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Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Here at the Philadelphia Folklore Project, we are committed to paying attention to the experiences and traditions of "ordinary" people. Our focus is to build critical folk cultural knowledge, sustain vital and diverse living cultural heritage in communities in our region, and create equitable processes and practices for nurturing local grassroots arts and humanities.
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Subject: Folk Art , Folklore, Folk Culture, Cultural Heritage, Grassroots, Folklife
Creator: Philadelphia Folklore Project
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Talking Across the Lines is a folklife documentary consulting and production firm. This firm looks to tell the stories of minority groups and underrepresented groups that have not been represented in modern media. The oral histories they capture include ethnic groups from all over the southern United States as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender stories.
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Subject: Oral Histories, Interviews, Folklore, Folk Art , Research, Ethnic Groups, Education, Folklife
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Louisiana Folklife Program, within the Division of the Arts, is designed to identify, document, conserve, and present the folk cultural resources of Louisiana. Folklife includes living traditions learned informally over time within ethnic, regional, occupational, and family groups.
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Subject: Folklife , Louisiana, Folk Art , Arts, Crafts, Language, Music, Film, Oral Histories, Traditions
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Pacific Northwest is composed of a rich mix of heritage and traditions and the traditional arts of the cultures that inhabit this area. Northwest Heritage Resources goal is to focus on the cultures of this area and encourage the utilization of their tools to bring attention to the people of the region. This website includes a searchable database of traditional artists from Washington State and a useful educational tool for learning about Washington cultural traditions. The Northwest Heritage Resource website provides audio heritage tours of the Washington State region and there is also a calendar that lists the Heritage events happening in the Northwest.
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Subject: Folklife , Folk Art , Heritage Tourism, Education, Storytellers, Oral Tradition
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The New York Folklore Society recognizes and celebrates the extraordinary in everyday life, bringing focus to the traditions of our state’s diverse peoples. NYFS is the leading resource for folklore and folklife by disseminating research and information throughout the state.
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Subject: Folklife , New York, Folk Art , Music, Dance, Festivals, Celebrations, Legends, Folktales, Foodways
Creator: New York Folklore Society
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania began in 1962 under the direction of MacEdward Leach, a medievalist who taught in the English department, and whose sound recordings from Jamaica, Newfoundland, and the Southern Mountains launched the Folklore Archive. Over the next four decades nearly 250 students earned the Ph.D. in Folklore from Penn. In 1999, the Department of Folklore and Folklife was restructured as a Graduate Program and a Center for Folklore and Ethnography (open 1999-2008).
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Subject: Folklore, Folklife , Post-Secondary Education, Music, Performance, Folk Art , Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Film, Religion, Urban Folklore, Anthropology, Oral Histories
Group: Folklore Academic Programs
Creator: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Sealaska Heritage Institute is a regional Native American organization founded for the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people of Southeast Alaska. This institute administers Sealaska Corporation’s cultural and educational programs. The mission of the Institute is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures. They do this through art programs, educational programs, and language and culture workshops. The Institute also produces publications that relate to Native Alaskan cultures, languages, and historical events. The Sealaska Heritage Institute holds rare items and books that are representative of the history of the native peoples of Southeast Alaska.
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Subject: Native American, Native American Association, Tlingit Indians, Haida Indians, Tsimshian Indians, Folk Art , Folklife , Folklife Archives, Education, Publications, Folklore
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: Traditional Arts Indiana is dedicated to expanding public awareness of Indiana’s traditional practices and nurturing a sense of pride among Indiana’s traditional artists. TAI identifies, documents, and seeks to understand more fully the many ways in which cultural values are embedded in daily life. TAI actively documents Indiana’s traditional arts and artists through interviewing, recording, and photographing individuals and groups throughout the state about their crafts and traditions.
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Subject: Folk Art , Indiana, Folk Culture, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Conservation, Folklorists, Folklife , Music, Crafts
Creator: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana Arts Commission
Publisher: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana Arts Commission
Type: Web Archive
Collection: Open Folklore Web Archive
Description: The Virginia Folklife Program is dedicated to the documentation, presentation, and support of Virginia’s rich cultural heritage. This idea of Virginia’s folklife refers to those “arts of everyday life” that reflect a sense of traditional knowledge and connection to community. This program looks to incorporate fieldwork, preservation of folklife and folk arts, and helping communities throughout Virginia preserve their own cultural traditions. The Virginia Folklife Program completes these goals by receiving funding from Virginia’s Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Subject: Fieldwork (Educational method), Folklore, Folklife , Apprenticeship, Virginia, Folklife specialists, Arts, Folk Art , National Endowment for the Arts
Creator: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Publisher: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Type: Web Archive
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