Humanities New York

Join us in Poughkeepsie on 10/22 for a conversation on liberties that can't be taken for granted. Free General Admission with a suggested donation ✨ 🎟 https://lnkd.in/e2jdb-aq 💬 Tracing the imperial origins and profit-driven ascendance of the maxim that "time is money," artist and author 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗢𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹 challenges us to reflect on our relationships with life’s most precious commodity in her New York Times-bestselling book, 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦: 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬. Digital media scholar and journalist 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 approaches the digital commons with a similar imperative. If user agreements represent the law of the land, what does that make us?

⏳ We're just over a week away from our fall event in Poughkeepsie: a conversation between New York Times-bestselling author Jenny Odell and UC Boulder media studies professor and journalist Nathan Schneider. 📚 Register today for the 10/22 event at 7:00 pm. Pay as you wish with registration. https://lnkd.in/ebBR4mJU

💼 We're #hiring! HNY is searching for an NYC-based financial professional with 6-10 years experience and a background or interest in non-profit work. 👩💻 Sound like you? Read on and apply to join our small and dedicated team 💪 https://lnkd.in/eUUmXSu8 #nonprofitjobs #nonprofitfinance

Earlier this week, as part of the Incorrigibles project, a memorial ceremony was held to honor the young women and infants buried in the long-overlooked cemetery on the grounds of the Hudson Correctional Facility, which was formerly the site of The House of Refuge for Women (1887-1904) and The NY State Training School for Girls (1904-1975). Thanks to a grant from Humanities New York, Alison Cornyn and I were able to document the ceremony, which included a dance performance by the extraordinary Amanda Krische.

❓Did you know that HNY-supported events like Film Forum 's screening and Q&A series happen throughout the state, year-round? Discover community-spun programs in August, including an exhibition by Artistic Noise, a guitar-making demonstration at the Iroquois Indian Museum, and the launch of the second season of Tenement Museum's Immigrants Wake America. https://lnkd.in/eCQSGWci And be the first to know about upcoming programs by signing up to our events newsletter 💌 #humanities hashtag #humanitiesny

A (belated) congratulations to the 27 organizations awarded grants to promote community-building humanities programs across the state. Watch this space for related events happening near you! https://lnkd.in/eB8Hp_3J

Attention cultural orgs in the Finger Lakes, Central New York, and Mohawk Valley! Meet us THIS WEDNESDAY in Ithaca to learn all you need to know about applying for grants worth up to $10,000 -- plus breakfast ☕ 🥓 RSVP to reserve a spot: https://lnkd.in/eaEz4mgJ

Congrats to Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership (PIHP) cohort-members All Kings for being spotlit in a powerful piece in the Times. 👏 HNY is a proud supporter of All Kings' "Nature Quests." Journalist Joseph Bernstein—who accompanied a recent trip—describes the gist of the experience and the origins behind the unique organization's name: ""The Nature Quest, like other men’s work programs, enacts a series of dramatic, sometimes emotionally harrowing, rituals over three days. By the end, each initiate should be able to tap into a stronger, kinder and more purposeful version of himself — his “king,” an archetype drawn from the work of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who looms large in this world. (Hence “All Kings.”)" Read the full piece here! https://lnkd.in/ezNhCJWB

Meet us tomorrow at the latest stop in the traveling exhibition, "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America," HNY’s director of grants, Joe Murphy, will be at the historic Union Hotel to host a public, participatory conversation anchored in a recently acquired scrimshaw powder horn from the War of 1812 era owned by a volunteer citizen soldier who fought in the Second Battle of Sackets Harbor on May 29, 1813. This event is part of the series, “A New Agora for New York: Museums as Spaces for Democracy,” organized by the Museum Association of New York. In ancient Greek cities an Agora was both an assembly of people and the physical setting in which they gathered. It was an open space in which intellectual and thought-provoking discussions formed the foundation of a civil society. As we approach an essential act of our nation’s founding, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, “A New Agora for New York” is creating spaces in museums through exhibitions and programs in which communities can learn together and participate in humanities discussions grounded in texts and objects of material culture. Watch out for more events in this series as the Smithsonian Institution "Voices and Votes" exhibition makes its way across the state!

Recipients of HNY grants put funds to good use year-round and across the state, with performances, workshops, exhibitions, and other types of events that are frequently free and open to the public. Read on for more grantee goings-on in May. https://lnkd.in/eqFnrETJ