Many APA festivals encourage each group to come, perform their music or dance, and then leave. At this festival, groups will perform their own repertoire as usual, but they also have been asked to collaborate with a group from another APA culture.
The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday in this country. Firecrackers, cookouts, and celebration of war veterans are traditional.
An especially enjoyable aspect of planning this festival was getting to see and hear the many talented APA performers in the D.C. area.
The Middle East is seen as the home of Islam, but there are millions of Muslim Americans whose roots lie in Pakistan, Indonesia and elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific Islands
The Smithsonian Inside Out (SIO) program celebrates work culture across the Institution
How did this Asian Pacific American (APA) program come together into a coherent ten days of programming in just one short year of work?
It is two weeks before the start of the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and all of the pieces are starting to fall into place
Joni L. Jones (Olorisa Omi Osun Olomo) of Austin, Texas, performs a narrative in honor of a storyteller who had recently fallen ill.
The "Presenters Video" complements the guidelines and features good and bad presenting examples taken from different Festival programs.