Kentucky Folklife Program Thursday, February 18th, 2021 On March 5 and 6, the Kentucky Folklife Program, part of the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at WKU, will host the first virtual Kentucky Folklife Network Gathering. The two-day event is dedicated to creating more robust avenues of communication among folklorists, academics, community scholars and cultural documentarians across the state. The gathering will feature roundtable discussions and speakers from Kentucky and beyond engaged in community-based folklife projects on topics such as engaging seniors in folk art activities and documenting the art of the Black Lives Matter movement. “We are excited to be hosting this first Folklife Network Gathering event next month,” said Kentucky Folklife Program Director Brent Bjorkman. “As a statewide folklife organization dedicated to documentation projects ourselves, we have long been aware of the challenge of working in all 120 Kentucky counties. The role of the gathering will be to bring together individuals and organizations, both from within Kentucky and outside who are deeply engaged in projects in their home communities to share their innovative work with others.”