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2023 NFO Conference
Trinitarian Congregational Church Walden Street, Concord, MA, United StatesNetworking, moving, and lots of live music! Just what you all asked for at the end of the 2022 Conference. If you have a passion for folk arts, come meet, learn, and mingle with others that feel the same way.… -
Dance/Culture Tour to Albania 2023
Albania California Avenue, Arcata, CA, United StatesThis dance and culture tour is hosted by Jeff O'Connor, and it is an all-inclusive tour of Albania. This 10 day tour has been conducted successfully for many years. It features the music, culture and folk dances of Albania.The one… -
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2023 Pourparler Conference
Folklore Village County Road BB, Dodgeville, WI, United StatesPourparler is a get together or parley for teachers of folk/traditional dance in schools and communities. The extended weekend includes discussion, networking, and sharing teaching tips along with live music, singing and dancing. -
Featured2024 NFO Conference
Greene Family Camp 1192 Smith Lane, Bruceville, TX, United StatesTwo great opportunities at the same time! NFO Conference and Total Solar Eclipse Viewing With Special Guests – Jaap Leegwater and Filip Filipov! This year’s conference will have everything you’ve come to expect from NFO – a broad array of fascinating… -
Featured2024 Pourparler Conference
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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.