Roeder Student Travel Award

The Bea & Dave Roeder Student Travel Award for the AWSF meeting provides $500 in funding to support a student interested in public folklore. The information and application are below. The deadline is March 10, and the recipient will be notified before the March 20 conference registration deadline.

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Updated Agenda

Here is a slightly revised version of the  AWSF 2017 meeting agenda, to allow more flexibility on Saturday when some attendees may want to participate in the local March for Science.

 

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2017 AWSF Meeting in Eugene, Oregon

The planning committee for this year’s AWSF wants to provide you with updates on conference registration, hotel reservations, and programming.

Registration – Registration for this year’s AWSF Conference is now open! Use this link:

https://oregon.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6VEJQEOUbC8hltP

to register for the Conference and the Graze. The deadline to register is March 15th, 2017.

We have the funding to provide registration scholarships (worth $80) for each attendee, meaning everyone may register for the conference at no cost to themselves.

The Graze will cost $25, with instructions on how to pay included in the registration information.

We also have secured funding to offer 5 travel scholarships of $200. These scholarships will be awarded after the conference in the form of travel reimbursements. If you are in need of one of these scholarships, please indicate that on the registration form.

Hotel Information – Attached. We have reserved blocks of 10 single king rooms and 10 double queen rooms at two different hotels: the Phoenix Inn and the Days Inn – Eugene Downton/University. The Phoenix Inn is closer but slightly more expensive, while the Days Inn
is further but cheaper. Both hotels offer a complimentary breakfast. Information on how to make a reservation at each is in the attached file.

Agenda – Attached. The program is coming together. We still need a facilitator for the workshop on Inter-Regional Collaboration. This topic received strong support in our survey, but if we have no one able/willing to facilitate it, we will sub in a new piece of programming. Anyone?

Once again, the link to register is https://oregon.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6VEJQEOUbC8hltP

You will receive a follow-up email confirming your registration.

If you have any questions please send them to me, Brad McMullen, at bmcmulle@uoregon.edu. You may also call the OFN office at 541-346-3820 to talk to me over the phone.

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2016 AWSF Meeting in Eugene

Thanks to our hosts at the Oregon Folklife Network and the University of Oregon for an excellent meeting last week, April 6-8. They even arranged for warm, sunny weather! We had a session with Cliff Murphy from the National Endowment for the Arts, discussions about new forms of fundraising, presentations from staff with the Art of the Rural, an update on our regional Rivers & Headwaters project, and planning for the 2017 meeting, which will also be held in Oregon–stay tuned for dates and location. And of course there was The Graze, our annual tour of local cultural sites, which this year covered the lively Whiteaker neighborhood with its eateries, wineries, breweries, a pinball arcade, and a glassblowing studio.

 

Living Traditions Festival, May 16-18, 2014

Salt Lake City’s Living Traditions Festival is a celebration of the traditional cultures of the city and the state, now in its 29th year. See the festival website at http://livingtraditionsfestival.com for a full schedule, descriptions of craft and performing artists, and a list of 20 food vendors from a wide array of ethnic traditions. It all takes place on the grounds of the Salt Lake City and County Building, and is well worth a visit. The festival is sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, and many local funders.