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Community Powered trainings are grounded in effective and useful processes for recognizing the unique strengths, stories, and visions at the heart of every community. WH Fellows join a strong statewide network and gain new strategies — a Community Powered toolkit! — that focus on documenting and using history, culture, and storytelling to make communities stronger, healthier, and more resilient.

We are accepting applications for our 2025 Community Powered training!

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Poetry + Video = Arts + Humanities Month in Wisconsin!

The @artlitlab is a community-driven contemporary arts center that hosts one of only four Video Poetry festivals in the country. For two evenings in October, poets and filmmakers and audiences come together for live collaborative ...performances and a curated screening of video poetry from around the world. Wisconsin Humanities is proud to have supported the 2024 fest with a grant.

Celebrate Arts & Humanities month in Wisconsin!
Learn more and get ready to go to the Art & Lit Lab in Madison on Saturday, October 12th at 7P here:
https://artlitlab.org/events/2024-midwest-video-poetry-fest-night-2

Wisconsin Humanities' grant program supported 77 community organizations in 2023. Nonprofits craft public programs, workshops, and discussions that enrich cultural education opportunities and strengthen communities across our state. Yours could be next!

Explore WH grant opportunities now:
https://wisconsinhumanities.org/grants

#nahm2024 #grantsfornonprofits #artsandhumanities,
#WisconsinHumanities, #WIHumanitiesMonth, #ArtsandHumanitiesWI, #WisconsinVoices, #ShareYourStoryWI, #CelebrateHumanities

Poetry + Video = Arts + Humanities Month in Wisconsin

The Arts + Literature Laboratory is a community-driven contemporary arts center that hosts one of only four Video Poetry festivals in the country. For two evenings in October, poets and filmmakers and audiences come together for live ...collaborative performances and a curated screening of video poetry from around the world. Wisconsin Humanities is proud to have supported the 2024 fest with a grant.

Celebrate Arts & Humanities month in Wisconsin!
Learn more and get ready to go to the Art & Lit Lab in Madison on Saturday, October 12th at 7P here:
https://artlitlab.org/events/2024-midwest-video-poetry-fest-night-2

Wisconsin Humanities' grant program supported 77 community organizations in 2023. Nonprofits craft public programs, workshops, and discussions that enrich cultural education opportunities and strengthen communities across our state. Yours could be next!

Explore WH grant opportunities now:
https://wisconsinhumanities.org/grants

#nahm2024 #grantsfornonprofits #artsandhumanities,
#WisconsinHumanities, #WIHumanitiesMonth, #ArtsandHumanitiesWI, #WisconsinVoices, #ShareYourStoryWI, #CelebrateHumanities

Listen wherever you get your podcasts and learn more on our website: https://wisconsinhumanities.org/podcast/

Wisconsin Humanities focuses on acknowledging the human stories of incarceration in our state and learning from the lived experiences of individuals impacted by the justice system....

#humanpoweredpodcast #artsandhumanities,
#WisconsinHumanities, #WIHumanitiesMonth, #ArtsandHumanitiesWI, #WisconsinVoices, #ShareYourStoryWI, #CelebrateHumanities #nahm2024

Listen wherever you get your podcasts and learn more on our website: https://wisconsinhumanities.org/podcast/

Wisconsin Humanities focuses on acknowledging the human stories of incarceration in our state and learning from the lived experiences of individuals impacted by the justice system....

#humanpoweredpodcast #artsandhumanities,
#WisconsinHumanities, #WIHumanitiesMonth, #ArtsandHumanitiesWI, #WisconsinVoices, #ShareYourStoryWI, #CelebrateHumanities #nahm2024

We’re celebrating Arts & Humanities month by highlighting our one-of-a kind training program called Community Powered.

Community Powered trainings are grounded in effective and useful processes for recognizing the unique strengths, stories, and visions at the heart of every ...community.

WH Fellows join a strong statewide network and gain new strategies — a Community Powered toolkit! — that focus on documenting and using history, culture, and storytelling to make communities stronger, healthier, and more resilient.

Hands-on and virtual workshops train Fellows with new tools for sharing local stories and cultural heritage through engaging humanities programs. It’s all about strengthening democracy by strengthening community ties — especially with other Wisconsinites who have different life experiences, beliefs, or identities.

➞ Apply to become a WH Fellow! Wisconsin Humanities is now accepting applications for our 2025 Community Powered training. Join us for an Info Session on Zoom on Tuesday, October 29th at 6pm. Register to receive the Zoom link for the Info Session on our website (LINK IN BIO TO COMMUNITY POWERED)

#NAHM2024
#ArtsandHumanitiesMonth #WisconsinHumanities #CommunityPowered

Are you passionate about building community?

We’re celebrating Arts & Humanities month by highlighting our one-of-a kind training program called Community Powered.

Community Powered trainings are grounded in effective and useful processes for recognizing the unique ...strengths, stories, and visions at the heart of every community.

WH Fellows join a strong statewide network and gain new strategies — a Community Powered toolkit! — that focus on documenting and using history, culture, and storytelling to make communities stronger, healthier, and more resilient.

Hands-on and virtual workshops train Fellows with new tools for sharing local stories and cultural heritage through engaging humanities programs. It’s all about strengthening democracy by strengthening community ties — especially with other Wisconsinites who have different life experiences, beliefs, or identities.

➞ Apply to become a WH Fellow! Wisconsin Humanities is now accepting applications for our 2025 Community Powered training. Join us for an Info Session on Zoom on Tuesday, October 29th at 6pm. Register to receive the Zoom link for the Info Session on our website: https://communitypoweredwi.org/training/

#NAHM2024
#ArtsandHumanitiesMonth #WisconsinHumanities #CommunityPowered

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Training - Community Powered

Community Powered, the community innovations arm of Wisconsin Humanities, helps communities mobilize that creativity by training people in how to...

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Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Artists are everywhere, including in prisons. When the organizers of an exhibit called ‘Art Against the Odds’ put out a call for submissions, they were flooded with responses from incarcerated artists who had been working without support, formal ...programs, or materials.

A brand new episode of WH’s Human Powered podcast introduces Joshua Gresl, John Tyson, and Sarah Demerath, three of the more than sixty artists whose work is part of an exhibition organized by @portraitsocietygallery and supported in part with a grant from WI Humanities.

Learn more on our website: https://wisconsinhumanities.org/podcast/

Wisconsin Humanities work today is focused on acknowledging the human stories of incarceration in our state and learning from the lived experiences of individuals impacted by the justice system.

#humanpoweredpodcast #artsandhumanities,
#WisconsinHumanities, #WIHumanitiesMonth, #ArtsandHumanitiesWI, #WisconsinVoices, #ShareYourStoryWI, #CelebrateHumanities #nahm2024

Artists are everywhere, including in prisons.

When the organizers of an exhibit called ‘Art Against the Odds’ put out a call for submissions, they were flooded with responses from incarcerated artists who had been working without support, formal programs, or materials.

...WH’s Human Powered podcast introduces Joshua Gresl, John Tyson, and Sarah Demerath, three of the more than sixty artists whose work is part of an exhibition organized by Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee and supported in part with a grant from WI Humanities.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts and learn more on our website: https://wisconsinhumanities.org/podcast/

Wisconsin Humanities work today is focused on acknowledging the human stories of incarceration in our state and learning from the lived experiences of individuals impacted by the justice system.

#humanpoweredpodcast #artsandhumanities, #nahm2024
#WisconsinHumanities, #WIHumanitiesMonth, #ArtsandHumanitiesWI, #WisconsinVoices, #ShareYourStoryWI, #CelebrateHumanities #whgrants

Curiosity lights up in the Driftless!

Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a holiday celebrated in October to commemorate and honor deceased loved ones.

A community group called @driftlesscuriosity received a WH Opportunity Grant to help support the annual festivities, which ...this year will include building a collective ofrenda, or alter, in honor of people working in the food system, including farmers, workers, producers, chefs, activists, and eaters.

Wisconsin Humanities' grant program supported 77 community organizations in 2023. Nonprofits craft public programs, workshops, and discussions that enrich cultural education opportunities and strengthen communities across our state. Yours could be next!

Explore WH grant opportunities now: https://wisconsinhumanities.org/grants

#grantsfornonprofits #artsandhumanities, #nahm2024
#WisconsinHumanities, #WIHumanitiesMonth, #ArtsandHumanitiesWI, #WisconsinVoices, #ShareYourStoryWI, #CelebrateHumanities