This year’s theme makes the week a uniquely perfect experience for our youngest visitors.
ShaVolla and Nayeli Rodriguez will join SAVA in the Streetwise tent at the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Visit these nearby museums for free-of-cost exhibitions featuring themes of young people’s influence on society.
My first impression of the Idaho gearmaking community was that it was mostly men isolated from each other by the vast geography of the fourteenth largest and fourteenth least populated state.
Their crafts, passed down through generations, seemed to me to be not only a set of skills but a type of historical knowledge.
The Smithsonian invites local teenagers to present and celebrate contemporary American teen culture at the 2025 Festival.
In the orchestral field, only 2.1 percent of players are Black. The Alliance of Black Orchestral Percussionists seeks to change this.
“As a person who’s Deaf and Indigenous, my goal is to teach interpreters how to sign the way an Indigenous person would sign.”