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‘Democracy and the Informed Citizen’ What’s True, What’s False and What’s Important? 2018 Program Catalog Cover image: Iculig/123rf.com SDHC Staff: Sherry DeBoer, Executive Director Welcome [email protected] Jennifer Widman, Director of the From the executive director Center for the Book [email protected] “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.” Kyle Schaefer, Program and - Jonathan Swift Development Officer [email protected] In 1550, the word “fact” first appeared in Sherry DeBoer, the English language, 100 years after the Carolyn Marshall-Speakman, Office invention of the printing press. It would Manager Executive [email protected] Director set off the revolution that would create newspapers, and along with it, patterns Deb Delaney, Staff Assistant of democratization and social reorganization now paralleled by Facebook posts, [email protected] bloggers, citizen Web sites, and 24-hour news cycles. In this context, SDHC is embracing the exploration of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen.” The proliferation of news and information sources of varying quality and relevance Table of Contents leads me to encourage you to join a conversation in the coming months. We will collaborate with the Federation, the Pulitzer Board, the SD Newspaper Association, Donate to SDHC...........................1 SDPB, and academic and cultural leaders to explore “What’s true? What’s false? And what’s important?” A Pulitzer Prize-winning national editor will kick off events Festival Preview...............................2 on April 26, followed by a series of public forums and community-tailored events. Young Readers One Book............3 Scholars will facilitate Book Club to Go, discussing selections like Overload and the One Book, Informing the News. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors 2018 Initiative..................................4 will bring the issues to life at the SD Festival of Books. Closing events will focus on National Newspaper Week and Native American Day, recognizing the contributions 2018 One Book...............................5 of tribal journalists. Get Involved.....................................6 In 2000, “it was forecast that more new information would be created in three One Stop Programs........................7 years than had been created in the previous three hundred thousand years” (From Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload, by Bill Kovach Scholar Directory........................8-20 and Tom Rosenstiel). Browse the offerings in our 2018 Program Catalog and utilize the resources available to navigate the challenges we face today. 2017 Annual Report From the board chair Grants...............................................21 “You can’t learn any younger,” my to form an opinion. Milestones..................................22-23 mother would tell me when, as a child, I We crave definitive complained that her assigned task was answers and often Fundraising, Advocacy....................24 too hard or that I didn’t know how to do believe we can it. Her simple declaration interrupted my quickly access them. Festival of Books, Theme..............25 whining and prompted my annoyance How often have and stubbornness to give way to the you interrupted a Donors.......................................26-28 Judith challenge. “OK, I’ll do it,” I would tell my conversation to grab Meierhenry, mother and go about the task. As the your phone and Board Chair decades of my life fly by, her wisdom still search the web for the About the SDHC rings true. answer to a question The South Dakota Humanities Council (SDHC), being discussed? You may find an founded in 1972 in response to an act of Congress, One challenge that we all face is is a 501(c)3 non-profit and the only cultural answer, but it may be wrong. The source organization in the state whose sole mission is to navigating the news in this age of may not be dependable. So, how do we deliver humanities programming to the people of constant and diverse information. determine what to trust? South Dakota. As a statewide advocate for the Just about the time we start to feel humanities, our mission is to celebrate literature, promote civil conversation, and tell the stories that comfortable that we understand, This year, the SDHC programs can define our state. something new emerges. We are help us explore the topic of “Democracy We fulfill our mission by supporting and challenged as citizens to make sense and the Informed Citizen.” I hope you promoting public programming in the humanities of what is happening in the 24-hour, will take advantage of the offerings. Even like the Speakers Bureau; providing grant funding for community programs and research and discussion 7-day-a-week news cycle. The cacophony though it may seem hard, and you aren’t projects in our grants program; and hosting reading of instant reporting, tweeting and confident you know how to do it, “You and literary programs like the annual Festival of commentary overloads our senses can’t learn any younger.” Please join Books, Young Readers Initiative and One Book South Dakota. and intellect. As citizens, we yearn for us in learning and discussing how we accurate information we can depend on become informed citizens. 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An a donation to our annual unrestricted gift can be South Dakota Festival of used towards operations Books and Young Readers expenses, programming Festival of Books. and special initiatives. 2 | FESTIVAL PREVIEW SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL Meet Your Favorite Author South Dakota Festival of Books for History in 2009, whose Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination Sept. 20-23, 2018 provides a nuanced look at Jefferson’s complicated character Brookings and Sioux Falls • Nate Blakeslee, whose masterful work of narrative sdbookfestival.com non-fiction, American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, examines issues of wildlife conservation, land management, hunting ethics and politics The South Dakota Festival of Books will return to the eastern side of the state this fall to do • Andy Boyle, Director of Platform what it does best: celebrate readers, Architecture at Axios, who will do double writers and stories. Festival activities will duty with a session on digital media and take place primarily in Brookings, with a humorous talk on his book Adulthood special events in Sioux Falls, September for Beginners: All the Life Secrets Nobody 20-23. Bothered to Tell You As part of its “Democracy and the Returning fiction favorites will include Informed Citizen” initiative, the 2017 two former One Book South Dakota Festival will include journalism and social authors with new titles: media experts, One Book author Thomas E. Patterson and other notable writers • Leif Enger (Peace Like a River, 2003) (including Pulitzer Prize winners) who will discuss his forthcoming novel, Virgil will be announced in the coming months. Wander Patterson, a South Dakota State • William Kent Krueger (Ordinary University graduate, will provide a Grace, 2015) will talk about his latest Cork keynote lecture about his book, Informing the News. Other O’Connor mystery, Desolation Mountain first-time Festival presenters will include the following: The 2018 Festival will also feature workshops and writers’ • Caroline Fraser, whose biography Prairie Fires: The support sessions with experienced authors, editors and American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder was named one of publishing professionals. the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017 Watch for updated event information, including author • Annette Gordon-Reed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and event announcements, at www.sdbookfestival.com. Festival Blog: Find Author Insights, Writing Advice & More Get inside the head of your favorite author. Find inspiration for writing that novel you’ve been putting off. Subscribe today. Did you know it takes Tim O’Brien up to five days to write a page that is “passable”? Or that J. Ryan Stradal included South Dakota in his hit novel Kitchens of the Great Midwest because he vacationed in the Black Hills as a child? Find insight like this from nationally famous writers on our blog, where we interview Festival authors about the inspiration,