Organization City Stonington

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the state’s museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.

The James Merrill House, owned and operated by the Stonington Village Improvement Association, is nationally-known for its year-round Writer-in-Residence Program. The James Merrill House will open its first Visitors Center in Spring 2022 to improve digital and community access to the James Merrill House and its collections, and better serve the expanded digital and in-person communities created during COVID-19. CTH funds will support staff time and technology.

Our program Green Planet Films Presents produces public environmental education programs involving films and discussion. In order to expand beyond our town’s radius and enable schools and our partner’s members’ around the state and beyond to attend, GPF plans to launch our next film/discussion series as both in-person and virtual by subscribing to an industry-leading film event platform known for fully customizable virtual screening packages for festivals, arthouses, and distributors.

The Stonington Historical Society project seeks to create an Interpretive Plan for Inclusive Exhibits at the Lighthouse Museum. Having undergone a complete restoration in 2020, the Lighthouse Museum currently sits empty, presenting us a rare opportunity to install new exhibits into our most-visited site. Funds would be used to hire a public history consultant and exhibit designer to help us seize this opportunity and set us up to become Stonington’s cultural community center.

The Yellow Farmhouse project will support development of a series of virtual field trips for Connecticut fifth grade students. This content, which explores Connecticut’s culinary and agricultural heritage, is designed to connect to and enhance the 5th grade social studies standards. SHARP funds will be used for staff time, stipends for content experts, and technical assistance. Once complete, the resources will be made available to all Connecticut schools via our website.

This project will explore the connection between food, gender, and identity through a series of virtual conversations with female authors, two from Connecticut and two from outside of the state. The series will be held on weekday evenings in late January and early February 2022. We will also purchase copies of each of the books featured in the series and donate them to area libraries to increase the accessibility of the program.

La Grua Center will present a community event speaker series entitled ?Military Matters??four talks (Dates TBD – October 2021 through June 2022) with audience feedback focusing on history and relevant aspects of military life. The talks are free and open to the public and will include a Q&A component for audience interaction. Each of the talks will be recorded and offered later for free public viewing on the La Grua YouTube Channel.

Through our program ?Green Planet Films Presents? we invite existing environmental film festivals from around the world to showcase 12 hours of documentary films and scholarly discussion which will include award winners and topical films curated to our region. Due to our coastal location by the RI and CT border, the first festival we will present is The International Ocean Film Festival (IOFF), founded in 2004 in San Francisco, CA. Dates October 2-3, 2021 at the Velvet Mill, Stonington, CT

The Yellow Farmhouse Education Center will host a virtual public screening of the recently released film Gather, which tells the story of Native Americans working “to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.” The screening will be followed by a virtual community conversation facilitated by Rachel-Beth Sayet, an indigenous educator, food anthropologist, and member of the Mohegan Nation. The program will take place in December 2020.

Funding for Connecticut nonprofit humanities and cultural organizations facing financial hardship resulting from COVID-19, funded by the CARES Act via the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Funding for Connecticut nonprofit humanities and cultural organizations facing financial hardship resulting from COVID-19, funded by the CARES Act via the National Endowment for the Humanities.

As part of its ongoing series, the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT, will be hosting nationally prominent poet and writer–Mary Jo Salter during the fall 2019–as Merrill Fellow. Funding will enable her to come to Stonington, CT, to give a lecture and a discussion session on poetry and writing on September 28, 2019; she will be invited to spend time in the National Historic Landmark Merrill Apartments in the village where the late poet wrote and made his home for forty years.

Stonington Historical Society will create an exhibition of Stonington native and photographer Rollie McKenna’s portraits and streetscapes of Stonington. Issues of gender, sexuality, identity, place, and more are addressed in the project.