Past Projects

SEMINOLE PEOPLE OF THE CLOTH: A PATCHWORK HISTORY
From 2015-2017, FCR received a Florida Humanities Council grant for a project led by cultural journalist Jacki Lyden/The Seams to create Seminole People of the Cloth: A Patchwork History. The four-part series broadcast onAll Things Considered/National Public Radio focused on Florida Seminole Indian patchwork. Carried on almost 800 radio stations, the episodes received over one million radio visits and about double that online.

DODECANESE MUSIC CONCERT AND WORKSHOPS
In 2011 FCR received a South Arts grant to conduct a residency program with two outstanding Greek musicians. Mihalis Kappas and Panayotis League gave workshops in traditional Dodecanese island music and an evening concert at the Kalymnian Society House in Tarpon Springs.

FLORIDA CATTLE RANCHNG: FIVE CENTURIES OF TRADITION 
From 2008-2009 FCR partnered with the Florida Folklife Program (FFP) to create the exhibit Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition, as well as a panel discussion about Florida cattle ranching at the Museum of Florida History. The exhibit later traveled throughout Florida and to the 2010 Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV. FCR received grants from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and Bryson Foundation.

NATIONAL HERITAGE FESTIVAL
FCR received a Florida Division of Cultural Affairs grant to organize and implement, in partnership with the City of Orlando and FFP, a festival featuring Florida’s National Heritage Fellows and Folk Heritage Award winners in April 2008. 

LATIN AMERICAN FILM & HERITAGE FESTIVAL  
In 2005 FCR collaborated with the Florida Folklore Society, Orlando’s Downtown Media Arts Center, and FFP to present artists at the Latin American Film & Heritage Festival.

VOICES OF FLORIDA  
FCR partnered with the Florida Folklife Program (FFP) to co-produce Voices of Florida, a series of eight half-hour radio portraits of folk communities that reached over 361,600 through radio broadcasts in 2006. Programs included Cattle Ranching; Wooden Boats; Haitian, Cuban, Southeast Asian and Greek communities; Sacred Steel music; and Technofolk—the intersection of folk culture and technology. FCR received a grant from the Florida Humanities Council to support the project.