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Creativity and Crisis
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The Festival kicked off with great weather, energetic participants, and attentive visitors.
The first panels of The AIDS Memorial Quilt were sewn in San Francisco in 1987.
On May 20, 2012, a community of friends gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, to celebrate the life of Kenny Williams, a dear friend lost to the AIDS pandemic.
The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens in less than twenty-four hours and the National Mall is a hub of activity as final preparations are completed.
Staff of The NAMES Project introduce us to Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt, a program of the 2012 Festival.
Each day during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, volunteers will unfold The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall for display as part of the program Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt.
With participants arriving in less than two weeks, the Festival’s Supply Team has been rapidly amassing materials for each program.
My name is Kevin Crane, but everyone knows me as Chili. My role with The Names Project Foundation is as the warehouse manager.
My name is Jada Harris. I am the director of programs at The NAMES Project Foundation.
My name is Gert McMullin. I have been working with The Quilt since May 1987 in Quilt production and sewing at The NAMES Project Foundation.
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