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Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This is an announcement for a Friday, September 8th online discussion event focused on community-based cultural documentation and archival efforts, hosted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Fieldwork, Intangible Cultural Heritage
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post is a save-the-date announcement for the online discussion event, the Community-driven Archives: Local Needs/Global Practices in Safeguarding Living Cultural Heritage, bringing together panelists to discuss examples of community-guided documentation and archival preservation work from international perspectives. The event is hosted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, in collaboration with the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore.
Posted in: AFC Events, Archival Practice, Fieldwork
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center are thrilled to announce the opening of applications for the third round of Community Collections Grants, with a deadline of August 18, 2023 at 2:00PM Eastern Time. These grants will support individuals or non-profit organizations in producing cultural documentation–photographs, interviews, audio or video recordings about their …
Posted in: AFC Awards
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
This post is co-written with Karen Abdul-Malik, also known as Queen Nur, a 2022 recipient of the American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant, and is about the culminating event for the grant-supported Community on the Line project.
Posted in: AFC Awards, Dance, Fieldwork
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
The American Folklife Center is excited to announce the 2023 recipient cohort of the Community Collections Grants program. Over this year, recipients will undertake cultural research and documentation projects focused on a wide range of cultural traditions and practices across the U.S. and territories. Their work will ultimately be included in the Library’s permanent collections, …
Posted in: AFC Awards, Fieldwork
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
Below is an excerpt from a post on the Library’s Of the People blog by Folklife Specialist Guha Shankar who interviews Community Collections Grant recipient Professor Tammy Greer (and team) about their project, “And We are Still Here:” Stories of Resilience and Sustainability from Houma Culture Bearers in Louisiana. This post is part of the Of the …
Posted in: AFC Awards, Community Collections Grants, Crafts, Fieldwork, Folk Art, Louisiana, Material Culture, Native American History, Native Americans/indigenous communities
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
Below is an excerpt from an interview by Folklife Specialist Guha Shankar with Community Collections Grant recipient Mark Boots Lupenui entitled, “Heirloom Songs” from Kohala, Hawai’i: Documenting a Fragile Musical Legacy, as part of a series on the Library’s Of the People blog featuring the 2022 awardees of the AFC’s Community Collections Grants program. The …
Posted in: AFC Awards, Community Collections Grants, Fieldwork, Folk Music, Hawaiian Americans, Pacific Islander History, Pacific Islands Americans
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
As part of our collaboration on the Homegrown Foodways in Central New Jersey film series, today is the premiere of the series' final film, REPLENISH: Nourishing Neighbors through Community Food Equity, which you can watch in this blog post or on the Library's YouTube channel. REPLENISH: Nourishing Neighbors brings viewers into the world of community food banks and food pantries, sharing the ways in which organizations, staff, and volunteers serve and strengthen their neighborhoods through food distribution and access to social services, such as housing support, job searches, health care, and more. This film also takes a deeper look at Middlesex County's Share Your Foodways program, detailing its inception during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Posted in: AFC Events, Foodways, Homegrown Foodways Premieres
Posted by: Michelle Stefano
As part of the AFC’s Homegrown Foodways in Central New Jersey film series, this blog premieres the film "Multigenerational Ukrainian Foodways with Roman Kovbasniuk," which honors New Jersey's vibrant Ukrainian communities and their rich foodways traditions. Watch it in this blog post, or on the Library's YouTube channel!
Posted in: AFC Events, Foodways, Homegrown Foodways Premieres, Ukrainian Americans