2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Countdown

2012 Festival Countdown The 46th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is just around the corner! This year's featured programs are Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150, Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River, and Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt. The 2012 Festival runs from Wednesday, June 27, through Sunday, July 1; and Thursday, July 4, through Sunday, July 8. Festival hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with evening concerts starting at 6:00 p.m. As always, all Folklife Festival events are free! Explore the full schedule of events.   Preview the Programs and Follow Our Updates at festival.si.edu or become a Facebook Fan. You can also join our Flickr group and follow us on twitter.   Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150, celebrates and explores how these two types of institutions partner with communities to put research into action in the areas of agriculture and food, health care, sustainable living, urban and rural revitalization, and education.   Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River, presented in collaboration with the Anacostia Community Museum, looks at the important role of arts in building community and sustaining a sense of culture, history, and tradition in Far Southeast D.C. communities.   Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a partnership with The NAMES Project Foundation. It commemorates the 25th anniversary of The Quilt and the innovative and resourceful ways through which communities have endeavored to educate people and cope with one of the most complex pandemics in modern history. If you would like to unsubscribe from future newsletters from Smithsonian Folklife Festival, please click here to send us an unsubscribe email request, or send an email to listserv@si-listserv.si.edu with SIGNOFF FOLKLIFE as the subject and body. You can also send an email with the subject "UNSUBSCRIBE" to folklife@si.edu and include all of your email addresses in case you are using an email forwarding service. If you are having trouble viewing this email, please click here to open this in your web browser. This email was sent by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution Email us at folklife@si.edu Web site: festival.si.edu 600 Maryland Ave, SW, Suite 2001 Washington, DC 20024