The NEA Big Read Amherst County Virginia
​Youtube Videos

AGAR invites you to view these programs
on our Youtube Channel,
which are available until April 30, 2022.
​The NEA Big Read Amherst County Virginia
reading An American Sunrise
​by Joy Harjo, United States Poet Laureate
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Photo: © Matika Wilbur
To view Joy Harjo reading and speaking about her
book of poems,
An American Sunrise, 
which was presented
​at 4 pm March 14, 2022,
​at Sweet Briar College, click the button below. 
To view Joy Harjo speaking on Native American Poetry, which was presented
at 7 pm March 14, 2022,
​at the Monacan Nation Community Center,
click the button below.
The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts
​in partnership with Arts Midwest. ​
The NEA Big Read Amherst County Virginia is presented by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc.and Community Partners: Amherst County Museum and Historical Society, Amherst County Public Library and Public Schools, Amherst Woman’s Club, Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living, Central Virginia Community College, Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation and the Monacan Tribe, and Sweet Briar College.
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) arts and Humanities Projects in 2021-2022 are funded as follows::
 
AGAR’s concerts are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts,
and The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg.
This project is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are also funded in part by CENTRA and Amherst Woman’s Club.
 
The Digital Residency by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., organized in partnership with Cecilia Smith and
Lafayette Harris, Jr., has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America through its Residency Endowment Fund. These concerts are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health and CVACL, Lynchburg; Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond, Tappahannock, and South Hill; and to Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 
The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
 
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
and Virginia Humanities (VH).

Funding for a VH/SHARP grant to AGAR has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities
​through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.
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