When you think about primary sources, what are some of the first things that come to mind? Historical documents? Old photographs? Diaries? How about…sound recordings? Join Vermont Folklife for an online professional learning workshop for educators and learn how to access, engage with, and teach from oral histories and more from the Vermont Folklife Archive.

Come one and all to a family friendly jam session where all instruments and music are welcome. This group is aimed at providing a welcoming and supportive space to try out playing tunes and singing songs together.

Come one and all to a family friendly jam session where all instruments and music are welcome. This group is aimed at providing a welcoming and supportive space to try out playing tunes and singing songs together.

Come one and all to a family friendly jam session where all instruments and music are welcome. This group is aimed at providing a welcoming and supportive space to try out playing tunes and singing songs together.

Come one and all to a family friendly jam session where all instruments and music are welcome. This group is aimed at providing a welcoming and supportive space to try out playing tunes and singing songs together.

Join Nashville-based fiddler and folksinger Emerald Rae for an in person Fiddleheads workshop in Essex, VT, on Sunday December 3rd, from 2:00-3:00pm.

Come one and all to a family friendly jam session where all instruments and music are welcome. This group is aimed at providing a welcoming and supportive space to try out playing tunes and singing songs together.

Come one and all to a family friendly jam session where all instruments and music are welcome. This group is aimed at providing a welcoming and supportive space to try out playing tunes and singing songs together.

Come one and all to a family friendly jam session where all instruments and music are welcome. This group is aimed at providing a welcoming and supportive space to try out playing tunes and singing songs together.

A one-day professional learning workshop for educators about teaching with audio recordings from folklife collections.

Vermont’s agricultural identity is one of its most enduring narratives. It is also a complex story as told through the people who shape local food systems. How can oral history and folklife collections invite deeper exploration of these life experiences and different perspectives? Join Vermont Folklife to discover ways to learn from folklife and ethnographic materials and feature them as key primary sources about local culture, memory and meaning.

Inspired by The Mostly Costly Journey, VT Folklife and our partners at Shelburne Farms are offering an afternoon workshop exploring counter narratives in food systems grounded in our home place of Vermont. Multiple Perspectives and Counter Narratives in Vermont’s Food System is a workshop for K-12 educators and partners

Do you have an interview project in mind but don’t quite know where to begin or how to proceed? The Vermont Folklife Center is offering Interviewing for Oral History and Ethnography to help you explore the art of interviewing and help move your project forward. Join us on Saturday, November 20 from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Old North End Community Center. This is an in-person workshop.

The Vermont Folklife Center’s Summer Institute is a hybrid online course grounded in ethnography: an approach and set of methods for understanding and representing human experience. The course content will present strategies and teach skills for community-based learning and inquiry that centers on ethical and collaborative engagement. The course includes an introduction to digital media making, with a critical lens on documentary work and the ethics of representation. REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Join us for a break, share how classroom learning is going for you, and hear how we have adapted our K-12 outreach during COVID times.

Join us for a break, share how classroom learning is going for you, and hear how we have adapted our K-12 outreach during COVID times.

The holiday season of 2020 will likely look different than we’re used to. You might say it will be “one for the books.” In the spirit of documenting extraordinary moments in time, this workshop offers a unique way to connect with family and loved ones from afar during this historic year. Pre-registration required.

This workshop will focus on the crises of 2020 as an opportunity to reflect and learn from the social unrest, vulnerabilities and sacrifices experienced across the state and nation. Participants will be introduced to the therapeutic value of sharing and listening to common human experience, using tools of ethnographic interviewing and observation. Pre-registration required.

Thanksgiving 2020 will likely look different than we’re used to. You might say it will be “one for the books.” In the spirit of documenting extraordinary moments in time, this workshop offers a unique way to connect with family and loved ones from afar during this historic holiday.

This workshop will introduce the Vermont Folklife Center’s crowd-sourced documentary project, Listening in Place, as well as offer tools and methods for engaging in remote recording and community-based research. This workshop is presented as a complement to the online resources developed for Listening in Place and will walk participants through the steps involved in contributing to the Sound Archive.

This workshop presented at The Generator maker-space in Burlington offers tools and methods for developing collaborative projects centered in community-based research, documentary or storytelling mediums. Open to all including students, community members, socially-engaged artists and staff of organizations doing cultural, community, and social-service work.

The Generator Makerspace hosts the VFC for this workshop presenting the theories and methods that inform oral history research with practical, hands-on training in oral history interview techniques. Led by Andy Kolovos, this workshop will help participants develop a plan for an oral history research project and will offer a forum for brainstorming ideas for public outreach based on interview findings.

Do you have an audio storytelling project in mind but don’t quite know where to begin or how to proceed? The Vermont Folklife Center is offering a 3-part workshop series in Brattleboro, which will present an Introduction to Audio Storytelling. Take all three or just the one that you need the most. Offered in partnership with The Brattleboro Words Project through the generous support of The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

Do you have an audio storytelling project in mind but don’t quite know where to begin or how to proceed? The Vermont Folklife Center is offering a 3-part workshop series in Brattleboro, which will present an Introduction to Audio Storytelling. Take all three or just the one that you need the most. Offered in partnership with The Brattleboro Words Project through the generous support of The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

Join NH teaching artist Marek Bennett's COMICS WORKSHOP for this hands-on non-fiction comics lab featuring materials from the Vermont Folklife Center and Vermont Historical Soceity or materials you bring along.

The Generator Makerspace in Burlington hosts this hands-on workshop for anyone wanting to learn the ins-and-outs of audio production and storytelling with a focus on documenting culture, community and place.