Our Speakers Bureau program funds engaging presentations across the state - and it's about to get bigger! We're expanding the bureau and are offering our partner organizations access to three programs per year. You can book one - or a series!

Summer's coming and that means reading time is, too - at a vacation resort, on the beach, somewhere in a mountain hideaway, or maybe just around the house. So don't forget, the annual summer reading issue of our FORUM magazine will be available by mid-June. It will showcase this year's Florida Book Award winners, tell you a little about each author, and provide excerpts from some of the winning books. Look for a profile about Janet Burroway, this year's winner of the Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for writing. You'll find an article about Florida poetry from one of our state's top scholars - and much more.

Come and discover a Florida not experienced by the casual tourist. Join us for these upcoming Gathering Cultural Tours.

•     Fort Myers - October, 2014     
•     Everglades City - November, 2014
•     Clewiston - February 2015
•     St. Augustine - April 2015

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Dr. Sue Kim named new board member

We welcome Dr. Sue Kim to the Florida Humanities Council board!  Kim, of Ormond Beach, is a retired staff psychiatrist at the Coatesville, Pa., Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She succeeds Darryl Paulson.

Check out our events

• Let ever-popular James "Zach" Zacharias show you St. Augustine through the eyes of America's greatest painters who wintered there from 1876 to 1950: May 31, Ormond Beach.

• Learn about cow-whips, swamp cabbage and cowboy funerals from  Bob Stone and his multi-media presentation that explores and celebrates the history and culture of the nation's oldest cattle ranching state from the colonial period to the 21st century: June 20, Fernandina Beach.

• Join the Museum of Science and History for the Jacksonville premier of a digitally animated short film about the French in Florida, based on the historic Jacques Le Moyne and Theodore de Bry engravings of early Florida: June 21, Jacksonville.

For a complete listing of our events, click here.