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The China Folklife Festival program team is deep in the process of preparing for this summer’s activities.
For many days to come, people of all races, ethnic groups, classes, ages, ideologies, and politics will be sharing their memories
I joined my colleagues Sojin Kim and Michael Mason on an adventure to Cali, Colombia, recently for a restaging of the Colombia: The Nature of Culture Festival program
Have you noticed the black and white patterned squares on signs and advertisements, offering more information?
The Kallawaya people, who make their home high in the Bolivian Andes, developed intricate systems of traditional medicinal practices and belief.
I’m approaching the day when I must leave school and make my way in the world; as a graduate student, I’ve been asking myself on a daily basis
In the spring of 2011, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage researchers visited medicinal herb specialist Dr. James Duke to discuss a possible future program about medical traditions.
Countless times throughout the Festival as I walked through the One World, Many Voices site, I couldn’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of how fortunate I was
When Marjorie Hunt, co-curator of this past summer’s One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage program
The Hungarian contemporary artist Gábor Miklós Szőke created a large-scale Puli dog sculpture for the Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
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