My high school offers an end-of-year program for graduating seniors, Senior Experience, during which we complete a three-week internship instead of going to the last three weeks of class.

We learn a lot through the stories we share. Whether they are in conversation with a Festival participant on the National Mall or on one of our many social media platforms

Founded in 1956, the Zhejiang Wu Opera Troupe both revives traditional works (some more than four hundred years old) and creates new ones.

Quetzal, a musical group from East Los Angeles, combines elements of Mexican música ranchera, salsa, Chicano rock, R&B, and international popular music.

Tian Yali, one of the paper-cutting artists from the Folklife Festival’s China program, brought her special recipe for dumplings to the Five Spice Kitchen.

The 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival was the greenest one to date, and represented the largest composting effort for any event on the National Mall.

Zewang Renqing and Geluo Zhaxi are brothers who learned Qiang polyphonic singing while herding cattle with their parents in Western Sichuan Province, China.

Wu Man, a master of the Chinese lute (pipa) was joined by fellow musicians Yang Yi (zheng) and Haruka Fujii (percussion) for an evening concert at the Moonrise Pavilion during the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

I heard about Iddi Achieng’ and Chepchumba long before they came from Kenya to perform in the United States.

Overheard at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival: “I’m a digital woman, I told you!”