Calendar of Events: Statewide

Humanities Events
Statewide

Mass Moments**
On January 1, 2005, the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities launched the Mass Moments project—a daily almanac of Massachusetts history. Throughout 2005, radio listeners and Internet users will find a different story every day about events and people in the recorded history of Massachusetts.

Web:

www.massmoments.org

Tupperware! Screenings**
A new documentary by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, Tupperware! tells the story of Earl Silas Tupper, an inventor from Massachusetts, and Brownie Wise, a self-taught saleswoman who built an international business out of bowls that “burped.” Narrated by Kathy Bates, the film includes an entertaining and thought-provoking mélange of interviews with Tupperware veterans, color home movies, footage of the company’s annual Jubilees, and ads and television excerpts from the 1950s.

When:	Screenings TBA
Web:	www.thetupperwarefilm.com

Scribbling Women**
On-line materials related to radio dramatizations of short stories by 19th and 20th century American women writers, including "Afterward," by Edith Wharton and "The Flight of Betsey Lane," by Sarah Orne Jewett. Curriculum, lesson plans, and dramatizations in RealAudio format are now available on the website.

Web:

www.scribblingwomen.org

Cambodian Humanities Internet Curriculum**
On-line curriculum materials that use Cambodian traditional arts to promote understanding of Khmer culture in schools and communities across the state.

Web:

www.cambodianmasters.org

** MFH funded

Humanities Events Statewide

Humanities Events
Statewide