Hometown Humanities applications are open

From Hometown Humanities

Hometown Humanities is looking for its next home town.

Hometown Humanities is a program of Humanities Montana that brings a year’s worth of free humanities programming and support for humanities projects to one Montana town. Over the past year, the program brought 32 programs and supported four projects in Livingston, including a presentation-discussion series on women in Montana history, school speakers on the practice of Islam, community conversations on the Livingston economy, a high school literary mapping project and author reading, and two community reading, lecture and workshop series.

Havre was selected as the hometown in 2015.

People who want their town to be the next Hometown site can tell the organization why through the online application at http://www.humanitiesmontana.org. Any town with a population less than 20,000 is eligible.

People can visit the Hometown Humanities site for more information and a calendar of events and can contact Sarah with questions or requests.

Humanities Montana is the state’s independent, nonprofit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 1972, Humanities Montana has provided services and grants to hundreds of Montana organizations in support of public programs in history, literature, civil conversations, and public issues. Among its many programs are its grants, Montana Conversations, Speakers in the Schools, Hometown Humanities, Community Conversations, Letters About Literature, and the Governor’s Humanities Awards.