National Humanities Center Announces Sites for Inaugural "Being Human" Festival
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A zine fest in upstate New York. A pop-up museum with puppets in Minneapolis. A writer's workshop on wheels in Oklahoma. These are just a few of the events to be featured next April as part of the National Humanities Center's first annual "Being Human" festival.
Key Points:
- These are just a few of the events to be featured next April as part of the National Humanities Center's first annual "Being Human" festival.
- Inspired by and undertaken in partnership with the United Kingdom's Being Human festival , which originated in 2014, the inaugural US version will include events in nine locations across the country.
- Events in this year's "Being Human" Festival (US) were selected from a wide variety of proposals submitted to the National Humanities Center.
- "We are excited to be working with partners across the US to stage what we hope will be an annual celebration of the humanities," said Robert D. Newman, president and director of the National Humanities Center.