Western Folklife Center - Postcards from the Road

POSTCARDS FROM THE ROAD

Throughout the year Western Folklife Center staff members travel around the western United States presenting programs, documenting traditional culture for our archives, and researching ideas and content for Folklife Center exhibitions and media productions. While we travel we try to send back postcards that keep you up to date with where we've been and the folks we've been meeting. Read more about our adventures on the open road.

Postcards from South Korea

Western Folklife Center programs coordinator Tamara Kubacki is traveling in South Korea. She'll be sending back postcards as she journeys through the country, meeting people and experiencing the culture.
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Pardon Our Dust

March 20, 2008 from Christina Barr
Carson City, NV
Commission for Cultural Affairs

Right to Left, Meg and Christina unwind with the Nevada Arts Council’s Folklife Program Coordinator Pat Wells after seven hours of meeting presentations

Photo by Christina Barr

Meg Glaser and I have come west to Carson City to present the Western Folklife Center’s funding proposal for Pioneer Hotel headquarters repairs and maintenance to Nevada’s Commission for Cultural Affairs. The Commission for Cultural Affairs administers a granting program to help maintain and restore historic structures being preserved as cultural centers around the state. It has been enlightening listening to staff from other cultural organizations tell their stories as they struggle to maintain their own historic buildings. The Pioneer Hotel was built in 1912/1913 and is constantly in need of some professional TLC. This year we are requesting funding for much needed roof and decorative cornice repair.

Postcards from the Pampas

It's November 2007 and Western Folklife Center staff are in Brazil and Argentina with a group that includes cowboy musicians Sourdough Slim and Wylie & The Wild West, along with poet and filmmaker Gail Steiger. The group is being hosted by Sr. Luis Carlos Borges from Brazil and Sr. Armando Deferrari from Argentina, keepers of the gaucho spirit and lore in their respective countries, who traveled to Elko in January 2006 to perform at the 22nd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.