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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 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Tuahine Troupe USDA Food Safe Families Research Into Action: Animal Research Strengthening Numbers: Rhonda Brandt, USDA
 
 
 
  The Meaning of the 4th of July: Jim Deutsch, Smithsonian
 
  Lifelong Learning: Beyond the Classroom
 
12:00 U.T.-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán Native American Cooking with Buffalo The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer
 
 
 
  Reinventing Agriculture: Sustainable Crops of the Future Bugs in the Bed: Mark Feldhaufer, USDA
 
 
 
1:00 W. Virginia Univ. Steel Band Vermont Maple Syrup Mandible-Smacking Good: Insect Eating Here and Around the World
 
  Opening Doors: Diversity & the LGUs Today
 
  History of Gifford Pinchot
 
 
 
2:00 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Hula Halau UNUKUPUKUPU UDC Specialty Crop Cooking Sustainable Solutions: Feed the World, Power the Planet Mourning in America
 
 
 
  Pet Overpopulation and What Can Be Done About It
 
  The Next 150 Years: Expanding Community Engagement in the Future
 
3:00 Guernsey Brothers USDA Food Explorations Digital Art and Virtual Environments
 
 
 
  Building on Tradition: Traditional Material in the Classroom The USDA Arboretum on the Mall, 1867-1942
 
 
 
4:00 W. Virginia Univ. Steel Band & U.T.-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán Healthy and Sustainable Cooking Field Adventures in Mite Biology
 
  The Land-grant Tradition: USDA/LGU Connections
 
  The Beauty, Bounty and Benefits of Beer: Charlie Bamforth, UC Davis
 
 
 
5:00 Transforming Communities: The Pinhook Research Project Community Visioning
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
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 Dancing With a Purpose Ministries Soul & Funk Workshop Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
  Hip-Hop: Head Roc Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C & Melani N. Douglass BK Adams and Public Art
 
12:00
 
 
 
  Hand Dancing: Smooth & EZ Dance Workshop: Taratibu Youth Association Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
1:00
 
 
 
  Soul & Funk: Faycez U Know Hip-Hop: Christylez Bacon Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
2:00
 
 
 
  Dancing With a Purpose Ministries Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C & Melani N. Douglass BK Adams and Public Art
 
 
 
3:00
 
 
 
  Step Dance: Taratibu Youth Association Hip-Hop: Head Roc & Melani N. Douglass Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
4:00
 
 
 
  Hand Dancing: Smooth & EZ Hip-Hop: Christylez Bacon Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
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 A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home Quilt Rituals Doll Making
 
 
 
 
 
  The NAMES Performers: Start of the AIDS Epidemic Healing Arts and Care Giving Ongoing Activities
 
12:00
 
 
 
  Spoken Word Market Street Stories Make Your Own Mini Quilt
 
 
 
1:00
 
  The NAMES Performers Celebrate Broadway Science and Public Health Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
2:00 A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home HIV/AIDS Through Spoken Word
 
 
 
 
 
  The NAMES Performers: The Last One Art as Medicine Quilt Yo-Yo Mania
 
3:00
 
 
 
  Spoken Word The Quilt Volunteer Experience Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
4:00
 
  The NAMES Performers: Imagining The Quilt The Role of Faith and the Faith Community Theater Workshop
 
 
 
 
 
5:00 Arts and Advocacy Conversation Reflections on The Quilt Display 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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