This Thursday, July 22nd, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm is the third in a four-part online series, Negotiating Cultural Appropriation: Lineage, Teaching & Relationships, where teaching artists in dance and music from across the country deliberate on salient issues regarding the politics
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American Folklife Center, West Virginia Folklife Center, and Lost Creek Farm are happy to announce the Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia program, a series of four films that explore a range of food traditions in the state. All films will premiere on
June 17 is the first in a four-part online series, Negotiating Cultural Appropriation: Lineage, Teaching & Relationships, where teaching artists in dance and music from across the country deliberate on salient issues regarding the politics of teaching, learning, sharing, and performing culture
We’re pleased to share these new, important announcements about our upcoming Annual Meeting. Preliminary Program The dates of the conference are now set: October 18-24, 2021, with virtual sessions October 18-20, and in-person sessions in Harrisburg, October 21-23. Some in-person events will
The Vermont Folklife Center is pleased to offer a hybrid online course grounded in ethnography as an approach and set of methods for understanding and representing human experience in a Summer Institute August 2-13. The course content will present strategies and teach
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
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,