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.

Montreat Conference Center

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Montreat Conference Center

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401 Assembly Drive
Montreat, 28757 United States Get Directions
Website www.montreat.org

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  • Mountain Playshop 2025!

    Montreat Conference Center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat, United States
    Mark your calendars for August 22nd-24th, 2025 for the Mountain Playshop weekend now held in its new location in  in Montreat, North Carolina. Mountain Playshop is a regional dance weekend that attracts folk dancers from North Carolina as well as…

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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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