Welcome
The Kansas Humanities Council creates, sponsors, and promotes humanities
programs across Kansas. Through the humanities — history, literature,
philosophy, and related areas — we gain understanding of where
we've been, who we are, and what
we've valued over time and across generations.
FLIKS: Film Lovers in Kansas
Call for Film Submissions
KHC is in the process of collecting short (under 15 min.) films
for the new FLIKS facilitated film and discussion
program. Films can be documentary, fiction, animation, or experimental
and fit into the humanities categories of Environment, Family &
Society, Community, Ethnicity & Diversity, or Sense of Place.
The deadline for priority consideration is Friday, July
17, 2009. Please contact Juli Pitzer at pitzer@kansashumanities.org
or at 785/357-0359 with any questions you may have.
Click
Here for the complete film submission packet with guidelines.
Lindsborg Hosts Journey Stories
Journey
Stories, the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition,
is at the McPherson County Old Mill Museum in Lindsborg
June 26 - August 9. Explore American tales of "how
we got here" in the Journey Stories exhibition. The
McPherson County Old Mill Museum also features the companion exhibition,
Dreams of America: Swedish & Mennonite Journeys to Kansas.
Click
here for a full schedule of programs and events in Lindsborg.
Click
here for a journey story from Lindsborg.
A Special Thank You
The Kansas Humanities Council would like to thank the following
businesses and individuals for their generous support of the Journey
Stories tour through Kansas. Their gifts, at the patron
level or higher, are making a difference.
Jim and Margie Braden, Clay Center
Fairlawn Plaza, Topeka
Lon Frahm, Colby
Mike Kautsch, Lawrence, In Memory of Mickey Lynn
Julie Mulvihill, Perry
John and Ardith Pierce, Lawrence
Joe Pierron and Diana Carlin Pierron, Lawrence
Jim Rhine, Manhattan
2008 Annual Report
The Kansas Humanities Council's 2008 Annual Report is available
online. Click
here to download the report (pdf).
Contact KHC to request a printed version of the Annual Report. Call
785/357-0359 or email Tracy
Quillin.
Planning for the Future
The Kansas Humanities Council is compiling a list
of email addresses for future e-newsletters. If you would like to
receive KHC's e-news in the future, please send Tracy
Quillin your:
- Email
- Name
- Contact information
Our Mission
The Kansas Humanities Council promotes understanding of the history
and ideas that shape our lives and strengthen our sense of community.
 Kansas
Humanities Council
112 SW 6th Ave., Suite 210
Topeka KS 66603-3895
(785) 357-0359 phone
(785) 357-1723 fax
info@kansashumanities.org
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