VI Humanities Council Announces Major and Mini Grant Awards
Date: February 13, 2006 | Press Release: #06-001
The Virgin Islands Humanities Council, Community Grants program has awarded one major grant and 4 mini grants, whose project promotes the humanities.
The Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park has been awarded $9,997.00 for the ?Virtual Preservation of Colonial Structures? workshop, designed to capture the construction, images and location of a water-drawing windmill on Leinster Bay, St. John. This historic preservation workshop will utilize advanced computer graphics and GIS software technology administered by the University of Maine, a collaborator on this project.
The Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts have been awarded $3,500 to produce ?Transfer," an interactive exhibit and panel discussion based on migration, identity and the Virgin Islands historical event on March 31, 1917 - Transfer Day. The exhibit will include images of persons emigrating from the Virgin Islands circa 1917.
The Charles H. Emanuel School production team has been awarded $3,497.46 to videotape culture bearers, teachers and parents demonstrating traditional games at the Reichhold Center for the Arts (St. Thomas) and the St. George Village Botanical Gardens (St. Croix). The project entitled, "We Are Culture Bearers Too! Youth Preserving Traditional Games," will produce a twenty-minute video to be aired on the educational channels, distributed to local libraries and schools, as well as a viewing, free and open to the general public.
This workshop by the St. George Village Botanical Garden was awarded $2,949, and is intended to teach students and teachers the native plants and procedures that have been used for dying. "Investigating Natural Plant Dyes," will trace this tradition that dates back to the Taino culture, and involve the collecting, grinding, and boiling of plants to create a dye bath. The students and teachers will create scrapbooks and bulletin boards of the dyeing process to complete the workshop and share with their respective schools.
Yesterday?s Dreamers Tomorrow?s Stars are a group of students who are mounting a cultural show at schools on St. Croix. The show entitled, "V.I. Storm: They Will Blow You Away, A Cultural Program," was awarded $500 for the production of culturally inspired posters for the event that will remain in the schools after their performance.
For further information, call the Virgin Islands Humanities Council at 776-4044.