people & stories / gente y cuentos

A NEW BOOK by SARAH HIRSCHMAN

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٠Un Programa que Promueve la Lectura
٠Síntesis
٠Descripción del Programa
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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NEWS
RELEASES
NEW
  Trenton Times March 19, 2010
March 16, 2010
Packet
March 24, 2010
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Program Descriptions
٠Classic Program
٠Senior Focus
٠Crossing Borders

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June 2010

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

 
mission statement

 

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,
April 29, 2010


Sharon Turner, Chair
NJ Council on the Arts
Georgia Whidden, Chair
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 Endowments 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

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

Crossing Borders with Literature
A Project Across Municipal Boundaries, sponsored by a grant from the Princeton Area Community Foundation. 
Link to Project