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In preparation for this summer’s Folklife Festival, the Citified staff team met up with the program participants at the Anacostia Community Museum on Saturday
My name is Kevin Crane, but everyone knows me as Chili. My role with The Names Project Foundation is as the warehouse manager.
My first week interning for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival ended with a trip out into "the field" to meet some of the people who will be sharing their life experiences
My name is Jada Harris. I am the director of programs at The NAMES Project Foundation.
Calling all photographers! The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Flickr Group is now open.
My name is Gert McMullin. I have been working with The Quilt since May 1987 in Quilt production and sewing at The NAMES Project Foundation.
Whoa--the festival is only a few weeks out! Time is flying! There’s still so much that the Participant Staff needs to get done.
We know we're in the home stretch towards Festival opening day when the production/exhibition crew starts moving out onto the National Mall, as they did today.
Christylez Bacon just performed a great set to a packed house at the 32nd Annual Washington Folk Festival
Mississippi State University’s student alternative vehicle design team was just named Year-One winners of the EcoCAR2: Plugging In to the Future competition.
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