Two Hungarian construction crews have arrived in Washington and are hard at work building fences and fashioning the intricate details of the Festival’s twenty-three-foot-tall Peacock Tower.

Thirteen miles east of the National Mall, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage supply and technical crews gear up for their big move to the Mall for the Festival.

Raised in the capital city of Bratislava, Slovakia, Zsuzsa Cselenyi was instilled with a strong sense of pride in her Hungarian heritage as a child

International Women’s Day marks an opportunity to take a stand for equality and emancipation

Every Mardi Gras in New Orleans for the past 100 years, the Krewe of Zulu parades through the streets in blackface, wearing grass skirts, and throwing coconuts.

Around the world, communities are working to preserve linguistic multiplicity, and these efforts contribute to expanding the opportunities for communication and enabling people to better understand world views and knowledge systems different from their ow

Alexandra and Lucas Krost are co-founders of a production company called The Branching, based in Richmond, Virginia.

January 25 is Dydd Santes Dwynwen, or Saint Dwynwen’s Day, the Saint Valentine’s Day of Wales

When was the last time you sat through all the credits after watching a movie? How many of those job titles did you understand?

In reflecting on our experiences at the 2012 Folklife Festival, the team of interns kept coming back to the concept of community.