Performances Lectures Symposia Announcements AFC RSS Feeds Past Event Webcasts, Photos, and Essays

What's Happening at the American Folklife Center

Throughout the year, the Center sponsors workshops, lectures, exhibits, concerts, and conferences (on its own and in cooperation with other Library of Congress offices and outside agencies) in order to educate the American people about the importance of their own cultural traditions and the traditions of others. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

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Performances - Homegrown Concerts
Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building

(The 2010 Homegrown Concert Season schedule will appear here when it becomes available.)

Online Archive of Homegrown Concerts (2005-2009) - View event flyer essays and webcasts (as available).

2010 Benjamin A. Botkin Folklife Lecture Series

February 17, 2010 - 12:00 noon (Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building)
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, an illustrated lecture by William R. Ferris, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

March 25, 2010 - 12:00 noon (Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building) Folklore and Seeing: Photographs from Cummins Prison, 1915-2010, presented by Bruce Jackson, editor and publisher of the Buffalo Report. Lecture co-sponsored by the Prints and Photographs Division.

April 21, 2010 - 12:00 noon (Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building) "And Wheat Completed the Cycle": Flour Mills, Social Memory, and Vernacular Culture in Sonora, Mexico, presented by Maribel Alvarez, Department of English, University of Arizona.

Online Archive of Botkin Lectures (2004 - 2009) - View event flyer essays and webcasts (as available).

Symposia

Past symposia pages recently updated with access to webcasts and photographs of the event:

• Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics & Performance (February, 2009): The webcasts are available
• Find more on the Online Archive of Past Symposia page.

Announcements

• Added to the website: Francis McPeak Family Concert Rediscover Northern Ireland, 2007 (flyer essay, webcast).
• The American Folklife Center announces its new Facebook page with information and discussion about the Center's collections and events. Become a fan today!
• The American Folklife Center Veterans History Project announces its new RSS feed "Dispatches from the Veterans History Project."
• The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the launch of an AFC page on Facebook. Please become our fan to see what we are up to! You'll be introduced to classic folk, blues and world music, see photos and video webcasts from our collections, and receive updates about our concerts and other events. Go to http:// www.facebook.com/americanfolklifecenter and click on "Become a Fan."
  
• The Folklife Resources for Educators database has been updated. Based on an earlier print publication called A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources, it provides access to resources for teaching about aspects of folklife, culture, and the traditional arts, with a focus on place-based and community-based teaching materials.
• The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (AFC) is pleased to announce the three recipients of the 2010-2011 Archie Green Fellowships: Robert McCarl, Steve Zeitlin, and the team of Nick Spitzer and Maureen Loughran. All the fellowships are going to prominent folklorists with a long track record in the study of occupational folklife, which is the focus of the Archie Green Fellowship Program. For more information, see the press release.
• Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies. New post-doctoral fellowship for advanced research based on the Alan Lomax Collection. Application deadline: February 28th.
• Odetta! An Interview for the American Folklife Center: An interview with the late Odetta made in November, 2003 was recently made into a webcast and put online (select the link to view the webcast). Odetta was awarded the Living Legend Award by the Library of Congress and interviewed by Dr. Peggy Bulger. Running time, 35 minutes.
• American Folklife Center: An Illustrated Guide is now available online.
• StoryCorps Launches Initiative to Collect Stories from Latinos Across the Country — American Folklife Center to Receive Collection (select link to go to the full press release). The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress will be the repository for personal interviews with Latino Americans from across the United States as StoryCorps launches its “Historias” mobile booth.
• A new online collection is available: The Center For Applied Linguistics Collection of documentation of North American speech, including oral histories and other narratives.
• Research Awards
  The Research Awards page contains application procedures and other information on AFC's awards programs.

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