June 28: Today’s Events at the Folklife Festival

Each morning of the Festival, Around the Mall will publish a list of events to help you navigate the National Mall and get the most out of your visit. This year’s event features three programs: Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150, Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt, and Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River. Come celebrate summer with ten days of food, music, dancing, storytelling, culture and more on June 27-July 1 and July 4-8.

Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150

Morrill Performing Arts Center

11:00 AM—12:00 PM University of Texas–Pan American Mariachi Aztlán

12:00 PM—1:00 PM University of Hawai’i's Hula Halau Unukupukupu

1:00 PM—2:00 PM Dennis Stroughmatt et L’Esprit Creole

2:00 PM—3:00 PM University of Hawai’i Ensemble

3:00 PM—4:00 PM West Virginia University Steel Band

4:00 PM—5:00 PM University of Texas–Pan American Mariachi Aztlán

5:00 PM—5:30 PM University of Hawai’i Ensemble

Commons Discussion

11:00 AM—11:45 AM Opening Doors: Mississippi Hills Cultural Tourism

11:45 AM—12:30 PM Reinventing Agriculture: Gardens and Healthy Communities

12:30 PM—1:15 PM The Next 150 Years: Students and Classrooms of the Future

1:15 PM—2:00 PM Lifelong Learning: From the Margins to the Center: Blending Disability Studies and Access to Education

2:00 PM—2:45 PM Sustainable Solutions: Rural and Urban

2:45 PM—3:30 PM Building on Tradition: Indiana Quilters “Bed Turning”

3:30 PM—4:15 PM The Land Grant Tradition: Sports and Tradition

4:15 PM—5:00 PM Transforming Communities: Water Resources

5:00 PM—5:30 PM Research into Action: Science and Art Join Forces

Smithsonian U

11:00 AM—11:30 AM Sustainable Biofuels

11:30 AM—12:00 PM The Father of USDA and America’s Land Grant Colleges: The Life and Times of Senator Justin Smith Morrill

12:00 PM—12:30 PM Imagi*Nation

12:30 PM—1:00 PM The Forest Service’s Role Transforming Communities and 1890 Schools

1:00 PM—1:30 PM The Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project: Revitalizing Northwest Native Food Culture

1:30 PM—2:00 PM The Mission and History of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service

2:00 PM—2:30 PM History of Morrill Act, Land Grant Universities, Smith Lever Act and Hatch Act

2:30 PM—3:00 PM How Songs Find Their Meanings: Que Sera, Sera

3:00 PM—3:30 PM Art Science Fusion

3:30 PM—4:00 PM The DEFs of Access to Education

4:00 PM—4:30 PM What Really Bugs Us: Pests in the Garden and Integrated Pest Management

4:30 PM—5:00 PM Moving Food along the Value Chain: Innovations in Regional Food Distribution

5:00 PM—5:30 PM A Brief History of the University of Illinois Rehabilitation Education Program

Test Kitchen

11:00 AM—11:45 PM Missouri Regional Cooking

12:00 PM—12:45 PM Specialty Crop Cooking: Kale Salad

1:00 PM—1:45 PM Vermont Maple Syrup

2:00 PM—2:45 PM Food Explorations: Whole Wheat Meyer Lemon Pancakes

3:00 PM—3:45 PM Food and Medicine: Juice Therapy

4:00 PM—5:30 PM Healthy and Sustainable Eating

Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt

Red Hot Stage

11:00 AM—11:45 AM The NAMES Performers

11:45 PM — 12:30 PM The NAMES Performers

12:30 PM —1:15 PM The NAMES Performers

1:15 PM —2:00 PM Spoken Word

2:00 PM —2:45 PM The NAMES Performers

2:45 PM —3:30 PM The NAMES Performers

3:30 PM —4:15 PM Spoken Word

4:15 PM—5:00 PM The NAMES Performers

5:00 PM—5:30 PM A Conversation about Arts and Advocacy

Giving Voice Stage

11:00 AM—11:45 AM Quilt Rituals

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM HIV/AIDS Through Spoken Word

12:30 PM—1:15 PM The Quilt Volunteer Experience

1:15 PM —2:00 PM Material Culture in a Digital Age

2:00 PM —2:45 PM Healing Arts and Care Giving

2:45 PM —3:30 PM Art as Advocacy, Art as Medicine

3:30 PM —4:15 PM The Quilt on Tour: The First Displays

4:15 PM—5:00 PM Market Street Stories

5:00 PM—5:30 PM Stories from The Quilt

Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River

Panorama Room

11:00 AM—11:45 AM Hand Dancing: Smooth & Eazy

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM Hip-Hop: Head Roc

12:30 PM—1:30 PM African Heritage Dancers & Drummers

1:30 PM—2:30 PM Hand Dancing: Smooth & Eazy

2:30 PM—3:30 PM East of the River Boys & Girls Steelband

3:30 PM—4:30 PM Hip Hop: Christylez Bacon

4:30 PM—5:30 PM African Heritage Dancers & Drummers

Good Hope and Naylor Corner

11:00 AM—11:45 AM Hip Hop: Christylez Bacon

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM Storytelling: Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C

12:30 PM—1:30 PM East of the River Boys & Girls Steelband

1:30 PM—2:30 PM Hip-Hop Workshop: Head Roc

2:30 PM—3:30 PM African Heritage Dancers & Drummers

3:30 PM—4:30 PM Storytelling: Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C

4:30 PM—5:30 PM The Power of Quilting

Douglass Hall

11:00 AM—11:45 AM Art Workshop: Jay Coleman

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM Quilting: Daughters of Dorcas & Sons

12:30 PM—1:30 PM Art Workshop: Jay Coleman

1:30 PM—2:30 PM DC Street Style AJ ‘N Company

2:30 PM—3:30 PM Quilting: Daughters of Dorcas & Sons

3:30 PM—4:30 PM DC Street Style AJ ‘N Company

4:30 PM—5:30 PM Art Workshop: Jay Coleman

Evening Concert

Morrill Performing Arts Center

6:00 PM—7:30 PM Azerbaijani Mugham Music featuring Imamyar Hasanov and Pezhham Akhavass

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Aviva Shen is a reporter/blogger for ThinkProgress. Before joining CAP, Aviva interned and wrote for Smithsonian magazine, Salon, and New York.