Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Spring 2008 - (Page 4) Elizabethan England the latest topic for RELIC library reading programs Programming in the Spring of 2008 for RELIC (Readings in Literature and Culture) will introduce a new reading program: “Elizabeth I of England and Her Times.” The series will be launched as a pilot program in three locations: Houma, Haynesville and Shreveport. One of the main texts is The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir, a popular author of many titles on the Tudor family. The great confrontation between Elizabeth I and Phillip II of Spain will be recounted in the stirring story The Armada by historian Garrett Mattingly. What was it like in London, the largest city in the realm, during Elizabeth's reign? How did people live and cope in a city that was on the cusp of becoming the great hub of a nascent world power? Liza Picard's unique study Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London will entertain participants with the sights, sounds and smells of the city that rural immigrants believed to be paved with gold. The flourishing of culture is to be considered in Shakespeare Alive! written by Joseph Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland. The book demonstrates how The Bard's gift for phrase reflected the history and lives of the English people. “Elizabeth I and Her Times,” along with twelve other RELIC program topics — ranging from “In the Cross Hairs: Louisiana’s Hurricane Experience” and “Becoming American: The Literature of Immigration and Acculturation” to “Folktales and Stories of the South and Louisiana” and “I'll be seeing you America and World War II” — are hosted at public libraries across Louisiana. Log on to www.leh.org/html/relic.html for a complete list of programs. At the Our grants support both popular and classical humanities. Since 1971, the LEH has invested more than $43.5 million in cultural programming throughout the state. More than 3,900 elementary, middle and high school teachers from across Louisiana have attended LEH Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study, bringing back to their collective classrooms of 500,000 students new perspectives on humanities subjects ranging from the Harlem Renaissance to Chinese culture and history. Louisiana history, Southern folktales, Southeastern Native American culture, and literature of the American West are four of the subjects currently covered in the LEH-funded reading program for adults: Readings in Literature and Culture. RELIC has enrolled 87,000 readers in 62 parishes. Louisiana Cultural Vistas quarterly magazine brings LEH grant projects to the printed page for 50,000 Prime Time Family Louisianians. Reading Time, a unique LEH literacy program, brings at-risk families together with storytellers and scholars to improve literacy skills and to share new worlds through reading. Call 1 (800) 909-7990. photos, from top: painting by Clementine Hunter, courtesy of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; antique locket depicting Gov. William C.C. Claiborne, courtesy of Louisiana State Museum; Desire Streetcar, courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection; Mardi Gras Indian by Syndey Byrd. View Louisiana Cultural Vistas online at www.leh.org By logging on to www.leh.org, readers can now find Louisiana Cultural Vistas available on-line in its entirety in digital format, with each page of the print version vividly captured and easily accessible. The staff at Louisiana Cultural Vistas welcomes feedback from our on-line readers. 4 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES\Spring 2008 http://www.leh.org http://www.leh.org/html/relic.html http://www.leh.org
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