Book one of these programs for your library, school, hospital, historical society, senior center, or other nonprofit organization.
Humanities at the heart of health care. In this program, health care workers reflect on issues central to caring for people through monthly facilitated book discussions.
Our Reading & Discussion program allows libraries and other nonprofits to host high-quality, facilitated book discussions in Vermont communities. We provide the books and trained scholars lead each session.
The Vermont Humanities Speakers Bureau offers nonprofit organizations an easy, inexpensive way to host informative and thought-provoking presentations in their communities.
Vermont Reads is a statewide, one-book reading program. Communities host programs related to the book’s themes. “The Most Costly Journey” is the Vermont Reads book from July 2022 through June 2023. It’s an anthology of comics that depict the oral histories of migrant workers who traveled from southern Mexico and Central America to work on Vermont farms.
Contact Richelle Franzoni at rfranzoni@vermonthumanities.org.
Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
