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The Kentucky Folklife Festival will be held September 15, 16, and 17

3 days of food, music, and culture

This September, Kentucky art and folk culture will meet once again in downtown Frankfort. For over 14 years the Kentucky Folklife Program, part of both the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Historical Society, has strived to educate and inform Kentuckians of the rich array of traditional art forms practiced vibrantly throughout our state today. Since 1997, the Kentucky Folklife Festival has been the program's premiere educational outreach effort, where collected research results in a glimpse of the expressive folk culture alive throughout the state today. This September's celebration of Kentucky's rich cultural heritage will once again provide thousands of visitors, and over 10,000 school children, with a unique opportunity to sample the diversity of the state's living folk art traditions.

For more information and updates on children's activities and school registration see the Kentucky Folklife Festival section of the Kentucky Historical Society's website.

The Teacher's Guide to Kentucky Folklife

The Teacher's Guide to Kentucky Folklife is a great resource for Kentucky educators to be able to introduce elements from their student's own cultures in useful and entertaining way.

The Guide is a full of lesson plans and contextual information using examples from Kentucky specific occupational, ethnic, regional, and recreational communities --to name a few. The activities are mostly geared toward elementary and middle school classes, but can be adapted for more advanced students.

By using the Teacher's Guide to Kentucky Folklife in your classroom, you will be familiarizing students with cultural aspects in their own community as well as providing awareness of other folk communities around the state. In using examples from student's surroundings, you can provide a better rate of understanding as the students can relate the lesson plans in the context of their own lives.
Download a PDF file of the Teacher's Guide to Kentucky Folklife (832kb)