West Virginia-based Scotts Run Settlement House, The Shack Neighborhood House, and the Scotts Run Museum & Trail have announced Scotts Run Resonance—Passing It Forward with support from Mid Atlantic Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions (CALT) program. This initiative includes a year of events and classes to exchange wisdom and pass on traditions of foodways, history and heritage, music, and repair with the next generation. The Mid Atlantic Arts’ CALT program is a partner of the West Virginia Humanities Council.

The 2023-2024 Scotts Run Resonance events are tentatively scheduled as follows:

• May 13: Spring Planting Festival, The Shack and Scotts Run Museum
• Every last Monday of the month, Osage Gospel n’ Soul Community Choir, 6pm at the Scotts Run Settlement House
• July 15: Repair Café, The Shack, 10am-noon
• September 11: History Harvest/Card-making workshop, Scotts Run Museum
• September 16: Scotts Run Street Fair, Scotts Run Museum (outside)
• February 10: Repair Café, The Shack

For updates and information about more upcoming events in Scotts Run, see the Scotts Run Resonance Project Facebook page – Contact project coordinator DJ Cassell with any questions or to get involved!

About the CALT Folk Arts and Culture Community Anchors Initiative:
This initiative provides targeted resources and support to select community anchors of folk arts and culture in the region with the goal of dramatically impacting the sustainability of traditional practice and cultural knowledge.

Three participant communities, including Scotts Run, West Virginia, were identified in consultation with state folklife program partners and other constituents. The other two sites are the communities of Athens, OH, with the Federal Valley Resource Center (FVRC) as key partner and Bristol, VA who is working with The Birthplace of Country Music Museum. Each community anchor site formed a Community Folk Art and Culture Team that is leading project planning and the implementation of a Community Folk Arts and Culture Plan that details strategies and activities to increase the sustainability of folk arts and culture in their community.