How Can a Regional Folklorist Benefit You?
Cultural Tourism and Folklife Programming
• By helping communities developtours on local traditional culture and training tour guides; festivals and concerts; foodways demonstrations, craft demonstrations, and storytelling events; exhibits about local traditions for museums and community centers; and educational programs for use in and out of schools
• By providing research to support the development of high-quality tourist attractions that accurately reflect Louisiana’s folk cultures
• By determining effective and responsible means of presenting cultural tourism research
• By encouraging responsible approaches to cultural tourism, that will not endanger the traditional community
• By encouraging cultural conservation as a means of preserving community heritage and providing authentic resources for cultural tourism
Research: Identification and Documentation
• By helping communities identify folk musicians and craftspeople who can be presented to the public and in schools
• By offering workshops to train community members in documenting local traditions and archiving the materials collected
• By helping traditional artists document their work with photographs and providing photographs to be used in promotional materials
Folklife Education Projects
• By consulting with teachers, librarians, and others on using local lore and folk artists
• By providing professional development workshops for educators using the Louisiana Voices Educator’s Guide