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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 Guernsey Brothers Missouri Seasonal and Simple Cooking Lifelong Learning: Art from Oral Histories U.S. Milk Safety Regulations
 
 
 
  Verification of Food Safety at the Farm and Packing House
 
  Opening Doors: Women Take Charge
 
12:00 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Tuahine Troupe Vermont Maple Syrup Food is More Than Something to Eat
 
 
 
  The Next 150 Years: 4-H and Extension in the Future Can Design Change the World?
 
 
 
1:00 W. Virginia Univ. Steel Band University of Missouri "Mississippi Hills Regional Cooking" Mississippi State University Shelter Medicine Program
 
  Sustainable Solutions: Responding to Change in Climate
 
  The Legacy of Grant Wood’s Murals at Iowa State University
 
 
 
2:00 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Hula Halau UNUKUPUKUPU Cooking with Lamb The Land-grant Tradition: Sports and Tradition Design Thinking as an Agent of Change in Your Community
 
 
 
  Pioneer Historical Cabin
 
  Building on Tradition: Folklore Programs at Universities
 
3:00 U.T.-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán Northwest Native American Cooking The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer
 
 
 
  Research Into Action: Designing New Energy Systems Empowerment and an Electronic, Asynchronous Dialectic
 
 
 
4:00 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Tuahine Troupe Dairy Doings: Goat Milk Ice Cream and Cheese Can Design Change the World?
 
  Reinventing Agriculture: Old Roots, New Shoots
 
  Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives
 
 
 
5:00   Transforming Communities: Technology and Accessibility The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
6:00 Evening Concert
University of the District of Columbia's Jazz Ensemble
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7:00
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
American Sign Language-interpreted program American Sign Language-interpreted program
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 Rap: AB the Pro Hand Dancing: Smooth & EZ BK Adams and Public Art
 
 
 
 
 
  Dancing With A Purpose Ministries The Musical Life of Chuck and Being in the Chuck Brown Band Stained Glass: Melani N. Douglass
 
12:00
 
 
 
  No Question Band Hip-Hop: Christylez Bacon and Melvin Deal Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
1:00
 
 
 
    Go-Go Then / Go-Go Now Go Go Dress Styles
 
 
 
2:00
 
 
 
  Cold Hearted Band Dancing With A Purpose Ministries Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
3:00
 
 
 
  African Heritage Dancers & Drummers Go-Go Fitness BK Adams and Public Art
 
 
 
4:00
 
 
 
  Junkyard Band Rap: AB the Pro DC Gogo Style
 
 
 
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 The NAMES Performers: Start of the AIDS Epidemic History of The Quilt and The NAMES Project Foundation Quilt Yo-Yo Mania
 
 
 
 
 
  A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home Art as Medicine Ongoing Activities
 
12:00
 
 
 
  The NAMES Performers: Imagining The Quilt Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilterss and Panel Makers
 
 
 
1:00
 
  Spoken Word Global Voices Theater Workshop
 
 
 
 
 
2:00 The NAMES Performers: The Last One Quilt Rituals Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
  A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home HIV/AIDS Through Spken Word Make Your Own Mini Quilt
 
3:00
 
 
 
  The NAMES Performers Celebrate Broadway The Quilt Volunteer Experience Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
4:00
 
  Spoken Word Self Expression Through Body Maps and Photography Doll Making
 
 
 
 
 
5:00 Arts and Advocacy Conversation Reflections on The Quilt Display Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
6:00 Evening Concert
Evening Cabaret
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Red Hot and Giving Voice


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