The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is back in Washington DC, from June 24th to July 4th, but you won’t find it on the National Mall. It’s gone vitual, like everything else during this pandemic. Here’s the schedule. You can’t go to the food concessions this year, but they’ve promised a gift shop.
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In the Nation’s Capital, Congress and the President may be on vacation, but the Smithsonian’s National Zoo has been busy. The zoo’s 17-year-old Giant Panda Mei Xiang gave birth to two cubs over the weekend. The twins are pink, and while new-born pandas are often said to be be the size of sticks of butter, they’re really more like packs of Starburst. The father of the two is Tian Tian, who had a little help from the National Zoo staff. Mother and cubbies are doing fine.
More:
“National Zoo’s twin pandas are only the 3rd set to be born at a U.S. zoo,” Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post
“It’s panda-monium! National Zoo says Mei Xiang has twins,” Jessica Gresko, AP via Deseret News
“Bamboo-zled: Panda surprises with birth of twins,” AFP via Asia Times
“Double the Joy at National Zoo as Panda Gives Birth to Twins,” Daniel Politi, Slate
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is back in Washington DC, June 24th to June 28th and July 1st to July 5th. This year’s festival has a smaller footprint; the site is between 3rd and 4th Streets NW, near the Capitol Reflecting Pool, National Gallery of Art East Wing, and the National Museum of the American Indian.The free Festival features music, dance, craft and foodways demonstrations and evening concerts, all from Peru. Don’t miss the related activities around town.
The festival schedule is here. See you on the line at the food concessions.
More:
“Major Changes Coming to This Year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival,” Mark Segraves NBC 4 Washington
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is back on the National Mall in Washington DC, June 25th to June 29th and July 2nd to July 6th. This year’s free Festival features thematic presentations on China and Kenya, evening concerts and crafts and foodways demonstrations. And bring the kiddies.
The full daytime schedule is here. See you on the line at the food concessions.
Festival map.
Festival blog.
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The Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoological Park made a rare juvenile female Ailuropoda melanoleuca available for public observation today, and hundreds of researchers participated. Review of preliminary field notes indicates wide agreement that the specimen is a widdle bitty roly-poly fuzzy-wuzzy cutise-wootsie-poo.
The National Zoo’s cute little panda princess needs a name. Vote here (or here for the Chinese ballot). Voting closes November 22nd.
More:
“Name of zoo’s giant panda cub is going up for a vote,” Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is back on the National Mall in Washington DC, June 26th to June 30th and July 3rd to July 7th. This year’s free Festival features thematic presentations on Hungarian heritage, endangered languages and cultural heritage, and African American personal adornment.
The full daytime schedule is here. Evening concerts include Roma music from Hungary and Transylvania, Hawaiian music and dance, Dong choral music from Guizhou Province in China, Kalmyk and Tuvan music from Russia, and more (schedule here). And bring the kiddies.
See you on the line at the food concessions.
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Orangutans at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are using iPads. That explains lots of blog comment threads ….
Seriously, this is a giant evolutionary step for our caged simian cousins. App-groping apes will become just as productive as iPad-toting humans, spending hours with Facebook and Angry Birds.
More:
“What Happens When You Give an Orangutan an iPad?,” Leah Binkovitz, Around the Mall blog
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is back on the National Mall in Washington DC, June 27th to July 1st and July 4th to July 8th. This year’s free Festival features thematic presentations on Land Grant Universities, the Aids Quilt, and DC East of the River.
The full daytime schedule is here. Evening concerts include funk, steel drums, Azerbaijani music, mariachis, jazz, and more.
See you on the line at the food concessions.
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Great cover story in the current Smithsonian magazine:
“How did the chicken achieve such cultural and culinary dominance? It is all the more surprising in light of the belief by many archaeologists that chickens were first domesticated not for eating but for cockfighting. Until the advent of large-scale industrial production in the 20th century, the economic and nutritional contribution of chickens was modest.”
— “How the Chicken Conquered the World,” Jerry Adler and Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian
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