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COVID Recollections: American Folklife Center to Host Symposium on COVID-19...
This COVID Recollections entry highlights an upcoming symposium and concert, both focused on COVID-19 and cultural heritage, which will take place at the Library of Congress on March 12 and 13, 2026....
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Keeping company with bees
Summer gardening season is in full bloom. Do you know where your pollinators are? Bees pollinating spider flowers (cleome) in Ben Burnside’s garden. Terry Eiler, photographer. September 1997. Coal...
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AFC’s Community-driven Archives Discussion Part 2: Zooming in on Approaches...
In September, the American Folklife Center, with support from the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), hosted the successful Community-driven...
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Now Available: the AFC’s Community-driven Archives Discussion Event (Part 1)
This post, which is the first in a two-part series, is co-authored with folklorist Robert Baron, co-organizer of the Community-driven Archives event, and moderator of the first roundtable discussion....
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You’re Invited: Community-driven Archives Online Discussion Event, September...
The online discussion event, Community-driven Archives: Local Needs/Global Practices in Safeguarding Living Cultural Heritage, will be held online on Friday, September 8th, 2023 from 10:30am – 2:30pm...
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Folklife at the International Level: Intangible Cultural Heritage Defined
Mr. Michael Huminiak posing near samples of his traditional Ukrainian ceramic work in his dining room in Roselle, Illinois, June 1977. Photo by Carl Fleischhauer. Part of the AFC’s Chicago Ethnic Arts...
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Folklife at the International Level: Happy Anniversary to the 1999...
Călușul, a Romanian folk ensemble from Optași, Olt, performs at the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Team dances, usually men’s dances, are common in Romanian traditional dance. More information,...
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Folklife at the International Level: Roots of Intangible Cultural Heritage...
Suliko, a 10-member traditional Georgian singing ensemble, performing in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on June 11, 2019. “Georgian polyphonic singing” was...
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Folklife at the International Level: the National Endowment for the Arts...
The finale of the 2013 NEA National Heritage Fellows concert, bringing that year’s fellows and others to the stage for an exuberant finale. In front is Irish Step Dancer Kevin Doyle (who would receive...
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Folklife at the International Level: Roots of Intangible Cultural Heritage...
Estefania performing as part of the AFC’s 1985 Neptune Plaza Concert Series that featured renowned Spanish flamenco dancer Ana Martínez. Photo by Reid Baker. Flamenco was inscribed on UNESCO’s...
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Folklife at the International Level: The Roots of ‘Intangible Cultural...
Fado musicians Duarte Tavares, Manuel Bulhoes, and Olivete Poulart (L-R), performing at IV Seasons Restaurant, Lowell, Massachusetts, November 14 1987. Photo by John Lueders-Booth. Part of the online...
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Patrick Sky (left) plays uilleann pipes and John Campbell (right) plays bouzouki at the Rhode Island Ceilidhe Club in Cranston, Rhode Island, November 30, 1979. Photo by Thomas A. Burns. Part of the...
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