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Legislation in 1979 (79-322, SB 1208) transferred the Florida Folk Arts component of the Stephen Foster Memorial to the Florida Department of State. Operating as the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs from ca. 1985 until 1995, the Bureau coordinated the annual Florida Folk Festival and directed such programs as Folk Arts Apprenticeships, Folk Arts in Education, Folk Heritage awards, annual research surveys and numerous other projects and programs. From 1995 through June 30, 2021, the renamed and reorganized Florida Folklife Program continued the majority of these operations from within the Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation in Tallahassee. During the 1995 reorganization, the State Archives of Florida acquired the Florida Folklife Collection from the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs’ previously maintained Florida Folklife Archives. Legislation in 2021 (2021-71, L. O. F., HB 909) transferred the Florida Folklife Program and its operations from the Division of Historical Resources to the newly renamed Division of Arts and Culture, previously the Division of Cultural Resources, effective July 1, 2021. The program is charged to "identify, research, interpret, and present Florida folk arts, artists, performers, folklore, traditions, customs, and cultural heritage and make folk cultural resources and folklife projects available throughout the state."
The Folklife Program coordinated the Florida Folk Festival until 2002 when those duties were transferred to the Florida Park Service. Though not the official festival organizer, the Florida Folklife Program continues to collaborate closely with the Park Service and coordinates the folklife stage at the event.
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This series consists of Florida Folklife Program records that document their responsibility of running the folklife stage at the annual Florida Folk Festival beginning in 2002, after management of the festival was transfered to the Florida Park Service. Records include photographs, photograph indices, audio recordings, event video recordings, invitation letters, schedules and other event-specific reference materials. This series also chronicles the program's continued shift from paper to digital record keeping as well as from storing records largely by format to storing by festival year.
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Other records series relating to the Florida Folk Festival can be found in Series S1576: Audio Recordings of Florida Folk Festival Performances and other Folk Events (1935-2002, 2017, 2019), S 1577: Photograhs and Slides of Folk Arts, Artisans and Performers (1910-2005), S 1612: Florida Folk Festival Planning Files (1954-1993), S 1619: Folklife Programs, S 1664: Florida Folk Festival Fieldwork and Program Planning and Documentation Files (1983-1995, 1998, 1999), and Record Group RG 510: Florida Park Service, Series S 2034: Florida Folk Festival Audio Recordings (2002-2004, 2006-2017).
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Florida Folklife Program Florida. Dept. of State.
Folk festivals Florida Folk artists Florida Planning. Folk art Florida
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