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Phil Tajitsu Nash
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The Festival site looked great yesterday, and the recently arrived México program participants could be seen chatting with folks from the Asian Pacific Americans and Smithsonian Inside Out programs
Many APA festivals encourage each group to come, perform their music or dance, and then leave. At this festival, groups will perform their own repertoire as usual, but they also have been asked to collaborate with a group from another APA culture.
The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday in this country. Firecrackers, cookouts, and celebration of war veterans are traditional.
An especially enjoyable aspect of planning this festival was getting to see and hear the many talented APA performers in the D.C. area.
The Middle East is seen as the home of Islam, but there are millions of Muslim Americans whose roots lie in Pakistan, Indonesia and elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific Islands
How did this Asian Pacific American (APA) program come together into a coherent ten days of programming in just one short year of work?
It is two weeks before the start of the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and all of the pieces are starting to fall into place
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