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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 35, 37);">The Center for Folklore Studies will host
filmmaker Olivia Loomis Merrion on Monday, March 4<sup>th</sup> at 6 pm in 250 Knowlton Hall. Marrion's recent projects have focused on folk music, craft and performance traditions, as well as the work of public folklorists. The evening will feature a screening
of her Emmy-nominated short documentary </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(186, 12, 47);"><i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12187208/" id="OWAba9edfa6-354e-c18b-3bde-aeca5504ee84" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(186, 12, 47); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Quilt
Fever</a></i></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 35, 37);">, which profiles the internationally renowned American Quilt Society Quilt Week in Paducah
Kentucky, as well as selections from her documentaries on the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 35, 37);">The films will be followed by conversations with Merrion about presenting folklore to a wide public audience
and an audience Q+A.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 35, 37);">This event is free and open to the public. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 35, 37);">For more information, go to our website:
<a href="https://cfs.osu.edu/events/quilt-fever-and-national-heritage-fellows-documentaries-olivia-merrion" id="OWA4018bc97-48e1-b109-8508-74dbdba012a0" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
“Quilt Fever” and National Heritage Fellows Documentaries with Olivia Merrion | Center for Folklore Studies (osu.edu)</a></span></p>
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