Mongolian Americans demonstrated aspects of the traditional three-day Naadam Festival during the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The celebration includes competitions in several manly arts.
Real-estate agents are not always regarded as cultural brokers, but a panel at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's Asian Pacific Americans program on July 27 showed how much they can influence an immigrant's view of this country.
Anyone who has participated in a performance group has a general idea of what it is like to create the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Kwon Myoung-Won is a Korean American calligrapher. Kwon demonstrated his skills by creating a 150-foot-long scroll.
Grupo de Fandango de Artesa Los Quilamos come from the southern coastal region of Oaxaca. The music and dance they perform is a blend of Indigenous, African, and Spanish elements.
Paul F. Johnston is a scientific diver and curator at the National Museum of American History. His passion is hunting down and excavating shipwrecks.
In the 2010 Folklife Festival book, the goal of the Asian Pacific Americans program is described in this way:
"Not East Versus West" is the theme for today's programming, reflecting our goal of ending the notion that people from Asia and the Pacific Islands are "perpetual foreigners" no matter how long they have lived in this country
"War and Peace" is the theme of today's Asian Pacific American programming.