Montana Committee for the Humanities – April, 2004, E-Newsletter

Welcome to the Montana Committee for the Humanities monthly e-newsletter. Here you will find links to MCH, Montana Center for the Book, and Montana Festival of the Book news, grant guidelines and deadlines, calendar of events, and much more. Please send queries, address corrections, changes, subscription and unsubscription requests, etc., to Mark Sherouse.

Committee to Meet in Kalispell

The Montana Committee for the Humanities will hold its spring quarterly meeting in Kalispell, April 16th-18th. The preliminary meeting agenda appears on the meeting announcements page of the MCH website http://www.humanities-mt.org/meetingannouncements.htm .

Great Falls Festival of the Book, April 15th-17th

The fourth annual Great Falls Festival of the Book http://www.greatfallslibrary.org/bookfest.htm begins April 15th. MCH is pleased to have provided a grant to the Great Falls Public Library, for the fourth year in a row, in support of the Festival.

2004 One Book Montana Announced

MCH and the Montana Center for the Book have announced that James Welch’s novel Fools Crow will be the 2004 One Book Montana selection. Read more from the media release http://www.montanabook.org/onebook.htm . On April 26th, Beth Boyson, Bill Cochran, Jim Peters, and Mark Sherouse will discuss 2003’s statewide community reading project in a Montana Library Association conference session http://www.mtlib.org/conf/mainconf2004.html entitled “One Book Montana: Harvesting Winter Wheat.”

Help Plan the Future of Public Humanities in Montana

2004 is MCH’s quintennial planning year and will include a Self-Study and visit from NEH in September. You can help us understand Montana’s needs, review and assess our programs, and chart MCH’s future course by completing the 2004 MCH Public Questionnaire http://www.humanities-mt.org/questionnaire.htm . Copies of the questionnaire are available on the website and also appear in the next issue of the MCH magazine Rendezvous: The Humanities in Montana.

2004 Grant Monies Gone

MCH has now obligated its FY2004 grant funds, through October 31st. Funds remain for Speakers Bureau programs, book festivals (1), and Open Book programs. Further information is at the grants page http://www.humanities-mt.org/grants.htm .

Calendar of MCH and Montana Center for the Book Events

Looking for a Speakers Bureau program, an OpenBook session, or other MCH event nearby? Check the regularly updated MCH calendar of events http://www.humanities-mt.org/calendar.htm .

For More Information…

The Montana Committee for the Humanities is Montana’s independent nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/ . Much more information on MCH, the Montana Center for the Book, the Montana Festival of the Book, and our many other programs and services, is available on our websites, http://www.humanities-mt.org, http://www.montanabook.org, http://www.bookfest-mt.org, and http://www.civicmontana.org. Write us at 311 Brantly, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, or at [email protected], or call us at 406-243-6022, toll-free in Montana, 800-624-6001.