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JUNE 227-JULY7-JULY 1 ANDAND JULY 4-84-8 OnOn the National MalMalll Washington,Washington, D.D.C.C. festival.si.edufestival.si.edu CENTER FOR FOLKLIFE SMITHSONIAN AND CULTURAL HERITAGE FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL Open daily 11:30AM to 6PM | Most evening events start at 6:30PM Through the power of culture, we build understanding, strengthen communities, and reinforce our shared humanity. • The Smithsonian Folklife Festival brings tradition bearers from around the world to share their cultures on the National Mall each summer DIRECTOR'S WELCOME 4 • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings shares “music of, by, and for the people” as the institution’s nonprofit record label, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year ARMENIA 6 CREATING HOME • Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives holds audio, video, photo, and paper collections from our programs as a public resource • Cultural Sustainability Initiatives help communities around 12 the world maintain and develop cultural expressions while TRADITION AND CREATIVITY FROM also engaging our online audience THE MEDITERRANEAN • Research and Education projects create scholarly resources for folklorists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, teachers, students, and more SISTERFIRE 18 All of our programs share the common goal of inspiring people to connect through cultural experiences and sustaining cultural diversity around the world. Thank you for joining us, and we ON THE MOVE 19 invite you to continue exploring. MIGRATION AND CREATIVITY A GREEN FESTIVAL FESTIVAL MAP 20 We are committed to making the Folklife Festival a green event DAILY HIGHLIGHTS 22 by providing free filtered water stations for your reusable water bottles, fueling generators with biodiesel, serving food in compostable containers, and collecting and sorting waste at EVENING CONCERTS 26 resource recovery stations. Each year, we divert over 88% of Festival waste from landfills with the help of our volunteers and visitors. Let’s keep it up! RELATED EVENTS 27

CONNECT AND SHARE YOUR FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL MEMORIES WITH US: CRAFTS OF 28 AFRICAN FASHION MARKETPLACE 29 #2018FOLKLIFE FOOD AND DRINK 30 ACCESSIBILITY AND 32 Help ensure the future of the Folklife Festival. Donate now to the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at OTHER SERVICES www.folklife.si.edu/contribute You can also contribute online with your smartphone by scanning the code with your QR reader. Thank you! FAMILY ACTIVITIES 33

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2 WELCOME Sabrina Lynn Motley Festival Director

This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival considers how smaller due to increased migration, advances in cultural heritage enterprise sustains communities by technology, the ubiquity of social media—the list goes igniting innovation, promoting economic resilience, on. Simultaneously, communities around the globe transmitting individual and group identity, and are at the frontlines of all manner of political shifts and fostering the transmission of knowledge. The work of environmental challenges. In this context, the role of artisans, local food and producers, independent traditional knowledge, interventions, and industries in musicians, heritage tour operators, and others are shaping histories, identities, and aesthetics has taken on part of a cultural ecosystem that deepens and expands greater significance. Despite wildly differing pasts and our understanding of the long-term vitality of folk and geographies, both Armenia and Catalonia point to the traditional practices. fact that sustaining culture is a complex process.

Our rigorous research exposed numerous fault lines in The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an exercise how we perceive and express the relationship between in cultural democracy, equity, and diplomacy. The commerce and traditional culture. To paraphrase a persistent power of its founding vision is made voicemail left by one longtime visitor, what happens manifest by the work of dedicated staff, interns, to “our Festival” when we talk about tourism and the volunteers, sponsors, and partners (like our friends business of culture? As you will discover, Armenia: at Roadwork Center for Cultures in Disputed Territory Creating Home, Catalonia: Tradition and Creativity whose Sisterfire concert closes this year and points from the Mediterranean, and the artisans visiting us to the next). The many artisans, musicians, cooks, this year’s Festival Marketplace offer intriguing—and dancers, and more imbue the Festival with animating occasionally vexing—answers to this question. energy. Your presence gives it purpose.

In truth, such considerations are not new to the Festival; As always, I invite you to explore our offerings with a however, there is a more intense sense of urgency spirit of curiosity and wish you interactions that foster woven throughout our work. The world has become delight, understanding, and wonder.

Protestors join in a large circle in Republic Square during Armenia’s “Velvet Revolution” in May 2018. Photo by Roubina Margossian, EVN Report

4 Enter the Home As you enter the program area, you will journey from nature—the open grass of the National Mall—through the twisted metal gate forged by blacksmiths and into the intimate space of an Armenian home. At the Hazarashen, the physical and symbolic center of the home, experience the dance-like of baking (flatbread) in the tonir (oven). Watch chefs and cooks from Armenia and the Armenian American diaspora prepare the ingredients of a feast in the Hatsatoun, or “bread house.”

Meet artisans in the Blacksmith, Stone, Clay, Tonir, and Woodcarving tents as they fashion raw materials into monuments and functional household objects. See how women weave, embroider, and knit clothing and decorative items in the Needlework and Carpet tents. Want to try your hand at the crafts? Take a class from an artisan in The Workshop, join a knitting or crochet circle and contribute your piece to the Tree of Life, and Armenia is not merely a small country in the Caucasus. It is learn how to spell your name in the Script tent. one of the wellsprings of world civilization, on the same level At the Hyurasenyak stage, hear artisans, musicians, as Mesopotamia, Egypt, , and Italy. Whoever bakes or dancers, cooks, and others talk about their traditions, eats bread, makes or drinks wine, uses metal tools or jewelry, how they’ve changed, and how they continue to draw or wears clothing and shoes is tied by invisible bonds of cultural on Armenian history and culture to inspire and innovate. inheritance to Armenia. In this sense we are all .” Join the Feast —Ambassador Michael Gfoeller (ret.) On the eastern end of the Festival, try a glass or a flight Nestled at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, Armenia of at the Lahmajun & Wine Bar, and get is a small yet resilient country. Markers of its complex your hands dirty in an archaeological dig representing history punctuate its rugged landscapes: highland the world’s oldest known winery in the Cave. In slopes sprinkled with petroglyphs, fortress-like the Wine booth, learn more about the 6,000-year history churches from the earliest days of Christianity, and of Armenian and meet the vintners behind skeletons of enormous Soviet-era factories. Twentieth- Armenia’s recent renaissance in winemaking who are century Armenia was characterized by massive cultivating “Historic World” indigenous grape varieties. displacement, conflict, and shifting borders, resulting in one of the world’s largest diaspora populations. At the Armenian Grill and Roadside Food, pick up everything you’ll need for a feast—barbecued Armenia: Creating Home offers a glimpse into meats and vegetables, salads, lahmajun (“Armenian Armenian culture, influenced by its surroundings, pizza”), and farm-fresh fruits. Share toasts and, most heritage, and ongoing exchange with its many importantly, share the experience with others. diasporas around the world. Feasting and artisan traditions tell the importance of economic and cultural Enjoy Armenian folk and jazz music or a conversation sustainability in the face of change and how these about Armenian food and wine traditions on the Aygi practices create home—both in concept and in form. Stage. Join a traditional dance workshop or catch a lively show at the Shadow Theater. Share your own From the production of food and craft for everyday life stories of the sights, smells, and tastes of home at the to the memories and emotions these traditions convey, Food Memories tent, and make an augmented reality we hope the program will challenge your own notions postcard to share your Festival experience with friends of home as you experience Armenian culture. and family around the world.

7 Rules of Feasting, Folklife Festival-Style 1. Visit the Wine tent to learn about the tradition of toasting. 2. Gather the ingredients for your feast at the concessions stands. 3. Invite friends and strangers to join you. 4. Elect a tamada, or “toastmaster,” to rule the table. 5. The tamada gives the first toast, welcoming everyone and thanking the host. “Cheers” in Armenian is “Kenats!” 6. If you invited strangers to join you—great!—the tamada offers them a toast as the guests. 7. Share food with the table. 8. While enjoying the feast, others offer toasts to elders, children, and the hearth—in that order. For the hearth, you can use the Festival’s Hazarashen, where lavash is baked in the tonir oven. 9. As needed, send someone back to concessions to gather more food for the feast. 10. Take a group photo and share it with #2018Folklife.

Family and friends enjoy an impromptu feast in a vineyard near Areni village, . Photo by Sossi Madzounian, Smithsonian 8 2018 FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS 2018 FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS

FEASTING TRADITIONS Lusine Voskanyan, manager Gayane Khachatryan (Shirak), Hasmik Khachatryan (Gegharkunik), Mikayel Voskanyan, tar Andranig Kilislyan (), Carrie Nahabedian (Chicago), Nur Qanon Ensemble (Yerevan) Hripsime Toumanyan (Aragatsotn), cooks Eteri Hovhannisyan, Tsovinar Hovhannisyan, Mery Musinyan, Varduhi Poghosyan (), Anna Tepanosyan (Kotayk), lavash makers Kristine Yengoyan, musicians Victoria Aslanian, ArmAs (Aragatsotn), Grigori Avetisyan, Kataro (Syunik), PANALÎ (Yerevan) Juliana Del Aguila, Karas (Armavir), Vahe Keushguerian, WineWorks Arman Jalalyan, drums (Yerevan), Varuzhan Mouradian, Van Ardi (Aragatsotn), Hovakim Saghatelyan, Trinity Canyon Vineyards (Vayots Dzor), winemakers Vahagn Hayrapetyan, piano Armen Hyusnunts, tenor and soprano saxophone Gagik Khodavirdi, electric guitar HANDMADE TRADITIONS Edgar Sahakyan, bass Hovhannes Mnoyan, Garik Papoyan (Shirak), blacksmiths Arto Tunçboyaçiyan (), percussion, vocals Zara Gasparyan, Vahagn Hambardzumyan (Syunik), Gegham Gharibyan (Yerevan), clay workers Samvel Galstian Group Karen Ghazaryan, Ruben Ghazaryan (Vayots Dzor), Bogdan Hovhanissyan, Joshua Davis (Baltimore), bass Gayane Manucharyan (Lori), stone carvers Samvel Galstian (Boston), vocals Vahagn Amiryan (Yerevan), Armen Ohanyan (Syunik), wood carvers Karen Kocharyan (Boston), drums Ruben Malayan, calligrapher (Yerevan) Vardan Ovsepian (Los Angeles), keyboards Armine Amaryan, Tatev Hayrapetyan (Syunik), Dianna Hovhannissian, Secret Trio (New Jersey) Haykanush Stepanyan, Sahkanush Stepanyan, Artak Tadevosyan (Yerevan), Ara Dinkjian, carpet weavers Engin Gunaydin, drums Seda Hovakimyan, Armine Poghosyan (Tavush), Ismail Lumanovski, clarinet Gayane Hovsepyan (Shirak), Houri Iyjian, Ayda Sandurian, Maral Shohmahlian-Berberian (Yerevan), needleworkers Time Out Joshua Davis (Baltimore), bass Gyumri Is Our Home Public Art Initiative (Shirak) Vahagn Hayrapetyan (Yerevan), piano Stepan Kakosyan, Gagik Mkhitaryan, Lilit Simonian, Arsen Vardanyan, Mamikon Varderesyan, Larisa Zhamakochyan, artisans Armen Hyusnunts (Yerevan), tenor and soprano saxophone Karen Kocharyan (Boston), drums PERFORMANCE Vardan Ovsepian Trio Ara Dinkjian (New Jersey), oud Joshua Davis (Baltimore), bass Onnik Dinkjian (New Jersey), vocals Karen Kocharyan (Boston), drums Vardan Ovsepian (Los Angeles), keyboards Armen Hyusnunts Quartet Joshua Davis (Baltimore), bass Zulal (New York) Armen Hyusnunts (Yerevan), tenor and soprano saxophone Teni Apelian, Yeraz Markarian, Anaïs Tekerian, vocals Karen Kocharyan (Boston), drums Vardan Ovsepian (Los Angeles), keyboards Arto Tunçboyaciyan (New Jersey), vocals, percussion AVA Trio Vahagn Hayrapetyan (Yerevan), piano Armen Hyusnunts (Yerevan), tenor and soprano saxophone Arto Tunçboyaciyan (New Jersey), vocals, percussion Ayrogi Shadow Th eater (Yerevan) Sergei Jilavyan, Armen Kerobyan, Armen Kirakosyan, Artur Kocharyan, Karen Mamikonyan, puppeteers Hrayrq Dance Group (Shirak) Stepan Kakosyan, Arsen Vardanyan, Mamikon Varderesyan, Larisa Zhamakochyan, dancers Armenia is a hub of creative technology. We partnered Kayt Band (Yerevan) with ARLOOPA, an Armenian app and game developer, Grigor Davtyan, Grigor Kartashyan, to bring augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) Vache Pashinyan, drums experiences to the National Mall. Menq Dance Group (Yerevan) Mariam Hovhannisyan, Stepan Toroyan, dancers When you find the ARLOOPA icon around the Festival, scan the adjacent image with the ARLOOPA app for Miqayel Voskanyan and Friends (Yerevan) Gurgen Ghazaryan, bass additional videos and immersive AR features. For a VR Movses Ghazaryan, drums experience, use ARLOOPA to explore inside the Areni Davit Melkonyan, saxophone Cave and the Noravank monastery (located in the Arman Pestmaldjyan, keyboards Stone artisan tent).

10 11 Life in the Plaza Catalan culture thrives in public spaces and emphasizes convivència—living together and making space for difference.

Witness the spectacle of giant puppets, dancing devils, and fire-breathing dragons in the Plaça Major, a common name for the principal town square. Meet with the artisans behind these displays in the Imaginary Figures on Parade activity center.

Bring your dancing shoes to the Dance Workshop, where you can learn steps from the Ebro River Delta to the Pyrenees Mountains.

Living Together Catalan participation in public life gives birth to a resilient “What matters is the awareness of being nothing if you are not network of associations that bring people together. of the people.” In the Human Towers practice space, dress like a —Vicent Andrés Estellés casteller and learn to fer pinya, or come together Catalonia is a distinctive society in northeastern , to make the tower’s base. Special demonstrations bound by the Pyrenees to the north and the Ebro featuring over 300 human tower builders will take River Delta to the south. Long known as a “welcoming place July 6, 7, and 8. country” (país d’acollida), Catalonia has been defined Join the neighborhood associations who create by its location and thousand-year history of social and elaborate decorative street displays and flower carpets cultural mixing. in the Street Decorations area. Since the 1700s, various political regimes criminalized much of Catalan language and culture. Thanks to their Power of Place resilience, many Catalans have poured their creativity Many Catalans feel a deep to the landscape into strengthening the language, which now has more and their distinct building traditions. than ten million speakers. They have also built cultural Learn to tie knots with fishermen from the Costa Brava at organizations that celebrate local cultural expressions, the Mediterranean tent, follow your nose to the smell of even as they have integrated more than a million new freshly baked bread in Rural Life, and see how traditional immigrants in the last decade. herbal remedies are concocted in the Pyrenees. These efforts were a result of a potent literary and cultural Vernacular and modern building arts characterize the renaissance in the mid-1800s. The Renaixença reclaimed rural and urban landscapes of Catalonia. Can you find the Catalan language and celebrated local traditions, the pedra seca (dry stone) and decorated mosaic tile profoundly transforming Catalan values. As they (trencadís) walls at the Festival? searched for new ways to show their changing sense of identity, many Catalans channel their bold creativity into Creative Enterprises these cultural heritage enterprises to ensure the vitality of their local cultures and their livelihoods. Catalans use their strong traditional culture to fuel creativity and innovation.

Meet master artisans shaping ceramics, glass, iron, and vegetable fiber into larger-than-life pieces, and join a workshop in the Creative Enterprises activity center.

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Useful Catalan Phrases for Your Festival Visit

Hi, how are you? Hola, com estàs?

What’s your name? Com et dius?

My name is _____. Jo em dic _____.

Could you teach me that? Em podries ensenyar això?

How do you say _____? Com es diu _____?

Where are you from in Catalonia? D’on ve a Catalunya?

This is all very cool! És molt guay tot això!

It’s really hot today, isn’t it? Fa molta calor avui, oi?

Enjoy your meal! Bon profit!

Thanks! Gràcies! Merci.

Every year on the eve of Sant Joan, rival human tower teams Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls and Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls perform side by side in the Plaça Blat in Valls, Catalonia. Photo by Pere Toda Serra/ Ajuntament de Valls

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CRAFTS & OCCUPATIONS MUSIC & DANCE Ramón Boquera, Félix Boquera (Girona), fi shermen Ivan Caro (Lleida), dance instructor Joan Farré i Oliver (), vegetable fi ber specialist Pilar Planavila (Lleida), accordion Lívia Garreta (Barcelona), trencadís artist Alidé Sans (Lleida), vocals, songwriter Miquel Grima Mora (Barcelona), sculptor, festive imagery maker Les Anxovetes (Girona) Pep Madrenas (Barcelona), ceramicist Montse Ferrermoner, Tona Gafarot, Marta Perez, vocals Enric Pla Montferrer (Barcelona), blacksmith Salva Gallego, guitar Eva Rosich (Girona), herbalist Xevi Pascual, bass Roger Solé-Coromina (Barcelona), dry-stone mason Cobla Catalana dels Sons Essencials (Barcelona) Jordi Pages Traveria (Girona), glass artist Magí Canyelles, tenora Àngel Zamora (Girona), baker Laia Carreras, manager Marcel Casellas, bass FESTIVE TRADITIONS Heura Gaya, vocals, gralla Josep Maria Contel (Barcelona), historian, street decor specialist Jordi Guixé, saxophone, tible Agrupació del Bestiari Festiu i Popular de Catalunya Joan Moliner, fl abiol, tamborí (Association of Festive and Popular Bestiari of Catalonia) Ivó Oller, trumpet Vicenç Conde, Adriá Esteve, Iván Garriga, Marta López, Jordi Mullor, Ricard Parera, percussion Meri Velasco (Barcelona), beast performers Marcel Puig, fi scorn Agrupació de Colles de Geganters de Catalunya Toni Rocosa, clarinet, tenora (Association of Groups of Giants Performers in Catalonia) Alfons Rojo, guitar, trombone Clàudia Abellan (Barcelona), Xavier Barnadas (Lleida), Àlex García-Miguel Marc Vall, percussion (Barcelona), Valenti Serra (Barcelona), giants performers Esbart Ciutat Comtal (Barcelona) Associació de Geganters i Grallers d’Oliana Teresa Agusti, director (Association of Giant and Graller Performers of Oliana) Pau Fernández, designer Jesús Bach, Pau Jounou, David Nuñez, Josep Maria Viladrich (Lleida), giants performers Guillem Amoros Bigas, Lluis Calduch Ramos, Laia Fuentes Moradell, Alba Morella i Teixidor, Sergi Ojeda Miro, Maria de les Neus Pascual Jane, Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls (Les Joves Human Tower Team) Laura Perez Teis, Eduard Roca Bigorra, dancers Pau Cabanas, Jaume Galofre, Nerea Moreno (Tarragona), castellers Espai de So (Tarragona) Colla Vella dels Xiquets de Valls (La Vella Human Tower Team) Lluís-Xavier Flores Abat, Miquel Àngel Flores Abat, musicians Miquel Cobo, Unai Martínez, David Torvisvo (Tarragona), castellers Sergi Masip, musician, instrument maker Diables d’ (Devils of Igualada) Joan Garriga i el Mariatxi Galàctic (Barcelona) Jose Bros, Santi Carbonell Siles, Fredi, Joanjo Romero (Barcelona), diables Joan Garriga, vocals, guitar, accordion Falles del Pirineu (Torches from the Pyrenees) Francisco RAMBO Batista, drums Guillem Esteban (Lleida), torch maker, Isil falles association member Rocky Gipsy, guitar Marc Ballesté (Lleida), cultural specialist, researcher Marià Roch, bass Federació Catalana d’Entitats Catifaires Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés (Barcelona/Tarragona) (Catalan Federation of Flower Carpet Organizations) Maria Arnal, vocals Vicenta Pallarès i Castelló, Angel Gallart Portas (Barcelona), Marcel Bagés, guitar fl ower carpet specialists Angel Luis Medina Ramos, sound engineer Yacine and the Oriental Groove (Barcelona) Yacine Belahcene, vocals Massinissa Aït-Ahmed, bass Gabriel Fletcher Ventura, guitar Alexandre Guitart, drums

festival.si.edu/schedule For printed daily schedules, visit the Information Booths

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ANDAND CREATIVITYCREATIVITY A preview of the 2019 Social Power of Music

We join Roadwork in celebrating its fortieth anniversary Co-presented with the American Anthropological Association

as a D.C.-based multiracial coalition supporting women Every day at 2PM, Hyurasenyak or Ateneu Exchange stages artists. Founded in 1978 by women leaders from African American civil rights, women’s, global justice, and For a third year, the Folklife Festival explores how we lesbian-feminist movements, Roadwork creates a link experience migration in our everyday lives. between global arts and social justice movements. An • How do we know that we belong? early supporter, Folklife Festival co-founder Ralph Rinzler provided the organization with office space and remained • What makes us who we are when we are an unwavering advocate of their local and global work. no longer “home”? • How does migration manifest in creative economies? Roadwork went on to produce the annual Sisterfire festival and hundreds of concerts, tours, and rallies featuring • How are we all transnational? How many places are you artist-activists who helped create the foundations of wearing? How many are you speaking or listening to? intersectional activism. As we close this year’s Festival How many are you eating? with a nod to 2019’s focus on the social power of music, Join us for conversations about the role of creativity we’re honored to share our stage with this trailblazing in making place and community on shifting ground. organization that “put women’s culture on the road.” This cross-cultural, interdisciplinary space presents discussions, musical presentations, and live interviews by Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center media hosts with local cultural producers, Armenian and Saturday July 7 | 6–7PM Catalan participants, and international artists from related Three Voices: Ysaye M. Barnwell, Be Steadwell, Smithsonian initiatives. Carolyn Malachi At the Ateneu Exchange of the Catalonia program, we address how new and changing traditions reflect Ateneu Exchange increasingly diverse communities. The Hyurasenyak stage Sunday July 8 | 3–4PM in the Armenia program features Cultures of Survival: From Words That Built a Movement: Displacement to Resilience, a series highlighting ways in Spoken Word by Alexis DeVeaux, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, which those surviving genocide or violent conflicts have Venus Thrash, and Roya Marsh drawn on their heritage to thrive in new communities.

Hyurasenyak Stage About Our Partner

Sunday July 8 | 4–5PM The American Anthropological Association’s initiative World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration Roadwork Then and Now: Song, Poetry, and Talk with promotes balanced and nuanced scholarship about Alicia Partnoy, In Process…, Urvashi Vaid, Netsanet migration and displacement. With programs built on Negussie, and Amy Horowitz multiple platforms, AAA engages the public and policy makers in discussions that incorporate historical and Rinzler Stage critical understandings of human movements, what Sunday July 8 | 6–8PM causes them, and the impact they have on communities Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely, Bernice Johnson Reagon and individuals. Songbook, Holly Near, Martha Redbone, Urban Bush Women, Alsarah, Allison Miller, Alex Nolan, Ganessa James, Marcelle Davies Lashley, Juliette Jones, Ariel Horowitz, Maya Kronfeld, Josette Newsam Marchak, Carla Duren, Tattiana Aqeel, and Karma Mayet Johnson festival.si.edu/schedule For printed daily schedules, visit the Information Booths roadworkcenter.org

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12 th Washington Street Monument NW Capitol

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY

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Script Needlework Food Memories Shadow Carpet Theater Hatsatoun Aygi The Workshop Stage Tamar and Tomas’s Armenian Khorovats Grill Smithsonian Hyurasenyak in Armenia

Tree of Life Hazarashen Ginetoun Lahmajun & Wine Bar Gelato Iron Wine Stone Clay Tonir Wood Areni Cave

Info Booth Arabbers Gelato Fruit Stand Ralph Rinzler Stage

Info Booth Gelato M First Aid Rural Life Street Decorations Metro Ateneu Mediterranean Smithsonian Imaginary Figures Exchange Station on Parade Flower Carpet Plaça Major Creative Enterprises

La Masia del Alabardero Pyrenees Dance Workshop Human Mosaics Ceramics & Iron & Catalan Café Towers Glassworks Wicker Catalan Bar & Bites Jefferson Drive SW

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

SMITHSONIAN CASTLE ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING 12 th FREER AND SACKLER Street GALLERIES SW

Arabbeabber Fruituit VendoVendors DAILY HIGHLIGHTS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 CRAFTS OF AFRICAN FASHION ARMENIA 2–3:30PM National Museum of African Art—“Wearing Wakanda: Global African Identities and the Crafts of African Fashion” 1PM Aygi Stage—Hrayrk and Menq perform and teach a workshop on traditional with live music by Kayt Band SPECIAL EVENT

12–2PM Wine—Reviving 6,000-year-old winemaking traditions with 3PM Marketplace —West Bengal baul music performance Van Ardi Winery CATALONIA CATALONIA 1PM Ateneu Exchange—The ritual calendar and celebrations that 3PM Ateneu Exchange—Neighborhood creativity discussion with help mark time through the year street decoration specialists ~9PM Middle of the Mall—After the evening concert, Catalan-style 3PM Plaça Major—Cercavila! Patron saint’s day procession of fi reworks display featuring the Diables d’Igualada giants, beasts, diables, and dancers SUNDAY, JULY 1 THURSDAY, JUNE 28 CRAFTS OF AFRICAN FASHION SPECIAL EVENT 1–3PM National Museum of African American History and Culture— 10–11:30AM Arts and Industries Building—Opening ceremony with Crafts of African Fashion short fi lm series and panel discussion representatives from Smithsonian, Armenia, Catalonia, and National Park Service ON THE MOVE ARMENIA 2PM Hyurasenyak —“Giving Voice: Language & Cultural Survival,” part of Cultures of Survival series 1PM Hyurasenyak —Cultural diplomacy discussion with U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Richard M. Mills, Jr., and Armenia CATALONIA Ambassador to the U.S. Grigor Hovhannissian 2PM Ateneu Exchange—Power of place and social justice in the 5PM Aygi Stage—MVF Band, featuring tar player Miqayel Voskanyan Ebro River Delta region featuring Espai de So CATALONIA 3PM Plaça Major—Classic maritime songs with Cuban infl uences by Les Anxovetes Daily Dance Workshop—Family-friendly dance classes with Ivan Caro, historic dance presentations with Ciutat Comtal, and ARMENIA behind-the-scenes music workshops Daily Areni Cave—Virtual reality experience of the cave with the Noon Ateneu Exchange—Popular culture and the role of gender world’s oldest winery, and a hands-on archaeological dig across disciplines experience ON THE MOVE 3–6PM Wine—WineWorks, a “winemaking incubator” helping farmers and entrepreneurs 2PM Ateneu Exchange—“Sounding Memory: Music & Migration” 4PM Hyurasenyak —Armenian folk songs with female vocal trio Zulal

FRIDAY, JUNE 29 WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 ARMENIA ON THE MOVE 1PM Hatsatoun —Artisanal making traditions, including 2PM Hyurasenyak —“Sounding Memory: Music & Migration,” part of Cultures of Survival series 12–3PM Wine—Winemaking and toasting with Trinity Winery ARMENIA ON THE MOVE 2PM Marketplace —Lace-making demonstration with Arina 2PM Hyurasenyak —“Making Meaning: The Economic and Sandurian Healing Power of Craft,” part of Cultures of Survival: From Displacement to Resilience, a series highlighting how people 4PM Hyurasenyak —Music and storytelling by father and son Onnik draw upon heritage to survive and thrive in new communities and Ara Dinkjian CATALONIA CATALONIA Daily Imaginary Figures—Puppet making, dancing with giants, Daily Creative Enterprises—Presentations and workshops with costume designing, mini torch making workshops and more master artisans in ceramics, mosaics, glass making, basket weaving, and ironworks 1PM Ateneu Exchange—Creative process and the role of artisans in architecture 4PM Ateneu Exchange—Innovation and tradition in ceramics and bread baking SPECIAL EVENT 3PM Marketplace —West Bengal scroll painting and story THURSDAY, JULY 5 demonstration ARMENIA SATURDAY, JUNE 30 1PM Hyurasenyak —Chamber music of Secret Trio, with roots in Armenian, Turkish, and Macedonian Roman music ON THE MOVE 3–7PM Wine—From passion project to wine renaissance at 2PM Ateneu Exchange—“Migrating Traditions: From Europe to Karas Winery the Americas” ON THE MOVE ARMENIA 2PM Hyurasenyak —“Taste of Home: Food Enterprises,” part of 4PM Hyurasenyak —Culture bearers and scholars discuss the Cultures of Survival series “Velvet Revolution” from a cultural perspective and the concept of protests as a national festival

22 23 CATALONIA Noon Ateneu Exchange—Language and music in La Vall d’Aran with singer-songwriter Alidé Sans

4PM Plaça Major—Dance presentation by Ciutat Comtal

FRIDAY, JULY 6 ON THE MOVE

2PM Ateneu Exchange—“Musical Journeys: Catalonia & West Bengal” ARMENIA Noon Aygi Stage—Avant garde folk music from Armenian Navy Band members Arto Tuncboyaçiyan, Vahagn Hayrapetyan, and Protecting the environment, Armen Hyusnunts Sustaining the future. 3–6PM Wine—Converting a rocky hillside with a view of Mt. Ararat into family-owned ArmAs Winery Over the past 25 years, Armenia Tree Project 4PM Marketplace —Areni wine tasting has mastered its understanding of the land CATALONIA and the 11 micro-climates within Armenia Noon Ateneu Exchange—“A Tale of Two Colles,”members from Les Joves and La Vella discuss the human tower building tradition while planting over 5.5 million trees. and the storied rivalry of their teams

2PM Plaça Major—Processional traditions featuring the role of the We plant more than trees, we plant the capgros or “big head” seeds of sustainability for the future of Armenia and a healthy global environment. SATURDAY, JULY 7 ARMENIA

11:30AM–1PM Hatsatoun —Armenian and Catalan cooks collaborate on recipes highlighting a shared passion: foraged foods

2PM Marketplace —Batik textile demonstration with Zara Gasparyan

4:30–7PM Rinzler Stage—Handes! Summit performances followed by Armenian folk music CATALONIA

1–2:30PM Middle of the Mall—Human towers built by Les Joves and La Vella teams

~9PM Middle of the Mall—After the evening concert, Falles de Isil summer solstice torch procession ON THE MOVE

3PM Ateneu Exchange—“Embodied Traditions, Transforming Communities”

SUNDAY, JULY 8 ARMENIA

11:30AM Aygi Stage—Workshop on the techniques of frrik, a traditional spinning-top toy

Noon–2PM Rinzler Stage—Vardavar celebration, a cherished water- throwing festival and feast CATALONIA Armenia Tree Project salutes the 1PM Mediterranean —Cooking with the Boquera brothers Smithsonian Folklife Festival 5PM Plaça Major—Grand fi nale showcase with musicians, dancers, and performers for providing visitors a glimpse into the SPECIAL EVENT beauty of this people and their land. 4–8PM Next to the Rinzler Stage—Live poster printing with Soul & Ink Come Visit Us! We offer regularly scheduled Tours to our Nursery in Karin Village and the winery at . Visit us on Facebook for more information www.facebook.com/armeniatree festival.si.edu/schedule For printed daily schedules, visit the Information Booths www.armeniatree.org 24 EVENING CONCERTS RELATED EVENTS We also co-present these free events at other venues around Washington, D.C.

THURSDAY, JUNE 28 PERFORMANCES

6:30PM Yacine & The Oriental Groove | PANALÎ Contemporary sounds of North Africa via Catalonia, and FRIDAY, JUNE 29 avant garde folk music from Arto Tunçboyacıyan Noon Folks of West Bengal Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress FRIDAY, JUNE 29

6:30PM Miqayel Voskanyan & Friends MONDAY, JULY 2 Armenian jazz with Miqayel Voskanyan, 6PM Cobla Catalana dels Sons Essencials Arto Tunçboyacıyan, and more Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 TUESDAY, JULY 3 6:30pm Les Anxovetes | Zulal | Alidé Sans Noon Ara and Onnik Dinkjian with the New York Gypsy All Stars Women’s voices from Catalonia and Armenia Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress Sponsored, in part, by the Armenian International Women's Association (AIWA) TUESDAY, JULY 3

THURSDAY, JULY 5 6PM Ara and Onnik Dinkjian with the New York Gypsy All Stars Kennedy Center Millennium Stage 6:30PM Secret Trio | Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés Armenian and world chamber music led by Ara Dinkjian, and Catalan avant garde roots music THURSDAY, JULY 5 6PM Nur Qanon Ensemble FRIDAY, JULY 6 Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

6:30PM Green Fields of America (2019 Social Power of Music preview) 40th anniversary of Irish and Irish American music and dance FRIDAY, JULY 6 ensemble from the Mid-Atlantic region—Co-sponsored by the 6PM Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés Embassy of Ireland, USA Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

SATURDAY, JULY 7 SATURDAY, JULY 7

6:30PM Cobla Catalana dels Sons Essencials | Joan Garriga i el Mariatxi 6PM Sisterfi re: Three Voices Galàctic | Armenian Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Folk and contemporary from Catalonia and Armenia SUNDAY, JULY 8 SUNDAY,SUNDAY, JULY 8 6PM Arto Tunçboyaciyan Ensemble 6PM SiSisterfisterfi re (2019 SocialSocial Power ofof Music preview)preview) Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely | Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook | Holly NearNear | Martha Redbone | Urban Bush WomeWomenn | Alsarah | AAllisonllison Miller | Alex Nolan | Ganessa James | Marcelle Davies Lashley | FILM SCREENINGS Juliette Jones | Ariel Horowitz | Maya Kronfeld | Josette Newsam Storytelling: History, Healing, and Hope MarchakMarchak | Carla DurenDuren | TattiaTattianana AqeAqeelel | KKarmaarma MMayetayet JohnJohnsonson Sponsored by the ANCA Endowment Fund #KeepThePromise in 40th404 thh anniversaryananna iviversassaryry ofof RoaRRoadworkddwork (se(seesseeme mmoreorere onn pgpg...1 118)88) partnership with On the Move and the American Anthropological Association

FRIDAY, JUNE 29

6:30PM The Promise (2016) U.S. Navy Memorial

THURSDAY, JULY 5

6:30PM Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction (2017) E Street Cinema

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

SEPTEMBER 21–JANUARY 13, 2019 Armenia! The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City For the fi rst time in its history, the Met will present a large-scale exhibition dedicated solely to the Armenian history and culture in the medieval period.

festival.si.edu/schedule For printed daily schedules, visit the Information Booths Photo by Sharon Farmer, courtesy of Roadwork Oral History and Documentary Project 26 27 Open 10:30AM to 6M Located outside the south entrance of the National Museum of American History on Madison Drive NW Crafts of African Fashion From Ghana to Niger and beyond, fashion in Africa is a Shop the Festival’s artisan market. This exceptional performance art, a showcase for the work of traditional shopping and learning experience is your opportunity master artisans, and a spectator sport. Crafts of African to share the inspired—and inspiring—sights and sounds Fashion is a new initiative promoting the continuity of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Each product in the of heritage arts in Africa, exploring the important role Marketplace highlights creativity, cultural heritage, and cultural enterprises play in sustaining communities masterful skill of artisans around the globe. and connecting generations on the continent and throughout the diaspora. • Take Armenia and Catalonia home with you. Pick up pottery, jewelry, embroidery work, woven baskets, gifts for loved ones, T-shirts for the whole family, and more. Festival Marketplace

June 27–July 1 and July 4–8 | 11AM and 1PM • Explore Crafts of African Fashion. This project features demonstrations, workshops, and other activities with textile and Meet artisans and designers from Ghana, Niger, and adornment artists from Ghana, Niger, and the African diaspora. the African diaspora as they lead daily presentations and activities for visitors of all ages. • Visit the pop-up International Folk Art Market. Meet master artists from fifteen countries and purchase extraordinary National Museum of African Art handmade folk art.

Saturday, June 30, 2018 | 4–5:30PM • B ring your children for special hands-on experiences. Each day at 11AM, our youngest visitors can stamp an African textile Wearing Wakanda: Global African Identities and the pattern, create natural paints with an Indian scroll artist, or Crafts of African Fashion hear a story from a global artisan.

The film Black Panther represented emerging global • Check the schedule for daily demonstration and food tastings: African identities by using Ghanaian adinkra, kente, and festival.si.edu/schedule other textiles in the costumes. Join a conversation with masters of design and textile arts and explore the role Your purchase not only supports artists and artisan of heritage in fashion. Wear your “Wakandan” best! groups but also contributes to the sustained development of traditional crafts worldwide and the National Museum of mission of the Smithsonian. African American History and Culture

Sunday, July 1, 2018 | 3–5PM

Short Film Series & Panel Discussion

From haute couture designers to pop culture fashion houses to the streets of Soweto, take a journey through the creativity and style influenced by the African continent. We’ll explore the current state and future of African fashion through a series of short films and a panel discussion with local, national, and international designers.

Armenian embroidery by Festival participant Houri Iyjian. Photo by Zvonimir Bebek 28 FOOD AND DRINK Open every day of the Festival from 11AM until closing Armenian Khorovats Grill • Lamb Chops • Lavash Sandwich (Chicken, pork, beef, or vegetable VG) Every year we offer cuisines that transport diners to lands • Mixed Green Salad VG foreign and familiar, bringing them closer with every bite. • Soft Serve Come along on a culinary journey inspired by Catalan ( VG, labneh, or both swirled) street festival food and Armenian feasting traditions. • V Enjoy modern dishes that represent recent immigrant • Frosé Slushie and migrant influences on time-honored favorites. Ginetoun Lahmajun & Keep an ear out for a friendly holler from the arabber fruit vendors, a Folklife Festival tradition. The Diggs family Wine Bar from Baltimore returns this summer to continue forty • Meat Lahmajun VG years of offering freshly sliced watermelon, pineapple, • Veggie Lahmajun • Wine Tasting Flight and more. Stop by their cart to learn more about • Frosé Slushie arabbers’ past and present role in East Coast city living. • Apricot Cool off with refreshing gelato or a spirited popsicle, and enjoy a longtime Festival favorite: the lime fizz. Our La Masia del Alabardero beverage stands also offer fresh pink lemonade, limeade, Catalan Cuisine and fruit smoothies. In Armenian countryside style, you • Butifarra can take home whole fruit from the local farmers stand. • Fideuà amb Allioli • Pollastre a la Catalana For those over 21, wash down the Catalan bites with a • Faves Salad VG glass of , relax with an adult lime fizz, or try your • Coca d’Escalivada VG khorovats with a fun “frosé” slushie. Be sure to catch us • Crema Catalana V during happy hour for discounted drinks! • Sangria

Catalan Café • Pa amb Tomàquet • Bikini Sandwich • Crema Catalana V • Bunyols V • Sangria

Catalan Bar • Pa amb Tomàquet • Coca d’Escalivada VG • Bikini Sandwich • Crema Catalana V • Bunyols V

Firenzes Artisanal Gelato • Apricot VG Frozen Spirits (must be 21+) • Cherry VG • Apricot Brandy VG • Chocolate • Mojito VG • Mango VG • Sangria VG • Pomegranate VG • Strawberry VG

V Vegetarian, VG vegan or vegan option available

Arabbers at the 1975 Folklife Festival. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives

30 31 ACCESSIBILITY & FAMILY ACTIVITIES OTHER SERVICES

We strive to maintain an accessible and inclusive environment Did you know that the oldest shoe in the world was for visitors of all abilities. found in Armenia? Can you guess how a seven-story Catalan “human tower” is made? Can you read the Accessible seating is available at all performance story in a kente cloth? venues. A limited number of wheelchairs and folding cane-chairs are available for loan each day at the Volunteer Tent. At the Folklife Festival, children of all ages (and Service animals are welcome, and water stations are available curious adults) can learn about the history and cultural throughout the site. traditions of Armenia, Catalonia, and African fashion.

American Sign Language interpreters and Armenia: Creating Home Real-Time Captioning services are available • Add your own yarn art to the Tree of Life for select performances and presentations. Additional ASL interpreting services may be requested and are provided as • Dig for archaeological artifacts in the Areni Cave available. Please visit the Volunteer Tent for more information. • Enjoy a puppet show in the Shadow Theater

All narrative stages and performance venues are Catalonia: Tradition and equipped with assistive listening systems. Receivers Creativity from the Mediterranean may be obtained from a Festival volunteer or staff member at each venue. • Make herbal soap in the Pyrenees tent • Tie a fisherman’s knot in the Mediterranean tent Sighted-guide and verbal-description services are available upon request for visitors who are blind or • Move your feet in the Dance Workshop low-vision. Live Audio Description is available for select events. • Help prepare for a festa with artisans in the Street Large-print and Braille brochures are available at the Decorations area Volunteer Tent and Information Booths. Large-print and Braille menus are available at concession stands. Festival Marketplace In addition to the program areas, the Festival On Saturday, July 7, at 10AM, we will host “Morning Marketplace will offer hands-on experiences. Join at the Mall” for individuals with autism, sensory us every morning at 11AM for activities ranging from sensitivities, or other cognitive disabilities who may benefi t stamping an African textile pattern to creating natural from a more relaxed and supported environment, and the paints with an Indian scroll artist. provision of pre-visit materials. For more information, please call (202) 633-2921 or email [email protected]. Pick up a Family Activities Guide at any information Information regarding these and additional accessibility booth and check the online schedule for other special services will be updated throughout the Festival at family-friendly events. festival.si.edu/accessibility.

To request any other access services not mentioned above, please call (202) 633-2921 or email [email protected].

If you become separated from your group, go to “Lost and Found” in the Volunteer Tent for assistance. A First-Aid Station is located next to the Ralph Rinzler Stage. Information Booths are located at the festival.si.edu/schedule east and west ends of the Festival. For printed daily schedules, visit the Information Booths

32 33 Individuals: Carol Ailes, Kelvin Ali, Theadocia Austen, Susan Avery, Nancy Bechtol, Greg AND Bettwy, Frank Bland, John Brenchley, Le Shawn Burrell-Jones, Cheryl Cameron, Claire Carlin, Michael Carrancho, Chi Chan, Angela Chongo, Jackie Churchbourne, Charles SPONSORS SPECIAL THANKS Darby, Daniel Davies, Ramon Davis, Meghan Delaney Berroya, Thomas Dempsey, William Donnelly, Ryan Doyle, Bernard Draughn, Farleigh Earhart, Ogom Enwemnwa, Diana Ezerins, Alexandria Fairchild, John Fenn, Danielle Fisher, Carolyn Fletcher, Dylan Garon, Allen , Eric Gentry, Steve Groh, Rick Haas, Richard Hicks, Eric Hollinger, Tova Jaffee, Timothy Jameson, Kenneth Johnson, Tina Jones, Daren Kennedy, Patricia Khelawan, Cristine Lavin, Tiffany Lindsay-Elum, Philip LoPiccolo, Treffaney Lowe, Stephanie Lieberman, Mays, Charlie Marcus, Michele McLain-Morgan, Jayna Marques, Beverly Medlock, Anita Montgomery, Corine Motley, Kevin Moyers, Steve The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Nelson, Jeanne O'Toole, Rick Perks, Randy Peters, Andrea Robinson, Angel Rodriguez, Cultural Heritage in association with the National Park Service. Tommy Rodriguez, Brian Ross, Brenda Schumacher, Debbie Shon, Patricia Smith, Greg The Festival is supported by federally appropriated funds; Smithsonian trust funds; Spann, Nikki Spencer, Linda St. Thomas, Adam Stewart, Maggie Stone, Marc Tataro, contributions from governments, businesses, foundations, and individuals; in-kind Brandeon Taylor, Joe Taylor, Katherine Tkac, Robert Tanner, Paul Tintle, Nelson Torres, assistance; and food, recording, and craft sales. Cargie Vaughn, Haresh Vayal, Ana Villas Boas, David Voyles, Steven Walden, Deidre Promotional support is provided by Dulles International and Reagan National Airports, Walker, Watson Wallace, Kimberly Wayman, Erica Webber, Darrell Willson, Michaela The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, , Daily, Bai-Antioxidant Wright, Beth Ziebarth Infusion Drinks, Capital Bikeshare, Comcast, Destination DC, Latin Opinion Baltimore Newspaper, On Tap Magazine, Telemundo Washington DC, El Tiempo Hispano (MD-DE- Armenia: Creating Home PA), El Tiempo Latino, WAMU 88.5, Washington Blade, and Washington Informer. Organizations: ARLOOPA; Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church; Eastern Prelacy of In-kind program and technical support comes from Costco (Sterling, VA), Ernest Maier the Armenian Apostolic Church of America; History Museum of Armenia; The Hovhannes Block Company (Bladensburg, MD), Fabric Place Basement (Alexandria, VA), Home Sharambeyan Folk Arts and Crafts Center; The Kreeger Museum; The Mesrop Mashtots Depot (Oxon Hill, MD), KIND® Snacks, King Arthur Flour®, Meadow Farms, Target (Dulles, Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran); Maydan;- Ministry of Culture of Republic VA), Target (Gainesville, VA), Target (Glen Burnie South, MD), Target (Silver Spring, MD), of Armenia; My Armenia Program; Project SAVE; State Tourism Committee of Republic Target (Upper Marlboro, MD), Target (Springfield, VA), and Target (Stanford). of Armenia; St. Mary Apostolic Armenian Church, Washington, D.C.; TUMO Center for Creative Technologies; USAID; Western Diocese of the Armenian Church; Western Prelacy Armenia: Creating Home of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America; Zaytinya Program partners include the Government of the Republic of Armenia; the Department of Individuals: Ambassador Grigor Hovhannissian, Ambassador Richard M. Mills Jr., Contemporary Anthropological Studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Arlet Abrahamian, Irene Abrahamian, Elizabeth Agbabian, Mihran Agbabian, Armen the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia; the My Armenia Cultural Heritage Tourism Amiryan, Arman Atoyan, Levon Avdoyan, Pavel Avetisyan, Haikanush Bagratunyan, Program, funded by USAID and implemented by the Smithsonian Institution; the U.S. Marie Balian, Rita Balian, Anthony Barsamian, His Eminence Archbishop Khajag Embassy in Armenia; and the Embassy of Armenia to the of America. Barsamian, Katie Bergin, Helen Chason, Alice Chakrian, His Eminence Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, Dan Cole, Davit Danielyan, Hamazasp Danielyan, Flora Dunaians, Sponsors include: Levon Der Bedrossian, His Eminence Archbishop Hovan Derderian, Eric Esrailian, Hilda $150,000 Albert Avdolyan $100,000 Armenian National Committee of America Fidanian, Mkhitar Gabrielyan, Vache Gabrielyan, Boris Gasparyan, Ambassador Michael Endowment Fund, Armenian Tourism Development Foundation, Armenian Volunteer Gfoeller, Salpi Ghazarian, Deborah Grieser, Hripsime Grigoryan, Artak Hambardzumyan, Corps, Birthright Armenia, HIKE Armenia, Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Foundation, Narek Harutyunyan, Gagik Harutyunyan, Rev. Fr. Nerses Hayrapetyan, Ambassador Consul General Sergey Sarkisov $50,000 Armenia Tree Project, Armenian Assembly of John A. Heffern, Karen Hilliard, Sarah Hines, Samvel Hovhannisyan, Anita Issagholyan, America, Armenian General Benevolent Union, Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, IDeA Hermine Janoyan, Areg Jerahian, Armine Karabekyan, Rev. Fr. Hovsep Karapetyan, Foundation, Toufayan Bakeries $25,000 The Dombalagian Family, Mark Hoplamazian Lucineh Kassarjian, Hrair Hawk Khatcherian, Ara Khzmalyan, Hasmik Knyazyan, $10,000 Armenian Missionary Association of America, James and Marta Batmasian Hratch Kozibeyokian, Kate Leahy, John Lee, Ara Madzounian, Sossi Madzounian, Ani Family Foundation, John Mirak Foundation, Oscar Tatosian | Oscar Isberian Rugs, SJS Manoukian, Lilit Manukyan, Maria Mehranian, His Eminence Archbishop Moushegh Charitable Trust, Tufenkian Hospitality, LLC $5,000 Anonymous, Armenian International Mardirossian, Harutyun Marutyan, Makar Melikyan, Victor Mnatsakanyan, Victoria Women’s Association – Los Angeles | Laurel Karabian Fund for the Arts, Steve and Sylvia Mnatsakanyan, Samvel Mnoyan, Carolyn Mugar, Carrie Nahabedian, Carolyn O’Brien, Melikian $3,000 Alice Navasargian, Savy Tufenkian $2,500 Jack Sarouyan, TF Educational Tamara O’Connor, Aaron Paley, Jeffrey Paretchan, Alice Petrossian, Arsine B. Phillips, Foundation $2,000 Yessian Music $1,200 David Perry, Alice and Vahik Petrossian $1,000 Alina Poghosyan, Hasmik Poghosyan, Gevorg Poghosyan, Hamlet Sargsyan, Elizabeth Agbabian, Alice Chakrian, Flora Dunayats, Hilda and Hovsep Fidanian, Hermine Samuelyan, Haroutiun Samuelyan, Zaven Sargsyan, Shant Sahakian, Gayane Shagoyan, Janoyan, Roger Strauch $100+ JB Kassarjian Armella Shakaryan, Adam Stefan, Joyce Stein, Timothy Straight, Honorary Consul Oscar Tatosian, Aghasi Tadevosyan, Vahan Ter-Ghevondyan, Tutunjyan, Aram Vardanyan, Catalonia: Tradition and Creativity from the Mediterranean Talin Yacoubian, Linda Yepoyan, Argam Yeranosyan, Ara Zada, Zarmine Zeytuntsyan The program is co-produced with the Government of Catalonia’s Department of Popular Culture and Cultural Associations. Additional research and content support is made Catalonia: Tradition and Creativity from the Mediterranean possible by Adifolk: the Association for the Diffusion of Folklife, and the Fira Mediterrània Organizations: Agrupació de Colles de Geganters de Catalunya, Associació Cultural de . Major financial and administrative support is provided by the Institut Ramon de Fallaires d’Isil, Associació de Festes de la Plaça Nova, Associació de Geganters i Llull. Additional financial support is provided by the provincial governments of Barcelona, Grallers d’Oliana, Can Trona, Casal Català Washington DC, Catalan Tourist Board, Diables Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona; the City Councils of , Igualada, and Valls; d’Igualada, Esbart Ciutat Comtal, Federació Catalana d’Entitats Catifaires, Federació and by the Catalan Consortium for Craft and Grifols USA LLC. d’Agrupació del Bestiari Festiu i Popular de Catalunya, Fundació Paulí Bellet, Lovemore Lavender Farm, Museu de la Pesca de Palamós, La Xarxa Comunicació Local On the Move: Migration and Creativity Individuals: Lluis Amat, Ruben Arcos, Izaskun Arretxe, Aurélie Beatley, Madeline Carey, The narrative session series is co-produced and co-presented by the American Maria Carme Junyent, Xevi Collell, Andrew Davis, Xavier Escribà, Miquel Ferret, Joan Anthropological Association. Foguet, Manuel Forcano, Cristina Gargallo, Joan Gómez, Lluis Puig Gordi, Miquel Herrada, Lisa Helling, Marta Insúa, Maria Loveless, Carles Martínez, Sílvia Mata, Randy McDaniel, Mabel Moreno Alegre, Mary Ann Newman, Dorothy Noyes, Marta Oliveres, Sergi Ots, Fransesc Pena, Jordi Pesarrodona, Ester Plana, Albert Reguant, Quim Rutllant, WE EXTEND OUR THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING: Jordi Sacristán, Elisenda Sola-Sole, Montserrat Sola-Sole, Maria Sprehn-Malagón, Francina Vidal, Xavier Vila, Francesc Vilaró, Vicenç Villatoro Smithsonian Support for the Festival Office of the Secretary: David Skorton, Secretary; Office of Advancement, Office of General On the Move: Migration and Creativity Counsel; Office of the Under Secretary for Finance and Administration: Al Horvath, Betto Arcos, Mariano Bartolomeu, Mestre Bomba, Olivia Cadaval, Emma Cregan, Adam Undersecretary for Finance and Administration; Office of the Chief Information Officer; Gamwell & This Anthro Life, Kumera Genet, Ed Liebow, Mary S. Linn, Juanita Cabrera Office of Contracting; Office of Finance & Accounting; Office of Human Resources; Office Lopez, and Frankie Meneses, Andy Shallal, Daniel Sheehy, Noobtsaa Philip Vang, of Planning, Management & Budget; Office of Protection Services; Office of Sponsored Ranald Woodaman, Leslie Walker Projects; Office of the Under Secretary for Museums & Research: John Davis, Provost; Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Smithsonian Latino Center, National Museum Sisterfire of African Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Wendy Bell, Chela Blitt, Heather L. Burns & Kathleen A. Maloy, Ruth A. Davidson & Museum of American History; Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education & Access: Emily Sherwood, Mary Ford, Fullerton Family Foundation, Tracy Gary, Lisa Honig & The Smithsonian Associates; Office of Communications & External Affairs: Accessibility Dale Schroedel, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Cindy Phillips, Arnold Polinger, Program, Office of Government Relations, Office of International Relations, Office of Annabel Song-Hill, Holly Wallace, Urvashi Vaid & Kate Clinton, Wild Geese Foundation Public Affairs, Office of Special Events & Protocol, Office of Visitor Services; Smithsonian Enterprises: Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Channel; Smithsonian Facilities: Office of Facilities Management & Reliability; Office of Planning, Design & Construction; Office of Festival Marketplace Safety, Health & Environmental Management; Smithsonian Gardens Jeff Snell and Sandy Peinado, International Folk Art Market; Julia Ames and Micah Greenberg, Humankind Studio; Grace Clark and Zvonimir Bebek, Smithsonian Enterprises; Jigesh Patel General Festival Support and John Duven, OCIO; Heidi Austreng, Office of Advancement-Women’s Committee Organizations: National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior: Ryan Zinke, Secretary; National Park Service: Dan Smith, Acting Director; National Mall and Crafts of African Fashion Memorial Parks: Patricia Trap, Acting Superintendent; Leonard Lee, Park Ranger, Permit Ambassador Hassana Alidou, Jason Anthony, Sylvie Billaudeau, Juanita Britton, Phillip Boutte, Specialist; Michael Stachowicz, Turf Specialist; James King, Fire and Emergency Ambassador Arikana Chihombori Quao, ContentMode, J. Cooper, Meja Cooper, Christine Manager; Raul Castillo, Structural Fire Manager; Jeffery Hitchcock; U.S. Park Police: Cropper, Deborah Ferguson, Maggie Francois, Poundo Gomis, Eurica Huggins-Axum, H. Gil Robert MacLean, Chief; Sargent Erich Koehler; Employees of the National Park Service Ingles, Jacqueline Kakembo, Kibonen, KUTULA by Africana, Ruslan Pelykh, Mimi Plange, and U.S. Park Police; The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—Millennium Larbi R’Miki, Jessica Saley, Cynthia Sands, Jamal Sands, Alphadi Seidnaly, Khadija Seidnaly, Stage, Office of VSA and Accessibility Meja Shoba, The Nest Collective, Peter Verster Cohen, Sherry West, Denise Wright

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Aakash Durai, Guy Wassertzug, Henry Cross, Rachel Cross, ARMENIA David Skorton, Secretary Noah Wassertzug, IT Support Team Charlie Emmons, Alicia Galinski, Levon Abrahamian, Halle Butvin, Alison Goesling, Eric Harris, John Davis, Provost Art and Design Satenik Mkrtchyan, Ruzanna Chris Kozlowski, Gregg Lamping, Tsaturyan, Curators Josué Castilleja, Art Director Sissy Lang, Dean Languell, Bruce CENTER FOR FOLKLIFE AND Loughry, Mikael Manoukian, Arlene Reiniger, Taylor Hicks, Iliana Quintanilla, Program Coordinator CULTURAL HERITAGE Graphic Designers Charlie Pilser, Ed Rangel, Pete Michael Mason, Director Reiniger, Keith Stephens, Sound Khatchadourian, Armenia- Carl Hayes, Design Intern based Program Coordinator Halle Butvin, and Stage Crew Director of Special Projects Publications and Web Milena Oganesyan, Marketplace Diaspora Project Coordinator Robert Leopold, Deputy Director Elisa Hough, Editor Jackie Flanagan Pangelinan, for Research and Collections Toby Dodds, Webmaster Sofiya Boroday, Armine Marketplace Manager Kalbakian, Kandakarjian, Huib Schippers, Sandy Wang, Danielle Lancaster, Micaela Nerguizian, Russell Star- Curator and Director, Web Designer and Developer Marketplace Assistant Lack, Program Interns Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Sydnee Winston, Vanessa Taylor, Marketplace Liana Aghajanian, Grace Stephanie Smith, Social Media Coordinator Administrative Assistant Bardakjian, Hamazasp Director, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Rachel Barton, Media Intern Danielyan, Lucineh Kassarjian, Archives and Collections Nicole Gaudette, Charlotte Mitchell, Christian Whittle, Web Intern Amanda Muir, Lily Perez, Ashken Khudaverdyan, Hratch Advisory Council Marketplace Interns Kozibeyokian, Harutyun Marutyan, Documentation Gayane Shagoyan, Aghasi Deborah Wong, Chair Danielle Belton, Cecilia Peterson, Dave Walker, Lead Sales Associate Tadevosyan, Ruzanna Torozyan, Thomas Downs, Chad Hamill, Karine Vann, Presenters Documentation Coordinators Carly Blancato, Elaine Graves, Bill Ivey, Dawn McCall, Susan Carolyn Rapkievian, Dance Advisor Norton, Ana Maria Ochoa, George Stephanie Smith, Archives Director Swatantar Mann, Constance Papagiannis, Frederik Paulsen, Charlie Weber, Video Director Murphy, Margaret Parker, Deb Zakiya Williams, Ramsey-Moor, Sam Sherman, Max Program Lead Volunteer George Schell, Jacquie Gales Crystal Rie, Walker, Sales Associates Webb, Nina Zolt, Council Members Digital Asset Management Assistant Claudia Foronda, CATALONIA Libby O’Connell, Taylor McBride, Crystal Sanchez, Folkways Sales Manager Michael Atwood Mason, J. Scott Raecker, Honorary OCIO Video Archivists Patricia Shehan Campbell, Cristina Diaz-Carrera, Caroline He, Sarah Lake, Participant Support David Ibáñez, Curators Ex officio Bailey Glover, Sonya Pencheva, Ashley Martinez, Pablo Molinero, Archives Interns Administration Participant Coordinator Program Coordinator Matthew Archibald, Kaylie Connors, Marquinta Bell, Lilit Ghazaryan, Daniela Panetta, Ximena Banegas, Caroline Diemer, Emma Cregan, Jackson Harvey, Administrative Officer Participant Assistants Aidan Keys, Samantha Mason, Abigail Hendrix, Khiné Johnson, Josi Miller, Teo Rogers, Mariángel Claudia Telliho, Hannah Luc, Albouri N’Diaye, Bryan Zayani Sims, Housing Coordinator Villalobos, Program Interns Financial Management Specialist Wilmot, Video Interns Fernando Cordova, Pablo Giori, Txell Martín- Katie Fernandez, Chelsea Trujillo, Marilyn Gaston, Transportation Coordinator Pardo, Research Associates Administrative Assistants Documentation Lead Volunteer Christine Tristani, Transportation Assistant Angels Blasco Rovira, Olga Brea, SMITHSONIAN Communications Katie Babbit, Tamar Barsamian, Elisendra Estany, Cristina Sanchis FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL Kelly Carnes, Sean Tomlinson, Ferrer, Department of Popular Culture and Cultural Associations Sabrina Lynn Motley, Media Relations Manager Participant Staff Interns Festival Director Allison Lince-Bentley, Carmen Lopez, Participant Mònica Amorós, Ivan Besora, Oriol Ramírez, Adifolk Logistics Team Zaki Ghul, Production Coordinator Marketing Specialist Hospitality Lead Volunteer Xevi Collell, Lluís Flores, Pablo Nichole Procopenko, Evening and Technical Support Program Support Giori, Asia Jankos, Imma Pulido, Special Events Coordinator Tyler Nelson, Technical Director Arlene Reiniger, Intern Coordinator Mar Rodrigo Salse, Emily Socolov, Eddie Mendoza, Guillermo Soler, Ricard Viñas de Festival Services Manager Kyle Bancroft, Michelle Banks, Assistant Technical Director Volunteer Coordinator Puig, Presenters Operations Natasha Joyce, Administrative Emily Duncan, Volunteer Assistant Tiffany Wilt, Family Activities Coordinator Justin Hensley, Assistant to the Technical Crew Darlen Carter, Volunteer Staff Intern Operations Manager Tim Nielsen, Shop Foreman Abby Gallin, Kathy Phung, Arianna Sikorski, Program Lead Volunteer Sarah Roffman, Chad Brown, Foodways Coordinators Operations Assistant Warehouse Coordinator Barb Exstrum, SPECIAL PROJECTS Alex Taggert, Whitney Brown, Chris Crawford, Foodways Lead Volunteer Diana Baird N’Diaye, Operations Exhibit Worker Josh Herndon, John Hobson, Betty Belanus, Education Curator Crafts of African Fashion Curator Ellen Houseknecht, Phil Johnson, Andrew Bautista, Ariel Barbosa, Melissa DeMarinis, Supply Coordinator Shiloh Thaxton, Matthew Shay Stevens, Crafts of African Vegiard, Carpenters Antoinette Hampton, Rebecca Fashion Project Coordinator Kerry Kaleba, Supply Assistant Strange, Lea Troutman, Casey McDonald, Electrician Rebecca Fenton, Crafts of African Anna Johnson, Education Interns Fashion Fellow Sustainability Coordinator Rachel Prell, Assistant Electrician Marie-Louise Orsini, Brianne Chapelle, Sean Johannasen, Annie Johnson, Family Activities Lead Volunteer Katzenberger Art History Intern, Terrance Meniefield, Dennis Sustainability Intern James Deutsch, Crafts of African Fashion Saunders, Exhibit Workers Zach Hensley, Survey Coordinator Amalia Cordova, Sojin Kim, Carolyn Hampton, Scenic Painter Emily Claire Mackey, Isobel Taylorch, Survey Intern On the Move Coordinators Sustainability Lead Volunteers Alaric Strickland, Heavy Equipment Taraya Middleton, Ali Smith, On the Move Intern Brian Gaines, Lead/Exhibit Worker Survey Lead Volunteer Toshi Reagon, Sisterfire Curator Concessions Coordinator Charlie Marcus, Lighting Designer Marjorie Hunt, Folklife Curator Amy Horowitz, Netsanet Negussie, Diane Nutting, Stephen Fisher, Sound Designer Jane Davenport, Accessibility Coordinator Madeleine Remez, Colleen Arnerich, Information Booths Lead Volunteer Sisterfire Producers Jae Muth, Accessibility Intern Assistant Sound Designer Sara Winegardner, Clarissa Bury, Kennedy Center Jazmyn Beckford, Accessibility Steven Bluestein, Harry Cimermanis, Evening Concerts Lead Volunteer Liaison Lead Volunteer Lead Volunteer Dave Clements, Paul Cogan,

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