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Smithsonian Folklife Festival

2012 Festival Schedule

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Campus and Community

  Justin S. Morrill
Performing Arts Center
Test Kitchen The Commons Smithsonian U
11:00 W. Virginia Univ. Steel Band UC Davis Olive Oil Research Into Action: The Pinhook Research Project Growing America's Bioeconomy
 
 
 
  Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Science
 
  Research Into Action: The Pinhook Research Project
 
12:00 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Hula Halau UNUKUPUKUPU Univ. of New Mexico Medicinal Tinctures Urban Sustainability: Growing Up and Growing Out!
 
 
 
  The Land-grant Tradition: LGUs as Smithsonian Affiliates The Forest Service: Transforming Communities
 
 
 
1:00 Guernsey Brothers Traditional Hawai‘i an Cooking Using Analytics to Assist At-Risk Students
 
  The Next 150 Years: Students and Classrooms of the Future
 
  Forty Years of Land Grant Food Safety Education
 
 
 
2:00 U.T.-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán Vermont Maple Syrup Transforming Communities: Forging Partnerships John Philip Sousa and America's Collegiate Band Movement
 
 
 
  The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer
 
  Sustainable Solutions: Coastal Connections
 
3:00 W. Virginia Univ. Steel Band USDA Experts: People’s Garden Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Science
 
 
 
  Reinventing Agriculture: What's New at the USDA? Community Visioning
 
 
 
4:00 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Hula Halau UNUKUPUKUPU From the Farmers Market Sustainable Agriculture: Success and Challenges
 
  Opening Doors: Music and Learning
 
  Aquatic Invasive Species
 
 
 
5:00 Guernsey Brothers Three University Cheese Competition Lifelong Learning: Young Learners The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
6:00 Evening Concert
Smithsonian Folkways Presents: U.T.-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán and Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Iverson Mall Line Dancers Poetry: Melani N. Douglass BK Adams and Public Art
 
 
 
 
 
  African Heritage Dancers and Drummers Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C & Melani N. Douglass Tattoo Art: Charles "Coco" Bayron
 
12:00
 
 
 
  Dance Workshop: Taratibu Youth Association Stained Glass: Melani N. Douglass Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
1:00
 
 
 
  Beat Ya Feet Dance: Da Originalz African Heritage Dancers & Drummers & Melani N. Douglass BK Adams and Public Art
 
 
 
2:00
 
 
 
  Line Dancing Workshop: Iverson Mall Line Dancers Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
3:00
 
 
 
  Step Dance: Taratibu Youth Association Southeast Slam: Up & Up Open Mike Tattoo Art: Charles "Coco" Bayron
 
 
 
4:00
 
 
 
  Beat Ya Feet Dance: Da Originalz 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 Spoken Word The Quilt on Tour: The First Displays Make Your Own Mini Quilt
 
 
 
 
 
  The NAMES Performers: Stories from The Quilt Call My Name Ongoing Activities
 
12:00
 
 
 
  A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home Life in the Age of AIDS Doll Making
 
 
 
1:00
 
  The NAMES Performers Celebrate the Design Industry Panel Makers Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
2:00 Spoken Word Material Culture in a Digital Age Theater Workshop
 
 
 
 
 
  The NAMES Performers: Call My Name Seeing HIV/AIDS Through Photography Ongoing Activities
 
3:00
 
 
 
  A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home Positive Living
 
 
 
4:00
 
  The NAMES Performers Celebrate the Music Industry HIV/AIDS Through Spoken Word Quilt Yo-Yo Mania
 
 
 
 
 
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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