Past Events Category: Workshop

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 …

The Link in Nancy Nicholas Hall
April 3, 2025 @ 3:00 pm CDT - 4:30 pm CDT

We’re excited to be partnering with the Center for Design and Material Culture to host a drop-in wood carving workshop in The Link in Nancy Nicholas Hall led by Derek Brabender. In this all-levels workshop, you’ll learn …

Beaver Creek Preserve, Fall Creek, Wisconsin
February 21, 2025 @ 5:00 pm CST - February 23, 2025 @ 1:00 pm CST

The Wahlstrom Workshop is February 21–23, 2025, at the Beaver Creek Reserve in Fall Creek, Wisconsin. Gustavus College is hosting this year and we’ll be collaborating ot bring a couple of folk artists! As always, …

Folklore Village, Dodgeville, WI
May 4, 2024 @ 6:30 pm CDT - 9:30 pm CDT

This day of workshops, performances, and exchange brings together youth Scandinavian music and dance groups from Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin to learn from each other and from expert instructors in the area. Following the workshops, …

Library Mall (outside of Memorial Library), Madison, Wisconsin
April 17, 2024 @ 12:00 pm CDT

It’s time for our musician-in-residence Renee Vaughan to start offering pop-up nyckelharpa workshops on campus! If you have ever wished to try out a nyckelharpa (or just see one up close), now is your chance! …

Schar Hall (Fifth Floor) in Nancy Nicholas Hall, Madison, Wisconsin
April 9, 2024 @ 1:30 pm CDT - 3:00 pm CDT

We’re excited to be co-hosting with the Center for Design and Material Culture a demonstration by hairwork artist, Karen Keenan of Hemslöjd Studios. Karen has apprenticed with master hairworkers in Våmhus, Sweden, the community known for its …