{"id":61870,"date":"2014-10-28T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=61870"},"modified":"2014-10-28T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:07:40","slug":"delta-center-to-host-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2014\/10\/delta-center-to-host-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Center to host workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning is conducting two week-long workshops celebrating the heritage of the Mississippi Delta, through its Landmarks in American History and Culture Program again this year.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and is titled \u201cThe Most Southern Place on Earth:\u00a0 Music, History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta.\u201d The workshops will explore the region\u2019s impact on America\u2019s music, food ways, civil rights, literary heritage, and political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Workshops will be offered to thirty-seven participants each between June 21-17 and July 12-18, 2015. They are open to K-12 teachers, including public, private, and home school, and librarians. Five graduate credit hours may be earned. This will be the sixth year of NEH support for this exciting workshop.<\/p>\n<p>The directors of the workshop are Dr. Luther Brown and Lee Aylward and a special participant will be Dr. Rolando Herts, the new director of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning.<\/p>\n<p>Stipends of $1,200 are available for participants.\u00a0 To apply for the stipend and to learn more about the workshop go visit the the Delta Center for Culture and Learning webpage at <a href=\"http:\/\/deltacenterforcultureandlearning.com\/southern-place-workshop\/\">http:\/\/deltacenterforcultureandlearning.com\/southern-place-workshop\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning is conducting two week-long workshops celebrating the heritage of the Mississippi Delta, through its Landmarks in American History and Culture Program again this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,296,2,246],"tags":[412],"class_list":["post-61870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delta-center","category-facultystaff","category-general","category-students","tag-delta-center-for-culture-and-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61874,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61870\/revisions\/61874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}