Category: Event

Save the Dates: 2025 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcases

Save the Dates: 2025 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcases Come celebrate the achievements of the 2024-25 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program participants! West Virginia Folklife is hosting TWO free showcases featuring demonstrations and performances, open to the public. Refreshments provided. Meet the folklife apprenticeship pairs and learn about traditional arts of West Virginia! Saturday, November 1, 2025 Location: West…

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Author Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth in Charleston at Taylor Books, June 21

On Friday, June 21, 2024 at 5:30PM, State Folklorist Jennie Williams will host a conversation with author and folklorist Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth about his new book Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain Forests at Taylor Books, located at 226 Capitol St, Charleston, WV 25301. This free event takes place as part of…

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Fasnacht 2024

On Saturday, February 10, 2024, residents of Helvetia, West Virginia celebrated their 57th Annual Fasnacht. Embracing creativity and revelry, Fasnacht is a pre-Lenten tradition that dates back to 1520 in Switzerland and celebrates the changing of the seasons. The event welcomes locals, other West Virginians, and guests from far away to bring their homemade masks…

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Celebrating a new Wheeling Community Cookbook

Congratulations to Grow Ohio Valley on their newly self-published Wheeling community cookbook titled “A Little of This, a Little of That.” Compiled by Emma Goldenthal and Corbin T Lanker, the cookbook is a wonderful collection of recipes, photography, and food stories from twenty-six local recipe and story contributors! On December 14, 2023, Grow Ohio Valley…

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West Virginia Day 2023

Join us at the historic MacFarland-Hubbard House as we mark West Virginia’s 160th birthday. This year’s featured speaker is Emily Hilliard, our former state folklorist, who will discuss her recent book–Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia.

West Virginia Folklife Presents Virtual Apprenticeship Showcase: Old-Time Fiddle & Banjo

Please join us on Thursday, September 23 at noon for a virtual showcase featuring apprenticeship pair in old-time banjo of Central West Virginia, Kim Johnson & Cody Jordan of Kanawha County, and old-time fiddle apprenticeship pair Joe Herrmann & Dakota Karper of Hampshire County. The pairs will perform a concert and host a Q&A. The event is free and open to the public, but attendees should register here.

West Virginia Folklife Presents Virtual Apprenticeship Showcase: Forest Farming

Please join us on Wednesday, September 22 at noon for a virtual apprenticeship showcase featuring forest farmers Ed & Carole Daniels of Randolph County and apprentice Clara Haizlett of Brooke County. The team, who recently completed their 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship year, will present on their apprenticeship cultivating American ginseng and other forest botanicals, and hold a Q&A.

New Film Series with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress Explores Food Traditions in West Virginia

In partnership with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, West Virginia Folklife is excited to launch the new Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia film series, presenting four short films that explore a range of food traditions in the state. The series will be produced by West Virginia farmers, chefs, and foodways storytellers Mike Costello and Amy Dawson of Lost Creek Farm in Harrison County.