Mini Grant Awards Update

Mini Grant Awards Support Film for Kids, Literature-Based Performance, Stories of the Narragansett, and Other Cultural Outreach

To date, the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities has awarded mini grants to four organizations for a total amount of $7,500. Keep an eye out for updates on these worthy projects:

League of Advancement of New England Storytelling: $2,000 for Sharing the Fire: Community and Cultural Outreach Program. The funds will support a storytelling project that aims to bring the experiences of storytelling and oral tradition (with a focus on multicultural folk tales) to audiences in more than 30 Rhode Island venues in areas typically underserved by arts and humanities programming.

Vartan Gregorian Elementary School PTO: $2,000 for I Was There: Explorations of Narragansett Bay. The funds will support a kindergarten through fifth-grade oral history and audio documentary project that aims to connect students and the greater community to the life and stories of the Narragansett Bay.

Friends of Brown Street Park, Inc.: $2,000 for Providence Children's Film Festival. The funds will support educational workshops for children that serve as supplementary programming to the Providence Children's Film Festival taking place February 12-15 at the Metcalf Auditorium of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Cable Car Cinema.

The Providence Athenaeum: $1,500 for Living Literature: A Brief Visit with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The funds will support the development of a page-to-stage performance based on The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The performance will take place at Bryant University during the January 30 kick-off conference to Rhode Island Center for the Book's Reading Across Rhode Island initiative.