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FREE Virtual Workshop: Sound Recordings as Primary Sources
Mar
12

FREE Virtual Workshop: Sound Recordings as Primary Sources

When you think about primary sources, what are some of the first things that come to mind? Historical documents? Old photographs? Diaries? How about…sound recordings? Join Vermont Folklife for an online professional learning workshop for educators and learn how to access, engage with, and teach from oral histories and more from the Vermont Folklife Archive.

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Learning With Vermont Folklife's Archives - Focus on Farming and Foodways
Aug
21

Learning With Vermont Folklife's Archives - Focus on Farming and Foodways

A one-day professional learning workshop for educators about teaching with audio recordings from folklife collections.

Vermont’s agricultural identity is one of its most enduring narratives. It is also a complex story as told through the people who shape local food systems. How can oral history and folklife collections invite deeper exploration of these life experiences and different perspectives? Join Vermont Folklife to discover ways to learn from folklife and ethnographic materials and feature them as key primary sources about local culture, memory and meaning.

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Fiddleheads Session with Dominique Dodge
Jun
17
to Jun 24

Fiddleheads Session with Dominique Dodge

  • Monteverdi Music School Montpelier, VT; Carolan Festival, Worcester, VT (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join harper and singer Dominique Dodge for an in person Fiddleheads workshop at the Monteverdi Music School in Montpelier on Saturday, June 17th from 10:30am to noon. This will be followed by a rehearsal and performance of the music learned at the Carolan Festival in Worcester, VT on Saturday the 24th from 3:00 to 4:30 pm.

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Fiddleheads Session with Sarah Hotchkiss!
Jun
10
to Jun 17

Fiddleheads Session with Sarah Hotchkiss!

Join fiddle instructor Sarah Hotchkiss for an in person Fiddleheads workshop on Saturday June 10 & 17 at 1 - 2pm at Vermont Violins.

Sarah will be reviewing a set of tunes that will be performed at 12:30 pm on June 23rd with the band Poor Cousins as part of the BCA summer concert series, as well as teaching new tunes to participants. Beginners and early intermediate fiddlers are welcome.

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Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Teaching with Primary Sources
Apr
19

Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Teaching with Primary Sources

Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Teaching with Primary Sources

In this workshop, educators will learn how to teach using primary sources drawn from their local community. Primary sources from ethnographic and folklife collections go beyond historical documents and include photographs, recorded interviews, artifacts, recipes, music, maps, and more. Although they do often reflect historical truth, primary sources are valued as powerful reference points for understanding individual and community perspectives on memory, meaning, and identity.

Sponsored by the Folklife Center at the Crandall Public Library & Local Learning

Details: Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Teaching with Primary Sources

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Multiple Perspectives and Counter Narratives in Vermont’s Food System: A workshop for K-12 educators & partners
Jan
19

Multiple Perspectives and Counter Narratives in Vermont’s Food System: A workshop for K-12 educators & partners

Inspired by The Mostly Costly Journey, VT Folklife and our partners at Shelburne Farms are offering an afternoon workshop exploring counter narratives in food systems grounded in our home place of Vermont. Multiple Perspectives and Counter Narratives in Vermont’s Food System is a workshop for K-12 educators and partners

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Online Workshop - Community Driven Media Making
Oct
31
to Nov 10

Online Workshop - Community Driven Media Making

What impact does sharing a documentary audio story, oral history, or other multimedia have on the people or communities represented within that medium? With a specific focus on audio-production, this two-week online course is for anyone interested in using digital media and community interviewing as tools for social engagement and change.

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Workshop: Interviewing for Oral History and Ethnography
Nov
20

Workshop: Interviewing for Oral History and Ethnography

Do you have an interview project in mind but don’t quite know where to begin or how to proceed? The Vermont Folklife Center is offering Interviewing for Oral History and Ethnography to help you explore the art of interviewing and help move your project forward. Join us on Saturday, November 20 from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Old North End Community Center. This is an in-person workshop.

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Summer Institute 2021
Aug
2

Summer Institute 2021

The Vermont Folklife Center’s Summer Institute is a hybrid online course grounded in ethnography: an approach and set of methods for understanding and representing human experience. The course content will present strategies and teach skills for community-based learning and inquiry that centers on ethical and collaborative engagement. The course includes an introduction to digital media making, with a critical lens on documentary work and the ethics of representation. REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

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Listening in Place - Holiday Family Interviews
Dec
12

Listening in Place - Holiday Family Interviews

The holiday season of 2020 will likely look different than we’re used to. You might say it will be “one for the books.” In the spirit of documenting extraordinary moments in time, this workshop offers a unique way to connect with family and loved ones from afar during this historic year. Pre-registration required.

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Listening in Place - Building Conversations for Civic Action
Dec
5

Listening in Place - Building Conversations for Civic Action

This workshop will focus on the crises of 2020 as an opportunity to reflect and learn from the social unrest, vulnerabilities and sacrifices experienced across the state and nation. Participants will be introduced to the therapeutic value of sharing and listening to common human experience, using tools of ethnographic interviewing and observation. Pre-registration required.

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Listening in Place - Remote Interviewing for the Sound Archive
Oct
9

Listening in Place - Remote Interviewing for the Sound Archive

This workshop will introduce the Vermont Folklife Center’s crowd-sourced documentary project, Listening in Place, as well as offer tools and methods for engaging in remote recording and community-based research. This workshop is presented as a complement to the online resources developed for Listening in Place and will walk participants through the steps involved in contributing to the Sound Archive.

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Storytelling for Community-Based Projects (Burlington)
Dec
7

Storytelling for Community-Based Projects (Burlington)

This workshop presented at The Generator maker-space in Burlington offers tools and methods for developing collaborative projects centered in community-based research, documentary or storytelling mediums. Open to all including students, community members, socially-engaged artists and staff of organizations doing cultural, community, and social-service work.

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Oral History: An Introduction (Burlington)
Nov
23

Oral History: An Introduction (Burlington)

The Generator Makerspace hosts the VFC for this workshop presenting the theories and methods that inform oral history research with practical, hands-on training in oral history interview techniques. Led by Andy Kolovos, this workshop will help participants develop a plan for an oral history research project and will offer a forum for brainstorming ideas for public outreach based on interview findings.

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Intro to Audio Storytelling: Editing Basics (Brattleboro)
Nov
16

Intro to Audio Storytelling: Editing Basics (Brattleboro)

Do you have an audio storytelling project in mind but don’t quite know where to begin or how to proceed? The Vermont Folklife Center is offering a 3-part workshop series in Brattleboro, which will present an Introduction to Audio Storytelling. Take all three or just the one that you need the most. Offered in partnership with The Brattleboro Words Project through the generous support of The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

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Intro to Audio Storytelling: Interviewing & Recording (Brattleboro)
Nov
2

Intro to Audio Storytelling: Interviewing & Recording (Brattleboro)

Do you have an audio storytelling project in mind but don’t quite know where to begin or how to proceed? The Vermont Folklife Center is offering a 3-part workshop series in Brattleboro, which will present an Introduction to Audio Storytelling. Take all three or just the one that you need the most. Offered in partnership with The Brattleboro Words Project through the generous support of The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

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