2012 Festival Blog - Creativity and Crisis
Festival Photo Daily Dozen: July 6, 2012
Today’s highlights include a poetry slam in the Citified program area and an evening concert of mariachi music, featuring theRead More
July 6, 2012 No Comments
Photos From Our Festival Visitors: Flickr Gallery #7
It’s interesting to see certain themes emerge in visitor photos as we move through the Festival, and to observe whichRead More
July 6, 2012 No Comments
Festival Photo Daily Dozen: July 5, 2012
Today’s Festival highlights include the live broadcast of NPR’s Talk of the Nation from the Giving Voice stage of theRead More
July 5, 2012 No Comments
This Eyelash of a Moment
Standing tall in gold stacked sandals at the mic is Sonya Renee, formerly from the Black AIDS Institute, the nation’sRead More
July 5, 2012 No Comments
LISTEN! NPR Talk of the Nation at the Festival
NPR’s live call-in show Talk of the Nation is broadcasting from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival TODAY, July 5, 2 toRead More
July 5, 2012 No Comments
Photos From Our Festival Visitors: Flickr Gallery #6
Happy 4th of July, everyone! Today we bring you our 6th fabulous Flickr gallery of the 2012 Festival. Check itRead More
July 4, 2012 No Comments
Festival Photo Daily Dozen: July 4, 2012
Happy Fourth of July! Great to be back out on the National Mall with all of the participants. A wonderfulRead More
July 4, 2012 No Comments
Sharing The Quilt’s History
Joan Juster, panel maker and names reader coordinator, discusses the origins of The AIDS Memorial Quilt with Mike Smith, co-founderRead More
July 4, 2012 2 Comments
HIV/AIDS through Spoken Word: Mary Bowman’s “Dandelion”
Poet and spoken word artist Mary Bowman was born HIV-positive. Bowman’s words express her personal experience with HIV/AIDS and illuminateRead More
July 4, 2012 No Comments
A Day in the Life of The AIDS Memorial Quilt
The last time The AIDS Memorial Quilt was unfolded in its entirety was October 1996 on the National Mall inRead More
July 3, 2012 No Comments
