Undergraduate
and graduate programs in Folklore and Folklife, events announcements, links.Founded in 1878, the Folklore
Society maintains offices at the Warburg Institute and archives in the DMS Watson Science Library at
University College London, with reference and lending facilities; publishes low-cost library booklets
, academic works, and the peer-reviewed journal Folklore; and holds a number of lectures and social events
each year.
Seattle Folklore Society - Washington
folklife peloponnese
California Folklore Society
www.fsgw.org/
A federation
of the groups supporting the people carrying giants in the public festivals in Catalonia and abroad;
the Association publishes a magazine called Gegants (Giants) and maintains a library and files of dances
and music for giant carriers.
Virginia Folklife Program
The VFP assists cultural organizations, community
groups, state agencies, and others in planning projects on Virginia folklife, and in writing grants
to obtain funding to support such projects, with a focus on fieldwork and new media presentations of
folklore.
Virginia Folklore Society
folklorists furthering
An all- volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to promoting,
preserving, enjoying and sharing the music, dance, arts, crafts, and skills of traditional cultures
, with a special focus on country and square dancing and fiddle music.
www.historical-museum.org/folklife
/folklife.htm
Spokane Folklore Society - Washington
perpetuating gegants
www.une.edu.au/~arts/FolkloreJournal/AF.htm
westernfolklore
.org
www.ecu.edu/ncfolk/
Orpheus Hellenic Folklore Society - Illinois
Based in Elko, Nevada, the Western
Folklife Center is dedicated to documenting and preserving the arts of culture of the American West
. Includes a heritage shop and listings of community events.
folkore afs
Exhibits document South Florida`s cultural
diversity through the traditional arts, crafts, foodways, and music of Anglo-American, Latin-American
, and Afro-Caribbean residents.
www.folklorkurumu.org/index-en.htm
Victorian Folklife Association
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Anyone
interested in folklore and folklife may join. Providing documentation, preservation, and education regarding
folklife and the folk arts.
www.SpokaneFolklore.org/
Aims to keep Turkish folklore alive through scientific
research, and passing knowledge of the traditions on to the younger generations in music and dance schools
.
www.vermontfolklifecenter.org
Preserving the cultural traditions of Vermont.
citylore perpetuating
An New York City-based cultural
heritage/folklife non-profit organization.
www.folklore-society.com
gegants ncfs
www.citylore.org
Folklore Society,
London, England
National Council for the Traditional Arts
Founded in 1913, the NCFS promotes the appreciation
and study of North Carolina`s folklife.Archive of papers about folklore and folklife in Northern Virginia
, the Mid-Atlantic region, and beyond.
www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42101/4210101/e421a011.html
folklife swaps
museum.msu.edu
/s-program/MTAP/index.html
www.ohfs.org/
enactments giants
Furthering the understanding, appreciation, and performance of
traditional folk music and folklore, the FSGW sponsors over 200 events in the DC area each year, including
festivals, concerts, dances, and swaps; the site also includes a lenthy list of folk music links.
www
.folklorefellows.org/index.html
Michigan Traditional Arts Program
Current schedule of folk music concerts
sponsored by the Seattle Folklore Society, Washington State
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CityLore
Greek American Folklore Society
Perpetuating
Hungarian folklore by exchanging thoughts, experiences, and ideas (in Hungarian and English).
Palouse
Folklore Society
home.vicnet.net.au/~folklife/
catalonia enactments
www.emoreiro.com/GAFS/
www.gmu.edu/folklore/nvfa/
Volunteer
non-profit organization in the Moscow, Idaho / Pullman, Washington area dedicated to preserving and
celebrating cultural traditions of folk music, dance and traditional arts and crafts.Founded in 1974
with the objectives of researching, studying, conserving and promoting the popular culture of the Peloponnese
and, more generally, of Greece as a whole.
www.westernfolklife.org
conserving palouse
American Folklore Society
Australian
Folklore
Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania
www.nyfolklore.org/
folklore perpetuating
www.sas.upenn
.edu/folklore/
Folklore Society of Greater Washington DC
Northern Virginia Folklife Archive - George Mason
University
gegants perpetuating
www.bozemanfolklore.org/
Folkore Fellows at the Kalevala Institute of the University of Turku
www.seafolklore.org/folksche.html
www.gegants.org
foodways furthering
www.angelfire.com/folk/pfs/index.html
Non-profit volunteer
organization dedicated to the celebration of Folk Arts, particularly music and dance.
The Western Folklife
Center
They host the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering and maintain an extensive archive.
Vermont Folklife
Center
gegants warburg
Specializing in the presentation of traditional Greek Folk Dancing and Costume.The Giants Carriers
Association is a federation of the groups supporting the people carrying giants in Catalonia in the
public festivals.
vfp folklorists
Citylore promotes, presents and works to preserve the traditional arts and local
and ethinc cultures of the NY City.
Giants Carriers Association
Non-profit organization founded in 1913
and dedicated to the discovery, collection, publication, and preservation of folklore and traditional
culture in Virginia and to furthering the understanding, appreciation, and performance of traditional
arts and crafts of the State.
gegants giants
www.folklore.bc.ca/
www.gegants.org/english/index.html
Dedicated to the study
, preservation, and instruction of the traditions of Hellenic folk culture and folk arts from all regions
of Greece and communities of the Greek Diaspora past and present; primary focus on stage re-enactments
of traditional Greek costumes, songs and dances, plus lectures, exhibits, and workshops.
Hungarian Folklore
List Discussion Group
A partnership of the Michigan State University Museum and the Michigan Council
for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
Turkish Folklore Association
folklife vfp
International scholarly network founded in
Finland in 1908, furthering professional training of folklorists as well as promoting scholarly contacts
and publication activities.Information about the Society, its publications and programs, forums and
conferences, plus links to other folklore and related resources.Dedicated to the protection and promotion
of the cultural heritage of the people of Victoria, Australia, of those informal, unofficial aspects
of our heritage which are folklife.
conserving swaps
Journal of studies in the field of Australian folklore as well as
theoretical and field studies by scholars from around the world.
Bozeman Folklore Society - Montana
perpetuating kalevala
Historical
Museum of Southern Florida: Folklife
hungaria.org/lists/folklor/
www.ncta.net/
Dedicated to the preservation
and documentation of traditional arts in the United States through festivals, tours, concerts, public
radio, television programs and films.
North Carolina Folklore Society
ethnography folklore
afsnet.org/
Founded in 1888, the
AFS publishes the quartlerly Journal of American Folklore and works to further the discipline of folklore
studies, to improve the professional well-being of its members, and to increase the respect given to
diverse cultures and their traditions.Founded in 1941, the Society supports the study of all aspects
of regional, national, and international folklore.
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British Columbia Folklore Society
New York Folklore
Society
Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation
The Giants Carriers Association
minerva.acc.virginia.edu/~foundhum
/vfp/home.html
citylore furthering
Dedicated to the collection and preservation of the traditional and contemporary folk culture
, folklife, ad folklore of the people of British Columbia, Canada.
www.virginia.edu/~vafolk/
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