FLORIDA HUMANITIES: Stephanie Chill, Program Director Events & Book Tour
Season 2, Episode 402, Jan 31, 07:06 PM
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Florida Humanities celebrated 50 years in 2024, so news director Nanette Wiser caught up with Program Director Stephanie Chill on 2025 upcoming events, an environmental book tour throughout Florida and the Florida Humanities Festival March 2025 in Sarasota. Center for the Book Program Series: Exploring the Environment through Literature kicked off 2/1 with Ian Wilson-Navarro’s new book, "Dry Tortugas: Stronghold of Nature. Authors Cori Convertito (Key West Art & Historical Society), Curtis Hall (Dry Tortugas National Park), and Nancy Klingener (Monroe County Public Library) introduced the history, culture, and environment of Dry Tortugas. On 3/19 Dr. Leslie Kemp Poole will be at Tampa Bay History Center talking about Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now. On June 21, Sara E. Echenique will share her bilingual book Our Roof is Blue/Nuestro Techo es Azul at Young Art Museum in Plantation.
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ABOUT FLORIDA HUMANITIES Since 1973, Florida Humanities has been the statewide, nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), firmly committed to sharing Florida’s stories by promoting a better understanding of the state’s history, heritage, cultures and literature. As a grantmaker, we have awarded more than $20 million in support of statewide cultural resources and public programs strongly rooted in the humanities. These programs preserve Florida’s deep history and heritage, promote civic engagement and community dialogue, and provide opportunities to reflect on the future of Florida. Florida Humanities is the only organization of its kind dedicated to bringing the humanities to every Floridian, wherever located, from the Panhandle to the Keys. They dupport libraries, museums, historical societies, public institutions and other cultural nonprofit organizations with grant opportunities; deliver statewide humanities-based public programs, initiatives & resources and share stories through their award-winning magazine, FORUM and its podcast, FORUM: Beyond the Pages; Florida Stories walking and virtual tours app and our annual humanities festival as well as partner with national cultural organizations, such as Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress
#floridahumanities #centerforthebook #environmentalliterature #stephaniechill #nanettewiser
LEARN MORE floridahumanities.org https://floridahumanities.org/events/
ABOUT FLORIDA HUMANITIES Since 1973, Florida Humanities has been the statewide, nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), firmly committed to sharing Florida’s stories by promoting a better understanding of the state’s history, heritage, cultures and literature. As a grantmaker, we have awarded more than $20 million in support of statewide cultural resources and public programs strongly rooted in the humanities. These programs preserve Florida’s deep history and heritage, promote civic engagement and community dialogue, and provide opportunities to reflect on the future of Florida. Florida Humanities is the only organization of its kind dedicated to bringing the humanities to every Floridian, wherever located, from the Panhandle to the Keys. They dupport libraries, museums, historical societies, public institutions and other cultural nonprofit organizations with grant opportunities; deliver statewide humanities-based public programs, initiatives & resources and share stories through their award-winning magazine, FORUM and its podcast, FORUM: Beyond the Pages; Florida Stories walking and virtual tours app and our annual humanities festival as well as partner with national cultural organizations, such as Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress
#floridahumanities #centerforthebook #environmentalliterature #stephaniechill #nanettewiser