To advance and preserve folk arts representing national, local and ethnic customs as they exist throughout the United States of America; to promote and encourage the exchange of folk dance and dance related to folklore in the USA and abroad and to effectively network those who support these objectives.

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    • SNOPA Folkdance Weekend 2025!

      Camp St Croix 532 County Rd F, Hudson, WI, United States
      SNOPA 2025 is back, and we want you to join us! Mark your planners for Feb 21 - 23, 2025 at Camp St. Croix in Hudson, Wisconsin. The residential camp is located just across the Mississippi from Minnesota, near St.…

    • Madison Folk Ball Festival 2026!

      Folk Ball 800 Langdon Street  , Madison, Wisconsin
      Folk Ball 2026 is an international folk dance and music event at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. This year we are holding the Folk Ball on January 23 - 24, 2026. It is the largest and liveliest public…

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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.

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