On Wednesday, April 2, all humanities councils received notice that all awarded grants—including our 5-year General Operating Grant and other program-specific awards—are canceled in their entirety, effective April 1. www.vermonthumanities.org/about-vermon...

This morning Vermont Book Awards Director Miciah Bay Gault went on @vermontpublic.org to announce the finalists for 2024's awards! Listen here and join us on May 3, 2025 in Montpelier for an evening of celebration. 📚 www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Feast and Film, a new series from Next Stage, presents an evening of film on March 9th with an optional three-course French dinner themed on "The Taste of Things", starring Juliette Binoche. We are proud to support this program through a humanities grant. www.vermonthumanities.org/event/nxt-fe...

Underdog director Tommy Hyde recently shared his experience making the film in a Snapshot virtual humanities talk with us. Check out that conversation here and watch the film on Vermont Public's "Made Here!" youtu.be/PnNszYRRU1E

This weekend the White River Indie Film Fest brings artists and makers together in White River Junction! Learn more and see the schedule at wrif2025.eventive.org/welcome.

Tomorrow night Director Bess O’Brien will be part of a special screening and Q and A for her documentary "Just Getting By" at the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium in Ludlow, VT. www.vermonthumanities.org/event/just-g...

Happy World Read Aloud Day!   Writing can be a solitary process, but a writers' group valuing idea exchanges and viewpoints helped Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Read #NEHgov funded book “The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture”:   ow.ly/NAI350UR7Gm

Happy birthday to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Edith Wharton! An expat in Paris during World War I, she became a war correspondent, fundraiser, and assisted refugees. Seeking rest, Wharton visited Morocco, which changed her life. Read more in this Humanities Magazine story: ow.ly/xufK50UIrtJ

This weekend at 3 p.m. on Sunday at City Hall, the Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center hosts its annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembrance Event. Mayor James Perkins Jr. of Selma, AL will give the keynote address. Free tickets available at City Market and Fletcher Free Library.

We are excited to share new virtual Snapshot talks in 2025, starting Wednesday at 7PM with Boston University professor Brooke L. Blower who explores the backstories of seven Americans whose plane crashed in Lisbon in 1943. See our free virtual humanities talks at vermonthumanities.org/snapshot.

We've moved my @vermonthumanities.bsky.social talk to online only because of the weather forecasted for tomorrow evening. I'll so miss being in the beautiful St. Johnsbury Atheneum, but the silver lining is that you can join from anywhere! www.vermonthumanities.org/event/parano...

An upcoming 12-month fellowship with Vermont Folklife offers students and adults practical skills, mentorship, stipends, and a supportive environment to explore the complexities around an issue affecting their community. Sound interesting? Apply by December 15th! www.vtfolklife.org/communityfel...