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Our Festival Flickr Galleries are back! Here is a wonderful selection of images posted on Flickr of the opening day of the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
We are cheating a bit today--adding in a couple of late-arriving photos from last night's concerts.
At quilt shows and guild meetings around the United States, quilters perform bed turnings to share the stories about the quilts and the experience of making them.
The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival is proud to host two evening events featuring the tastes and sounds of Azerbaijan.
The Festival kicked off with great weather, energetic participants, and attentive visitors.
This otherwise familiar recipe substitutes beef with buffalo, a traditional and healthy ingredient.
The first panels of The AIDS Memorial Quilt were sewn in San Francisco in 1987.
On May 20, 2012, a community of friends gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, to celebrate the life of Kenny Williams, a dear friend lost to the AIDS pandemic.
The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens in less than twenty-four hours and the National Mall is a hub of activity as final preparations are completed.
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