CreativeMornings, a free, public monthly program where participants meet in cities across the world on a topic, has selected folklore as its theme for March 2022.Â
News from the Field
The Journal of Africana Religions has awarded its 2021 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions to Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press 2020), by Solimar Otero.
Michigan State University’s Michigan Traditional Arts Program has announced the 2022 cohort of Michigan Heritage Awardees.Â
The William G. Pomeroy Foundation invites you to learn more about the Legends & Lore Marker Grant Program as a way to celebrate the diverse landscape of folk and traditional arts in the United States.
Join Villanova University’s Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian, and Beaudry Rae Allen, Preservation & Digital Archivist, on Wednesday, March 9, from 12:00–1:00 PM for a virtual workshop entitled “Introduction to Digital History.”Â
A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten’s celebrated novel Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest is now available from Princeton University Press. This new edition is translated and introduced by acclaimed folklorist Jack Zipes, with illustrations by Alenka
The Association of Western States Folklorists (AWSF) is an informal group of public folklorists in the Western U.S., which also welcomes folklorists from other regions, former Westerners, eternal Westerners, and anyone with an interest in the West. We stay in touch with
The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) offers a first glimpse at the year ahead in traditional arts with the release of their 2022 Festival Season, including the National Folk Festival in Salisbury, Maine, and Folk Festivals in Lowell, Massachusetts; Butte, Montana; Greensboro, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.
Invading Russian forces destroyed a museum in Ivankiv, a city northwest of the capital Kyiv, that was home to dozens of works by the Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko on Sunday, according to the Kyiv Independent.
The FisherPoets Gathering, an Oregon-based annual poetry event with contributions about the occupational folklore of fishing, will be live-streamed on YouTube this year on February 25-26, 2022.