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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    • SAFDF – San Antonio Festival 2025!

      OLLU - Our Lady of the Lake University 411 Southwest 24th Street, San Antonio, TX, United States
      SAFDF celebrates its 67th year as a festival, bringing the best of master international dance teachers, including Franklin Houston, John Rodi and Andy Taylor-Blenis to our weekend of workshops. It's not just the workshops that are great, its also the…

    • Dance on the Bay 2025!

      North Bayside Grange 67577 E. Bay Rd., North Bend, OR, United States
      Dance on the Bay 2025 is a day-long festival featuring master teachers Roo Lester (Basque, Scandi & more) and Gigi Jensen (Latin American folk dances) teaching morning and afternoon workshops, an international potluck, a culture hour and evening dance party.…
      $40.00

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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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