Cultural Society Receives $150,000 Grant from Mellon Foundation
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June 19, 2024 We are pleased to announce that the Cultural Society has received a grant of $150K from the Mellon Foundation for capacity building and planning for the brick-and-mortar AAPI History Museum in Rhode Island. While the AAPI Mobile History Museum will make its grand opening on September 7, 2024 at the PVD Fest, the brick-and-mortar AAPI History Museum will make its “soft launching” /opening approximately one month after the mobile museum’s grand opening. Please stay abreast of this news by going to our Instagram or website.
Cultural Society Received Thrive Grant from RI Humanities
May 30, 2024 We are pleased to announce that the Cultural Society is a recipient of this grant award from RI Humanities and Thrive on May 23, 2024 to increase our capacity building. CSEBRI will use this grant to supplement the salary of a full-time staff person for the summer to implement the travel exhibits for the AAPI Mobile History Museum so it will be operable by September 2024. CSEBRI’s entire staff which includes one fellow, one intern and a full-time staff person for the summer, along with the purchase of the museum trailer are funded by this RI Humanities Thrive grant, the 2024 Expansion Art Program grant and an annoymous donation. These two grants along with the annoymous donation will make the AAPI Mobile History Museum up and running by September 2024. We are thankful to RI Humanities and Thrive and the State of Rhode Island for this grant. It comes in good timing! You can read more about the grant and all 18 recipients here.
Cultural Society Received grant from the University of Connecticut Asian/Asian American Studies Institute (AAASI) to address short comings in Rhode Island's AAPI History Curriculum
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January 2024 The grant from the University of Connecticut Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (AAASI) is used to establish the AAPI History Education Center of Rhode Island to support educators teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander history in Rhode Island. We have posted resources, such as training videos on our website for teachers to use immediately. There is an upcoming workshop on March 13, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. titled A Brief Overview of Asian American History virtually. Please sign up for this FREE workshop here. You can also sign up here to get an update on future workshops, resources and fellowship opportunities here. PLUs are offered.
Cultural Society is a recipient of the Expansion Art Program
June 2023 We are very proud to let you know that the Cultural Society (CSEBRI) is one of the recipients of the Art Culture Expansion grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, and Rhode Island State Council for the Arts for the next three years. This grant will give us $10,000 of unrestricted funds for the next three years to strengthen our administration and expand our Arts and Culture programs.
Cultural Society Received grant for our AAPI history museum
March 2023 Rhode Island Council for the Humanities has awarded the Cultural Society a major grant to do the preliminary research for a museum of AAPI history and culture. Two talented individuals have been chosen to do this important work and it will begin this summer.
The Unveiling of the public art, "Uniting AAPI Community for Change" is scheduled for May 6th, 2023 at 12:30 p.m.
May 2023 The making of this public art has been in the making for months. We are finally going to present it to the public for the first time on May 6th. Please come see the Opening Ceremony and be part of our celebration for the AAPI Heritage Month! Register here.
Asian Pacific American Alliance of Rhode Island (APAARI) is here!
We are very pleased to let you know that the AAPI Advisory Council has been formed. [Our new name is Asian Pacific American Alliance of Rhode Island or APAARI.] We will give you more information on different types of membership where you can join and be part of us. We have begun to work on issues affecting our lives. Please stay tuned and to hear about our work. APAARI is on hold until further notice as of 1/31/24.
Please feel free to email Jeannie Salomon at [email protected] for any content in this special announcement