Hi again!

Events, news and stuff from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. We give grants for great public programs that explore history, culture, communities.

http://twitter.com/rihumanities

What a great idea, but OK, now you've opened the flood gates. I have many wishes!

The Council for the Humanities has almost 40 years worth of grantee projects - from curricula to oral histories, documentary films, radio shows - the list goes on.

WISH: to find some folks who were interested in digitizing some of this stuff to make it more widely accessible. Here's what the Connecticut Humanities Council does: http://www.ctheritage.org/online_exhibitions.htm

WISH: an online encyclopedia project. Other states have these. Here are just two examples:

• Georgia: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp
  
• South Carolina: http://www.scencyclopedia.org/

WISH: Lunch Poems, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg7upJ1fYo0 but with local writers and more interesting camera work. 

We have so much amazing humanities content - would love to make it more useful, accessible, dynamic, engaging - and dare I say it, FUN!

Thanks for reading!