Ethnography and Community - Online Public Discussion Series offered this Summer
Ethnography and Community
Online Public Discussion Series
The Vermont Folklife Center will host a series of four online presentations, in conjunction with our Summer Institute programming, August 2-13, 2021. These virtual events are free and open to the public.
Through guided discussions with local educators, artists, and VFC staff, each session will offer a different perspective on how ethnography, an approach and set of methods for understanding and representing human experience, can inform and strengthen community-based inquiry and knowledge creation.
Ethnographic Learning with K-12 students will open the series by featuring two educators’ experiences designing audio projects and multimedia storytelling in the classroom setting. Sarah Keener (Hazen Union School) and Katie Wyndorf (Edmunds Middle School) will reflect on ethnographic approaches to learning and how this promotes key transferable skills for students. Tuesday, August 3, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Virtual Tour of the VFC Archives VFC Associate Director and Archivist Andy Kolovos will provide an inside view of the Folklife Center’s Archive showcasing how oral history and ethnographic collections influence past and present VFC projects and community-driven studies. Friday, August 6 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Community Collaboration & Traditional Arts: A Project from Burlington's Old North End - learn about one musician’s experience collaborating with traditional artists to create cultural enrichment and sustainability for the Old North End neighborhood and beyond. The discussion will feature Brian Perkins and collaborators. Tuesday, August 10, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
VT Untapped, Ethnography and Podcasting - will close out the series. This session will feature the producers of VFC’s podcast, VT Untapped™, who will discuss the process of making archival material come alive and creating relevance for the present-day. Friday, August 13, 3:00 - 4:00 pm