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2012 Festival Schedule

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Campus and Community

  Justin S. Morrill
Performing Arts Center
Test Kitchen The Commons Smithsonian U
11:00 Opening Ceremony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12:00 University of Hawai‘i's Tuahine Troupe USDA Food Safe Families The Land-Grant Tradition The Life and Times of Senator Justin Smith Morrill
 
 
 
  Reinventing Agriculture Teaching Dinosaur Science Using Unthinkable Methods
 
 
 
1:00 Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Creole Native American Cooking with Buffalo Empathic Design Research Strategy
 
  Transforming Communities
 
  Expanding Opportunities for Students with Severe Physical Disabilities
 
 
 
2:00 West Virginia University Steel Band UC Davis Olive Oil Lifelong Learning History of the Morrill Act and Land Grant Universities
 
 
 
  How Songs Find Their Meanings: Que Sera, Sera
 
  Building on Tradition
 
3:00 University of Hawai‘i's Hula Halau UNUKUPUKUPU Vermont Maple Syrup A Brief History of The University of Illinois Rehabilitation Education Program
 
 
 
  Research into Action What Really Bugs Us: Pests in the Garden
 
 
 
4:00 University of Texas-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán Food as Medicine Across Cultures The Story of New France, the Other Colonial America
 
  Sustainable Solutions
 
  Teaching Dinosaur Science Using Unthinkable Methods
 
 
 
5:00 L'Esprit Creole The Next 150 Years Art Science Fusion
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
6:00 Evening Concert
West Virginia University Steel Band featuring Ellie Mannette
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7:00
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
American Sign Language-interpreted program American Sign Language-interpreted program
CART real-time captioning services available CART real-time captioning services available
Audio loop installed Audio loop installed at Justin S. Morrill Performing Arts Center, Test Kitchen, Smithsonian University, and The Commons

Citified

  Panorama Room
On the Mall
Good Hope & Naylor Corner Douglass Hall
11:00 Opening Ceremony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12:00 Soul & Funk: Faycez U Know Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C Art Workshop: Jay Coleman
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1:00
 
 
 
  Hip-Hop: Head Roc Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
2:00
 
 
 
  Beat Ya Feet Dance: Da Originalz Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C Art Workshop: Jay Coleman
 
 
 
3:00
 
 
 
  Soul & Funk: Faycez U Know Hip-Hop: Head Roc Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
4:00
 
 
 
    Beat Ya Feet Dance: Da Originalz  
 
 
 
5:00
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
6:00 Evening Concert
The National Museum of African American History and Culture presents Bring Back the Funk featuring George Clinton and others
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7:00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8:00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9:00
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
American Sign Language-interpreted program American Sign Language-interpreted program
CART real-time captioning services available CART real-time captioning services available
Audio loop installed Audio loop installed at Panorama Room On the Mall and Good Hope & Naylor Corner

Creativity and Crisis

  Red Hot Giving Voice Kids Create!
11:00 Opening Ceremony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12:00 NAMES Performers: The AIDS Pandemic History of The Quilt and the NAMES Project Foundation Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
  Children of the Good Shepherd Home HIV/AIDS Through Spoken Word Quilt Yo-Yo Mania
 
1:00
 
 
 
  NAMES Performers: Quilt Inspirations Sheryl Lee Ralph Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
2:00
 
  Spoken Word The Last One Theater Workshop
 
 
 
 
 
3:00 NAMES Performers: The Last One Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilterss and Panel Makers Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
  "Sometimes I Cry" by Sheryl Lee Ralph Community Responses to AIDS Doll Making
 
4:00
 
 
 
  Stories from The Quilt Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
5:00 Quilt Display
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
American Sign Language-interpreted program American Sign Language-interpreted program
CART real-time captioning services available CART real-time captioning services available
Audio loop installed Audio loop installed at Red Hot and Giving Voice


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