January 25 is Dydd Santes Dwynwen, or Saint Dwynwen’s Day, the Saint Valentine’s Day of Wales
Roberto Martínez (1929-2013) was raised in the small northern New Mexican town of Mora, in the region where the heart of more than four centuries of Southwest Hispanic heritage beats the strongest.
Longtime Festival volunteer Robert Scow shares this video he produced of Jon Vrana’s interpretation of Senator Justin Morrill at the 2012 Festival
As members of the public pay their last respects to Senator Daniel K.
UNUKUPUKUPU is trigorous hula curricula of Dr. Taupōuri Tangarō at Hawai‘i Community College, University of Hawai‘i System.
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.