Rain drove the Folklife Festival inside today, but that didn’t stop the participants of Perú: Pachamama from sharing their traditional knowledge and artistic talents with the public.
As the Marketplace interns, we have a few recommendations for our fellow D.C. summer interns, students, and other people living on the cheap.
The first Friday of the Festival marked some extra special events. We welcomed Perú: Pachamama’s first four-legged participants: five alpacas from Maryland
Silkscreen artist Pedro “MONKY” Rojas uses the same bold colors worn by mountain Quechua people to create advertisements for chicha musicians.
Chican@ music is not a genre, but rather an embodied experience. For almost one hundred years, musicians coming out of barrios in the southwestern United States have been articulating the complex identities and politics of a people.
Chicha silkscreen artist Pedro “MONKY” Tolomeo and Festival presenter Alfredo Villar (a.k.a. DJ Sabroso) arrived a few days early last week, just in time for the SMITHSONIAN at 8 kickoff event, “Chicha! A Peruvian Dance Party.”
The National Mall was filled with the sounds of storytelling, foot stomping, and rope twirling as the 2015 Folklife Festival’s Perú: Pachamama program entered its second day.
Led by the Smithsonian Accessibility Program, Morning at the Mall is designed to allow individuals with cognitive and sensory processing disabilities to experience the Folklife Festival in a calm and welcoming environment.
Eulogio Medina Sanabria has dedicated his life to the Peruvian art of mate burilado (gourd carving). While many carvers are drifting away from tradition, Sanabria continues to focus on detailed techniques
Since 2009, art director Josué Castilleja has designed eighteen logos for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. For the Perú: Pachamama program, he and his design staff have developed over 250 designs