Past Events Category: Virtual Presentation

Online
May 19, 2026 @ 10:00 am CDT

Join post-doc Chrissy Widmayer for her online workshop on archiving with our friends at the Norwegian American Genealogical Center. Participants will learn about how to start or build a personal archive and how to keep …

Online
May 12, 2026 @ 10:00 am CDT

Join post-doc Chrissy Widmayer for her online workshop on contextualizing family history! Participants will learn how they can use research into history, place, and culture to contextualize their family’s history and seek answers for unanswered …

Online
May 9, 2026 @ 10:00 am CDT

Join post-doc Chrissy Widmayer for her online workshop on folklore! Participants will learn about folklore in all its manifestations, and consider how we all are already engaged in heritage and traditional practices that could be …

Online
April 28, 2026 @ 10:00 am CDT - 11:30 am CDT

Join post-doc Chrissy Widmayer for her online workshop on telling the family story with our friends at the Norwegian American Genealogical Center. Participants will consider best practices for telling or writing their family story. How …

Online
April 21, 2026 @ 10:00 am CDT - April 23, 2026 @ 12:00 pm CDT

Join post-doc Chrissy Widmayer for her online workshop on oral history and interviewing with our friends at the Norwegian American Genealogical Center. Participants will learn the full process of how to conduct an oral history …

Online
November 18, 2025 @ 4:00 pm CST

The Folklife and Education Community of Practice will be joined by Silje Solheim Karlsen who will be discussing her work teaching teachers in Norway and how she uses her work as a literary scholar in …

Play Circle Theater at Memorial Union
February 25, 2025 @ 4:00 pm CST - 5:30 pm CST

Join Lyz Jaakola for a live informance at the Play Circle Theater at Memorial Union! Lyz Jaakola, Nitaa-Nagamokwe (The lady who knows how to sing) is the 2025 folk-musician-in-residence. Jaakola is a tribally enrolled Fond …

September 11, 2023 @ 4:00 pm CDT - 5:00 pm CDT

Join us online for our first 2023 artist-in-residence talk with spoon carver Liesl Chatman who will be discussing her innovative approach to educational equity through spoon carving, kolrosing, and community engagement. While the event is …

October 29, 2022 @ 11:00 am CDT - 12:30 pm CDT
https://finnfest.us/pages/webinar-programs

This presentation will focus on working-class women of Finnish background and their musical activities in early 20th century North America. Women played an active role in organizing the cultural life of immigrants. They also wrote …

September 24, 2022 @ 11:00 am CDT - 12:30 pm CDT
https://finnfest.us/pages/webinar-programs

In 2014, Lisa Wiitala began an in-depth exploration of her Finnish American roots. Part of that journey involved rescuing her grandmother’s carpet loom from the abandoned family farm, learning to weave rag rugs with it …