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One World, Many Voices
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The 47th Smithsonian Folklife Festival kicked off with a bang this morning.
This morning, the Secretary of the Smithsonian joined dignitaries and participants from around the world to open the 47th Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Alfred “Bud” Lane III, of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, is a language and traditional arts instructor.
The Festival staff, interns, and volunteers have been hard at work through the weekend.
The Folklife Festival has three fantastically diverse programs lined up this year: Hungarian Heritage; One World, Many Voices; and The Will to Adorn.
Curators K. David Harrison and Marjorie Hunt introduce the One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage Festival program.
Come down to the National Mall on June 26 for the opening of the 2013 Folklife Festival!
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.
Arfon Gwilym, Robin Huw Bowen, and Sioned Webb sing a traditional plygain carol in Welsh.
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
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