Programs & Activities
Folk Life Area This year’s Folk Festival and Traditional Arts area of the American Folk Festival focused on the important role that Maine Farm traditions play in our heritage. The Maine Folklife Center, with support from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, presented exhibits, demonstrations, and discussions on beekeeping, cheese-making, and cooking from fresh Farmers’ Market produce.
Children's Village
The Children’s Village at the American Folk Festival is geared toward children and families, and is an opportunity for festival visitors to experience many dimensions of different cultures. The displays, activities, performances, and information are all designed to weave a picture of the many threads of family life in a variety of traditions.
Produced in concert with the Maine Discovery Museum (MDM), the Children’s Village featured four “neighborhoods” that represented some of the cultures that are part of our Eastern Maine community. This year, our communities were: Native American, Franco-American and Acadian, Latino, and Chinese.
Children were able to make a variety of crafts, including Chinese paper lanterns, Mexican tissue-paper flowers, Native American spirit animals and Acadian “dancing dolls.”
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