Fall 2006 Project Grant Awards
Humanities Washington received thirty-eight grant applications requesting a total of $169,000. The Board of Trustees awarded $49,500 to twelve projects around the state. The twelve grants awarded range from $1,900 to $5,000.

• American Museum of Radio and Electricity
  Local History and Culture Radio Project (Bellingham)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  The American Museum of Radio and Electricity is partnering with local museums, performing arts groups and other cultural institutions to produce high quality humanities radio programming to be aired locally on KMRE-LP, an FM radio station, and worldwide on the Internet through their web stream and via downloadable podcasts.
  
  
• Bellevue Community College
  Bellevue Reads (Bellevue)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Bellevue Community College, King County Library System, Hugo House and Voices in Wartime will collaborate on programming surrounding the community reading of a novel about the Vietnam War. Discussions, lectures, arts programming and adult literacy outreach will provide diverse scholarly, artistic and experiential perspectives. A web-based anthology will document community stories of war and peace.
  
  
• Cape Disappointment State Park
  Celebrating the River: A Confluence of Cultures (Ilwaco)    GRANT AWARD: $3,600
  Celebrating the River seeks to interpret and highlight the people and cultures historically involved in fishing on the lower Columbia River. This grant will support events that look at both historical and current social and cultural change through photographs, cultural events, an art performance and lecture.
  
  
• Eastern Washington University Press / Get Lit!
  Writers in Residence (Spokane)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Writers in Residence visit five Spokane-area schools for weekly writing workshops with grades 3-12. These eight-month residencies reach low-income schools that have limited access to interactive humanities programming. Students benefit by learning to express themselves creatively, contributing to the ongoing conversation that is literature and the humanities.
  
  
• Lopez Writers' Guild
  Poets in the Schools (Lopez Island)   GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  Poets in the Schools will provide teacher trainings in poetry, and focus on writing, revising, and reading poems aloud with students in two San Juan County schools. Students will also explore a variety of humanities and poetic themes, and experience reading their poems in performance for the community.
  
  
• Northwest Folklife
  Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival - Crossing Borders (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  The first annual Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival, Crossing Borders, explores how social and political concepts of boundaries affect human interactions. Film screenings, discussions with filmmakers and interpretive essays will engage community members in conversations about how communities are constructed and how people negotiate a sense of identity.
  
  
• Port Townsend Library
  Port Townsend Reads: Mark Sprague: Two Books and a Movie (Port Townsend)
  GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Port Townsend Reads consists of an author event signing by Mark Sprague, book discussions at a variety of community sites, program on memoirs, a program on literary criticism, a horse trail ride, a domestic violence forum, a high school assembly with the author and a showing of the film based on the novel followed by a discussion.
  
  
• Powerful Schools
  Powerful Writers' Spring Project, 2007 (Seattle)   GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  In spring 2007 Powerful Schools will launch a program aimed at their youngest writers, grades kindergarten through second, with a series of personal narrative and family story studies. Students will learn to write from the details of their own lives, and through writing and sharing will foster new understandings of themselves and others.
  
  
• San Juan Community Theatre & Arts Center
  Pack of Lies Community Outreach (Friday Harbor)    GRANT AWARD: $1,900
  In conjunction with the San Juan Community Theatre's winter 2007 production of the play Pack of Lies, a fictionalized account of Peter and Helen Kroger, an American couple living in London who were arrested and convicted of spying for the Russians in 1961. The community will be invited to participate in a series of discussions that will build on the issues raised by the play as well as to read books that deal with similar issues.
  
  
• Seattle Children's Theatre
  Addy: An American Girl Story (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $2,000
  Seattle Children’s Theatre will offer 40 one-hour free-of-charge workshops and discussions in Puget Sound area public schools covering humanities topics in their production of Addy: An American Girl Story. The workshops will explore the historical context of the play, and issues related to slavery, self-esteem, community, responsibility and prejudice.
  
  
• Seattle Opera Association
  Experience Opera (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  Experience Opera targets high school students in eight counties and provides them with a broad overview of the opera art form through multi-media classroom presentations, recitals, tours of Seattle Opera facilities, and access to mainstage dress rehearsals. Teacher training workshops focus on how opera can be used to study the humanities disciplines of English, history and philosophy.
  
  
• Skagit County Historical Museum
  Harvesting the Light: Images of Contemporary Skagit Farm Life (La Conner)
  GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  The principal aim of the project is to tell the story of disappearing family farms through the voice of farmers and the lens of contemporary photographers. This objective will be achieved through a combination of exhibition images, narrative, activities, and community panel discussions and forums.
  
  

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