Project Grant ZPP28294022

FREE COMMUNITY HUMANITIES AND NATURE PROGRAMMING [STOKES NATURE CENTER SEEKS FUNDING TO RE-LAUNCH PROGRAMMING STOPPED DUE TO THE PANDEMIC AND CREATE NEW PROGRAMS TO INSPIRE ALL AGES TO LEARN AND EXPLORE OUR CONNECTION TO NATURE THROUGH THE HUMANITIES. ALL ARE FREE TO PARTICIPANTS AS WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONTINUED ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC AND HIGH LEVEL OF POVERTY IN OUR AREA GENERALLY. INCLUDED ARE A NATURE CENTER/MUSEUM, OUTDOOR LITERATURE SERIES WITH LOCAL AUTHORS, CHILDREN'S READING SESSIONS, ADULT LECTURE SERIES WITH LOCAL UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, AND MORE. HUMANITIES TEACH US TO EXAMINE BOTH HOW WE SHAPE AND ARE SHAPED BY THE WORLD AROUND US AND NOWHERE IS THAT MORE CLEAR THAN IN OUR CONNECTION TO THE NATURAL WORLD AND OUR IMPACT ON THE AMERICAN WEST LANDSCAPE. MUCH OF THIS PROJECT, SUCH AS OUR MUSEUM EXHIBITS, IS DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NORTHWESTERN BAND OF THE SHOSHONE NATION TO AMPLIFY THEIR VOICE IN THE HISTORY OF OUR VALLEY AND MANY WILL BE OFFERED IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES TO REACH UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES.] [PURPOSE:?REOPENING OF THE STOKES NATURE CENTER & NBSP;WITH NEW & NBSP;HUMANITIES-BASED & NBSP;EXHIBITIONS AND FREE PROGRAMMING & NBSP;FOLLOWING CLOSURE DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.    ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED: REOPENING THE SNC & NBSP;WITH NEW EXHIBITIONS HIGHLIGHTING THE NATIVE HISTORY OF THE AREA, PLUS THREE & NBSP;WRITERS & NBSP;IN THE WOODS PROGRAMS & NBSP;AND TWENTY-SIX CANYON CONVERSATIONS.   EXPECTED OUTCOMES: REOPENING OF THE NATURE CENTER & NBSP;AFTER CLOSURE DUE TO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS WITH & NBSP;A NEW & NBSP;EXHIBITION & NBSP;FOCUSED ON NATIVE PEOPLES AS WELL AS COVID-SAFE OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING.     INTENDED BENEFICIARIES: VISITORS TO THE STOKES NATURE CENTERS & NBSP;AS WELL AS RESIDENTS & NBSP;OF THE AREA SURROUNDING LOGAN, UTAH.   SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES:?THE RECIPIENT DOES NOT INTEND TO SUBAWARD FUNDS.]