Teacher Training in Folk Arts, Folklife, and Oral History for Summer 2003
Alabama
July 17, Teaching Alabama History Through Music, directed by Joey Brackner and Steve Grauberger, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery. This biennial Alabama Studies Symposium Pre-conference will showcase documentary materials and ways to use them in the classroom. Contact Joey Brackner, joey@arts.state.al.us, 334/242-4076 x225, www.arts.state.al.us.
Arizona
June 22-27, Arizona Heritage Project Summer Institute, St. Johns, directed by Ken Evans. This new statewide partnership of the Salt River Project and American Folklife Center modeled on the Montana Heritage Project. Contact heritage@srpnet.com, 702/236-2541.
California
July 9-13, 8th Annual Legacy Oral History Project Workshop, San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, directed by Jeff Friedman. This annual workshop provides theory and practice in oral history, project design, ethical and legal issues, interviewing, transcription, and editing for beginning to advanced levels with a special focus on the performing arts. Dancers, musicians, theater artists, and educators are welcome as are academics and independent researchers with interests in dance history, ethnomusicology, folklore, and performance studies. Contact Alyson Belcher, alysonb@sfpalm.org, 415/255-4800 x*823, www.sfpalm.org/programs/programs.htm.
District of Columbia
TBA, National Mall, Smithsonian Folklife Festival. This annual seminar and a Teacher Fellow Program give educators hands-on experience across the festival's various programs, this year featuring Scotland, Appalachia, and Mali. Contact Betty Belanus, BettyB@folklife.si.edu, 202/275-1436, www.folklife.si.edu.
July 14-19 or July 28-August 2, Storytelling and the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art is open to teachers of all subjects and grades, www.nga.gov/education/storyworkshop.htm. Deadline: March 15.
Kentucky
July 6-27, Workshop in Folktales, Hutchins Library, Berea College, sponsored by Indiana University's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the Tales Online project, and Berea College. The workshop focuses on narratives in the Leonard Roberts Collection, recorded principally between 1949 and 1965 in Eastern Kentucky. Participants may be in residence part or all of the three weeks. Activities include tale transcription, preparing tales for a Web site, and fieldwork with Appalachian narrators. Participants should arrange for course credit through their respective schools. Kentucky residents, contact Hutchins Library Special Collections sound archivist Harry Rice, Harry_Rice@Berea.edu; all others, contact Inta Carpenter, carpente@indiana.edu.
Louisiana
Pending funding, Louisiana Voices institutes are tentatively scheduled in New Orleans and Lafayette. Staff are available for training throughout the state. Contact Nalini Raghavan, nalini.r@att.net, 225/387-6535, www.louisianavoices.org.
Maryland
June 13-July 3, Exploring a Maritime Community's Response to Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Change, Crisfield, directed by David Taylor. This year's three-week Field School of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, co-sponsored by Salisbury University, teaches skills in ethnographic planning, research, collection, and documentation, using the maritime community of Crisfield as a field site. Educators, curators, local historians, leaders of cultural groups and foundations, librarians, community organizers and activists, and graduate and undergraduate students (especially Marylanders and Delmarva Peninsula residents) are encouraged to apply. Contact Polly Stewart, pxstewart@salisbury.edu, 401/548-4241.
Minnesota
June 8-21, Arts Management in Community Institutions, sponsored by the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, directed by LaMoine MacLaughlin. The 17th annual institute offers comprehensive professional development for administrators and leaders of nonprofit, community-based schools of the arts. Contact Suzanne Sousa, suzanne.sousa@natguild.org, 212/268-3337, www.nationalguild.org.
Mississippi
July 20-26, Finding Our Voice: Feeding Our Spirit, Mississippi Whole Schools Institute, Delta State University, Cleveland, sponsored by the Mississippi Commission on the Arts, directed by Judi Holifield. This 5th annual institute will engage educators in multiple art forms and new thematic tracks. Contact Judi Holifield, jholifield@arts.state.ms.us, www.arts.state.ms.us/institute.html.
Missouri
August 5-8, Oral History and Writing, Missouri Historical Society, Forest Park, directed by Susie Morice. Teachers will create their own projects and then modify adaptations for their students. Contact Susie Morice, susiem@mohistory.org, 314/454-3117.
Montana
June 22-28, Expedition Into Essentials, 9th Annual Montana Heritage Project Institute, Missoula, directed by Michael Umphrey. This year's focus is students' critical thinking and writing through exploring their community, its place in national and world events, its relationship to the natural environment, and its cultural heritage expressed in everyday life, economic practices, responses to crises, traditions, celebrations, literature, and arts. Contact Marcella Sherfy, marcella@edheritage.org, 406/444-1759, www.edheritage.org.
Nebraska
June 8-11, Prairie Visions Summer Institute, University of Nebraska, Omaha and Kearney campuses, sponsored by the Nebraska Arts Council and University of Nebraska Center for Innovation in Arts Education, directed by Marty Skomal. Participants at both campuses will link via distance learning technology as they work with folklorists, folk artists. The institute will employ a comprehensive arts education approach to explore how folk and traditional arts connect to the principals and values inherent in the study of social studies. Contact Marty Skomal, 800/341-4067, mskomal@nebraskaartscouncil.org.
New York
April 11-13, People's Poetry Gathering, Lower East Side of Manhattan, sponsored by City Lore and Poets House. This third biennial "Woodstock for Words" brings together young poets, cowboy poets, the Burns Society, and poets from around the globe. This year, instead of a student day, there will be a track of programs throughout the weekend that are geared toward students. Contact 212/529-1955, www.peoplespoetry.org.
North Carolina
July 6-14, Cherokee History and Culture Institute, Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, directed by Barbara Duncan. This intensive course for educators includes Cherokee language lessons; experiences with Cherokee storytellers, artists, and craftspeople; and field trips. The institute explores the disciplines involved in the study of Cherokee and/or Native American culture and history: anthropology, archaeology, folklore, linguistics, and history. Contact Barbara Duncan, bduncan@cherokeemuseum.org, 828/497-3481, www.cherokeemuseum.org.
Literacy Through Photography (LTP) workshops sponsored by the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. Open to educators and artists nationwide. Based on Wendy Ewald's projects with children and teachers throughout the world, LTP workshops draw on master LTP teachers and nationally known artists and writers. Participants write, make photographs, and develop individual curricula. No basic LTP workshop is offered this summer, but coordinator Dwayne Dixon tailors workshops for schools, community organizations, and local arts councils. Contact Nina Mehta, ninazm@duke.edu, 919/660-3655, cds.aas.duke.edu/ltp, deadline April 1, for both special topic workshops at the Durham Public Schools Staff Development Center, below:
-- June 9-13, "Portraiture and the Body: The Best Part of Me," directed by Wendy Ewald, visual artist Brett Cook-Dizney, and master teacher Lisa Lord. Using photography, drawing, writing, and installation, participants will focus on the body as a primary origination point for extensive creative work about students' history, self-image, and relationship to others. The project will provide the basis for developing a photography and writing curriculum on self-representation and the body.
-- July 7-11, "Picturing Race: Black Self/White Self, directed by Wendy Ewald, author Rebecca Walker, and master teacher Robert Hunter. Participants will explore racial identity through photography and writing and develop a theoretical base for a curriculum on race.
Ohio
June 10-12, 3rd Annual Oral History Institute, Kenyon College, Gambier, sponsored by the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums, Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Humanities Council, and Rural Life Center, Kenyon College. Work with highly experienced oral historians and learn to turn an idea for a project into practical possibilities for organizations and communities, from budgets to ethics, interviews to transcriptions and archives. Limited enrollment, application required, deadline April 30. Contact the Local History Office, Ohio Historical Society, oahsm@ohiohistory.org, 800/858-6878 or 614/297-2340.
South Carolina
July 14-18, Francis Marion University, Florence, and July 21-25, Clemson University, Institute for Community Scholars, sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission Folklife and Traditional Arts Program, directed by Craig Stinson. Teachers join community scholars, tradition bearers, and folklorists to learn in-depth documentation, preservation, and presentation skills and come together three times during the year for update sessions. Contact Craig Stinson, cstinson@arts.state.sc.us, 803/734-8697, southcarolinaarts.com/institutecommunityscholars.htm.
Tennessee
June 4-6, Jubilee Community Arts Center, Knoxville, directed by Gregory Hansen. Enjoy excellent artistry and interactive learning. Contact Brent Cantrell, info@jubileearts.org, 865/ 522-5851, www.korrnet.org/jca.
Utah
TBA, Folklore and Identity, Fife Folklore Conference, Utah State University, Logan. Noted scholars and folk artists address the complexities of identity in this year's annual conference, which welcomes educators, librarians, and community scholars. Contact Jeanne Thomas, jthomas@english.usu.edu.
Washington
Northwest Folklife, Seattle, holds workshops in conjunction with the annual four-day Northwest Folklife Festival each Memorial Day weekend. In addition to an active Folklife in the Schools program, providing assemblies, clinics, workshops, and residencies with traditional artists from more than two dozen cultural groups, professional development workshops and inservice training are available. Topics include Sonando--the Cuban Connection: salsa, charanga, and other forms of Latin music; Bringing Mariachi to our School for String Ensembles; Afro-Brazilian Culture; Games Cultures Play: Cross-Cultural Games and Sports, from playground songs to team games, indoor board games; Folklife Resources for the Classroom--interdisciplinary and multicultural study and resources for the K-12 educators. Contact Folklife Education, education@nwfolklife.org, 206/684-7281, www.nwfolklife.org.
TBA, University of Washington School of Music, Seattle, offers workshops in various music cultures from around the world each summer. Contact Hidaat Ephrem, hidaat@u.washington.edu, 206/543-5204.
West Virginia
TBA, Appalshop, Whitesburg. The 15th annual Appalachian Media Institute for young people and other workshops for educators are in planning. Contact ami@appalshop.org, 606/633-0108, www.appalshop.org/ami.
Augusta Heritage Center, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins. Dozens of opportunities to learn fieldwork, music, dance, and crafts include July 27-August 1 Family Week when participants may bring their families to enjoy classes and activities. Contact augusta@augustaheritage.com, 304/637-1350, www.augustaheritage.com.
Wisconsin
August 12-13, Wisconsin Weather Stories, University of Wisconsin, Madison. This training session kicks off a new year-long project that will link middle and high school teachers with folklorists and atmospheric scientists to study the science and stories of Wisconsin weather and create a curriculum that meets standards in Science, English Language Arts, and Social Studies. Co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Arts Board, the UW Folklore Program, and the UW Cooperative Institute for Satellite and Meteorological Studies. Contact Anne Pryor, anne.pryor@arts.state.wi.us, 608/266-8106.
TBA, Wisconsin Folks, a project of the Wisconsin Arts Board, is seeking funding for the first annual institute for Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture, see www.arts.state.wi.us.
