Overview Blog

On Saturday, June 23, the volunteers for the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival came to the Mall for their annual orientation.Read More

The 2012 Folklife Festival opens June 27 on the National Mall! The official start of the Festival—the opening ceremony—begins atRead More

I sat down with Stephen Kidd, director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, to talk about what makes this year’s programRead More

American Sign Language interpreters work at stages throughout each Festival program to make the cultural performances and presentations accessible toRead More

You have been to the Festival and checked out the information we’ve posted about the programs. Now find out if you’re smarter than aRead More

Week 2 of the Festival! Photographs from Thursday, July 7, 2011 Click on images to enlarge and see captions.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives, the record keeper of the history of the Smithsonian, features a blog today in THE BIGGER PICTURE,Read More

Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day two of the Festival. Keep uploading those gorgeous imagesRead More

Visitors, volunteers, and staff who make the Smithsonian Folklife Festival an annual event in their lives often collect Festival T-shirts.Read More

A glimpse of the Festival on July 1 through the lenses of some of the Smithsonian staff and volunteer photographers.