Digital technologies offer unprecedented opportunities for the promotion, preservation and protection of folklore and intangible cultural heritage. By rediscovering and celebrating folklore, we create new possibilities for a sustainable future.

herenow collective will research and document your community-based local arts, history and culture. As part of the process, we will also preserve a digital record in our online archive. By building this knowledge-base, we can help sustain diverse cultural heritage in regional and urban Australian communities, and nurture local grassroots arts and culture.

Our online archive is also a social network. LoLA or Library of Lost Arts is designed to share stories, inspiration & advice for living sustainably, downshifting or preparing to 'go bush'.

folklore includes folk arts and crafts, beliefs, traditional ways of working, games, music, adornment and celebrations as cultural ways in which a group maintains and passes on a shared way of life.

”Every group bound together or by common interests and purposes, whether educated or uneducated, rural or urban, possesses a body of traditions which may be called its folklore.” New York folklorist Ben Botkin, 1938