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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