The Change Islands Squidathlon is scheduled for Sunday, Aug 21, 2022. This annual event includes afternoon events that are reviving games pl...

BINGO cards and dabbers at the Witless Bay Knights of Columbus. Photo by Saeedeh Niktab Ettati. 2014. Do you play Bingo? Do you have a...

Today was the annual designation ceremony for the Provincial Historic Commemorations Program . This year, following a nomination made by t...

Children Playing Circle Games VA 93-50 International Grenfell Association photograph collection Photo: Courtesy of The Rooms     ...

Terra Barrett looks on as Teresa Boland reads her original poem, featured in Looking Back; Games We Played Well, the sails have been ho...

World Storytelling Day. Logo by Mats Rehnman. At ICH, we're in the business of stories. When it comes right down to it, stories a...

Memorial University’s Folklore department has teamed up with the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador to launch Looking Back...

On Tuesday, Peter Laracy took some time out to talk to us about having fun when he was a kid. Here he is at the beautiful Cupids Legacy Cen...

Sandra Antle (second from left) tells onlookers Don Antle, Andrea McGuire, Sharna Brzycki and Marg Connolly about a game she used to play....

This past Tuesday was our third and final session playing and talking about games at MacMorran Community Centre. While the folklore students...

I wrote an article in The Telegram a while back about traditional Newfoundland children's singing games.  It included a version ...

A picnic in May 1958. Ethel Benson with children Olga Pippy, Carol Clancy and Sandra Antle. Photo courtesy of Sandra Antle. Last week, a...

I recently wrote an article for The Telegram on singing games we used to play , about three traditional games: "Little Sally Saucer,...

On Tuesday, February 3rd, Hoist your Sails and Run got off to a fine start. Folklorists and folklore students met with 8 tradition-bearers ...

The smiling faces ready to collect memories! It's here! It's here! Hoist your Sails and Run  is about to take off! On Tuesday...

In the January 2015 edition of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Update newsletter: Alanna Wicks invites youth aged 18-35 to the Heritage ...

In December, I asked Vida Edwards about indoor games she played when she was growing up in Trout River. This was her answer:  “Let’s fa...

Have you ever made yourself a toy? I bet you have. I bet you've made a kite, or a spinning top, or a model boat. I bet you've tied...

It's a snowy old day here in St. John's, and as I watch the snow blow in diagonals from the warm side of the windows in the quiet IC...

In the December 2014 edition of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Update for Newfoundland and Labrador: the Heritage Foundation of Newf...