Volunteer & Table at Florida Folk Festival
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Sat, May 24, 2025; 10:00 AM
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- Sun, May 25, 2025
4:00 PM
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Volunteer & Table at Florida Folk Festival
Come join us on Saturday and/or Sunday for a three-hour tabling and outreach volunteer shift at the spectacular Florida Folk Festival at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in lovely White Springs. By doing a three-hour volunteer shift, you will receive a free daily pass to the Festival. Please note: the State of Florida requires all volunteers to have their names run through the state's sex offender database. Volunteers must agree to that.
11016 Lillian Saunders Dr, White Springs, FL 32096, USA
Webinar URL: https://www.floridastateparks.org/FloridaFolkFestival
30.33179400,-82.76300900
David Vaina
david.vaina@gmail.com
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Organized By: Suwannee-St Johns Group
Location: 11016 Lillian Saunders Dr, White Springs, FL 32096, USA
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Event Organizers:
David Vaina
david.vaina@gmail.com
352-665-5855
The festival is a three-day celebration of the music, dance, stories, crafts and food that make Florida unique. Sierra Club SSJ will have a table where we can talk to festival goers about our important work in the region and across the state.
If you haven't been, here is more info about the festival:
From Irish fiddle tunes, contra dancing and root beer floats to the wide varieties of music of immigrants, the state's cultural heritage reflects the lives of generations of Florida families and communities.
Throughout the Memorial Day weekend, more than 300 performances will give voice and meaning to Florida's heritage.
Every year the Florida Department of State's Florida Folklife Program researches a special topic on Florida's traditional heritage. The 2025 festival Folklife Area will feature “Earth.”
The festival's Folklife Area will feature performances and demonstrations celebrating the diverse living traditions of Florida. Be sure to visit the Folklife Area to experience the compelling traditions and savor the flavors, sights and sounds of some of Florida's oldest and newest cultural communities.
At the Florida Folk Festival you can sit with the masters who keep cultural traditions alive. In jam sessions, demonstrations and workshops, try your own hand at playing mandolin, telling stories or making a pine needle basket.
Learn how to collect your family's history or call a square dance, or the importance of native plant and animal species.
Take a shopping excursion and visit with Florida's traditional and contemporary craftspeople. Then dine on collard greens and cornbread, chicken pilau and hoppin' john, shrimp gumbo, barbecue, curries, gyros and root beer floats.
As the sun sets, settle in for concerts by moonlight or dance the night away at the Heritage Stage. At the end of the day, you'll have discovered new corners of the state from the people who call Florida home.
Come join us!
Cost: Free
Signup Instructions: Please email David Vaina at david.vaina@gmail.com to sign up for your 3-hour slot. Please let me know which 3-hour slot you'd like to volunteer for on Saturday/Sunday.
Bring: Sun hat
Signup Restrictions: 18+
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