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    1. 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.

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      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

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    5. 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.

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    7. 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.

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      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:

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    11. Rolls of film featuring a celebration of Juneteenth at the Anacostia Community Museum. Scenes include people chatting, a clown in a crowd, and people doing crafts at a table.

      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?

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    13. Three men, two women and a child pulling rope to ring bell.

      Celebrating One Year and Many More to Come: National Museum of African American History and Culture

      • Date: September 26, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Just two days ago, the Smithsonian celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). It seems like just yesterday that we were all waiting for the doors to open; yet, so much has happened in the past year. Since President Barack Obama rang the bell that opened the museum, long lines and happy faces are

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    15. Ironworkers at 1976 Festival of American Folklife.

      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.

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    17. Flyer with a sketch of a Kwanzaa table, a list of symbols, and a list of the seven principles.

      Celebrating Kwanzaa at the Anacostia Community Museum

      • Date: December 5, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: One of the ways the Anacostia Community Museum has served its community is through celebrations and educational programming about Kwanzaa.

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    19. An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

      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.

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    21. Two men are seated at a table, A microphone and a water pitcher is in between them.

      Celebrating National Radio Day

      • Date: August 18, 2022
      • Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.

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      50 Years of Folklife

      • Date: June 29, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.

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