Links
Celts & Celtic Heritage - Conservation - Earth-based Spiritual Traditions - Environment & Sustainability - Internet - Local Arts Councils - Local Performance Ensembles, Venues & Festivals - Native American - Professional Organizations and Societies - Religious and Spiritual Tolerance - Visual Literacy
Celts and Celtic Heritage
Celtic Folklore - Some books and texts are translations of Celtic legends and sagas; others are retellings of the material, folklore, or literary works based on Celtic themes.
Celtic Heritage - Aspects of Celtic culture, history and spirituality.
Gaelic and Gaeilic Culture - A site devoted to the language and culture of the Gaels, those people that speak or did speak any of the three Gaelic languages.
Conservation
CAMEO - Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online. This database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and anthropological materials.
Earth-based Spiritual Traditions and Shamanism
Earth and Nature-Based Spirituality (Part I): From
Deep Ecology to Radical Environmentalism (article)
Earth-based Paganism - Beliefnet's pages
Ecospirituality - the care of the Earth and all Her inhabitants.
Foundation for Shamanic Studies - Dedicated to the preservation, study, and teaching of shamanic knowledge for the welfare of the Planet and its inhabitants.
tel shemesh - a web resource for those who are attempting to integrate Jewish faith and practice with earth-based beliefs and ways of living.
Walkingstick - Highlighting the aboriginal mystery wisdom of Judaism, and programs featuring Native American and other aboriginal traditions.
Environment and Sustainability
Greenhome - Environmental store and resource center.
Honor the Earth - Their mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.
Intentional Communities - Serving the growing communities' movement, providing resources for finding a community home and creating more community in your life.
Local Harvest - Find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
Low Impact Woodland Home - Looks like the Hobbits had it right! ;)
Metaefficient - Reviews for the most efficient and/or green things available today.
WorldChanging - A solutions-based online magazine that works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us.
Internet
First Monday One of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. (Index)
Special Issue #1: Music and the Internet — 4 July 2005
Local Arts Councils
Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Their mission is to develop, promote and strengthen the cultural industry for the benefit of the people of the Rochester region.
Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts - Dedicated to preserving and expanding the rich and diverse cultural resources that are and will become the heritage of New York's citizens.
Local Performance Ensembles, Venues & Festivals
Eastman School of Music Concert Schedule
Madrigalia - This 18 member group's repertoire encompasses traditional and contemporary styles of secular and sacred choral literature from the Renaissance through the twenty-first century.
Musica Spei - an a capella choral group specializing in the sacred music of the Renaissance
Nazareth College Music Dept EventsPublick Musick - Rochester's baroque orchestra and chorus
Native American
Ganondagan - Located southeast of Rochester, New York, in the town of Victor, lies Ganondagan (ga·NON·da·gan), the site of a Native American community that was a flourishing, vibrant center for the Seneca people.
Native American Ethnobotany - Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.
Native Americans and the Environment - Land and treaty rights
Native Americans and the Environment--Past, Present and Future
Seeking Native American Spirituality: Read This First! (article)
Professional Organizations and Societies
Local
Greater Rochester Choral Consortium - A forum that brings together community choral groups whose members work together in a way that advances the awareness and functioning of choral arts groups in the Greater Rochester Area.
National & International
Art - Humanities - Libraries - Museums - Music - Photography
Art
Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities - An independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
Libraries
Association of Research Libraries
Art Libraries Society of North America - ARLIS/NA supports the need among art librarians for better communication and cooperation, and to provide a forum for ideas, projects, and programs.
Council of Library and Information Resources
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts -
Digital Libraries Federation -
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) - A diverse coalition of organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment.
Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
Society for Imaging Science and Technology
Society of American Archivists - SAA's mission is to serve the educational and informational needs of more than 3,400 individual and institutional members and to provide leadership to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of records of historical value.
Special Libraries Association - The international association representing the interests of information professionals in over seventy countries.
Visual Resources Association - Support and development for those involved in visual resources management.
Museums
American Association of Museums
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Music
American Musicological Society
Photography
Religious and Spiritual Tolerance
Council for Secular Humanism - A general educational resource on secular humanism.
Interfaith Alliance - Celebrates religious freedom by championing individual rights, promoting policies that protect both religion and democracy, and uniting diverse voices to challenge extremism.
Pluralism Project - Helping Americans engage with the realities of religious diversity through research, outreach, and the active dissemination of resources. (Rochester Pluralism Project)
Religious Freedom - This site is concerned with issues of religious freedom in the U.S. and around the world. Whether you seek information about religious freedom in a particular nation, or are interested in theoretical and historical issues, you will find significant resources to help you pursue your inquiry.
Religious Tolerance - Promoting religious tolerance by providing information on the multitude of spiritual beliefs held around the world.
UCC Coalition - Provides support and sanctuary to all our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender sisters and brothers, their families and friends; advocates for their full inclusion in church and society.
Visual Literacy
Eye to I: Visual Literacy Meets Information Literacy A program which explores the connections between visual literacy and information literacy.
International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) A not-for-profit association of researchers, educators, designers, media specialists, and artists dedicated to the principles of visual literacy.