Project Grant Awarded before 2009

FALL 2008

Doctober 2008 Film Series - $5000
Pickford Film Center - Bellingham
Doctober is a four-week celebration of independent nonfiction cinema. Approximately 20 films are being shown at the Pickford Cinema, Pickford Film Center's 90-seat independent movie house in downtown Bellingham. Panel discussions and Q&A sessions create discussion opportunities among viewers, filmmakers, and experts versed in the topics addressed in the films.

Get Lit's Writers in Residence Project - $7500
Eastern Washington University - Cheney
The Writers in Residence program guides students grades 2-12 through an exploration of ideas and literature. They examine the work of literary writers, discuss their own insights and observations, and create new literature out of their lives, experience, and imaginations. Highlights include community readings and an anthology of student work.

First Families of Vancouver's African American Community: From World War II to the 21st Century - $5000
NAACP - Vancouver
First Families of Vancouver illuminates the story of Vancouver, Washington's African-American community from the World War II influx to the present by gathering the stories of its pioneering families.

Re-Writing Difficult Dialogues: Community Collaborations, Oral Histories, Performing Southeast Asian American Stories - $5000
Southeast Asia Center - Seattle
This community-based project brings Seattle's diverse Southeast Asian American voices and experiences, to life through dramatic multimedia performances derived from oral histories. The focus is to spark critical discussion among students, faculty, and local Southeast Asian American community members about the complex social, cultural, and political concerns they negotiate.

Free Speech in Spokane - $5100
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture - Spokane
The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture/Eastern Washington State Historical Society, in partnership with Central Valley School District, seeks to commemorate Spokane's role in the free speech movement. Students research and enact the soapbox brigade that led to arrests on November 2, 1909. A permanent sculpture will be designed for the original site.

Explorations in Latin Jazz: The Contributions of Latin Music and Culture to Jazz, Past and Future - $3600
Seasons Music Festival - Yakima
This project explores the impact of Latin music, musicians and culture in the creation of Jazz and its role in the future of Jazz. Leading performers in both forms of Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban and Brazilian, present two public lecture/demonstration sessions, focusing on youth and the public.

2009 Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series - $5000
Seattle Arts & Lectures - Seattle
This critically acclaimed poetry series features renowned poets reading and discussing their work. Each event consists of a reading and an onstage interview, based on audience questions, exploring the poets' influences, craft, and thoughts on the role of poetry in contemporary society. Rebroadcasts on KUOW reach thousands more listeners.

2009 Seattle Jewish Film Festival - "Meet the Director" and Post-Film Panel Discussions - $3000
Greater Seattle Chapter of the American Jewish Committee - Seattle
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival brings together diverse groups from the community to view contemporary Jewish-themed films in order to explore various aspects of the universal human/particular Jewish experience. Film screenings are enhanced with educational programming, informative speakers, provocative panels, and guest artists.

Olmsted and the Evolution of the UW Campus and AYPE Grounds - $4900
Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks - Seattle
This project aims to broaden understanding of the evolution of John Charles Olmsted’s designs for the University of Washington campus and Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. Project organizers hope to stimulate discussion of the historic principles that underlie the current campus design and the importance of Olmsted's legacy to the future development of the UW grounds and landscape.

Philosophy in the Dark - $3756
Everett Community College - Everett
Philosophy in the Dark is the world's first philosophical film festival. Five feature films are screened on successive nights, each with a philosopher discussing how the film raises particular philosophical issues. This program introduces audiences to philosophical concepts and engages them in the process of thinking philosophically.

Uncharted Territory: David Thompson in the Intermountain West - $7000
KSPS-TV - Spokane
The documentary "Uncharted Territory: David Thompson in the Intermountain West" introduces Thompson to a widespread audience and increases students' and the general public's awareness of this pivotal figure and his contributions to the early exploration of Washington State. Funds were awarded for community and educational outreach activities utilizing public television (KSPS).

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol - $7500
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community - Bainbridge Island
BIJAC presents a video documentary about Fumiko Hayashida, whose photograph has become a symbol of the Japanese American internment experience. Pregnant and already a mother of two young children when she was sent to an internment camp with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, her story exemplifies the experience of all mothers during this time of injustice.

2008 "Power of Poetry" - Poetry Slams - $4000
Seattle SCORES - Tukwila
Seattle SCORES presents its 2008 Poetry Slam events, providing 320 children from Tukwila, Burien, and Seattle's Rainier Valley the opportunity to publicly perform original poetry and be celebrated for their accomplishments, and providing community members the opportunity to share in these young people's journeys of identity and discovery.

Connecting Elders to the Arts - $4000
Jefferson Arts Alliance - Port Townsend
Connecting Elders to the Arts involves and stimulates the elderly in residence homes through interactive discussion of humanities issues relating to art history and criticism; history and folklore of nations as expressed in singing and music; and the interpretation of drama, literature and poetry using readings, acting and writing about personal experience

Powerful Writers Young Author Series - $5000
Powerful Schools - Seattle
Powerful Writers offers a series of six-week author studies in South Seattle elementary schools to strengthen reading-writing skills and teach students to read like writers. Through inquiry, conversation, and reflection, students learn to identify literary craft and apply it to their own writing.

Mo Yan Event in Seattle - $5000
Washington State University - Pullman
Washington State University, in collaboration with Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library, Elliott Bay Book Company and Kinokuniya Bookstore, proposes to host the contemporary Chinese author Mo Yan for an afternoon talk, question and answer session, and book signing on January 5, 2009 at Seattle Central Library.

SPRING 2008

Colville Valley Performing Arts Association 2008-2009 Season - $2500
Colville Valley Performing Arts Association - Colville
Colville Valley Performing Arts Association will present 6-8 performing arts events of a diverse group of performers in the 2008-09 season bringing high-quality performers, musicians, and actors to this rural area.

Yakima Celebrates Peoples of the Plateau - Photographs Past and Present - $4000
Larson Gallery Guild - Yakima
The Larson Gallery is hosting an exhibition titled "Yakima Honors Peoples of the Plateau - Photographs Past and Present" from Jan. 11 - Mar. 7, 2009. The exhibition and related programs are presented as a component of a unique city-wide project focusing on our Native American heritage with input from the Yakima Nation.

S'abadeb - The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists - $7500
Seattle Art Museum - Seattle
SAM received support for the Living Archive, a visual compilation of 40 songs, stories, and speeches delivered over three 10-foot screens in the welcome/orientation gallery for the S'abadeb exhibition. The content has been drawn from ethnomusicology archives and other collections, with some selections being specially recorded for this project.

Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Centennial Radio Project - $5500
Jack Straw Productions - Seattle
As part of the city's citywide celebration of the centennial of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Jack Straw Productions will collaborate with KUOW public radio, area museums, and local organizations to create four short radio documentaries that explore a variety of humanities themes relating to the fair.

S'Klallam Places of Importance - $3500
Port Gamble S'Klallam Foundation - Kingston
The Port Gamble S'Klallam Foundation proposes a project to increase awareness of Port Gamble S'Klallam history and culture. S'Klallam youth will create photographs to document S'Klallam places of importance. Selected images and descriptive text will be exhibited in the region.

Hugo Literary Series - $7500
Richard Hugo House - Seattle
The Hugo Literary Series will commission new works of literature and explore the vital role literature plays in art, culture, and society. The series is designed to spark engagement and dialogue between the community and the literary arts by attracting broad and diverse audiences.

Conversations from the Past: a Living History Program - $2500
Harbor History Museum - Gig Harbor
The living history program presents three historic individuals providing a window into the past of Puget Sound pioneer life - the hardships, struggles, and celebrations. Presenters dressed in period appropriate costumes, joined by museum educators, will exchange and share ideas, information, and experiences centered on accurate, active, and participatory historical interpretation.

Weaving Words on the Web - $10,000
Copper Canyon Press - Port Townsend
This project intends to transform the Copper Canyon website from a passive tool to an engaging and dynamic interactive site for our audience. An expanded audience will have the opportunity to discover works by world-renowned poets from a diverse array of cultures and social backgrounds through interactive audio and visual features.

Soar into Story - $7500
Children's Museum of Tacoma - Tacoma
Inspired by the work of Caldecott Award-winning author Gerald McDermott, the Museum will bring children's literature to life - taking the visitor on a journey into Native American stories. Adults and young children will share in the joy of story while the exhibit's engaging strategies develop early literacy skills.

Danger: Books! Book-It All Over Arts and Education Program - $7500
Book-It Repertory Theatre - Seattle
Danger: Books! Is a series of readings from books that have been banned and challenged in the United States. Presented in the Book-It style, professional actors read the most controversial sections from these books, and then facilitate a discussion on the First Amendment and how and why books are banned and challenged.

Readings & Lectures from the Port Townsend Writers Conference - $7000
Centrum - Port Townsend
Readings and lectures from the Port Townsend Writer Conference offers six free opportunities for hundreds of Olympic Peninsula residents to hear some of the nation's most gifted writers and poets read from their work and discuss it with them in an open forum.

BlackPast.org Website Expansion - $10,000
BlackPast.org - Seattle
Expansion is crucial to maintain current programming and to grow to meet the increasing demand for African American history as demonstrated by the consistently expanding number of website visitors. The most pressing project goal is photo copyright acquisition, a legal and ethical mandate as well as a factor for success.

Living History 2008 - $5000
Intiman Theatre - Seattle
Living History draws on theatre texts, performance and theatrical improvisation to engage young people in critical thinking and awaken the imagination.

FALL 2007

World of the Shipwright: From Wood to Fiberglass - $7500
Whatcom Museum of History & Art - Bellingham
This interactive exhibit will explore the prolific history of shipbuilding in Whatcom County from 1855-1965. American maritime traditions emerged from a variety of cultures of skilled artisans. Their stories will be shared through historic images, drawings, vessels, narrative, film footage, oral histories, and related programming, including workshops and community presentations.

Get Lit's Writers-in-Residence Project - $7500
Eastern Washington University - Cheney
Writers-in-Residence guides students' grades 1-12, through an eight-month exploration of ideas and literature. They discuss their own insights and observations, examine the work of literary writers and create new literature out of their lives, experiences, and imaginations. Highlights include community readings and anthology of student work.

Percy L. Manser: Grandeur and Light - $6500
Maryhill Museum of Art - Goldendale
An exhibit and related programs about the work of artist Percy L. Manser and how it reflected human values about the evolving natural and built landscapes, its value to the Cascade Mountain and Columbia River Gorge communities, and how his national recognition encouraged residents to support the arts from the 1920s through the 1950s.

The Native Experience in Film Symposium - $5000
Skagit County Historical Society - La Conner
The Native American Film Symposium is an opportunity to bring people together to view and discuss films created by youth as well as a professionally produced film. A variety of Native guest speakers will explore the cultural challenges of creating, producing, directing and acting in films.

Skagit River Poetry Project - $5000
La Conner School District - La Conner
The Skagit River Poetry Project immerses students, teachers and community in high performing poetic voices from around the nation by providing professionally led teacher-training, student workshops and poetry gatherings throughout our rural region.

The Faces of Lakewood: Our Cultural Crossroads - $7500
Lakewood Historical Society - Lakewood
Faces of Lakewood will explore historical and cultural successes and challenges of Lakewood's large multi-cultural population through an interpretive exhibit and video in the Lakewood History Museum; three living history performances with a public forum; and several community book reading-discussions. Project partners are Pierce College, Ft. Steilacoom and Lakewood -Pierce County Library.

Whidbey Reads 2008 - $4000
Oak Harbor Public Library - Oak Harbor
Whidbey Reads “one-book” community reading program begins with an announcement of a book for all Whidbey Island. Book discussions take place in libraries, private homes and restaurants. Programs at libraries and schools complement the theme established by the book. The program culminates with author presentations on north and south Whidbey.

Connecting Elders to the Arts - $3480
Northwind Arts Alliance - Port Townsend
A program to involve and stimulate the elderly in residence homes through interactive discussion of humanities issues relating to art history and criticism, the history and folklore or nations as expressed in singing and music; the interpretation of drama and poetry using readings, acting and writing about personal experience.

Living in Asphalt Nation - $5000
Washington State University Vancouver - Vancouver
Automobiles are such an integral part of our culture that it is difficult to critically examine their impact on complex transportation issues. "Living in Asphalt Nation" will provide occasions to use the humanities to examine the automobile in American society and analyze its historical, cultural, environmental, and political impact on the transportation debate.

Threads That Bind - $5000
Tacoma Art Museum - Tacoma
This podcast will focus on understanding: the history and contemporary relevance or quilting traditions in relationship to concepts of family, community expression, and spirituality; historically significant events reflected in quilting across cultures and history; and accomplishments of organizations and social movements using quilts to communicate, reflect and record.

Personal Encounters with People of the Past, a living history program - $4000
Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center - Wenatchee
Using data from primary source material, presenters deliver short monologues as people from Wenatchee’s past and answer questions about the era, person or topic they represent during this two day event. The presenters will be dressed in period appropriate clothing and staged in the exhibit which supports their character.

Valley Cultures - $4050
Yakima Valley Museum - Yakima
The Yakima Valley Museum in cooperation with Franklin Middle School will implement a program studying the cultures of the Yakima Valley The resulting program will be developed into an interactive website with educational materials that will help teachers and students to effectively utilize the museum as a resource for WASL preparation.

Northwest Folklife Film Series - City Folk - $5000
Northwest Folklife - Seattle
The 2008 Northwest Folklife Film Series, City Folk, explores the interplay between culture and place in urban settings. Film screenings, guest lectures, discussions and interpretive essays engage audiences in conversations about how urban environments shape people's identity, creative expression and sense of community.

Documenting the Creative Process - $7500
Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas - Seattle
Documenting the Creative Process is a literary program with author and illustrator Javaka Steptoe. Javaka will explore the creative process while creating illustrations for a children's book about Jimi Hendrix via a series of school and public programs during Children's Book Week and a writing residency at Leschi Elementary School.

History Link/AYP Centennial Project - $5000
History Link - Seattle
Preparation of an interactive "Cybertour" of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and related online content for posting on HistoryLink.org as part of a larger statewide observance of the 2009 centennial of the AYP, Washington's first "world's fair".

The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry in Muslim & Christian Spain in the 11th Century - $3500
Seattle Symphony Orchestra - Seattle
Humanities students, Seattle Public Library audiences, and the public will be invited to a series of free lectures with poet Peter Cole. The series is linked with Seattle Symphony's Music Alive! Residency which features the world-premiere of Aaron Kernis's new symphonic work based on Cole's translations of 11th century poetry.

Native Hawaiian Community in Washington State Exhibit - $7500
Wing Luke Asian Museum - Seattle
Despite Native Hawaiians’ 200-year history in Washington State, public knowledge about their culture and contributions have been grossly limited due to decades of racism, discrimination, and inadequate public exposure about their real-life experiences. This exhibit celebrates the vibrancy that Native Hawaiians have brought, and continue to bring, here.

Experience Opera - $5000
Seattle Opera Association - Seattle
Seattle Opera's Experience Opera (EO) program is designed to introduce high school students throughout Washington state to the history, craft and magic of opera. EO provides participating teachers with all the tools needed to teach opera in the classroom. Each EO session concludes with the opportunity for teachers and their students to attend a final dress rehearsal of a Seattle Opera production at McCaw Hall.

SPRING 2007

Worldwide Sunday: Cultural Programming for Young Children and Their Families - $7500
The Children's Museum - Seattle
Worldwide Sundays is a new series of humanities programs representing a variety of communities-Asian, Latin, American, Native American. Every Sunday, families can attend facilitated performances (dance, music, storytelling) or complete art projects designed to teach them about the cultures, traditions, and histories of these communities.

Hear My Voice - $5000
Living Voices - Seattle
Living Voices will present a twenty site tour throughout the state of Washington to schools, colleges, libraries, museums and community centers of Hear My Voice, an interactive living history presentation about the women's suffrage movement.

Hugo Literary Series - $7500
Richard Hugo House - Seattle
The Hugo Literary Series will commission new works of literature and explore the vital role literature plays in art, culture, and society. The series is designed to spark engagement and dialogue between the community and the literary arts by attracting broad and diverse audience.

Squaxin Island Museum Website Development and Enhancement Project - $7500
Squaxin Island Museum Library & Research Center - Shelton
The Squaxin Island Museum Website Development and Enhancement Project involves developing and updating website humanities content, adding interactive media content and providing a more interactive and engaging experience for our visitors.

Gonzaga University Visiting Writers Series - $7500
Gonzaga University - Spokane
Recognizing the need for Humanities programming in the Inland Northwest, Gonzaga University presents a vibrant visiting writers series to increase cultural and diversity awareness in the eastern part of the state.

Small Town Museums: Reflections on Community Life - $4965
Tincan - The Inland Northwest Community Access Network - Spokane
Materials from small museums in eastern Washington will be placed in an online digital archive, Inland Northwest Memories Project. Tincan's youth media team will create a video integrating these materials with interviews of individuals who keep these small museums alive. The video will be shown at museums and be online.

Cultural Diversity Program - $2000
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture - Spokane
The Cultural Diversity program must connect now with an aging generation. The organizational phase will read 8 cultural groups, work in-depth work with 3, and produce a forum linking scholars and cultural groups. Future exhibition and educational programs will be reach broader audiences, increasing public awareness of Eastern Washington's hidden diversity.

Family Lecture Series - $2500
Junior League of Tacoma - Tacoma
The Junior League of Tacoma's Family Lecture Series will host three visiting children's authors for public lectures at the Tacoma Public Library, will facilitate school visits for these authors at at-risk Tacoma Public Schools and will host an educator's luncheon with the educators of that school during the author visit.

Amelia Earhart, Here Today! - $1500
Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust - Vancouver
This project features a historical reenactment of Amelia Earhart by Dr. Ann Birney, a professional historical performer! scholar on Amelia Earhart. Held at the Pearson Air Museum. there will be a day performance for students and an evening performance for the general public. A replica of Earhart's plane will be displayed.

FALL 2006

• 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.
  
  

• The American Cycle Public Humanities Forums
  Intiman (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $3,950
  As part of their series of classic American stories, The American Cycle, Intiman will produce an adaptation of Richard Wright’s Native Son this fall. A series of discussions and public forums with writers and experts will draw out the play’s themes and challenge audiences to consider what is American.
  
  
• Bioethics Book Club Scholar Webcasts
  Women’s Bioethics Project (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  The Women’s Bioethics Project seeks to engage women in Washington in bioethical issues and policy debates.
  This grant will support three interviews with bioethics scholars in philosophy, medical humanities and theology,
  which will be added to an online resource for book groups.
  
  
• Camp Harmony at Puyallup, Washington: Understanding the Past
  Paul H. Karshner Museum (Puyallup)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  This exhibit at the Karshner museum will recreate barracks at Camp Harmony, a temporary facility used in the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans in World War II. Round-tables, lectures and discussions will engage community members and the museum will invite secondary students in the Puyallup school district to visit.
  
  
• Celilo Falls: Points of Contact
  Washington State Historical Society (Tacoma)    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  A consortium of universities, public libraries and the Washington State Historical Society will lead a series of
  book discussions at regional libraries in the Columbia River Basin. The discussions will focus on the ancient
  history of Indians at Celilo, using the upcoming 50th anniversary of Celilo Falls’ inundation as a focal point.
  
  
• Danger: Books!
  Book-It Repertory Theatre (Seattle)   GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  The Book-It Repertory Theatre will present a series of readings from books that have been banned and challenged in the United States as part of its Book-It All Over arts and education program. Professional actors will read the most controversial sections from these books and then facilitate a discussion on the First Amendment.
  
  
• Essential Seattle
  Museum of History & Industry (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $4,000
  The exhibit Essential Seattle will explore key events and people who made Seattle’s history from the point of first European contact in 1792 to the high-tech boom in the 1980s. In addition to the exhibit, MOHAI will host a lecture series and other family-oriented programs.
  
  
• Everyday Objects: Lessons from the Past Connecting to the Future
  Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center (Seattle)   GRANT AWARD: $8,000
  Everyday Objects is a poster series designed to engage students in the day-to-day lives of Holocaust survivors before, during, and after the Holocaust. The posters and accompanying teachers’ guides will be available to community groups across the state.
  
  
• Nidoto Nai Yai Yoni: Oral History Project
  Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community (Bainbridge Island)   GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Personal stories and photographs of elders who experienced the World War II Japanese internment will be collected, preserved and made available to the public using a kiosk display and other media at the new Japanese American Internment Memorial Visitor’s Center through collective efforts of trained interviewers, Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community members and professional videographers.
  
  
• Real Men Didn’t Need Directions: History Okanogan 2006
  Okanogan County Historical Society (Okanogan)    GRANT AWARD: $3,700
  This series of seven public lectures will be held on an 1811 historic site, and will each feature scholarly research and interpretation and the Native American context or experience of regional historic events in the Okanogan County area during the years 1821-60, including those of cultural contact, treaties, explorers and missionaries.
  
  
• These Walls Can Speak: Untold Stories from Three Historic Buildings
  Wing Luke Asian Museum (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  This exhibit at the Wing Luke Asian Museum uses three historic buildings in Seattle’s International District to explore the neighborhood’s rich immigrant and ethnic history. Visitors will understand the history of featured buildings, the communities they served, and the importance of community space for immigrant groups.
  
  

• African-American Islam: Past, Present and Future
  Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (Seattle)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Dr. Richard Brent Turner will lead an exploration of Islam and the African-American community that will challenge commonly held assumptions about faith, politics and community life. The program hopes to spark conversations about the rise in religious diversity and the new perspectives and values Islam brings to American and African-American life.
  
  
• Bellevue Reads!
  Bellevue Community College    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Community-based book groups, Bellevue Community College students, King County Library audiences and the general public will be invited to read Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and participate in book group
  discussions and other programs, including film screenings and lectures. Based on a successful collaboration
  begun in 2002, this project is co-sponsored by BCC and King County Library (KCLS).
  
  
• Experience Opera
  Seattle Opera Association    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  This education outreach program integrates the study of opera into humanities classrooms in urban, suburban and rural schools. Experience Opera will introduce opera into classrooms as a tool to teach art, world culture, language, philosophy, and literature.
  
  
• Get Lit! Authors Tour of Rural Schools/Writers in the Schools Day
  Eastern Washington University (Cheney)    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  Professional writers will tour rural, remote areas with high rates of poverty and limited opportunity to hold humanities programs and facilitate interactive presentations for students that include age-appropriate discussions, writing exercises and readings.
  
  
• Louis Slotin Lessons: Exploring the Intersection of Science & the Arts
  Double Duck Productions (Seattle)   GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  This project combines readings from dramatic texts and a panel discussion of arts and science professionals scheduled for the 60th anniversary of nuclear physicist Louis Slotin's tragically fatal accident. The panel includes Louis Slotin Sonata author Paul Mullin, and Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making
  of the Atomic Bomb. Town Hall Seattle will host the event and The Empty Space Theatre will serve as co-sponsor.
  
  
• Los Santos Reyes
  City of Redmond    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  Los Santos Reyes is one event in the month-long celebration of Redmond Lights, a celebration of the diversity of traditions, cultures and faiths. Los Santos Reyes features a play written by members of the Hispanic community and presented by children in the fourth through sixth grades. A discussion will follow.
  
  
• The Midway School: Oral History Project
  Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical Society   GRANT AWARD: $3,000
  The Midway School is being restored as an authentic pioneer schoolhouse, incorporating interpretive signage
  and hands-on exhibits throughout the one-room school. This grant funds a short documentary film featuring oral histories of former students that will be displayed in the restored schoolhouse.
  
  
• Mother Foss: A Film Portrait of Thea Foss
  Working Waterfront Museum (Tacoma)   GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  Mother Foss is a twelve-minute documentary short about Thea Foss, the nineteenth-century Norwegian
  immigrant and entrepreneur. This film is part of a larger exhibition of new materials and archival records
  documenting her role in Tacoma maritime history.
  
  
• Poets In the Schools
  Lopez Writers' Guild (Lopez Island)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  This project will provide hands-on experience writing poems, revising, reading poems aloud and exploring a variety of poetic themes to students in two San Juan County schools, the Lopez Island School and Spring Street International School. It will also offer opportunities for community poetry readings, and support the Skagit River Poetry Festival.
  
  
• Timberland Reads Together
  Timberland Regional Library (Olympia)    GRANT AWARD: $2,500
  Community members within the Library District's five Southwestern Washington counties will read, reflect, and discuss The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
  
  
• True/False West Film Festival
  Whatcom Film Association (Bellingham)    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  3 Days. 30 Films. 30 Filmmakers. The 2006 True/False West Film Festival, a collaboration with the True/False Festival in Columbia, Missouri, seeks to provide the city, county, region and state populations with a concentrated three-day festival of the best documentaries in the world.
  
  
• What's In A Name?
  KPBX Spokane Public Radio    GRANT AWARD: $5,000
  KPBX will produce five 8-10 minute radio features on disappearing rural towns in Eastern Washington. Interviews with townspeople and historians will document the history of these towns, what they were like in their heyday,
  and how those that have not disappeared are trying to revitalize their economies. Photographs and commentary
  will be on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.
  

La Conner School District - La Conner: $5,000.00
Skagit River Poetry Project
This project unites all Skagit County school districts, as well as selected school districts in Whatcom and San Juan counties, in an effort to push poetry off the page and into life. Students and teachers are provided with an opportunity to celebrate language from many voices and attend poetry readings.

Maryhill Museum of Art - Goldendale: $5,000.00
People, Places and Perceptions: A Look at Contemporary Northwest Latino Art
Funding was requested to create an exhibition and related programs featuring Latino art and culture in the Pacific Northwest. Programs include gallery discussions, poetry readings, multicultural dance presentations, family activities and a Day of the Dead celebration.

MediaRites - Portland, Oregon: $4,000.00
Kanaka Village: Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest
Kanaka Village will be a fifteen-minute radio documentary featuring interviews with scholars from Washington and British Columbia. This program will provide a creative and historically accurate document of Hawaiians who were brought to the Pacific Northwest by the fur trade, lived in what is now Washington Sate, and were involved in the British/American conflict.

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture - Spokane: $5,000.00
The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
Grant will support adult lectures and educational outreach programs to accompany the exhibition The Mapmaker's Eye. This multi-disciplinary project delves into geography, science, art, economics and cultural history. Public programs will expand on concurrent regional Lewis and Clark programming and provide a more international perspective on Northwest exploration.

Okanogan County Historical Society - Okanogan: $4,987.00
Fort Okanogan History Tour
Fort Okanogan History Tour is a series of six public presentations by scholars, experts and Native Americans focusing on the history of Fort Okanogan. Each event will have two speakers to present both the European American story and the Native American experience of cultural contact and the fur trade.

Powerful Schools - Seattle: $5,000.00
Personal Narrative Study Series
This eight-week series, serving 61 teachers and 1,500 teachers at six elementary schools, will provide students with the motivation and tools necessary to explore their heritage, express their thoughts on paper and bring their family histories to life.

Seattle Children's Theater - Seattle: $2,000.00
Nothing is the Same
Seattle Children's Theater will receive funding to support forty one-hour workshops and discussions to accompany the play Nothing is the Same. These programs will be offered in Puget Sound area schools and will address issues related to friendship, labeling, discrimination and the historical context of the play.

Tasveer - Seattle: $5,000.00
Second Independent South Asian Film Festival
The festival will feature fifteen programs, including film screenings, workshops, panel discussions and cultural programming around the theme of "Celebrating Second Generation South Asia." Filmmakers and speakers will be invited to facilitate post-film discussions and participate in forums. Wenatchee Valley

Museum and Cultural Center - Wenatchee: $5,000.00
River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
River of Memory will be an exhibit comprised of historic photographs, historical and cultural narrative, poetry, music, art and natural science. The exhibit will allow visitors an opportunity to experience the entire Columbia River, from source to mouth - an experience never before provided by an historical or cultural institution.

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