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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 Laugh Therapy with Univ. of New Mexico Vermont Maple Syrup Research Into Action: Presenting Research to the Public Oral History, Folklore and Community
 
 
 
  Verification of Food Safety at the Farm and Packing House
 
  Reinventing Agriculture: Gardens at the Festival
 
12:00 U.T.-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán Traditional Hawai‘ian Cooking Design Thinking as an Agent of Change in your Community
 
 
 
  Building on Tradition: Helping Communities Help Themselves Sousa's University Marches Revealed
 
 
 
1:00 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Hula Halau UNUKUPUKUPU Maryland Fried Chicken and Biscuits with White Gravy The Legacy of Grant Wood’s Murals at Iowa State University
 
  Lifelong Learning: Festival as Learning Experience
 
  Can Design Change the World?
 
 
 
2:00 Guernsey Brothers Michigan State Cheese Cooking and Three University Cheese Competition The Next 150 Years: The 2062 Festival The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer
 
 
 
  The Future of Water
 
  Sustainable Solutions: Making the Festival More Sustainable
 
3:00 Univ. of Hawai‘i's Tuahine Troupe Univ. of New Mexico Medicinal Teas Aquatic Invasive Species
 
 
 
  Opening Doors: Festival Stories Empowerment and an Electronic, Asynchronous Dialectic
 
 
 
4:00 U.T.-Pan Am Mariachi Aztlán Native Foods Across America Community Visioning
 
  The Land-grant Tradition: What People Learned
 
  Aquatic Invasive Species
 
 
 
5:00 Hawai‘ian Closing Ceremony Transforming Communities: Festival Connections Hunting for a Better Chocolate
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
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 Hip-Hop: Christylez Bacon Beat Ya Feet Dance: Da Originalz BK Adams and Public Art
 
 
 
 
 
  West Virginia & East of the River Boys & Girls Steel Band African Heritage Dancers & Drummers Stained Glass: Melani N. Douglass
 
12:00
 
 
 
  Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C Hip-Hop: Christylez Bacon Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
1:00
 
 
 
  African Heritage Dancers & Drummers Poetry: Melani N. Douglass BK Adams and Public Art
 
 
 
2:00
 
 
 
  Step Dance: Taratibu Youth Association Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
3:00
 
 
 
  Beat Ya Feet Dance: Da Originalz Creativity East of the River Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilters
 
 
 
4:00
 
 
 
  East of the River Boys & Girls Steel Band Step Dance: Taratibu Youth Association Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
5:00
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
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 A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home Community Responses to AIDS Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
  The NAMES Performers: Call My Name Science, Health, and Art Quilt Yo-Yo Mania
 
12:00
 
 
 
  Spoken Word Seeing HIV/AIDS through Photography Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
1:00
 
  The NAMES Performers Celebrate the Design Industry The Role of Faith and the Faith Community Doll Making
 
 
 
 
 
2:00 A Play by the Children of the Good Shepherd Home History of The Quilt and The NAMES Project Foundation Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
 
 
  The NAMES Performers: Stories from The Quilt Daughters of Dorcas & Sons Quilterss and Panel Makers Make Your Own Mini Quilt
 
3:00
 
 
 
  Spoken Word Stories from The Quilt Ongoing Activities
 
 
 
4:00
 
  The NAMES Performers Celebrate the Music Industry The Last One 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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