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With support for practicing folk artists, professional development for those working within the field of folk and traditional arts, and the publishing of current scholarship, the New York Folklore Society is dedicated to New York's vibrant, diverse, and influential artistic legacy and future. Please join us!
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ERIE CANALWAY ARTS INVENTORY—The New York Folklore Society was selected to begin a targeted inventory of the arts in the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor in 2009. The project is part of the Heritage-in-Arts Initiative begun in 2008. A team of folklorists and historians, as well as a photographer, will visit Canalway Corridor communities and regions gathering examples of the rich artistic and cultural expression inspired by and resulting from the development of the Corridor’s historic canals. For additional information on the arts inventory or the Heritage-in-Arts Initiative, contact Hannah Blake at 518-237-7000, ext. 202, or view the project webpage. We welcome your feedback and participation!
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North Country Christmas
Stan Ransom and Marne O’Shae
60th Anniversary Album
Kelly’s Old-Timers
Mountain Air
Dan Berggren
Traditional and Original Music of the Adirondacks
Old Stone Walls: Catskill Land and Lore
by Norman J. Van Valkenburgh
Adirondack Characters and Campfire Yarns
Early Settlers and Their Traditions
by William J. O’Hern
Catskill Mountain Bluestone
by Alf Evers, Robert Titus, and Tim Weidner
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New York Folklore Society
P.O. Box 764
Schenectady, NY 12301
518/346-7008
Fax 518/346-6617
nyfs@nyfolklore.org
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Proposals due by September 30, 2010
This year, in collaboration with NYU’s Latino Studies and Latin American Studies Departments, we invite graduate students to present their work on Latino Folk Culture and Expressive Traditions. The NYFS seeks to encourage young scholars to continue their studies and become active contributors to the fields of folklore, ethnomusicology, anthropology and more.
Theme: Latino Folk Culture and Expressive Traditions
A cumbia group belting-out Colombian tunes at an outdoor cumbiamba, a Peruvian curandero diagnosing a patient through the use of animals, a Mexican family building a Diá de los Muertos altar in their home, a décima verse sung by a Puerto Rican jibaro—all of these are examples of Latino Expressive Traditions. While some of these forms have roots in African traditions and others have roots in Indigenous traditions, all are considered Latino Expressive Traditions or Folk Arts. These traditions speak to what Latinos say, believe, make, know and do—things that they first learned from their families and community.
The length and breadth of Latino traditions literally covers two continents; and transnational migration to major U.S. cities such as Miami, Chicago, San Antonio, Newark, and New York have ensured that the impact of Latino culture continues to be profound. We support papers which explore the topic of Latino Expressive Traditions from both the homeland perspective and immigrant perspective. We particularly encourage papers that address Latino traditions in New York’s tri-state area.
Students can cover any number of topics related to traditional performing arts, materials arts, vernacular culture, sacred arts, etc. as long as the research is with a particular Latino group. While attendees should be graduate students from any academic program, they do not have to major in folklore or Latino studies. Participants can be ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, historians, etc.
For more information, download the Call for Proposals/Proposal Submission Guide and Form.
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KIDS’ ART FEST
Jay Street, Schenectady, NY
June 5, 2010, Noon – 4 p.m.
The Kids’ Arts Fest occurs each year on the first Saturday of June. The focus is on participation by Schenectady’s youngest residents and all events are free. Held on Jay Street, in the block that runs from State to Franklin, there are stages for performances on either end, with artist’s booths lining the Jay Street pedestrian walkway.
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The Folklore Society has been participating since 2001, with hands-on folk arts activities which feature an artist. This year, Bernard Domingo of Yonkers worked with young people to show them his unique bead and wire scuptures, an art learned as a young person in Zimbabwe.
The festival is sponsored by the ElectriCity Arts and Entertainment District and organized with the help of a loyal group of volunteers. |
NYFS to Sponsor Gatherings for Latino Artists
The New York Folklore Society will be sponsoring three gatherings for Latino artists in New York State. Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the gatherings will take place on three locations on three separate dates:
October 24, 2010 at Long Island Traditions, Port Washington
March 19, 2011 at Go Art!, Batavia
May 14, 2011 at Centro Civico, Amsterdam
Designed for musicians, dancers, craftspersons, and others who are practicing a traditional artform with its origin in any of the Spanish-speaking communities of North and South America, the gatherings will assist artists in sharing resources and experiences. They will provide an opportunity for future collaborations and technical assistance. For additional information, or to find out how to become a delegate for the gatherings, please contact Lisa Overholser at the New York Folklore Society.
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I read every issue of Voices.
The taxpayers are hollering,
and the state’s contribution
to this wonderful little
magazine has been
drastically cut. Those of
us who read it all the way
through have to all chip in.
—Pete Seeger, musician and activist,
Beacon, New York
 LISTEN to Voices—Hear the sounds of "sacred steel" and merengue típico and Celtic fiddle music. Look for the this icon to hear MP3s.
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recipient of a 2005/2006 award from the Documentary Heritage Program of
the NYS Archives. As funded, the project is to support the arrangement
and description of folklore collections using a "circuit rider" approach...read more about our Archives projects |
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Worth the Wait!
New York Folklore Journal
Vol. 25, Nos. 1-4, 1999
The 1999 Journal is a reprinting of some of the best public sector writing from 1985-1995, with an introductory essay by Robert Baron. Other essays include the work of Karen Taussig-Lux, I. Sheldon Posen, Joyce Ice, Douglas DeNatale, Kate Koperski, Anna (Chairetakis) Wood, and others.
If you would like to receive a copy and you weren’t a member of the New York Folklore Society in 1999, they are for sale as individual copies in our on-line gallery bookstore for $10.00/copy plus $1.50 postage and handling.
Visit Our Folk Arts Gallery in Schenectady or online
Handcarved wood green wing teal duck decoy by Jim Neenan, a woodcarver from Staten Island.
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 | As a part of the Hudson Valley’s Quadricentennial celebrations, the New York Folklore Society commemorated the vibrant cultural traditions of New York’s Haudenosaunee tribes with “North by Northeast: Baskets and Beadwork from the Akwesasne Mohawk and Tuscarora.” Read about this exhibition and see photos and video. |
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Thank you to all of our fans and supporters! It was a wonderful night of music in the GE Theater at Proctors. See photos from the event.
Gala Benefit Concert and Voices Release Party
Voices—Roots and Branches of New York Folk Music
Friday, May 29, 2009
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The New York Folklore Society remains in the forefront of a creative movement. The impulse in 1945 to publish the folklore of New York State for the people of the state is continued today through this publication Voices. The editors of this publication encourage your submission of scholarly writing, as well as nonfiction, fiction, poetry, memoir, and other forms of creative literature.—Ellen McHale, Director
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| Folk and Community Arts Organizations: Creating, Producing and Managing (Intro or Adv) Co-sponsored with the New York Folklore Society, this Empire State College study was designed for students interested in non-profit community arts and folk arts programming, presenting, researching (field work methods), documenting, archiving and managing. It offered aomprehensive look at how arts organizations operate, the services they provide local communities and the public at large, the wide range of programs they create and produce, the research and documentation that informs their work, how they educate youth about the arts and local communities, and grant-writing and fund-raising.
Read COURSE DESCRIPTION
SEE PHOTOS FROM THE ESC/NYFS SUMMER COURSE
Exploring Place: Documenting Your Community’s Culture and Traditions
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Folklore in Archives:
A Guide to Describing Folklore and Folklife Materials
by James Corsaro and
Karen Taussig-Lux
A companion to
Working with Folk Materials in New York State
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