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September 2024 Program News
Montana Conversations and Speakers in the Schools
Humanities Montana is excited to announce that application to schedule Montana Conversations and Speakers in the Schools programs for November 1, 2024, or later is now live on our website! Over 50 cultural program presentations are available to museums, community organizations and groups, and more! Montana Conversations help bolster programming across the state and can be booked months in advance. Humanities Montana provides free marketing materials to all confirmed program bookings! As always, these programs are free and open to the public.
Our Speakers in the Schools programs are available to K–12 classrooms in Montana. Both public and private schools, along with homeschool groups, are able to utilize Speakers in the Schools presentations to strengthen their humanities curriculum. Whether a classroom needs Indian Education for All curriculum support, or a boost to their literacy, poetry or history resources, Speakers in the Schools, free to all Montana students, has something to offer!
The Montana Center for the Book, a program of Humanities Montana, traveled to the National Book Festival to participate in the Great Reads from Great Places program, as part of the Roadmap to Reading at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center on August 24. With over 5,000 attendees visiting the festival, Great Reads from Great Places authors Debra Magpie Earling and Linda Marshall were in attendance to meet readers and sign books. This year, the Great Reads selections were “The Lost Journals of Sacajawea” by Earling, who is Bitterroot Salish and a member and citizen of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, and “Bob Marshall: Defender of the Wilderness” by Marshall. Both authors signed books with excited festival attendees during the Roadmap to Reading. Humanities Montana staff, along with our Great Reads authors, had a wonderful time sharing about literature, literacy, and all things Montana-related with festival guests!
The National Book Festival gathers representatives from all Library of Congress affiliate Centers for the Book to celebrate literature and literacy from their home states.
