A graffiti-cloaked, smoke-filled, off-yellow school bus idled in front of the Washington Monument, stuffed with a group of 20 ecstatic water protectors. I had a tray of cookies from Costco and they were hungry.
While many articles tended to be repetitive or dry, there were also some gems: highly descriptive, full of stories and quotes, and containing detailed bios and quirky facts about Festival participants.
According to aerialist Dolly Jacobs, creating a circus act is “like making a cake.” A single performance’s many ingredients—the acrobatics skills, the entrance, the costume, the music, the drama—all contribute to the spectacle.
When I arrived to Catalonia in 2012, the two things that struck me most were Catalan nationalism and human towers called castells.
Based on my experience as a circus clown and a historian of performance, I have identified six eras that illustrate how clowns have been central to the circus
Angel Island Immigration Station was built in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay mainly to process immigrants from China, Japan, and other countries on the Pacific Rim.
Always looking for new ways to keep people engaged in our work, even as it is unfolding, we will provide regular updates on the planning and development of the Catalonia program for the 2018 Folklife Festival.
February 19, 2017, marked the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II.
As we approached the thirty-fourth anniversary of the NEA National Heritage Fellowships, the Folk and Traditional Arts staff at the National Endowment for the Arts began to review
In the face of colonization, migration, and other forces that cause people to leave home, those on the move often have few to no belongings to remind them of home. Instead, they must preserve traditions