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The mission of Humanities Iowa is to promote understanding and appreciation of the people, communities, cultures, and stories of importance to Iowa and the nation.
HI
News
First Iowa History Prize to be awarded in November
Read
more about the Iowa History Prize
Read
the HI executive director's opinion piece on the prize
Meet
the members of the Iowa History Prize Selection Committee
"Picturing
America" coming to Bloomfield
What
is "Picturing America?"
Visit the "Picturing
America" website
Boone
to re-enact historic suffrage march
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More...
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here for More News...
Recent
HI Mini-Grants to Elkader, Lamoni, Central College and Dubuque
HI
awards $1,000 to Elkader to help celebrate town's namesake
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HI to help bring "World of Music" to Lamoni
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More...
Penumbra
Theatre to stage race workshops at Central
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HI
awards $1,800 to Dubuque Audubon Society for program by Brian
"Fox" Ellis
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Upcoming
HI-Funded Events
"Studio
& Vine": Meet the Artist Days
Saturday, October 11 from 1 to 7:30 p.m.
Hitchcock Nature Center
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Features the historic cultural music, arts and agriculture of
the Loess Hills area
For more information go to http://www.studioandvine.com
Historic
Tour of Glendale Cemetery in LeClaire
Sunday,
October 12 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
LeClaire, Iowa
For the past 170 years Glendale Cemetery has been the final resting
place of numerous characters from LeClaire's past. Buried among
the grasses and flowers are riverboat captains known for their
ability to navigate the dangerous rapids on the Mississippi River
and one of the area's first female doctors. Some of these figures
will be brought to life by community members and by students at
Pleasant Valley High School. The event is being held in conjunction
with the Apple Festival at the Mississippi Valley Welcome Center.
Alexander
Levi Heritage Project Exhibit
August
15-December 31
National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium
Dubuque, Iowa
This is a project that honors Alexander Levi, a French Jew of
Spanish origin who arrived in what is now Dubuque in 1833. The
exhibit features images, maps, photos, type text, recorded narrative,
music, video and audio to celebrate Levi, the first Jew to live
in Iowa.
For more information go to http://www.levicelebration.com
One
Community, One Book
A series of forums on the book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of
a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Beah, who was born in Sierra
Leone in 1980, got caught up in that nation's civil war when he
was 12-years-old. At 13 he was forced to enlist in the army and
commit acts of violence and cruelty. Today he is a member of the
Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Division Advisory Committee
and has spoken before the United Nations, the Council of Foreign
Relations and other groups.
Click
here for more information on One Community, One Book
Forum
dates and locations:
October 11, 10 a.m., Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A
October 14, 8 p.m. Hillcrest Residence Hall, Riverview Lounge
October 15, 3:30 p.m., Regina High School Library
October 16, 6:30 p.m., Solon Public Library
October 17, 11 a.m., Iowa City Senior Center, Room 208
October 21, 3:30 p.m., West High School
October 21, 8 p.m., Currier Residence Hall, Van Oel MPR
October 22, 3:30 p.m., Oaknoll Retirement Residence, E. 6th floor
Benton St. Lounge
October 23, noon, Coralville Public Library
October 23, 3 p.m., Iowa Medical Classification Center (not open
to the public)
Check
out our Calendar
Page for this week's (Oct. 13-19) Speaker's Bureau
events in Black Hawk, Union and Warren counties.
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