Teacher Training in Folk Arts, Folklife, and Oral History for Summer 2004
Alabama
Alabama Community Scholars Institute, July 11-15 at Judson College in Marion and July 18-23 at University of West Alabama in Livingston, directed by Joyce Cauthen and Leslie Williams. Participants will learn to identify, document, and preserve folk traditions of the state; attend a variety of events; and meet local folk artists. Contact Joyce Cauthen, joycecauthen@charter.net, or visit http://alabamafolklife.org/communityscholars.htm.
Arizona
Sense of Place: Students Creating Connections, June 1-11, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, directed by Lisa Falk with Paddy Bowman, Michael Umphrey, Guha Shanker, Jim Griffith. The institute will provide training to K-12 teachers in developing and incorporating projects into their curriculum that focus on the heritage, cultural traditions, and history of local communities. Using the Rio Nuevo district for fieldwork, teachers will model the types of projects their students may undertake. They will receive skill and content information, conduct fieldwork, and create mock-ups of final projects. Graduate credit and a stipend will be available. Note: This two-week institute is tentative as we are still waiting to hear about funding. Application information should be available in March. Contact Lisa Falk, falk@email.arizona.edu, 520/626-2973, http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu.Arizona Heritage Project Summer Institute, June 27-July 1, Arizona Historical Society, Phoenix, directed by Ileen Snoddy. The Arizona Heritage Project is a grant program for high school students to explore folklife and culture in their community organized by the Salt River Project and The Arizona Republic in association with the American Folklife Center. The institute gives educators the hands-on skills to undertake these projects with students. Letters of intent to apply are due March 12. Contact Ileen Snoddy, idsnoddy@srpnet.com, 602/236-2723, http://www.srpnet.com./community/azheritage.asp.
California
LEGACY Oral History Project's 9th Annual Oral History Training Workshop, July 7-11, San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, directed by Jeff Friedman. Spend a week exploring San Francisco's performing arts and benefit from the premiere training program in oral history methods devoted to documentation and preservation of dance, music, and theater. Participation is open to performers and educators in all disciplines; librarians, archivists, writers, and critics; historians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in refining fieldwork methods; and members of the general public who want to help preserve the rich but ephemeral heritage of the performing arts. Contact Alyson Belcher, alysonb@sfpalm.org, 415/255-4800 x 823, http://www.sfpalm.org/programs/legacy.
District of Columbia
Smithsonian Folklife Festival, National Mall, June 23-27, June 30-July 4. Veterans of previous festival institutes may work with Mid-Atlantic Maritime Program curator Betty Belanus and her staff. Children will find many activities in this area. Other festival themes are Nuestra Musica: Music in Latino Culture and the bicentennial of Haiti. Contact Betty Belanus, BettyB@folklife.si.edu, http://www.folklife.si.edu/CFCH/festival2004.htm.
Kentucky
Appalachian Media Institute, Appalshop, dates TBA, Whitesburg. This annual opportunity for young people to learn documentation media culminates in community screenings. Other workshops available for educators. Contact ami@appalshop.org, 606/633-0108, http://www.appalshop.org/ami.
Louisiana
News about funding for Louisiana Voices institutes in three locales is pending: Lake Charles, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge. For information, contact Nalini Raghavan, nalini.r@att.net, or Maida Owens, mowens@crt.state.la.us, Louisiana Division for the Arts, 225/342-8180.
Maryland
Songs of the Spirit, June 4-18, St. Mary's College, directed by Carrie and Michael Kline. The Southern Maryland Folklife Project offers intensive immersion in songs of the spirit in rural communities tucked between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay in Southern Maryland. Learning tools and approaches to folklife documentation, the class will visit the homes and churches of various singers. Students will collaborate to assemble photographs and produce an anthology of field-recorded performances and testimonials that reflect the character and rhythms of the region. The anthology will air at a public presentation on the final day. Contact Carrie Kline, cnkline@smcm.edu 240/895-4989, http://www.folktalk.org.
Montana
A Window on the Mussellshell Valley: Seeing our Communities More Clearly, 10th Annual Summer Teacher Institute, Montana Heritage Project, June 20-26, directed by Michael Umphrey. MHP veteran teachers will hone their skills during a field school marking a historic anniversary of the project. Contact Marcella Sherfy, msherfy@state.mt.us, 406/444-1749, http://www.edheritage.org.
North Carolina
Literacy Through Photography Workshops, Session 1 June 14-18, Session 2 June 28-July, Public Schools Staff Development Center, Durham, directed by Wendy Ewald. The Literacy Through Photography (LTP) workshops are open to educators, artists, and community workers from Durham and beyond. For over 30 years Ewald has worked with children around the world and in various communities within the U.S. In 1989 she developed LTP in conjunction with the Duke Center for Documentary Studies and Durham Public Schools. Participants learn the methods that LTP uses to teach creative writing and photography in the classroom based on LTP's four core themes: self-portrait, family, community, and dreams. Enrollment is limited, so register as soon as possible. Contact Katie Hyde, 919/660-3683, kahyde@duke.edu.
Cherokee History and Culture Institute, July 5-10, Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, directed by Barbara Duncan. This intensive course for educators combines lectures, discussion, field trips, hands-on workshops, and programs by Cherokee artists, storytellers, and traditionalists. The institute covers language, culture, archaeology, history, crafts, and more. Graduate credit or CEUs offered. Contact Barbara Duncan, bduncan@cherokeemuseum.org, 828/497-3481, or visit http://www.cherokeemuseum.org.
Crafting Freedom, sessions run from late June to July, North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh. Over 200 educators from around the country can attend one of four five-day sessions. The Museum and the Thomas Day Education Project offer an expense-paid opportunity to study African American history and culture through primary sources and historical sites related to two19th century artisans. Thomas Day was a celebrated free Black cabinetmaker who had the largest furniture shop in North Carolina in 1850. Elizabeth Keckly was a dressmaker, confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, and author of an important slave narrative and best seller, Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. Apply individually or in teams by March 15. Contact tdek04@aol.com, 919/405-2326 or toll free 877/438- 1599, see "Workshops and Presentations" on http://www.thomasday.net.
Ohio
Annual Oral History Institute, June 8-10, Kenyon College, Gambier, sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and The Rural Life Center at Kenyon College, in cooperation with Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums and the Ohio Historical Society. Participants will work with highly experienced faculty on a practice project to learn all stages of oral history through hands-on activities. Application deadline is April 30, scholarships are available. Contact the Ohio Humanities Council, frankd@ohiohumanities.org, 800/293-9774.
Oregon
Oregon Folklife Program Summer Teachers' Institute, June 23-26, Warm Springs, directed by Nancy Nusz, Carol Spellman, and Warm Springs Reservation tradition bearers. Join us at the resort hotel KaNeeTa and the Warm Springs Museum as artists share hands-on activities such as traditional dance, moccasin making, storytelling. Learn about culture and tradition as we talk with Elders about Native American worldviews. Take home teaching materials and resources to facilitate authentic learning activities in your classrooms. We will enjoy the opening ceremony of Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days and attend the Pi-Ume-Sha pow wow. Contact Carol Spellman, carols@ohs.org, 503/306-5292, click Education then Folklife on http://www.ohs.org.Pennsylvania
Writing and Culture, Folklore 549, July 5-August 6, Summer Session II at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, directed by Miriam Camitta. This course has become an annual summer treat at Penn. Call 214/898-8434 for registration information.
Voices Across Time, July 12-August 13, Center for American Music, University of Pittsburgh, directed by Deane Root. Participants in this NEH-funded institute will study how to incorporate traditional and popular music of different historical eras into teaching in grades 7-12 through classroom, fieldwork, and performance opportunities. Contact Sharon Blake, blake@pitt.edu, 412/624-4364, http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/cam1.htm.
Utah
The Fruits of Their Labors: The Culture and Traditions of Orchards in Utah Valley: An Introductory Field School for Cultural Documentation, July 11-31, sponsored by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and Brigham Young University, Provo, directed by David Taylor. The 7th annual AFC field school moves to Provo, where participants will learn documentation and archiving by examining the culture and traditions of family-run orchards in the Utah Valley. Application deadline April 15. Contact Kristi Bell, kristi_bell@byu.edu, 801/422-6041, or David Taylor, dtay@loc.gov, 202/707-1737.
Washington
Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle, May 28-31, includes dance and music workshops and hands-on activities for young people. Contact education@nwfolklife.org, 206/684-7281, http://www.nwfolklife.org.
University of Washington School of Music, Seattle, offers workshops and courses in various music cultures from around the world for K-12 educators each summer. This year includes North India, Trinidad, East Africa, and general world music in education. Courses in ethnomusicology range from American popular song to international improvisational music. Contact Hidaat Ephrem, hidaat@u.washington.edu, 206/543-5204.
West Virginia
Augusta Heritage Center, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins. Dozens of opportunities to learn fieldwork, music, dance, and crafts include a Family Week when participants may bring their families to enjoy classes and activities. Folklife and ethnomusicology workshops will be included as well. Contact augusta@augustaheritage.com, 304/637-1350, http://www.augustaheritage.com.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Weather Stories, April 24, University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, led by Anne Pryor, Steven Ackerman, James Leary. During the final session for the year-long Wisconsin Weather Stories project, K-12 teachers will gather with folklorists and atmospheric scientists to conclude curriculum writing and design. The web site will be published in June 2004. Contact Anne Pryor, anne.pryor@arts.state.wi.us, 608/266-8106, http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wi_weather_stories.
Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture, June 18-19, Holiday Acres, Rhinelander, led by Anne Pryor, Kristin Larsen, Ruth Olson, Mark Wagler, Doug Miller. Inaugural conference for Wisconsin educators who incorporate local cultural studies into their curriculum will include presentations by teachers and a cultural tour designed by Rhinelander middle school students, feature a Wisconsin Folks artist, create a statewide support network for the study of local cultures, and adopt a mission statement for the organization. Contact Anne Pryor, anne.pryor@arts.state.wi.us, 608/266-8106, http://www.arts.state.wi.us.
