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February 2021 Mini Grants – $8,000 awarded

March 26, 2021 By RI Humanities

March 26, 2021 – The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities is pleased to announce $8,000 in mini grant awards from the February 2021 application cycle to support to support public projects, documentary film, and individual research. Read on for more details.

Public Project Grants

Gather Together United As 1 / Popular Praxis, $2,000 to Voice to Empower: VOTE
Supports four 90-minute virtual town halls among people experiencing homelessness, advocates for those experiencing homelessness, and policy makers to discuss barriers to voting and civic participation among unsheltered individuals, and potential solutions.

Riverzedge Arts, $2,000 to The Social Flatlands Project
Supports 20 youth from marginalized groups partnering with local historians, scholars, and civic experts to research the history of a former mill village in Woonsocket. Participants in the program will create a visual overlay and timeline of the area, produce an archive from their research findings, and plan possible future interventions into the landscape.

Documentary Film Grants

Tom Garber / Center for Independent Documentary, $2,000 to Rum: America’s Spirit for Liberty
Supports the research and development phase of a 90-minute documentary film exploring rum’s role in the Rhode Island-based transatlantic slave trade.

Research Grants to Individuals

Research Grants to Individuals

Mev Miller, $2,000 to Wanderground: Archiving Lesbian Legacies, Words, Creativity in Rhode Island
Supports research into Rhode Island Lesbians’ relationships with and contributions to the late-twentieth-century Women in Print Movement, and their existing personal collections related to the Movement. The research will primarily take the form of surveys and interviews as well as visits to existing Lesbian archives, and will culminate in a presentation of findings via a website/blog, physical display, and presentation event.

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