Join Heritage NL for this four-week course to learn all you need to know to get started on your oral history projects!
Basic Folklore and Oral History Interviewing Course
This course is offered as a WHAM! partnership and is considered a core course for MANL’s Museum Studies Certificate Program, but you do not need to be enrolled in the program to participate in the workshop.
Calling all budding folklorists and armchair historians! This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in local history, culture and folklore, and who wishes to learn more about safeguarding our cultural heritage through the medium of oral histories.
The course will give a background on conducting research interviews in the field. It will provide an overview of the methodology and explore the practical matters of creating, designing, and executing effective oral history research projects, project planning, interview questions, ethical issues, and recording equipment.
Over the four week course, participants will conduct an interview, prepare archival metadata, and work collaboratively to create a finished oral history project. Participants will need to bring their own laptop/tablet, all other materials provided. If you have your own digital recording device (tablet, iPhone, mp3 recorder, etc) you are encouraged to bring it, but it is not required.
The workshop will be taught by folklorist Terra Barrett, Intangible Cultural Heritage Program Planner for Heritage NL. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Folklore and a Master of Arts in Public Folklore from Memorial University. Terra sits on several boards including the Mummers Festival, and has experience working with Memorial University’s Folklore and Language Archives, Them Days, and The Rooms.
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Monday Nights, 7pm-9pm
February 9th-March 2nd, 2026
Workshop fee: $100 (preregistration required, limited to 8 participants)
Location: Newman Building, 1 Springdale Street, St. John’s
(This is office space which is unfortunately located on the second floor of the building so it is not fully accessible. We will be offering a digital version of the course in the future so stay tuned.)
For more information, contact Terra Barrett at 709-739-1892 x2, or email terra@heritagenl.ca
February 9th-March 2nd, 2026
Workshop fee: $100 (preregistration required, limited to 8 participants)
Location: Newman Building, 1 Springdale Street, St. John’s
(This is office space which is unfortunately located on the second floor of the building so it is not fully accessible. We will be offering a digital version of the course in the future so stay tuned.)
For more information, contact Terra Barrett at 709-739-1892 x2, or email terra@heritagenl.ca
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