Chicago Humanities Festival 2022 Humanities Discussions

FAIN: ZPP-283310-22

Chicago Humanities Festival (Chicago, IL 60654-3300)
Nathalie Kohen (Project Director: May 2021 to September 2023)
Brittany Pyle (Co Project Director: November 2021 to September 2023)

Creation of six humanities programs on racial justice, gender equality, and building an inclusive society.

The COVID-19 crisis had an immediate impact on the Chicago Humanities Festival, which, in a normal year, presents over 100 in-person programs on the humanities, arts, and culture to audiences of over 40,000 in-person, and reaches hundreds of thousands more online. The Festival proposes a project to bring at least six in-person conversations to Chicago audiences in 2022, with programs being recorded and presented for free to online audiences. These six-plus programs will consist of topics closely related to the NEH’s “A More Perfect Union” initiative, using a humanities lens to look at topics such as racial justice, gender equality, and how we can move forward to build a more inclusive society. NEH funding will be used to support and hire critical staff on the Programming, Production, and Audience Services teams for this project.