Staff of The NAMES Project introduce us to Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt, a program of the 2012 Festival.
I am excited to see that Dinosaurs under Montana’s Big Sky will be featured at the Festival.
Christylez Bacon, a native of Washington D.C., is a musician on a mission; his mission being the promotion of cultural unification and acceptance.
When joining the Folklife festival team, I was given brief profiles of all the participants that were a part of the Citified program.
UNUKUPUKUPU, which means “Shrine of Ferns [Rooted in Fresh Lava]," is an earth-centric hula group from Hawai`i Community College that aims to bring an awareness of the role and the spirit of hula as a sacred dance into a modern global context.
Making all events and programs of the Folklife Festival accessible to all visitors is a high priority for the Smithsonian.
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.
The “Godfather of Go-Go,” Chuck Brown, passed away in May and the nation’s capitol mourned.
