| 1st Annual South Florida Folk Festival | 1st Annual South Florida Folk Festival | Moving Image | Singers
Musicians
Fiddlers
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Music Latin America
Latinos
Puerto Ricans
Arts, Venezuelan
Venezuelan Americans
Arts, Irish
Irish Americans
Harp music
Fiddle music
Harpists | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
1st Annual South Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1986-05-22
- Description
- One video cassette. (3/4" tape) 20 minutes. 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. In 1987, the name of the festival was changed to the Traditions Festival.
- Collection
| Ana de Diaz and Carmen Linstrom making lace at her home | Ana de Diaz and Carmen Linstrom making lace at her home | Still Image | Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Bobbin lace
Lace bobbins
Lace and lace making
Lacemaking
Needlework
Puerto Ricans
Latinos
Decorative arts
Material culture
Tatting | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Ana de Diaz and Carmen Linstrom making lace at her home
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- Twenty-three black and white prints (plus negatives). Diaz learned lace making after moving to Florida from Puerto Rico in 1983. She learned from Eva Ponton in San Juan and Ana Blanco in Jacksonville. For more information on Diaz, see S 1640, box 8, folder 6. 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, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year through 2003.
- Collection
| Ana de Diaz making lace at her home | Ana de Diaz making lace at her home | Still Image | Needleworkers
Fieldwork
Bobbin lace
Lace and lace making
Lace bobbins
Lacemaking
Needlework
Puerto Ricans
Latinos
Decorative arts
Material culture
Tatting | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Ana de Diaz making lace at her home
- Date
- 1988
- Description
- Twelve color slides. Diaz learned lace making after moving to Florida from Puerto Rico in 1983. She learned from Eva Ponton in San Juan and Ana Blanco in Jacksonville. For more information on Diaz, see S 1640, box 8, folder 6. 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 traditions 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.
- Collection
| a_s2034_02_cd04-113 | Ballet Folklórico de Bomba y Plena Lanzó dance workshop at the 2004 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Stage | Sound | Florida Folk Festival
Folk festivals
Music -- Performance
African Americans
Bomba (dance)
Puerto Ricans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| Cakemaker Ana Paz | Cakemaker Ana Paz | Still Image | Fieldwork
Cake
Desserts
Latinos
Puerto Ricans
Decorative arts
Church decoration and ornament
Food preparation
Food industry and trade
Food
Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Cakemaker Ana Paz
- Date
- 1985-09
- Description
- Twelve color slides. Paz in the kitchen making and decorating cakes. 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_t91-015a | Cayo Hueso Comparsa performance at the 1991 Florida Folk Festival Main Stage | Sound | Folk festivals
Florida Folk Festival
Music -- Performance
Folk dancing, Cuban
Conga (Dance)
Congas
Cuban Americans
Puerto Ricans | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1685_07_tape03 | Emilio & Lydia Rivera interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Cooking
Livestock
Farming
Field recordings
Interviews
Oral narratives
Puerto Ricans
Poultry
Immigration
Holidays
Christmas music | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Emilio & Lydia Rivera interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1986-08-18
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. The Rivieras emigrated to the US in 1983, settling first in Orange, New Jersey. They raise animals and crops for cooking. They also celebrate traditional Christmas holiday, running from November through February, and include paranadas parties--visits to homes of neighbors. In the interview Lydia and Emilio discuss living in a chickee; raising chickens and rabbits; growing herbs and trees; use of herbs as food; using herbs as medicine; other medicinal cures; Puerto Rican Christmas songs (boleros, merenge); Puerto Rican musical instruments (bongo, maraccas, guiro, cuatio); and parandas.
- Collection
| Examples of bobbin lace | Examples of bobbin lace | Still Image | Fieldwork
Decorative arts
Needlework
Lace and lace making
Tatting
Textile arts
Textiles
Latinos
Puerto Ricans
Lacemaking
Bobbin lace
Lace bobbins
Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Examples of bobbin lace
- Date
- 1988-08
- Description
- Sixteen color slides. Once called bone lace, bobbin lace is made using bobbins, which were used to store the thread for the lace, act as handles to move the thread, and give weight to the threads to keep tension against the pins. These slides illustrated techniques De Diaz used in her bobbin lace--based on traditional Puerto Rican designs. There are also images of various bobbin types. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.
- Collection
| Images of the 1988 Traditions Festival | Images of the 1988 Traditions Festival | Still Image | Fieldwork
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Music performance
Concerts
Guatemalan Americans
Puerto Ricans
Venezuelan Americans
Latinos
Haitian Americans
Weaving
Bands (Music)
Salsa (music) | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Images of the 1988 Traditions Festival
- Date
- 1988-04-24
- Description
- Fifty-six 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 Seminole, Venezuelan, Guatemalan, Haitian, Cuban, African American, and Puerto Rican. Many of these images have been described in more detail elsewhere in the database. In 1986, it was called the South Florida Folklife Festival, but the name was changed to Traditions Festival in 1987.
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| a_s1576_06_c82-001 | Interview with Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Dr. Helen Safa | Sound | Fieldwork
Interviews
Latinos
Universities and colleges
Universities and colleges Faculty
Emigration and immigration
Spanish language
Holidays and festivals
Haitian Americans
Cuban Americans
Puerto Ricans
Mexican Americans
Beliefs and cultures
Politics and culture
Florida history
Executives
Educators
College teachers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Dr. Helen Safa
- Date
- 1982-06-28
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. (Copy can be found in S 1576, box 39, tape 31.) Safa was director of the Center of Latin American Studies, 1980-1985. A Columbia University graduate, Safa taught at UF until 1997. She has written extensively about gender and Latin America. In the interview she discusses Latin American influences on Florida and its culture. Side 1 (C82-1): Safa discusses "quince" celebrations, godparents, New Year's Traditions, the close relationship between Florida and the Caribbean, the history of Caribbean immigration in the U.S. and Florida; and modern-day Cuban, Haitian, and Puerto-Rican immigration. Also, Safa presents a historical sketch of Caribbean cultures; Chango, Santeria, and Voodoo religions in Caribbean culture. Side 2 (C82-1): Safa discusses cultural assimilation amongst Caribbean immigrants in the U.S.; rites of passage and celebrations used to reaffirm group identity; "Quinces;" the outlawing of Santeria and other religions in Cuba after the revolution; different US immigrant groups' identification with their Caribbean heritages, like in New York and Miami. Side 1 (C82-2): Safa compares Miami's cultural assimilation when compared with countries like China and India; Cuban immigrants in Florida who immigrated to the US before the 1960s, during Battista's governance; studies on the Mariel boatlift; and Cuban Mafia groups who moved to Florida after Castro's takeover and their role in Florida's exile anti-Castro organizations. She also talks about the importance of retaining traditions for immigrants; the political and economic crises in Caribbean countries; and the immigrants' viewpoints on America.
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