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 - 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 will explore 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 - 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 publically 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 folkore 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.