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National Museum of the American Indian
Here in Washington thousands of people gather next week for the six-day
Festival of First Americans celebrating the opening of the National Museum
of the American Indian, Sept. 21-26. The NAMAI web site offers an education
section with teacher guides and lists of authentic resources for students:
"Your students may have preconceived notions regarding Native Americans.
Before visiting the museum, you may want to begin studying 'fact versus
fiction' concerning indigenous cultures. Historical concepts may be
confused with fictional stories. You may want to read a selection of
children's books and critique them for their factual content. Discuss
stereotyping and suggest ways to counter negative imaging. Reinforce
positive imaging of Native Americans. Don't select literature that uses
stereotypical language, imaging, etc. Check with our Resource Center for a
bibliography of suggested books." Link to radio programming such as Living
Voices and online exhibits that range from Indian humor to the quilt show
and education guide our own Marsha MacDowell was involved in, To Honor and
Comfort. Museum entry is timed and free but visitors in the first months
should obtain tickets in advance for a service fee. Find all this plus the
festival schedule of music, storytelling, regalia making, and processions
at http://www.nmai.si.edu
Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson, MS, a former Coming Up
Taller recipient, co-sponsors "Telling the People's Story: From Tape and
Transcript to Public Programs" Sept. 17-19 with the Mississippi Humanities
Council to show how oral histories can provide the basis for public
programs at the community level. Among participants are Paul Hendrickson,
author of Sons of Mississippi, Alan Trachtenberg, professor emeritus at
Yale University, Marsha MacDowell, professor of art and art history and
curator of folk arts at Michigan State University Museums, Alison Carey,
co-founder of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Roland Freeman, photographer
and author of A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters,
Preservers, and Their Stories. The conference features sessions on using
oral history to create community theater, exhibits, web sites, radio and
television documentaries, CDs, and publications. Continuing education units
can be arranged. Contact Patricia Crosby, 601/437-8905
http://www.msculturalcrossroads.org/CulturalConservation/CCFrameset.htm
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NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOLKSONG REPOSITORY
The Historic Electronic Online Archive of Children's Folksongs
A Public Folklore Project built by the children of the United States.
Sounds Like FUN - Sounds Interesting!
Ed Techs can help teachers and children - it's easy.
Integrate Literacy, Music, and Technology into the classroom.
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2004 NEA National Heritage Fellows perform for free Friday, Oct. 1, 7:30
pm, Lisner Auditorium, in DC. Find ticket info at
http://www.arts.gov/news/news04/HeritageConcertAdvisory.html
For bios and photos of the 2004 Fellows, who include dobro musician Jerry
Douglas and blueswoman Koko Taylor, go to
http://www.arts.endow.gov/news/news04/Heritage2004.html
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"Domino" - Book and Cassette published by Guavaberry Books
Traditional Children's Songs, Proverbs, and Culture From the U.S.V.I.
60 Traditional Children's Songs, Games, Proverbs
45 minute Live Sound Field Recording
from the American Virgin Islands
Cross Curricular, Interdisciplinary, Multicultural Resource Book and Cassette
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www.folkstreams.net is a video-streaming web site built as a national
preserve of documentary films about American folk culture in an effort led
by Tom Davenport in partnership with UNC's www.iblio.org and Southern
Folklife Collection. Produced by independent filmmakers, these hard-to-find
films are streamed on the site with extensive background materials that
highlight the history and aesthetic importance of the traditions and the
films and tips for teaching with them. DC area residents can attend the
national folkstreams.net kick-off with a screening of Susan Levitas' film
The Music District and a live performance of the gospel brass shout band
Sweet Heaven's Kings from the DC United House of Prayer, Saturday, 2 p.m.,
Nov. 6, at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring. Contact Tom for info
folks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and visit www.folkstreams.net to find many films useful
in classrooms for grades 8 through higher ed, all with contextual
materials, some with teaching guides. More teaching tools are in the works.
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National Mix It Up at Lunch Day, sponsored by Teaching Tolerance, is
Thursday, Nov. 16, a day for young people to step across social boundaries
and meet new people in their school cafeterias. Elementary, middle, and
high school information packets are at http://www.mixitup.org/teachers or
call 334/956-8200. Don't forget that all Teaching Tolerance materials are
free to educators and students http://www.tolerance.org
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INTEGRATE FOLKLORE, MUSIC, & TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Folk music - sung during the days before there was a music
industry when the role of music was about your life -
about the life and times that most of us don't experience
anymore and when the music was sung because it helped
people through it and sustained them.
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Sue Eleuterio recently trained at the Digital Storytelling Center
http://www.storycenter.org based in Berkeley and Denver, and highly
recommends their workshops. They describe themselves: "The Center for
Digital Storytelling is a nonprofit project development, training, and
research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media
to tell meaningful stories from their lives. Their focus is on developing
large-scale projects for community, educational, and business institutions.
They offer workshops for organizations and individuals and a clearinghouse
of resources on storytelling and new media."
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INTEGRATE THE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INTO THE CLASSROOM
Do you need resources that will help your teachers use art and
technology using, dance, folktales, geometry, digital photography,
poetry, story telling, video production, writing, cartoons, and more?
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Marjorie Hunt of the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and
Cultural Heritage announces the Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History
Interviewing Guide is now online at http://www.folklife.si.edu It presents
guidelines that Smithsonian folklorists have developed over the years for
collecting folklife and oral history from family and community members and
features a concise, easy-to-use guide to conducting an interview, as well
as sample questions that may be adapted to each interviewer's needs and
circumstances. The Guide concludes with a few examples of ways to preserve
and present findings, further readings, glossary, and sample information
and release forms.
MEETINGS
National Association for Multicultural Education meets Oct. 27-31 in Kansas
City http://www.nameorg.org
National Council of Teachers of English meets Nov. 18-21 in Indianapolis
http://www.ncte.org
National Council for the Social Studies meets Nov. 19-21 in Baltimore
http://www.ncss.org
Modern Language Association meets Dec.27-30 in Philadelphia http://mla.org
An American Folklore Society panel on Folklore, Literacy, and Education,
Tues., Dec. 28, 10:15-11:30 am, features "Folklore and Fieldwork: Tools for
Teaching Literacy," Paddy Bowman, National Network for Folk Arts in
Education; "Fantasy and Play in the Writing Process," Miriam Camitta,
University of Pennsylvania Center for Folklore and Ethnography; and
"Fieldwork, Service Learning, and the Development of Cultural Literacy,"
Stephen Criswell, Benedict College.
Artifact Road Show Library of Congress Learning Page Lesson outlines a
staff development workshop and offers lessons to help students see the
importance of context in the use of primary resources
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/road/intro.html
National Parks Associated with African Americans An Ethnographic
Perspective by the National Park Service links from a map to nearly 60
national park sites and resources that emphasize the role of African
Americans in the development of American culture, heritage, and history
http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/PEOPLES/overview.htm
The Online Academyby the Smithsonian Institution highlights artifacts,
scholars, collectors, and preservers of African American history
http://anacostia.si.edu/academy.htm
Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans provides online teaching
resources http://www.ogdenmuseum.org/education
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center opened Aug. 23 in Cincinnati.
After years of planning by Underground Railroad communities, universities,
cultural groups, and the public, visitors have a place to learn about
present and past freedom movements from around the world. Find information
and education resources at http://www.freedomcenter.org
OTHER NEWS
David Steiner is the new director of Arts Learning at NEA, coming to the
agency from Boston University's Department of Education Policy. Former
director Doug Herbert is now with the U.S. Dept. of Education. Steiner met
with arts education representatives Aug. 31 to discuss NEA's plan to
initiate summer teacher institutes. Find the RFP for a coordinating agency
to sub-contract seven institutes for 2005 and include extensive assessment
at http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/RFP/TeachersInstitute.pdf Deadline is
Sept. 27.
Arts Education Partnership
The June Arts Education Partnership Forum in DC focused on The Arts and
Literacy. The transcript of an interesting panel on literacy and reading is
at http://www.aep-arts.org/ReportJune2004.htm Here's an excerpt from Eileen
Landay, Clinical Professor of English Education and Founder of the
ArtsLiteracy Project at Brown University: "Let me bring this down to the
concrete and create for you a real human being. Let's call him Armando.
Armando lives in that larger landscape of representation and communication.
For him, the question of literacy is really not about letters. It's more
about identity. It's more about who am I. It's more about what is my
experience in the world. It's more about what do people like me do. It's
more about how I feel about myself. I think that we now understand the
extent to which the literacy of letters is embedded in social practice, in
human identity issues. That, for me, is the thing that we must not forget.
I think that when we go ahead and talk about, through the rest of this
conference, the difference between or the connections between the arts and
literacy, I want you to keep Armando in mind. What does it mean for him?"
AEP meets in Philadelphia Oct. 3-4 and the theme is Effective Professional
Development for Arts Education. Find the full June report, Philly details,
advocacy tools, and publications such as the recent report "The Arts and
Education: New Opportunities for Research" at http://aep-arts.org
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