Please join us for the 2023/2024 Annual Meeting of New York Folklore. The meeting will take place via Zoom on Thursday, April 4, 2024 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Join us to hear of New York Folklore’s 80th Anniversary Plans for 2024
Converse with fellow New York Folklore Members
Elect two new members for the Board of Directors: Camilla Ammirati and TC Owens.
Camilla Ammirati is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the First-Year Program and Interim Administrative Director of the Sustainability Program at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. Camilla received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, where she focused on the relationship between domestic space and national belonging in late 19th and early 20th century American literature and music. She worked for several years as a folklorist and Director of Research and Programs at TAUNY (Traditional Arts in Upstate New York) where she conducted research and developed programs and exhibits highlighting the living traditions of northern New York’s North Country. Along with work in folklore and higher education, she has been active musician playing guitar and banjo as well as singing and writing music inspired by a range of American roots traditions. Her current teaching and research focus on the intersections between folklife and sustainability as encountered through practices and knowledge around local and regional foodways and related experiences and expressions of conscious ecological kinship.
T.C. Owens is a folklorist and videographer. For the past 15 years he has worked collaboratively to document, preserve and present the vital traditions of everyday people and their communities. He holds an MA in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked at the Philadelphia Folklore Project, Media Mobilizing Project, and as a contract folklorist for the Northern Tier Cultural Alliance and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in Northeast Pennsylvania, where he grew up. He is also a director and producer of the documentary short, Our Side: The Other Atlantic City.
To attend, please RSVP to info@nyfolklore.org to receive the Zoom link.