This post represents stream of thought as the conversation unfolded. At some point, I may carefully recraft it.

How can folklorists pro-actively communicate what they have to offer in policy making contexts. What kinds of mechanisms and opportunities do folklorists need to make such contributions.

Three broad areas we looked at this morning include:

1. Training
2. Marketing
3. Outreach to other fields.

You must be prepared to take advantage of opportunities that out there.

There is a personality in the field of "subversiveness".

Folkarts never address the applicability of research. How about getting the research and writings in other journals.

Policy briefs are short reports that aren't the research studies. "Here is the nugget and here is the 'so what'". It might be helpful for the folk arts community might start making use of such briefs for work on the hill.

Get distillable information on listservs, website, and resource lists.

The arts/folklorists may be able to connect with community based sustainable foods--the carbon footprint shipping food is astonishing--and the environmentalists. The connection would be health and environment.

Folklorists tend to value and identify "the authentic" and connect this to place, food, craft, and so forth. What other fields share the same kinds of values.

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