Results for "Celebrating American Folklife (Television program)"
Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Date: June 22, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The 2021 Smithsonian Folklife Festival begins this weekend. Let’s take a look back at past festivals.
- Blog Post
Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program
- Date: July 7, 2011
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to
Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects
- Date: October 15, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.
Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating Earth Optimism with Some Community Science
- Date: April 27, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Since April is both Earth Month and Citizen Science Month, we’re highlighting two clips that make us optimistic for the future.
- Blog Post
Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own
- Date: July 1, 2010
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:
Performer at the "Masters of Traditional Arts" Smithsonian Folklife Program
- Date: 1988
- Creator: Minor-Penland, Laurie
- Creator: Minor-Penland, Laurie
- SI History Chronology
Emmys awarded for Celebrating a Century
- Date: June 17, 1978
Summertime on the Mall - Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Date: June 13, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Come out to the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrating Hungarian culture, endangered languages, and African American style.
Production Stills from "Celebrating a Century" Movie
- Date: 1975 December 5, 1975
- Creator: Farrar, Richard
Party in celebration of the Festival of American Folklife
- Date: 1969
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services Division
When did the Smithsonian Begin Celebrating Juneteenth?
- Date: June 9, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: African American communities have celebrated Juneteenth for more than 150 years. When did the Smithsonian begin hosting programs to commemorate the nation’s second independence day?
Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 2, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.
