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

After listening to the band Quetzal’s album Imaginaries, it comes as no surprise that they have been nominated for a GRAMMY

Longtime Festival volunteer Robert Scow shares this video he produced of Jon Vrana’s interpretation of Senator Justin Morrill at the 2012 Festival

The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival paid tribute to the late Chuck Brown, the “Godfather of Go-Go”

When The Names Project Foundation came to discuss a Folklife Festival program about the AIDS Memorial Quilt, I asked if the program would include panels to commemorate Smithsonian colleagues and their family members who had died of AIDS.

This story was filmed at the Center during a 2012 “Call My Name” quilting workshop conducted by The NAMES Project Foundation.

In March 2012, a team from The NAMES Project Foundation came to The Women’s Collective in Washington, D.C., to conduct a “Call My Name” quilting workshop.

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

Mannette has worked for 75 years to develop and popularize the steel drum, creating seven of the ten instruments used in steel drum bands today.

Gert McMullin, one of the original volunteers with The AIDS Memorial Quilt, reflects on her experiences during the early stages of the AIDS pandemic