EventMusic & Foodways Day at the Fiddle & Fork Festival
The inaugural Fiddle & Fork Festival is a weekend-long celebration of 250 years of Blue Ridge music and foodways. The Virginia Folklife Program of Virginia Humanities is presenting a luthier’s demonstration with 2026 apprenticeship …
Sights & SoundsStories from the Shore
Documenting a Critical Moment on Virginia’s Eastern Shore – The Eastern Shore, the peninsula that buffers the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, is predicted to experience some of the most acute effects of climate change in the next fifty years. We’ve been documenting life on the Shore and talking to residents about their memories of growing up there for an oral history initiative called “Eastern Shore Foodways, Community & Climate.” Food traditions may hold answers to a sustainable future for this region with a distinctive, centuries-long culinary history.
Sights & SoundsNow Streaming: Eastern Shore Foodways Audio Doc
Virginia Folklife and With Good Reason radio have released a two-part audio documentary on the past, present, and possibilities of food traditions on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
EventWeinstein Author Series: “Recipes From the American South”
Join the Library of Virginia for a conversation between culinary historian Leni Sorensen and award-winning author and culinary historian Michael W. Twitty on Twitty’s new book, “Recipes From the American …
Sights & SoundsCabbage Rolls & Home-Smoked Sausage: Louisa County’s Serbian Orthodox Church
In the small town of Louisa, a blue and white roadside sign nods to the presence of the center of Serbian Orthodox life in Virginia: the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos Serbian Orthodox Church.
Sights & SoundsThe Work of Virginia Winemaking
Folklorist Kim D. Stryker shares a project documenting the labor behind Virginia’s growing wine industry.
Sights & SoundsDaal, Kirtan & Chunni on the National Mall
On April 9, 2023, the National Mall transformed from a space of American nationalism and Western secularism into a celebration of Punjabi heritage and Sikh history with the 6th annual Sikh Freedom March.
Sights & SoundsLinda Skeens’s ‘Blue Ribbon Kitchen’
This year, Linda Skeens of Russell County returned to the VA-KY Fair with a new book in tow: “Blue Ribbon Kitchen: Recipes and Tips from America’s Favorite County Fair Champion.”
NewsAppalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowship Applications Open
Fellows may include, but are not limited to home cooks and bakers, seed savers, farmers, community elders, keepers of recipes and traditional foodways knowledge, hunters, and foragers, who have made …
News2022 Apprenticeship Films Now on YouTube
In Good Keeping in 2022, the documentary film exploring the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Class of 2021-2022 is now live and available on-demand via our Youtube page. The stories follow the …
Event“In Good Keeping in 2022” Carysbrook Screening
The Virginia Folklife Program invites you to the Carysbrook Performing Arts Center in Fork Union (Carysbrook) for its third screening of In Good Keeping in 2022. This original, feature-length documentary film …
Event“In Good Keeping in 2022” Virginia Beach Screening
Update: We have a limited number of tickets still available! Event attendance will close when we reach 150 or on Tuesday, July 26, at 4pm. The Virginia Folklife Program invites …
