At one point on June 27 we had music coming from three stages of the APA program at the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Cooking traditions of Americans of Cambodian, Indian, Nepalese, and Thai backgrounds will fill the air with delicious aromas at the Tea House tent today, as cooks prepare fruit carvings, dumplings, and noodles.
The world is focused these days on the World Cup of soccer taking place in South Africa, but after seeing and reading about chinlone, I cannot help but wonder why we do not celebrate this ancient Burmese sport and give it more visibility and popularity al
The Festival's Participant Coordinator, Sandi Tun, is also a highly regarded leader in the Burmese American cultural community.
String and percussion music will fill the performance stage today, with Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, and Sikh traditions featured.
The Japanese have a concept known as youhen. It is a tough word to translate without understanding the context.
The Filipino American community came together from 6 to 8 p.m. to fill the performance tent with two hours of music and dance that ranged from traditional to modern.
Today brings more cooks, performers, Talkstory panelists, and family activities.
We watched a Monkey King dance across the performance stage and heard music from Indonesia, Bengal, Japan, and China
The Festival site looked great yesterday, and the recently arrived México program participants could be seen chatting with folks from the Asian Pacific Americans and Smithsonian Inside Out programs