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Saturday, June 28
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| 11 AM-5:30 PM
42nd Smithsonian Folklife Festival: June 25-29 & July 2-6
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The Smithsonian's annual Folklife Festival brings together hundreds of performers, artists, storytellers, craftspeople, cooks, and workers to explain, demonstrate, and celebrate their cultural traditions. This year's themes include: • Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon
• NASA: Fifty Years and Beyond
• Texas: A Celebration of Music, Food, and Wine
Free
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Special Smithsonian Sponsored
Location: National Mall near Smithsonian Museums
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| 12 Noon
Music in Bhutan
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Join Bhutanese singers and instrumentalists to learn about music in the Himalayas. Discover how their traditional collective songs play a role in farming, weaving, carpentry, and building homes. Part of the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Free; first come, first served
Repeats July 3 & 6
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Sackler Pavilion
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| 1-4 PM
Postcard Art Connection
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One little postcard can say a lot. Design a postcard with your message of friendship, travel, and creativity and mail it to the museum before this June program to participate in a "mail art" display. On the day of the program, everyone is welcome to come see the display and be inspired to create mail art. Mail your postcard art to:
Postcard Art Connection
National Postal Museum
PO Box 37012, MRC 570
Washington, DC 20013-7012
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National Postal Museum
Location: Atrium
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| 1-4 PM
SAAM I Am -- Jewelry
Family Day |
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(for all ages) Discover the enchanting art of jewelry design. This afternoon, listen to a reading of A String of Beads, written by Margarette S. Reid; enjoy live music; view Ornament as Art for inspiration; then create your own pieces with jewelry designer Kathleen Manning.
Free
Related Exhibition: Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry
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Renwick Gallery
Location: Grand Salon
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| 1:30 PM
Art + Coffee: Guided Tour
Luce Foundation Center Activity |
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Discover the treasures of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art during a guided tour. Afterwards, enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea.
Free
Repeats most Saturdays and Sundays
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Meet in the F Street Lobby
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| 2 PM
The Benjamin Zucker Lecture on Mughal Art
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For this year's Benjamin Zucker lecture, Dr. Catherine B. Asher, a renowned scholar of Mughal art, discusses the cosmopolitan court cultures of northern India at the height of Mughal imperial power.
Free; first come, first served
Related Exhibition: MURAQQA'
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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| 3 PM
Dark Tower Revisited
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Relive the exuberant days of the Harlem Renaissance in A'Lelia Walker's salon. Morgan State University's Theater and Music Departments perform classics by Fats Waller and Bessie Smith and present excerpts of plays and poetry by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
Free, first come, first served
Related Exhibition: Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.)
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| 3 PM
Masked Dances of the Monastery
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Learn more about Bhutanese masked dancers and their costumes through close-up interactions with Buddhist monks and their interpreters. Part of the 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Free; first come, first served
Repeats July 3 & 6
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Sackler Pavilion
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