Here’s the official announcement about all the grants, including that awarded to Big Read St. Joe: https://www.arts.gov/news/2017/national-endowment-arts-announces-2017-2018-nea-big-read-grants An excerpt: Today the National Endowment for the Arts announced seventy-five nonprofit organizations will receive grants totaling more than $1 million to host an NEA Big Read project between September 2017 and June 2018. An initiative of the National Endowment… Read more »
Month: June 2017
The Partners behind the Project
The NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest (NEABigRead.org). Our NEA Big Read St. Joe County is a partnership between these three institutions: CHAPTER #1027 If you have ideas related to The Things They Carried, we’d love to work with your school… Read more »
The Things They Carried
The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for it and those against. Today it also divides us, just as surely, between those who remember its era firsthand and those not yet born when the troops came home. There may be no better bridge across these twin divides than Tim O’Brien’s… Read more »
What’s the Big Deal about the Big Read?
The NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. El proyecto NEA Big Read es una iniciativa del National Endowment for the Arts (el Fondo Nacional para las Artes de Estados Unidos) en cooperación con Arts Midwest. The goal of NEA Big Read is to broaden… Read more »