Events and Announcements

Announcements | Concerts | Lectures | New Online

Throughout the year, the Center sponsors workshops, lectures, exhibits, concerts, and conferences (on its own and in cooperation with other Library of Congress offices and outside agencies) in order to educate the American people about the importance of their own cultural traditions and the traditions of others.

Announcement:

AFCnews Listserv: The American Folklife Center is providing a new announcment listserv, AFCnews, for people who would like to receive email notification of concerts, lectures, publications, and other news items. The list is for announcements from the Center only, usually about one to three notices per month. To subscribe, email listserv@loc.gov with no subject, then the text:
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(put your first and last names where noted). After you send the email you will receive a welcome notice letting you know that you have sucessfully subscribed and with instructions for managing your subscription.

Events:

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

The American Folklife Center's Concert Series:

For a calendar of Concerts follow this link: Concerts at the Library of Congress, Folklife Concerts

Homegrown 2004: the Music of America concert series, monthly from April through November, in cooperation with the Folklore Society of Greater Washington and the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage.

Lectures:

Thursday October 21: From Bridge to Boardwalk: An Audio Tour of Maryland's Eastern Shore 12:00 pm-1pm in Mumford Room, 6th Floor of the James Madison Building, Library of Congress. From skinning muskrats to often speaking in a dialect uniquely their own, folks from Maryland's Eastern Shore have carved themselves a life unlike that found anywhere else in the country. As development and tourism attracts people from the other side of the Chesapeake, this disappearing culture has been captured not only in words and photographs, but in the voices of those who live between bay and ocean. The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation's publication From Bridge to Boardwalk: An Audio Journey Across Maryland's Eastern Shore features 2 CD's with over two hours of interviews with Shore personalities, historical recordings, music, and ambient sound. The accompanying 76-page book includes a pull-out map, essays, photographs, and tips to finding local arts and cultural treasures. From Bridge to Boardwalk will be available for purchase at the lecture. This presentation is part of the American Folklife Center's Botkin Lecture Series.

More about this publication may be found at: The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation's Web site

New Online:

• Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories Interviews conducted between 1932 and 1975 capturing the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s known to have been former slaves.
• Teachers' Guide to Folklife Resources (Online database of educational materials and sources.)
• Folksongs of America: the Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (online presentation of recordings and photographs from the 1978 LP)

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