With support from the California Arts Council, CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES will develop CA 2020: Youth Perspective and the Future of California. This project will partner up to ten professional filmmakers with young people to create a series of documentary short films that will give voice to the issues that are of most concern to California’s young people. Critical to the success of this work will be communicating and disseminating those stories as widely as possible, in California and beyond.
The California Documentary Project supports high-quality media projects that seek to document California in all its complexity. We support film, radio, and interactive media projects that inform and engage broad audiences though multiple platforms.
The Humanities for All grant making program supports locally-initiated public humanities projects that respond to the needs, interests, and concerns of Californians and aims to promote understanding among our state’s diverse peoples.
The Literature & Medicine program brings together hospital staff and visiting scholar facilitators – in hospitals throughout California – to explore the human element of medicine through conversations about literature, art, and other media.
The Library Innovation Lab allows libraries to field test new programs to engage immigrants in their communities.