The nation’s longest-running traditional arts event is coming to downtown Jackson.
Events
Program staff from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will introduce a range of grant opportunities and the National Heritage Fellowships program, including an overview of funding opportunities, examples of successful projects, and things to consider when submitting an application or nomination. The webinar will take place Wednesday, May 8 from 1:00 p.m. -2:30 p.m. (ET). There will be time for questions at the end of the webinar.
Craft in America will be launching the initiative Handwork: Celebrating Craft 2026 to present the importance of handmade craft, in a year-long collaboration among organizations and educators.
BIPOC arts professionals and emerging creatives in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas are invited to register for a FREE session of Centering the Margins that takes place on June 12 at 4:00 pm CT.
Registration remains open for a 10-day summer school focused on traditional narrative: Mythos as MythUs: Facing and Overcoming Crises through Traditional Narrative from Antiquity to the Present, taught by an international faculty of folklorists from Greece, Italy, Sweden, and the United States.
Access recordings from the 2024 Chennai Storytelling Festival.
Goucher College's Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability (MACS) is offering a spring webinar series. Register now to attend each of the offerings and learn more about the MACS program.
Join Vermont Folklife Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 3:30 - 5:30 pm EST for an online professional learning workshop for educators and learn how to access, engage with, and teach from ethnographic and oral history sound recordings and more from the Vermont Folklife Archive.
Join the AFS Folklore and Science Section on February 21 from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (ET) as the 2023 winner of the American Folklore Society’s Folklore & Science Prize Leah Lowthorp (University of Oregon) presents her prize-winning study, “DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube.”
The Society for Arab Music Research hosts a free webinar to discussing incorporation of Palestine into syllabi, addressing implicit bias and leading dialogue on contested issues. The webinar will be hosted on Friday, February 2 at 12:30 pm ET.