The American Folklife Center is happy to announce a two-part series, “Occupational Folklife and Fieldwork in the Post-Pandemic World: Adaptation, Innovation, and the Future, Parts 1 & 2” on July 13 and 20. Each with live Q&A will feature recent and current
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The 2021 AFS Annual Meeting will be held October 18-23, 2021. October 18-20 will be virtual meeting sessions, followed by in-person sessions from October 21-23 at the Hilton Harrisburg in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of the events from the in-person meeting will be
The American Folklife Center is happy to announce “Occupational Folklife and Fieldwork in the Post-Pandemic World: Adaptation, Innovation, and the Future, Parts 1 & 2,” a two-part series of hour-long online Zoom presentations with live Q&A, on July 13 and 20. Each
Join textile and fiber artists Ann Parsons Holte, Joni Osterhout, and Anju Singh, with folklorist Yvonne Milspaw, on July 8 at 2:00 pm EDT to learn how they craft community through handcrafted textiles.
The Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History Program is thrilled to announce the launch of the “Marion Voices Summer Institute in Cultural Documentation,” a summer-long series of workshops focused on mobilizing cultural documentation for social justice, and targeted towards community organizers, activists,
Reminder: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will present “Beyond the Mall: Making Matters” this weekend on June 25-27. The digital program series features both seasoned master artisans and the everyday makers who find solace and connection in creativity. Visitors are invited to join
Smithsonian Folklife presents “Samgyetang: Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup Across Generations” online on June 27. In this program, Korean American chefs Yesoon Lee and Danny Lee—who separately own and operate several popular restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area, including Mandu, Chiko, and Anju—will
The 15th SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) Congress is hosted by the University of Helsinki in Finland, June 19-24, 2021.With the theme “Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation and Transgression,” SIEF invites and encourages participants to explore the dynamics, modes, arenas
Katherine Borland, past AFS Executive Board member and Director of the Ohio State University Center for Folklore Studies, will give the opening keynote on June 20 at the upcoming SIEF congress in Helsinki, Finland. Borland’s presentation, “Slow Activism: Lessons from Citizen Scientists,”
Join the Philadelphia Folklore Project for a special viewing of La Ofrenda (The Altar), directed by Irving Viveros, on June 24. Across diverse communities and throughout the world, altars have been spaces for veneration and introspection. They are structures that assist individuals