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.
Events
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.
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.”