a_s1576_t90-075 | Haitian Foodways Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area) | Sound | Cooks Storytellers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Workshops (Adult education) Demonstrations Arts, Haitian Haitian Americans Food Food preparation Desserts Cooking and dining | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Haitian Foodways Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)
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- 1990-05-26
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (Also copied onto cassette C90-15). Louis was from Miami. Each year at the Florida Folk Festival, the Florida Folklife Program emphasized a particular culture, tradtions, or geographic area. In 1990, they emphasized celebrations of various Florida groups. including Haitians, Trinidadians, Greeks, and Jewish peoples.
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a_s1576_t90-074 | Haitian Music Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area) | Sound | Musical groups Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Workshops (Adult education) Demonstrations Arts, Haitian Haitian Americans Music performance Community culture Community rites Oral education Performing arts Bands (Music) Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Haitian Music Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area)
- Date
- 1990-05-26
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (Also copied onto cassette C90-15). Each year at the Florida Folk Festival, the Florida Folklife Program emphasized a particular culture, tradtions, or geographic area. In 1990, they emphasized celebrations of various Florida groups. including Haitians, Trinidadians, Greeks, and Jewish peoples.
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a_s1576_t90-093 | Haitian Music and Carnival Traditions Workshop at the 1990 Florida Folk Festival (Florida Folklife Area) | Sound | Musicians Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Workshops (Adult education) Demonstrations Music performance Arts, Haitian Haitian Americans Performing arts Bands (Music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Haitian political folksinger Kiki Wainwright playing | Haitian political folksinger Kiki Wainwright playing | Still Image | Singers Guitarist Fieldwork Musical instruments Music performance Folk singers Haitian Americans African Americans Arts, Haitian Guitarists Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Haitian political folksinger Kiki Wainwright playing
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- Three color slides. Playing at folklorist Sommer's apartment. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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a_s1576_t85-147 | Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis | Sound | Fieldwork Tales Storytelling Arts, Haitian Haitian Americans African Americans Oral narratives Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis
- Date
- 1985-08-03
- Description
- Two reel to reel tapes. Recording of Louis telling various Haitian stories. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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a_s1576_40_tape12 | Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis | Sound | Fieldwork Tales Storytelling Arts, Haitian Haitian Americans African Americans Oral narratives Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis
- Date
- 1985-08-09
- Description
- One audio cassette. Recording of Louis telling various Haitian stories at her home. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
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Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis making beignets | Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis making beignets | Still Image | Cooks Storytellers Cookery, Haitian Fieldwork Desserts Food preparation Haitian Americans Arts, Haitian Pastry Doughnuts Kitchens | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis with her apprentice Fernande Forte | Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis with her apprentice Fernande Forte | Still Image | Fieldwork Storytelling African Americans Haitian Americans Oral performance Performing arts Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Haitian storyteller Liliane Louis with her apprentice Fernande Forte
- Date
- 1989-08
- Description
- Thirty-six color slides. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
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a_s1576_06_c81-051a | Hallan Daphnis interview | Sound | Field recordings Haitian Americans Emigration and immigration Arts, Haitian Radio broadcasters Radio announcing Interviews Latinos Life histories Oral histories | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Hallan Daphnis interview
- Date
- 1981-08-17
- Description
- One audio cassette. Daphnis, a radio announcer for the Compas Creole radio show, discusses why he immigrated to the United States; his education in the U.S.; his work with the H.A.C.A.D., Haitian American Community Association of Dade; the Little Havana neighborhood; traditional celebrations; Haitian folk music; the similarities between Little Haiti in Miami and Haiti itself; trends in Haitian immigration to the U.S.; negative stories put out by the media about Haitians, especially regarding voodoo; the arts and Haitian artists; local Haitian restaurants in Little Haiti, etc. Copied from T81-80, though the reel is missing
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Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986) | Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986) | Still Image | Fieldwork Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Demonstrations Folklife Concerts Music performance Craft Latinos Arts, Mexican Haitian Americans Jamaican Americans African Americans Mexican Americans Jewish Americans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images from the First Annual South Florida Folklife Festival (1986)
- Date
- 1986-03-22
- Description
- 199 color slides. Sponsored by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, the festival was held at the Metro-Dade Cultural Center. The festival consisted of folk demonstrations, food booths, workshops, and musical performances. Cultures and folkways exhibited included Mexican, Venezuelan, Haitian. Jamaican, Cuban, African American, and Jewish. Many of these images have been described in more detail elsewhere in the database. In 1987, the name of the festival was changed to the Traditions Festival.
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