Tag: Foodways

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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Watch the 2022-2023 Folklife Apprenticeship Showcases

If you missed the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship showcases last fall, you can now watch the recordings on the West Virginia Folklife YouTube channel! These showcases celebrate traditional art forms in West Virginia and their practitioners who are passing on creative traditional knowledge. The videos are filled with engaging stories, experiences, performances, and conversations among…

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2024-2025 Folklife Apprenticeship Application and Guidelines Now Available

2024-2025 Folklife Apprenticeship Application and Guidelines Now Available APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 26, 2024 The West Virginia Folklife Program, a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council, is now accepting applications for its statewide Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Hosted biennially, this program supports traditional artists working with dedicated apprentices on a yearlong apprenticeship in their cultural expression…

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Apply for a Legends & Lore Marker Grant

Legends & Lore Marker Grant Program Seeking Applications Application Deadline: April 29, 2024Next window to apply: August 26, 2024 – October 14, 2024 The William G. Pomeroy Foundation is accepting applications for its Legends & Lore Marker Grant Program. The program highlights local folklife and promotes cultural tourism in the participating states in the United…

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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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Scotts Run Resonance – Passing it Forward

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…

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Announcing the 2022-2023 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Participants

We are pleased to announce our 2022-2023 cohort of apprenticeship participants in the third round of the West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Seven apprenticeship pairs from across the Mountain State will study and practice traditions including soul food cooking, fiddle repair, and mushroom foraging. The Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers $3,000 to recognize and honor West…

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