The Alice Gu-Zheng Ensemble, a nonprofit organization, performs with the gu-zheng (Chinese zither).

Chanmala Mali Phonpadith was one of three local Asian Pacific American small business owners invited to discuss "Business in the Community" at the Talkstory discussion stage on July 3

At the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, many visitors to the Family Activities tent at the Asian Pacific Americans program sat on comfortable cots made of sturdy wood frames with woven-rope webbing

Mongolian Americans demonstrated aspects of the traditional three-day Naadam Festival during the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The celebration includes competitions in several manly arts.

Real-estate agents are not always regarded as cultural brokers, but a panel at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's Asian Pacific Americans program on July 27 showed how much they can influence an immigrant's view of this country.

Anyone who has participated in a performance group has a general idea of what it is like to create the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Kwon Myoung-Won is a Korean American calligrapher. Kwon demonstrated his skills by creating a 150-foot-long scroll.

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.