The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CCHAP) seeks an Exhibit Developer. Applications are due February 28, 2023.
News from the Field
AFS President, Dr. Marilyn M. White, will give the a talk at WKU as part of their celebration of the 50th anniversary of their Folk Studies program. White is a former WKU Folk Studies professor and retired professor of anthropology and Africana Studies at Kean University. The talk will take place February 23 at 5:30 pm (EST).
In 2016, Vermont 2nd grade teacher and crafter Jen Ellis decided to gift a pair of her homemade wool mittens to Senator Bernie Sanders on a whim. Ellis makes her mittens using recycled wool sweaters, and the pair sent to Sanders were,
The American Folklife Center announced the 2023 recipient cohort of the Community Collections Grants program. Over this year, recipients will undertake cultural research and documentation projects focused on a wide range of cultural traditions and practices across the U.S. and territories. Their
JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid—jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short
Dr. Lynne McNeil will give the William A. Wilson Folklore Archives Founder's Lecture on Monday, January 30. The lecture will be available by virtual broadcast. Register to receive the invitation.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens organizes summer program "Mythos as MythUs: Facing and Overcoming Crises through Traditional Narrative from Antiquity to the Present" in Athens and Antiparos from June 19, 2023 – June 28, 2023. Apply between January 15, 2023 to March 10, 2023.
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress invites applications for three competitive awards in 2023. The awards support ethnographic fieldwork with occupational groups; work with ethnographic collection materials at the Library of Congress; and ethnographic field research and documentation in the United States, especially by young scholars and documentarians. All three share the same deadline: March 1, 2023.
As many celebrate the Lunar New Year this weekend, Jonathan H. X. Lee, professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, spoke with NBC News to explain traditional beliefs about the Lunar New Year and the Chinese zodiac. Lee, whose research focuses on folklore and religions, provided perspective as we head into the Year of the Rabbit, saying “There is a lot of possibility for prosperity and flourishing, and for peace, really. The rabbit is a very strong symbol for peace."
The Oregon Folklife Network (OFN) seeks to contract a financial strategist/consultant to review and revise the OFN’s financial plan. The performance period is February through June 2023. Funding for this project is $15,000 and ends June 30, 2023. Applications are due January 27, 2023.