org or (334) 336-5723.

 

North Carolina Humanities Council Invests More Than $76,000 in Eight Cultural Projects Across the State

GREENSBORO, NC – The North Carolina Humanities Council has awarded over $76,000 in grants to eight community-based cultural, educational, and nonprofit organizations to conduct humanities programs. In a highly competitive grants award cycle, the Humanities Council funded groups across the state to address subjects as diverse as North Carolina textile history and end-of-life issues. The grant recipients will use varied approaches, such as oral history, drama, fiber art, public symposiums, and webcasts to provide forums for North Carolinians to come together in conversation.

The funded groups match the Humanities Council’s grants with in-kind and cash contributions. The projects supported are integral to the Humanities Council’s commitment to vital conversations that nurture the cultures and heritage of North Carolina.

Funded groups and projects include:

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North Carolina Humanities Council Announces

Six New Board Members

The North Carolina Humanities Council announces that six new members joined the Council board in October 2008. Five are gubernatorial appointees.*

*Dr. Glen Anthony Harris is Associate Professor of History at UNC Wilmington and author of numerous articles, including African American-Jewish relations during the first decades of the twentieth century; postmodern slave narrative; and interracial marriage.
*Dr. Tom Hanchett has served as staff historian at Charlotte’s Levine Museum of the New South since 1999, where he has curated a string of prize-winning exhibitions.

Dr. Reginald Hildebrand is Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and serves as co-chair of the NC Freedom Monument Project.

*Mr. Jonathan Howes is Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Adjunct Professor of Regional Planning and Public Policy at UNC Chapel Hill. He chairs the board of the NC Parks and Recreation Authority.

*Ms. Carol Lawrence is a professional writer and editor from Asheville and the principal with Carol Lawrence Consulting.

*Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly is former Director of the Composition Program at UNC Greensboro, and now holds the Women’s Studies Professorship. 

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New Harmonies

NC host sites announced for Smithsonian Institution exhibit "New Harmonies," part of the Museum on Main Street program.

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