The SOMOS NJ Poetry & Culture Festival is a day-long event for NJ high school students that includes Spanish, Portuguese, and Latinx poetry recitation competitions, as well as student-written monologue […]
Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble
Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble’s Walking the Beat is a creative writing, theater, and multi-media workshop for students grades 9-12 and local police officers, designed to establish a groundwork for conversation […]
Writers House, Rutgers-Camden
“Outside the Wire: Writing Grief” is a multi-format humanities project that highlights the narratives and experiences of American veterans throughout the country’s history of conflict. This project includes generative writing […]
Whitesbog Preservation Trust
The Pine Barrens remains one of the most distinctive and misunderstood areas of the Garden State. Whitesbog Preservation Trust’s “Harvesting Stories” project has been working for more than 10 years […]
AAPI Montclair
Social studies learning in New Jersey focuses on local and state history in the elementary grades, and yet few if any resources reflecting New Jersey’s rich Asian American history are […]
Millville Army Air Field Museum
The Millville Army Air Field Museum (MAAFM) has partnered with the Millville Public Schools (MPS) since 2001 to interview World War II and other veterans. High school students learn interview […]
Fanwood Memorial Library
Through a community-wide read program, the library aims to spark dialogue and reflection on the small and large actions that saved lives during and after the Holocaust, while also confronting […]
The Briar Patch Collaboratory, Inc.
The MetaForum Applied Theatre Initiative (MATI) of The Briar Patch Collaboratory (BPC) aims to develop an arts-based, living curriculum that contextualizes Black girls’ socio-political realities through exploration of history and […]
Stockton University
The Alliance Colony, located in Pittsgrove Township, New Jersey, was a 19th-century agricultural community formed by Jewish families fleeing oppression and violence in the Russian Empire. The Alliance Heritage Center […]
Ubuntu Cultural Pavilion, Inc.
The Ubuntu Cultural Pavilion “Citizen Archivists” project aims to introduce and demystify traditional archival and oral history practices by providing accessible and hands-on educational opportunities. Through a combination of training […]
