July 6: 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.

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

Morrill Performing Arts Center

11:00 AM—12:00 PM West Virginia University Steel Band

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

1:00 PM—2:00 PM Guernsey Brothers

2:00 PM—3:00 PM University of Texas–Pan American Mariachi Aztlán

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

4:00 PM—5:00 PM University of Hawai’i's Hula Halau Unukupukupu

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

Commons Discussion

11:00 AM—11:45 AM Research Into Action: The Pinhook Research Project

11:45 AM—12:30 PM Building on Tradition: Traditional Material in the Classroom

12:30 PM—1:15 PM The Land-grant Tradition: LGUs as Smithsonian Affiliates

1:15 PM—2:00 PM The Next 150 Years: Students and Classrooms of the Future

2:00 PM—2:45 PM Transforming Communities: Forging Partnerships

2:45 PM—3:30 PM Sustainable Solutions: Coastal Connections

3:30 PM—4:15 PM Reinventing Agriculture: What’s New at the USDA?

4:15 PM—5:00 PM Opening Doors: Music and Learning

5:00 PM—5:30 PM Lifelong Learning: Young Learners

Smithsonian U

11:00 AM—11:30 AM Growing America’s Bioeconomy

11:30 AM—12:00 PM Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Science

12:00 PM—12:30 PM Urban Sustainability: Growing Up and Growing Out!

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

1:00 PM—1:30 PM Big Data and Success for All

1:30 PM—2:00 PM Forty Years of Land Grant Food Safety Education

2:00 PM—2:30 PM John Philip Sousa’s Influence on America’s Collegiate Band Movement

2:30 PM—3:00 PM The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer The Future of Water

3:00 PM—3:30 PM Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Science

3:30 PM—4:00 PM Community Visioning

4:00 PM—4:30 PM Sustainable Agriculture: Success and Challenges

4:30 PM—5:00 PM Aquatic Invasive Species

5:00 PM—5:30 PM What We Can Learn from Interviewing Veterans.

Test Kitchen

11:00 AM—11:45 PM Olive Oil

12:00 PM—12:45 PM Food and Medicine: Medicinal Tinctures

1:00 PM—1:45 PM Traditional Hawaiian Cooking

2:00 PM—2:45 PM Vermont Maple Syrup

3:00 PM—3:45 PM USDA Experts: People’s Garden Kid Food Tasting

4:00 PM—5:30 PM From the Farmers Market

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 The Quilt on Tour: The First Displays

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM Call My Name

12:30 PM—1:15 PM Life in the Age of AIDS

1:15 PM —2:00 PM Panel Makers

2:00 PM —2:45 PM Material Culture in a Digital Age

2:45 PM —3:30 PM Seeing HIV/AIDS Through Photography

3:30 PM —4:15 PM Positive Living

4:15 PM—5:00 PM HIV/AIDS Through Spoken Word

5:00 PM—5:30 PM Reflections on The Quilt Display

Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River

Panorama Room

11:00 AM—11:45 AM Line Dance & Workshop: Iverson Mall Line Dancers

11:45 AM—12:30 PM African Heritage Dancers & Drummers

12:30 PM—1:30 PM Dance Workshop: Taratibu Youth Association

1:30 PM—2:30 PM What is Liturgical Dance: Dancing With A Purpose Ministries

2:30 PM—3:30 PM Line Dancing Workshop: Iverson Mall Line Dancers

3:30 PM—4:30 PM Step Dance: Taratibu Youth Association

4:30 PM—5:30 PM What is Liturgical Dance: Dancing With A Purpose Ministries

Good Hope and Naylor Corner

11:00 AM—11:45 AM Poetry: Melani Douglass

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

12:30 PM—1:30 PM Quilting: Daughters of Dorcas & Sons

1:30 PM—2:30 PM African Heritage Dancers & Drummers

2:30 PM—3:30 PM Storytelling: Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C

3:30 PM—5:30 PM Southeast Slam: Up & Up Open Mike

Douglass Hall

11:00 AM—11:45 AM BK Adams and Public Art

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM Tattoo Art: Charles “Coco” Bayron

12:30 PM—1:30 PM Stained Glass Crafts: Melani Douglass

1:30 PM—2:30 PM BK Adams and Public Art

2:30 PM—3:30 PM Tattoo Art: Charles “Coco” Bayron

3:30 PM—4:30 PM Quilting: Daughters of Dorcas & Sons

4:30 PM—5:30 PM Ongoing activities

Evening Concert

Morrill Performing Arts Center

6:00 PM—7:30 PM Univ. of Texas–Pan American Mariachi Aztlán and Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano

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Leah Binkovitz is a Stone & Holt Weeks Fellow at Washington Post and NPR. Previously, she was a contributing writer and editorial intern for the At the Smithsonian section of Smithsonian magazine.