Countless times throughout the Festival as I walked through the One World, Many Voices site, I couldn’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of how fortunate I was
When Marjorie Hunt, co-curator of this past summer’s One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage program
The Hungarian contemporary artist Gábor Miklós Szőke created a large-scale Puli dog sculpture for the Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Abel Rodríguez, an indigenous Muinane, demonstrates the art of basket weaving which he learned from his father while growing up in the Colombian Amazon
With new leadership in this moment of transition and possibility, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian has sought feedback and perspective.
International participants of the One World, Many Voices program discuss their experiences with federal, state, and community language policies.
The last vestiges of the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival have been removed from the Mall, but the long-term planning required to mount next year’s Festival is already well under way.
White House butler and maître d' Eugene Allen served eight US presidents. In 1986, he told First Lady Nancy Reagan that it was time he retired.
White House workers often become very close to presidential families. Eugene Allen served as maître d' for eight presidents from 1952 to 1986. In this video excerpt, recorded in October 2007, he recalls his friendship with President Jimmy Carter.
On August 16, 2013, theaters will premiere Lee Daniels’ The Butler, a historical drama that follows the experience of an African American butler in the White House during eight presidential terms from 1952 to 1986.