GHHN Annual Conference - September 24, 2019
Bear Mountain Inn & Conference Center
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
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We are experimenting with history! Consider the 2019 GHHN Annual Conference as a field guide to find new ways to connect with science at your heritage organization - from injecting a historic perspective into STEM programs at your site; to analyzing how visitation at museums and historic sites can impact health and well-being; to exploring the many ways that science can help us understand our collections better - through conservation, forensics, and imaging technology.
Join us on
Tuesday, September 24 at the Bear Mountain Inn & Conference Center
to discover strategies and find inspiration for exploring how to connect with science at your heritage organization.
The Annual Conference will once again feature the extremely popular "Follow the Speaker" conference format - designed to help sites engage at a more direct level with our presenters. The conference will be a full day of learning, conversation, networking with your peers, office hours opportunities with grant funding organizations as well as a lite breakfast, networking luncheon, full-day exhibit hall, the
Awards for Excellence
ceremony and poster session, and more!
We hope to see you on September 24!
#experimentingwithhistory
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Make History Live! with Kandie Carle, the Victorian Lady
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Want to create, launch, and/or maintain a living history interpretation at your site? Then you don't want to miss the final workshop in our Harnessing the Power of Stories series!
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Make History Live! Character Development
with Kandie Carle, Artistic Director East Haddam Stage Company and Living History Performance Artist
Tuesday, July 23
Boscobel House & Gardens
1601 9D, Garrison, NY
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
GHHN Members: $45
NonMembers: $55
Only a few spots left - don't miss out!
Living history interpretation is an educational medium where staff use performance to create a world, tell a story, stimulate learning, engage the senses and teach lessons through interpretation, clothing styles, pastimes, handicrafts, and reenactments. Visitors are transported to another time and place in their imaginations where they experience the past. Whether it be first-person or third, whether you are the interpreter or the training partner for staff, this comprehensive and interactive workshop will help participants feel comfortable with making history live.
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Full-day workshops include light breakfast, luncheon, afternoon coffee break, and reference materials.
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The Hudson River Valley Greenway and National Heritage Area announce the availability of two funding opportunities
Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area Heritage Development Grant Program
A total of $25,000 is available for projects that support programming, interpretation, and marketing of the Hudson River Valley's historic and heritage sites.
DEADLINE: September 6, 2019
2019 Greenway Conservancy Trail Grant Program
Grants up to $75,000 for trail construction, planning, design, rehabilitation and design.
$50,000 will be set aside for Water Trail projects. See application for details.
DEADLINE: November 8, 2019
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Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area Program Sponsorship
Awards of up to
$2,500 per sponsorship for programs and events that reinforce the Heritage Area’s mission and themes of Nature and Culture, Corridor of Commerce, and Freedom and Dignity.
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The Findnyculture.org Project Needs Your Help!
Findnyculture.org
is a new resource developed by the New York State Education Department's Office of Cultural Education to connect teachers to New York's cultural education community. Participating organizations can promote programs, resources, and events for free.
Click here for the flier.
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To participate in the project:
- Go to www.findnyculture.org to take a six-question survey. Your survey results will help determine the search criteria needed to best describe your organization’s education programming and resources.
- Send an email to info@findnyculture.org with your name, title, and organization name. When the website is ready, you will receive your organization’s log-in information. By logging-in you will be able to select specific search criteria that aligns with your organization, check your organization’s chartering status, update your organization’s vital information (email address, URL, physical address, telephone number), and use the events calendar.
Look for the launch of the website and promotion to New York teachers to begin in late summer for the coming 2019-20 school year.
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Humanities New York Announces the 2019 Cultural Field Survey!
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Please take a moment and help our friends at Humanities New York! As funders of the cultural field, they aim to be responsive to the needs of humanities presenters all across the state. They'd like to know how things are changing, growing, and improving for your organization, as well as what challenges do you face. Please take a moment to answer this brief survey; your answers to the third annual HNY Cultural Field Survey will inform future offerings from Humanities New York and two lucky respondents will win $100!
Survey closes July 15th.
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Historic Housekeeping:
Preservation and Management of Historic Interiors
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At this entirely hands-on workshop, guided by GHHN’s collection care professionals, participants learned the proper hands-on methodology of collections care by working directly with collections. Through our train-the-trainer focus, this full-day workshop equipped attendees with the knowledge and skill sets necessary for cleaning, handling, and storing collections along with the tools to teach their volunteer base these critical skills. Both our April session at Sagtikos Manor and the July session at Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum were sold out. Thanks to our hosts and the Gardiner Foundation for funds to make these workshops possible! Photos to come soon!
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This workshop is presented by GHHN and made possible through generous funding from the
Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.
Full-day workshops include lite breakfast, networking luncheon, resource packet, and cleaning toolkit.
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Register Your 2019 Path Through History Weekend Events Today!
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New York State's "Path Through History," is a statewide initiative that links historically and culturally significant sites, locations and events throughout New York State. This effort to highlight our rich heritage aims to not only showcase the state's history and cultural significance, but also promote tourism and economic development in communities across the state.
The 2019 Fall Path Through History Weekend will take place Columbus Day Weekend (October 12-14, 2019) - and registration is already open!
If your organization is holding an event during these time frames that connects with New York State history, we encourage you to participate so we can include it in our promotional efforts.
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Sites that sign up will receive a variety of promotional materials to distribute, including rack cards, brochures, lawns signs, and stickers for a social media contest.
Make sure to register your event by July 15 to be included in our first round of collateral materials mailings.
We hope you'll join us in celebrating New York State's history - click on the button below to register your event.
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SAVE THE DATE!
NYSCA/GHHN Creativity Incubator:
NYC/Metro Session
November 2019
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This is the 7th and FINAL CI Workshop session - make sure to watch for an announcement of date/location, and sign up ASAP because all our sessions have been SOLD OUT!
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What is the NYSCA/GHHN Creativity Incubator?
The NYSCA/GHHN Creativity Incubator workshop series invites staff in museums to test out experimental interpretive approaches. Each workshop session is completely different! The end goal of the program is to open our eyes to new possibilities and encourage museums to think more imaginatively about the interpretation of their collections and the visitor experience. We're very excited to bring this unique opportunity to museums around our great state and hope you'll join us on our journey to think more creatively.
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Get Ready for the 20th Annual Ramble!
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The Hudson River Valley Ramble is an annual event series that celebrates the history, culture and natural resources of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, as well as the amazing landscape, communities, and trails throughout the region. Every September, ‘Ramblers’ come not only from the Hudson Valley region and New York State, but from other regions of the country as well to discover the riches our Valley has to offer.
The 20th Annual Ramble will take place on August 31, September 1, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, and 28-29 of 2019!
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Apply Now for NYSCA REDC Workforce, Capital, and Impact Programming Support!
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NYSCA is now accepting applications for FY2020 funding through the Regional Economic Development Council. NYSCA opportunities will be available via two programs:
Arts and Cultural Initiatives Funding and the
Arts and Cultural Facilities Improvement Program: Mid-Size Capital Project Fund.
The deadline to submit your application through the Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) is July 26, 2019 at 4PM.
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Arts and Cultural Initiatives Funding:
NY State Arts Impact Awards
Program Purpose: to support the expansion of up to 10 large-scale, public arts projects conceived with a high level of artistic scope and ambition that demonstrate a commitment to collaboration across sectors, disciplines, and regions.
Grant Size: $100,000
Grant Term: March 1, 2020 – February 28, 2021
Workforce Investment
Program Purpose: to support the creation of new full- or part time positions and the expansion of existing part-time positions to full time.
Grants for New Positions
Grant Size: $37,500 - $112,500, plus up to $10,000 for resident artist projects
Grant Term: March 1, 2020 – February 28, 2022 (Multi-Year Contract)
Matching Requirement: 50% of the grant amount
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Workforce Fellowships
Program Purpose: to support training and career development programs for emerging arts practitioners from communities that have been historically underrepresented in the arts and cultural sector.
Grants for New Programs
Grant Size: $45,000 - $112,500, plus up to $7,500 for organizational equity work
Grant Term: March 1, 2020 – February 28, 2022 (Multi-Year Contract)
Matching Requirement: 50% of the grant amount
Arts and Cultural Facilities Improvement Program:
NYSCA’s Arts & Cultural Facilities Improvement Program will offer up to $1.75 million in funding through the Mid-Size Capital Project Fund across the state to arts and cultural organizations.
Total Funding Available: Up to $1.75 million
Grant Size: $49,500 - $150,000
Grant Term: March 2020 – February 2023
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The Hudson River Valley Review Spring Edition Out Now!
Hudson River Valley Review takes an eclectic and interdisciplinary approach to the region and regionalism. It publishes essays, photographs, paintings, documents, and book and art reviews, and it is ready to consider other forms of intellectual achievement. The Review was founded at Bard College in 1984 as The Hudson Valley Regional Review. The Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College assumed publication in 2003 and has since implemented a peer-review process for article submissions and increased both the diversity of content and readership. The online archives and back issues represent the full collections of HRVR as well as HVVR. The Review is published bianually, with new issues each spring and autumn. For subscription information, please visit:
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Here's What We've Been Up To Since Our Last eNewsletter!
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- Two hands-on training sessions in NYC (at Lefferts Historic House and King Manor) for the third class of the Roof Raisers Curatorial Brigade in partnership with our friends from the Historic House Trust.
- At our May Behind the Scenes Networking Event at the Ossining Weir, we were able to descend into the 1842 brick water tunnel and learn its history - this was a rare opportunity to see the inner workings of the Weir (which controlled the flow of the water in the Old Croton Aqueduct )
- We were delighted to be at the first meeting of stakeholders at Saratoga National Park to begin planning NY’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution!
- We had a fantastic site visit to the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport in advance of our upcoming workshop on 7/15 (TWO spots left, if you're interested!)
- We had so much fun at our second session of Harnessing the Power of Stories - many thanks to our incredible presenter, Sean McNall and to the HRVNHA/Greenway for funding these trainings!
We're so glad to have gotten to spend time with you all - our fellow heritage keepers! And don't forget to follow us on our social media channels (including our Instagram account @theghhn) to see what we're up to!
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