2012 Festival Blog - Citified

Our Festival Flickr Galleries are back! Here is a wonderful selection of images posted on Flickr of the opening dayRead More

Day 2 of the Festival! We are cheating a bit today–adding in a couple of late-arriving photos from last night’s concerts.Read More

The Festival kicked off with great weather, energetic participants, and attentive visitors. Here’s a glimpse into opening day at eachRead More

The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens in less than twenty-four hours and the National Mall is a hub of activityRead More

Curator Portia James and artist Jay Coleman describe the 2012 Festival program Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the AnacostiaRead More

Photo by Susan Raab; Photo courtesy of the Anacostia Community Museum Christylez Bacon, a native of Washington D.C., is aRead More

When joining the Folklife festival team, I was given brief profiles of all the participants that were a part ofRead More

The “Godfather of Go-Go,” Chuck Brown, passed away in May and the nation’s capitol mourned. Chuck had to cancel severalRead More

In preparation for this summer’s Folklife Festival, the Citified staff team met up with the program participants at the AnacostiaRead More

My first week interning for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival ended with a trip out into “the field” to meet someRead More