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(April 5, 2012 - Tempe, AZ) The Arizona Humanities Council is honoring the work of the Arizona Town Hall with the Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award. This award is given to individuals, organizations or businesses that have made a lasting contribution to the cultural life of their communities through their active support and involvement in promoting the humanities.
"We were surprised and honored, to receive this distinction," says Arizona Town Hall President Tara Jackson.
"The Arizona Town Hall has been a leader in shaping public, civil discourse," added Town Hall Board Chair, Ron Walker. "For half of Arizona's first 100 years, Town Hall has had an enormous impact on the political, cultural, and civic landscape of Arizona and it will continue to do so as Arizona moves into its second 100 years."
The Arizona Town Hall will be hosting its 100th biannual gathering at the end of April in Tucson. The focus of the conversation will be Civic Engagement, while its 101st convening in November will be held in Maricopa County for the first time and focus on Leadership.
The Humanities award will be given at the Sharing Words, Changing Worlds event at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel on Thursday, April 12, 2012. The featured speaker at the free and open lecture will be Pulitzer Prize Winner and Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Prior to the lecture there is a private reception from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. More information can be found at azhumanities.org.
About the Arizona Town Hall
For 50 years, Arizona Town Hall has been educating, engaging and empowering Arizonans to solve critical policy issues. Arizona Town Hall is a non-profit organization that engages diverse Arizonans in a unique process that uses robust but respectful dialogue to create solutions to pressing problems. The resulting recommendations are distributed throughout Arizona and serve as a guide for government, business and civic leaders. During the state's Centennial year in 2012, the Arizona Town Hall will mark its 50thyear of convening Arizonans to find critical solutions to Arizona's pressing issues. Additional information regarding Arizona Town Hall can be found online.
About the Arizona Humanities Council
Founded in 1973, the Arizona Humanities Council (AHC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and the Arizona affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. AHC is not a state agency. AHC supports public programming in the humanities that promotes understanding of human thoughts, actions, creations, and values. AHC works with museums, libraries, and other cultural and educational organizations to bring humanities programs to residents throughout Arizona. All AHC supported activities must involve the humanities disciplines - history, literature, philosophy, and other studies that examine the human condition.
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