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Kwon Myoung-Won is a Korean American calligrapher. Kwon demonstrated his skills by creating a 150-foot-long scroll.
Grupo de Fandango de Artesa Los Quilamos come from the southern coastal region of Oaxaca. The music and dance they perform is a blend of Indigenous, African, and Spanish elements.
Paul F. Johnston is a scientific diver and curator at the National Museum of American History. His passion is hunting down and excavating shipwrecks.
In the 2010 Folklife Festival book, the goal of the Asian Pacific Americans program is described in this way:
"Not East Versus West" is the theme for today's programming, reflecting our goal of ending the notion that people from Asia and the Pacific Islands are "perpetual foreigners" no matter how long they have lived in this country
"War and Peace" is the theme of today's Asian Pacific American programming.
Today is the Fourth of July, a day when our nation celebrates the Declaration of Independence from England that Thomas Jefferson and others approved in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.
Every day at the discussion stage (The Commons) of the Smithsonian Inside Out program we have a session called "My Smithsonian."
Immigrants as Innovators is today's theme, and indeed we will be having everything from traditional Malaysian music to Lao break-dancing.
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