2011 Festival Blog - Peace Corps

We have just added an online exhibition about Malian Bogolan (mud cloth) to the website of the Center for FolklifeRead More

After much deliberation, we’ve chosen seven of our favorite Flickr images of the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival: one each fromRead More

Check out these five audio streams of Smithsonian Folkways tracks related to the 2011 Festival programs. Music of Colombia featuresRead More

This installment of Festival Audio features a conversation with two returned Peace Corps volunteers: Jimmy Schneidewind, who served in MozambiqueRead More

The Opika Performance Group from Perechyn, Ukraine, reconnects local orphaned children with their region’s culture and heritage through performances ofRead More

In her work with the Peace Corps, Frances Parsons has worked to promote communications for deaf people in communities aroundRead More

Congressman John Garamendi and his wife were both Peace Corps volunteers in the late 1960s. In this video of aRead More

Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day ten of the Festival. While the 2011 Festival isRead More

Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day nine of the Festival. While the 2011 Festival isRead More

As Rahama Wright embarked on a two year Peace Corps assignment in Mali, she had every intention of seizing theRead More