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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 U.T.- Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán USDA Cooking with Honey Opening Doors Sustainable Biofuels
 
 
 
  The Life and Times of Senator Justin Smith Morrill
 
  Reinventing Agriculture
 
12:00 Univ. of Hawai’i’s Hula Halau Unukupukupu UDC Specialty Crop Cooking Imagi*Nation
 
 
 
  The Next 150 Years The Forest Service: Transforming Communities
 
 
 
1:00 Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Creole Vermont Maple Syrup Revitalizing Northwest Native Food Culture
 
  Lifelong Learning
 
  Mission and History of USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service
 
 
 
2:00 Univ. of Hawai‘I's Tuahine Troupe USDA Food Explorations Sustainable Solutions History of Morrill Act and Land Grant Universities
 
 
 
  How Songs Find Their Meanings: Que Sera, Sera
 
  Building on Tradition
 
3:00 W. Virginia Univ. Steel Band Univ. of New Mexico Food & Medicine Art Science Fusion
 
 
 
  The Land-Grant Tradition The DEFs of Access to Education
 
 
 
4:00 U.T.-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán Healthy and Sustainable Eating What Really Bugs Us: Pests in the Garden
 
  Transforming Communities
 
  Innovations in Regional Food Distribution
 
 
 
5:00   Research into Action A Brief History of The University of Illinois Rehabilitation Education Program
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
6:00 Evening Concert
Azerbaijani Mugham Music
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Hand Dancing: Smooth & EZ Hip-Hop: Christylez Bacon Art Workshop: Jay Coleman
 
 
 
 
 
  Hip-Hop: Head Roc Master-Griot Storytelling Baba-C Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
12:00
 
 
 
  African Heritage Dancers & Drummers East of the River Boys & Girls Steelband Art Workshop: Jay Coleman
 
 
 
1:00
 
 
 
  Hand Dancing: Smooth & EZ Hip-Hop Workshop: Head Roc DC Street Style: AJ 'N Company
 
 
 
2:00
 
 
 
  East of the River Boys & Girls Steelband African Heritage Dancers & Drummers Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
3:00
 
 
 
  Hip-Hop: Christylez Bacon Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C DC Street Style: AJ 'N Company
 
 
 
4:00
 
 
 
  African Heritage Dancers & Drummers The Power of Quilting Art Workshop: Jay Coleman
 
 
 
5:00
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
American Sign Language-interpreted program American Sign Language-interpreted program
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 NAMES Performers: The Design Industry Quilt Rituals Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
  Children of the Good Shepherd Home HIV/AIDS Through Spoken Word Quilt Yo-Yo Mania
 
12:00
 
 
 
  NAMES Performers: Call My Name The Quilt Volunteer Experience Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
1:00
 
  Spoken Word Material Culture in a Digital Age Theater Workshop
 
 
 
 
 
2:00 NAMES Performers: The Music Industry Healing Arts and Care Giving Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
  A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home Art as Advocacy and Medicine Make Your Own Mini Quilt
 
3:00
 
 
 
  Spoken Word The Quilt on Tour: The First Displays Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
4:00
 
  NAMES Performers: Quilt Stories Market Street Stories Doll Making
 
 
 
 
 
5:00 Arts and Advocacy Stories from The Quilt Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
American Sign Language-interpreted program American Sign Language-interpreted program
Audio loop installed Audio loop installed at Red Hot and Giving Voice


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