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Middle Atlantic Folklife Association


The 2011 MAFA Conference, “Heritage and the State,” will take place April 7-9, 2011 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  The conference features individual paper, film, and panel presentations from scholars throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Theresa Colvin, Executive Director of the Maryland State Arts Council, and Barbara Franco, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Heritage and Museum Commission, will lead a plenary session focused on support for arts and history programs entitled “Sustaining Heritage:  Funding, Politics and Programming.”  On the evening of Friday, April 8th  , three master traditional artists will present their work while exploring the role of public policy for cultural sustainability and traditional arts initiatives.  For a full conference schedule visit: 2011 Conference Information

“Heritage and the State” is a joint meeting of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association, the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association, and the Pennsylvania Political Science Association.  The conference is open to professional folklorists, community scholars, and students.  For more information, please contact Program Associate, Folk & Traditional Arts, Sally Van de Water at sally@midatlanticarts.org or 410/539-6656 x 107.

About MAFA
The Middle Atlantic Folklife Association (MAFA) is a professional association supporting folklorists and others concerned with traditional folk culture in the mid-Atlantic region. The association serves Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

MAFA members are engaged in a full range of activities to study, document, interpret, present, fund, teach, encourage, and advocate for traditional cultural expressions in the region.

MAFA supports this diversity of approaches to folklife through a number of services to its constituents, including professional development, resource identification/access, and communication among different sectors of the field. MAFA encourages folklife studies and the presentation of traditional culture, through collaboration with communities interested in documenting and perpetuating their traditional ways of life. Through advocacy with community groups, MAFA members seek to mitigate threats to traditional culture.

The Foundation provides a range of services to acknowledge the mission and good works of MAFA and to encourage its further growth. A staff folklorist serves on MAFA’s Board of Directors. The Foundation also maintains the MAFA membership roster, mails the association newsletter, and provides meeting space in its Baltimore office.

For more information, please visit http://www.mafafolk.org/

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