Fiddlehead Folklore Institute

Nurturing joy through creativity, community & culture. Promoting ICH & cross-cultural understanding through a blog, workshops, music/arts education, & community in Hong Kong. Seeking to work with tradition bearers locally and globally. Our Vision: Fiddlehead Folklore Institute believes every person is creative and is best inspired to their creativity through an interactive, supportive, and diverse community participation. We promote social harmony through creative multicultural education and research programs. Our Mission: Fiddlehead Folklore's mission is to nurture joy in creativity and cultural connections through music-arts education and research in Hong Kong and globally. Our Objectives: To fulfill our vision and mission Fiddlehead Folklore Institute will offer several programs: Multicultural Community Program will provide various workshops and short courses for the general public to learn about a wide variety of traditional arts globally including music, dance, fabric arts, storytelling, drama, tarot, festival traditions and more. For children and their parents, Fiddlehead will provide a holistic multicultural music curriculum, called the Musical Village Method, that teaches music in a cross-cultural context and involves inter-generational learning with the engagement of parents and family members. The Fiddlehead Folklore Institute will partake in, and further, folklore and ethnomusicological research in Hong Kong and other global regions. This may be independent research and/or collaborative community based projects. Finally, Fiddlehead Folklore Institute is open to working with local education and community groups to explore and document folklore and intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.