Devoted to the Study of Folklore and Tradition

• Start date: 1st Feb 2020
• End date: 29th Feb 2020
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Love_2020_(Folklore)

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photographic contest organized by Wikimedia community to document love testimonials in various cultures and regions of the world. The theme for this year is Folklore which invites users round the world to upload images and videos about their own folklore. 20 Winners will get prizes starting from $400....

• Date: 12th Feb 2020
• Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Lecture starts at 7.30pm What has folk dancing got to do with Butlins holiday camps? Or the British Royal Family? Why do people think that folk dancing should be fun? Why are all the dances walked? Why are callers reluctant to call themselves teachers? Why is English folk dance not taught in schools anymore? What has any of this got to do with Englishness and national identity? I...

• Date: 22nd Feb 2020
• Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

The event runs from 9.30am - 5.30pm. Tickets £20 The Broadside Day is the annual one-day conference for people interested in street literature in all its fascinating aspects – broadsides, chap books, songsters, woodcuts, engravings, last dying speeches, catchpennies, wonder-tales, almanacs, fortune tellers, and all kinds of cheap printed material sold to ordinary people in the...

• Date: 26th Feb 2020
• Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Lecture starts at 7.30pm. John Malchair (1730-1812) was a violinist and artist in Oxford, who spent his ‘leasure howers’ collecting music from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and further afield. His tunebooks contain over 500 tunes, mostly country dance tunes and the melodies for songs, many of which are still played today. His sources for his collection included printed books, fri...

• Start date: 14th Mar 2020
• End date: 14th Mar 2020
• Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge

A day of engagements with history, topography and folklore. Tickets £20 adv., £22 door, cash only Kelly Starling: Dancing with Ghosts: Journeys to Robinwood Mill Alison Cooper: Geography of Grief: Pilgrimage through the Pennines Dr Jennie Bailey: An Artery to a Heart: mapping the Rochdale Canal Mark Valentine: Northern Soul: Lost weird writers of the North Andy Roberts: ...

• Date: 25th Mar 2020
• Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Lecture starts at 7.30pm In 1929, Londoner Maud Karpeles, a proponent of the early twentieth century British folk song and folk-dance revival movement, journeyed to the Dominion of Newfoundland to document British folk songs in England’s oldest colony. From 14 weeks of fieldwork, carried out between 1929 and 1930, Karpeles acquired close to 200 songs and dances, later publishin...

• Start date: 17th Aug 2020
• End date: 23rd Aug 2020
• University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Joensuu

The 10th Folklore Fellows` Summer School is hosted by the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) in Joensuu, 17-23 August 2020. Folklore Fellows` Summer School 2020 "The Violence of Traditions and the Traditions of Violence" will provide the participants with an inspirational forum for learning and critical discussion on the violence of traditions and the...

• Start date: 21st Oct 2020
• End date: 23rd Oct 2020
• Meertens Institute, Amsterdam

A SIEF Archives Working Group Conference 'Archives, Access, Ethics and Fraud' will take place in Amsterdam, October 21 – 23, 2020. The Call for Papers can be found here: http://www.theomeder.nl/SIEF2020/CfP.pdf. The deadline for abstracts is April 1st, 2020....