Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
Get in Shape for WTF:What the Folk!
WTF: What the Folk! Unplugged open mic
Friday, January 27, 2017 / 7pm (do open at 6:30 for seating, treats and performance sign up)
Spencer House Community Centre
5596 Morris Street, Halifax, NS
Cost: Free will donation
Supported by the Helen Creighton Folklore Society
Hello folks!
After missing the entire month of December due to rescheduling, weather closures and Christmas... things are starting to take SHAPE at WTF!
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
WTF:What the Folk! Friday the 13th! Gifts and Giving.
Free Course on Song Collecting
This course on song collecting would also likely have some crossover information for story collecting too.
SCC Pathway - Free Online Course Official Launch Press Release
New free online course in song collecting - 6 week duration Launching on 16th January 2017 on OpenLearning.com Now open for registration: http://bit.ly/SCC-Pathway
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This course was created by the Song Collectors Collective to train the next generation of song collectors in four pathways toward song collecting (index... |
The Song Collectors Collective are launching a new free online course, ‘Pathway’, empowering a new generation of song collectors in the UK, Ireland and beyond. Commencing on 16th January participants will discover the rich world of song and story collecting, learned via weekly lectures and in peer to peer forums. The 6 week course appeals to lovers of song and folklore who wish to pursue their own research, fieldwork and archiving, giving the confidence to those not within academic institutions to seek out vanishing oral cultures. The Course has been created by Dr Duncan Williams from Plymouth University alongside folk singers and song collectors Sam Lee and Tommy Black Roff
Oral traditions, from bothy ballads, shanties, traveller songs and laments to football chants, surround us at home and abroad. Yet such expressions are often overlooked and undervalued in the digital age. The project will help bolster the song collecting movement by training participants in tasks including: researching, recording, indexing, editing, archiving and publishing.
Via weekly online lectures, Pathway introduces the last 150 years of song collecting, folklore and ethnomusicology, before preparing participants with all the necessary moral codes and ethical considerations. The course then splits into four streams covering the major aspects of song collecting, quickly engaging the group in activities and allowing participants to learn from lectures and from each other.
The Song Collectors Collective is a the coming together of individuals united by their common desire to celebrate, document and support singing and other oral traditions. Consisting of an online archive of recordings, a support network for song collectors and a number of annual events, the collective is at the forefront of efforts to document singing practices in contemporary UK and Ireland.
Pathway begins 16th January and lasts 6 weeks until 6th March. Sign up today to start your own journey! http://bit.ly/SCC-Pathway
This course was created by the Song Collectors Collective to train the next generation of song collectors in four pathways toward song collecting (index... |
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