- If you’re attending the upcoming Smithsonian Folklife festival (June 25 to June 29 and July 2 to July 6, 2014), you can upload the free Festival app to your mobile device http://www.festival.si.edu/GetTheApp/. The Festival program will feature special folklife programs about China http://www.festival.si.edu/2014/China/ and Kenya http://www.festival.si.edu/2014/Kenya/
- The cultural messages of the global community of women street artists are reported in this NY Times Opinion piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/opinion/baird-the-writing-is-on-the-wall.html?hp&rref=opinion
- A summer workshop on Balkan music and dance will be held June 28 – July 5, in the Mendocino Woodlands in Northern California. There also is an East coast program. More information and online registration is here: http://eefc.org/about.shtml.
- http://folkstreams.net/ is an online resource of American culture independent films. Assorted subjects relate to American folk roots (1960s and later), and include teaching guides and links to related websites.
- Historical and cultural mapping of state boundaries, beginning with John Wesley Powell’s mapping by watershed, is discussed in High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/defining-the-west-boundaries-john-wesley-powell/view
- As Independence Day approaches, we can review the Library of Congress’ Songs for America collection of popular songs, traditional songs and sacred music. Digitized recordings, videos, sheet music and other submissions are on this website: http://www.loc.gov/collection/songs-of-america/about-this-collection/
- The Arizona Humanities Council’s upcoming, free public humanities programs (including talks about Father Kino at the Himmel Park Public Library and Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Arts and Culture at Colossal Cave Mountain Park) are listed here: http://www.azhumanities.org/calendar.php