Cultural Sustainability

Wonderful jamming documented from Goucher College Cultural Sustainability faculty Jon Lohman’s Virginia Folklife Program. Those boys are going at it!
Friday night bluegrass jam at the 2009 Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention with Will Jones and Asa Gravley on guitar, Houston Caldwell on banjo, Nick Keen on mandolin, Dalton Cranford on dobro and Joe Hannahbach on bass. [...]

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I came across this interesting blog, Global Culture
I like what the author says about this project:
My job is to create technologies that allow global citizens to tap the true power of the web to express their culture and in the process redefine the mechanisms by which travellers immerse themselves in local cultures, facilitating the spread [...]

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In recent years, many cultural and arts organizations in the United Kingdom have made much ado about something they call “cultural learning.” Banded together to broaden their impact, these organizations have issued a report called “Get It! The Power of Cultural Learning,” which proposes a fundamental shift in cultural policy, espcially as it applies to the [...]

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An interesting, reflective, personal piece on connection in travel, in this case in  Hawaii . I like this quote:
“The connection I offer here is to support the reconnection of youth at risk in the islands with the timeless wisdom and values of their native culture. To help them heal through the process of interaction with [...]

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Carolyn of Carolyn’s kitchen in East Baltimore at the 2007 Maryland Traditions Showcase, Marty Katz, photographer. I share this photo of a remarkable woman in honor of Miriam Hutchins, who I just had lunch with, and who is passionate about the tradition of African American catering and foodways in the MidAtlantic of which Carolyn is [...]

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A tip of the hat to Jeff Gillenwater for this link to Louisville’s Center for Neighborhood’s PAINT program. I like the feel of this, especially the work that was done with neighborhoods to help voice what was important for them.

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I’m proud of my colleagues at Goucher College for the new and improved Cultural Sustainability Program website. Check it out!

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I came across an interesting post on the blog Boing Boing today titled Socialstructing: Bringing Social Back into Our Economy and Organizations written by Marina Gorbis of the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley thinktank. Its one of those thought provoking pieces that offers triangulation and inspiration. The post reflects on social capital, and [...]

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The term “sustainability” has become a trope for a set of concerns and initiatives that are centered on survivability and “quality of life” issues in the modern age. The concerns of “cultural sustainability,” at least on the surface, are more focused on these latter and are sometimes associated with “soft” disciplines (and qualitative research), while [...]

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I really have been impressed by what Dale Gilbert Jarvis has been up to in Labrador and Newfoundland. Link
A recent newsletter about their work highlights the kaviguak drumdancers, good to see them on facebook. It is hard to overstate how valuable such groups are.

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