Folklore Village is searching for a part-time, 20-hour/week Assistant Program Manager to support their Program Manager. Priority will be given to applications received by January 31, 2024. Position open until filled.
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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.
Save the dates and start imagining your trip to Albuquerque, NM!
Southwest Folk Alliance is seeking a a Program Coordinator (contract) for ClimateLore, an oral history project documenting climate risk, loss, and adaptation in two desert regions of the US-Mexico borderlands. Applications are due January 31.
Congratulations to Betty Belanus and Ziying You, who were elected to the AFS Executive Board, and to Naomi Sturm-Wijesinghe, who was elected to the AFS Nominating Committee.
The AFA will award up to four Cauthen Fellowships ($1,200 each) in 2024. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2024.
University of Ljubljana seeks proposals for their conference on the agency of the dead within the lives of individuals. The deadline is February 29, 2024.
Retired Professor of Folk Studies William Lynwood Montell died on December 21.
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin is the recipient of the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize for Exotic Dreams in the Science of the Volksgeist: Towards a Global History of European Folklore Studies (The Kalevala Society). Second place prizes were awarded to Patricia A. Turner for trash talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century and to Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade, with Loretta and Larry Shade, Illustrated by MaryBeth Timothy. Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World.
Joy Fraser died on December 17, 2023 in St John’s.
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