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Januwa Moja discusses her experiences growing up in Civil Rights-era Baltimore and the insights that both led her to become a designer and influenced her art.
Things are cooking in Prince George’s County as the tech crew starts stretching canvas, painting, sawing wood, and making dance floors on which we will all soon be boogying, Hungarian style.
Arfon Gwilym, Robin Huw Bowen, and Sioned Webb sing a traditional plygain carol in Welsh.
Dr. Olive Lewin—renowned Jamaican musicologist, folklorist, singer, actress, and community servant—transitioned last week at the age of eighty-five.
We remember her reflective calm, her serious gaze, her steady pace, her deep commitment and respect for the profundity of expressive life imagined and made by ordinary people.
Amid the flurry of production for the upcoming 2013 Folklife Festival, we take a glimpse back at some of our past programs.
Raised in the capital city of Bratislava, Slovakia, Zsuzsa Cselenyi was instilled with a strong sense of pride in her Hungarian heritage as a child
Las Gorras Negras (The Black Berets) were a multi-ethnic group that fought for social transformation amidst Civil Rights movements in New Mexico.
International Women’s Day marks an opportunity to take a stand for equality and emancipation
Matt Noonan is often the first on a location film set and the last to leave.
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