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At PA Humanities, we believe in the power of storytelling to cross barriers and build connections. Explore stories of how PA Humanities teamed up with people and communities around the state to use the humanities as a tool for everything from youth development to community building to lifelong education. These stories show how the humanities are helping to shape Pennsylvania’s future.

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A group of approximately 15 adults are looking at display cases containing works created by teens during their exploration of folklore at the library.
  • Education, Featured, News, Youth-Led Humanities

Teens’ exploration of folklore sparks curiosity, creativity and conversation at Erie library

The more teens at Blasco Memorial Library in Erie examined folklore, supported by PA Humanities’ Youth-Led Humanities program, the more connections they made between how cultures all across the world share different stories to represent the same lessons and concepts .
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The following Rain Poetry participants are standing (back row) and seated (front row) Back from from left: Friends Memorial Library director Patty Kunicki, library support staff Brooke Lehman, library board of trustee Dani Newman, PA Wilds chief operating officer and PA Humanities board member Abbi Peters, library clerk and program director Anne Cleer, and Rain Poetry teaching artist and University of Pittsburgh at Bradford emeritus professor of writing Nancy McCabe. Front row from left: Rain Poetry poets Olivia Emer, Kya Haight, Aurora Forsythe, Allison Walters and Sophia Swanson at the Rain Poetry public reveal celebration in Kane.
  • Education, Featured, Grantmaking, News, Rain Poetry

Teen creativity on display as Rain Poetry expands to Kane

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