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.
Events
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.
Folkwise hosts a Burns Night Celebration for Joy Fraser to take place on Thursday, January 25 at 7:00 pm ET.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the White House are co-hosting a first-of-its kind summit that will recognize the profound impact that arts and culture play in shaping our lives, communities, and nation. "Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities," will take place on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. E.T. in Washington, D.C. and will be available to the public as a livestream at arts.gov.
City Lore, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is pleased to present a zoom session on January 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm EST featuring conversations about the transformative power of spirituality in the doll and puppet making processes with several African American doll and puppet makers featured in their current exhibition, “The Calling: The Transformative Power of African American Doll and Puppet Making.”
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced this year’s NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of our nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Register today for GetSmART! Learning Series: Your Impact Through Data workshop to use data, statistics, analytics in grant applications and outcome reports. The workshop is free to attend and will be conducted on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 10 a.m. via Zoom.
The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, in partnership with the Louisiana Division of the Arts, is hosting the Louisiana Arts Summit (LAS). The three-day event offers artists, arts organizations, educators, business leaders, and community members opportunities for discussion, networking, and professional development.
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be presented from June 29 to July 4 and July 6 to July 9. Admission to the festival is free and open to the public.