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When joining the Folklife festival team, I was given brief profiles of all the participants that were a part of the Citified program.
UNUKUPUKUPU, which means “Shrine of Ferns [Rooted in Fresh Lava]," is an earth-centric hula group from Hawai`i Community College that aims to bring an awareness of the role and the spirit of hula as a sacred dance into a modern global context.
Making all events and programs of the Folklife Festival accessible to all visitors is a high priority for the Smithsonian.
Each day during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, volunteers will unfold The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall for display as part of the program Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt.
The “Godfather of Go-Go,” Chuck Brown, passed away in May and the nation’s capitol mourned.
Be prepared to get inspired musically, as well as intellectually!
With participants arriving in less than two weeks, the Festival’s Supply Team has been rapidly amassing materials for each program.
West Virginia University is providing a new take on what you might consider folklife in Appalachia.
The 2012 Folklife Festival features a very eclectic series of evening concerts. Curators Jim Deutsch and Mark Puryear provide a preview of the following concerts
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