On a hot day this past summer, I had the opportunity to capture footage, help direct, and edit videos about the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The Folklife Festival hosted a program on Bhutan in 2008 that was the largest and most comprehensive celebration of Bhutanese life and culture ever hosted outside the remote Himalayan Kingdom.
The world lost a major figure in American arts and activism on January 27. Pete Seeger, who revolutionized through music, passed away at the age of ninety-four.
The China Folklife Festival program team is deep in the process of preparing for this summer’s activities.
For many days to come, people of all races, ethnic groups, classes, ages, ideologies, and politics will be sharing their memories
I joined my colleagues Sojin Kim and Michael Mason on an adventure to Cali, Colombia, recently for a restaging of the Colombia: The Nature of Culture Festival program
Have you noticed the black and white patterned squares on signs and advertisements, offering more information?
The Kallawaya people, who make their home high in the Bolivian Andes, developed intricate systems of traditional medicinal practices and belief.
I’m approaching the day when I must leave school and make my way in the world; as a graduate student, I’ve been asking myself on a daily basis
In the spring of 2011, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage researchers visited medicinal herb specialist Dr. James Duke to discuss a possible future program about medical traditions.