Dancing, food, friendship, & tributes! This edited Zoom video includes highlights of the Sunni Bloland Celebration of Life Event held Sunday, August 17, 2025, at Ashkenaz in [...]
National Folk Organization of the United States of America
Our Mission: Provide resources, networking, programming, and education in order to encourage respect for cultural traditions through research, preservation, advancement, and dissemination of information. We support all folk dance and folk arts advocates in furthering these goals.
Our Vision: Promote advancement and sharing of cultural traditions in order to keep them alive as treasures for the world.
Our Values:
Synergy: NFO fosters connections and mutual awareness to strengthen community involvement in cultural traditions.
Respect: NFO respects cultural traditions and the people that create and practice them.
Diversity: NFO supports a wide range of viewpoints and practices pertaining to cultural traditions.
Education: NFO believes that obtaining knowledge relating to cultural traditions is essential to their practice and preservation.
Curiosity: NFO encourages everyone to be curious about cultural traditions, and to approach such traditions with the goal of appreciative inquiry.