people & stories / gente y cuentos
Program
Descriptions
٠Classic Program
٠Senior Focus
٠Crossing Borders
Home
NEWS
RELEASES
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en
español
٠Un Programa que Promueve la Lectura
٠Síntesis
٠Descripción del Programa
٠Proyecto
Para Bibliotecas - Auspiciado por el NEH - Cuentos y Plática
٠Nuevas metodologías de lecturas se aplicaron en mompos bolívar,
alcalde y primera dama se mostraron complacidos
٠Reconocimientos
al programa
٠Noticias
٠Boletin
- De viva voz
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BOOK by SARAH
HIRSCHMAN
"people & stories / gente y cuentos -
Who Owns Literature?
Communities Find
Their Voice Through Short Stories"
May be ordered from
www.iuniverse.com,
www.amazon.com,
Barnes and Noble or Labyrinth
Books, Princeton.
A Spanish edition is being planned.
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Online Donations
now accepted!
Updated
October 2011
creating public,
grassroots
access to literature
"Your commitment...has opened the riches of literature to many...Through People & Stories, you have reached out to include those often excluded, and have encouraged those often mistakenly thought not capable of participating to partake of the resources that the humanities offer..."
Public Humanities Award, presented by the NJ Council of the Humanities to Sarah Hirschman,
founder of People & Stories, Gente y Cuentos.
new video - people and stories / gente y cuentos
People & Stories /
Gente y Cuentos Participants
Author visits people and stories / gente y cuentos
Poet, Paul Muldoon, joins
participants at the
Rescue Mission to read and discuss his poetry.
Online
Donations are now accepted!
Operation Fatherhood
participants in people & stories.
Prestigious
NJ State Council
on the Arts Award, received by
P&S/GyC,
January 25, 2011
Georgia Whidden, Chair
Pat Andres, ED
P&S/ Gyc
Link to
Award
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NEW
"Story Talk"
A national youth expansion program
offered through the Public Library
System,
funded by a grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities, April 2010.
Exerpt 1 from the NEH Letter of Award
"With respect to your proposal, reviewers believed that
the proposed programs offer an excellent model of humanities programming
that inspires young people to connect across cultural and class divides.
They praised the project’s theoretical framework and noted that the
pedagogical approach was “thoroughly grounded in recent scholarship… "
Exerpt 2 from Award Letter
"...reviewers agreed that this was a compelling and well-conceived
project that would reach a particularly challenging age group with
in-depth humanities discussions and critical thinking about literature."
Link to Library Project
"Story Talk"
This is the second award for a national library
project that People & Stories / Gente y Cuentos has received from NEH.
Link
to Previous NEH Library Project
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Selected Current Projects
Crossing Borders with Literature
NEW -
Spring Program 2011 Now Recruiting
Volunteer Participants
A Project Across Municipal
Boundaries, sponsored by a grant from the
Princeton Area Community
Foundation.
Link
to Project
Living With Literature--Writing our Stories
Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts,
April '06.
One of 13 New Jersey
recipients.
Repeat recipient
April '09.
Link to Project