If you plan to bring your whole family to the Folklife Festival, look for the big circular tent called the Wawawasi Kids Corner.

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is ten days of music, dance, storytelling, processions, ceremonies, and more. The sights, sounds, and smells can be quite a sensory overload.

An event as large as the Folklife Festival relies on many moving parts behind the scenes, and the technical team has one of the most important roles in ensuring that the National Mall is ready for thousands of visitors

Did you know that the Folklife Festival is the largest composting and recycling effort on the National Mall?

During my summer as an intern at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, D.C., I want to soak in as much of the city as possible.

Hanging across the Apurímac River in Huinchiri, Peru, is the world’s last remaining traditional Inka rope bridge: the Q’eswachaka.

The story of the Peruvian Pasos begins with the arrival of the Spanish to South America. Because the conquistadors arrived on the coast of Peru, their horses had to adapt to walking in the sand.

I started taking calligraphy classes in 1997 at a local museum in Nanjing dedicated to a renowned modern calligrapher Lin Sanzhi (1898–1989).

The food should be placed in order on a ritual table by the law of ancestral rite.

Shiyu Wang began interning at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage last summer. Originally from Yunnan Province, China, she moved to the United States to earn an MFA in film media from American University.