SmithsonianFolklife’s Tweets
“The female owl makes a noise almost like a meow...”
When Charles Bogert traveled through the SW in 1953, recording nature sounds for and , he updated Moses Asch every few weeks via postcard.
🔊: s.si.edu/3zKoPXT
#ArchivesForTheBirds
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“I think actually, now, if you don’t know about the Romani community, it’s a willful ignorance or a lack of interest. For so long, our story wasn’t being told in our voice.”
—, artist-activist
Read on: s.si.edu/3Mpfc8L
#RomaDay
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What does it take to be a horticulturalist at ?
Janet Draper’s go-to tools are her cell phone, her Felco #2 clippers, and her Japanese hori hori digging knife. At the end of the day, she’s “filthy, dirty, and tired.”
Read on: s.si.edu/412Y2BN
#FolkloreThursday
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This summer, at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, we’ll explore other creative expressions of faith and food, including with !
Learn more about the “Creative Encounters: Living Religions in the U.S.” program: s.si.edu/CreativeEncoun
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The Haggadah is the Jewish text that recounts the story of liberation from Egypt along with a guide to a traditional #Passover Seder. Originally compiled in the Middle Ages, Jews now adapt the booklet for modern times.
Read on: s.si.edu/3GgmojO
#CreativeEncounters
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In preparation for the Ozarks program at #2023Folklife, we shared a profile of legendary ballad singer Almeda Riddle. A comment from a Facebook follower sent us on a delightful dive in the #RinzlerArchives.
Read on and listen: s.si.edu/3MiSlf8
#OzarksInDC
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In collaboration with , our Language Vitality Initiative has launched “A Stream of Voices,” an article series sharing the stories—and celebrating the successes—of effective language practices by communities.
Read on: s.si.edu/3ZJgVZn
#LanguageVitality
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“Welcome to the Ozarks, an American region with no single story to tell, a place more complex than you imagined but maybe just as colorful as you hoped.”
Read on for a bit of what to expect at #2023Folklife: s.si.edu/3ZDXRMh
#OzarksInDC
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Visiting DC before or during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this summer? We recommend related events and exhibitions at other Smithsonian museums and across the city. Check back for more!
Explore: s.si.edu/3zfG4QH
#2023Folklife
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“Sacred steel” is a gospel subgenre defined by prominent use of the steel guitar. While women have always played steel, few have taken center stage.
Fran “Lady Strings” Grace is working to change that.
Read on: s.si.edu/3nqy1Oi
#2023Folklife #WomensHistoryMonth
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In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, we’ve added new profiles to our “American Ginseng” online exhibition, featuring expert herbalists, foresters, and dealers.
See the exhibit: s.si.edu/ginseng
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#GinsengFolklife🌿
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At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, participants present their traditions, but our staff has its own traditions too. Even with our busy schedules, we make time for a staff photo—one serious and one silly!
Join us this summer: festival.si.edu
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“I think we have to advocate for ourselves to be visible in those spaces. We have to let them know, ‘We’ve always been gamers, but y’all have ignored us.’”
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Read more on gender equity in the world of video games: s.si.edu/3LVzQND
#WomensHistoryMonth
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We are currently hiring a strategic communications assistant, a full-time staff position that supports our research, education, and Cultural Vitality teams. Strong writing, graphic design, and administrative skills are required.
Learn more: folklife.si.edu/jobs
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This #MultilingualDay, Heather Souter shares the goals, challenges, and successes of the Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program for Indigenous communities in Manitoba.
Read on: s.si.edu/3nlSELC via
#MultilingualIsNormal
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We’ll explore more of the concept of “Futurisms” as part of the #LivingReligion program this summer at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival!
Check out the program: s.si.edu/LivingReligion
#2023Folklife
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This coconut milk-based fish stew served with mashed plantains is a traditional dish of the Garifuna, people of mixed Afro-Indigenous ancestry, said to have emerged as the result of a 17th-c. shipwreck in the Caribbean.
Get the recipe: s.si.edu/3aQ1LOL
#FoodwaysFriday
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In Washington, DC, pick-up basketball is an asphalt theater of jumpers, blocked shots, sweaty T-shirts, fast breaks, and awesome dunks. Players have been known to shovel snow off the court to start a game.
Read on: s.si.edu/3z1raxA 🏀
#FolkloreThursday #LocalFolklore
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This summer, we invite you to learn more about calligraphy and poetry in Islam when the Smithsonian Folklife Festival presents “Living Religion: Creative Encounters in the U.S.”
Explore the program: s.si.edu/LivingReligion
#2023Folklife #LivingReligion
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is 100 days away!
Join us on the National Mall June 29–July 4 and July 6–9 to celebrate diverse American cultures through two programs: Living Religion and The Ozarks.
Stay tuned as the schedule develops: festival.si.edu
#2023Folklife
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“Don’t be ashamed of your culture, don’t be ashamed of your music,” says fiddler Dewey Balfa, born #OTD in Louisiana.
An impassioned ambassador for Cajun culture, Balfa was a driving force in the revival of traditional Cajun music.
📽️ From the 1976 Festival
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In Chinese culture, #SpringEquinox is one of 24 solar terms that mark every 15° on the sun’s path. The terms have fun, descriptive names, like Insects Awake as life comes out of winter hibernation and Clear Bright in the height of spring.
Read on: s.si.edu/34lFcK8 🌷
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This summer, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival brings cooks, farmers, foragers, distillers, quilters, musicians, a comedian, and other experts from the Ozarks to the National Mall.
Take a first peak at the participants: s.si.edu/3yPx7xa
#2023Folklife #OzarksInDC
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Tender Guinness cake, flavored with the pitch-black Irish stout and topped with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting, is a dessert suitable for Christmas or #StPatricksDay!
Get the recipe: s.si.edu/3jhRcb5 ☘️
#FoodwaysFriday
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Do you know your family’s own migration story? What about the stories of those in your community? Stop by our Main Library and discover the fascinating topic of migration and displacement at World on the Move on display until Apr. 11.
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In a new partnership with , we aim to build language revitalization skills for ANA’s 397 current Indigenous grantees through a series of online workshops called “Language Reclamation Landscapes.”
Learn more: s.si.edu/3Lu3rgY
#LanguageVitality
During British colonial rule, it was considered immoral for women in India to publicly display their bodies. As a result, the classical dance form of Bharatanatyam was banned, and the tradition struggled to survive.
Read on: s.si.edu/3LsImDA
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Our new project, Heritage & Handicrafts: Oaxaca, will facilitate and deepen connections between artisan-entrepreneurs in Mexico and markets for their goods. We are currently seeking Oaxaca-based partner organizations.
Read on: s.si.edu/oaxaca
#CulturalVitality
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