Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2000 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Object Details
- Scope and Contents note
- This collection documents the planning, production, and execution of the 2000 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Materials may include photographs, audio recordings, motion picture film and video recordings, notes, production drawings, contracts, memoranda, correspondence, informational materials, publications, and ephemera. Such materials were created during the Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as in the featured communities, before or after the Festival itself.
- Historical note
- The Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The 2000 Smithsonian Folklife Festival was produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and cosponsored by the National Park Service. For more information, see Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
- Date
- June 23-July 4, 2000
- Extent
- 1 Cubic foot (approximate)
- Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
- Citation
- Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2000 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Negatives
- Correspondence
- Business records
- Audiocassettes
- Slides (photographs)
- Memorandums
- Videotapes
- Contracts
- Notes
- Plans (drawings)
- Photographic prints
- Audiotapes
- Digital images
- Sound recordings
- Video recordings
- Topic
- Food habits
- arts and crafts
- World music
- Folklore
- Folk music
- Folk art
- Folk festivals
- Identifier
- CFCH.SFF.2000
- Introduction
- The goal of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival is to present diverse, community-based traditions in an understandable and respectful way. The great strength of the Festival is to connect the public, directly and compellingly, with practitioners of cultural traditions. In 2000, the Festival featured programs on the cultural ecology of the Río Grande/Río Bravo Basin, on Tibetan refugee culture, and on the local traditions of Washington, D.C. Visitors could learn how a cowboy or vaquero from South Texas works cattle, or speak with a Tibetan American immigrant about the meaning underlying her continued practice of sacred traditions. As an artist's hand guided the eyes of Festival viewers, they could imagine how an urban mural reflects life in Washington, D.C. The Festival program on the cultures of Washington, D.C., showed the vibrancy of local communities that live in the shadow of national institutions. El Río demonstrated the tenacity of regional culture at the borders, even margins, of Mexico and the United States. The program on Tibetan refugees provided a cultural in-gathering of a diaspora community facing issues of continuity and survival - climaxed by a huge ceremony on the National Mall presided over by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who also offered a public address on the occasion. Overall, the Festival this year demonstrated that, while people may be subject to modern forms of colonization, to unequal power and economic arrangements, and to marginalization, exile, and strife in many forms, they use their cultural traditions as sources of strength, resistance, and creativity to cope with and overcome their travail. Culture, after all, is a means of human adaptation. Just because people may be economically poor or politically powerless does not necessarily mean that their cultures are brittle or bereft of value. The Festival has long had an especially significant impact on those artists, musicians, cooks, and ritual specialists who participate directly in it. The attention they receive usually fortifies their intent to pass on their traditions to children, apprentices, and students, just as it sometimes encourages cultural exemplars to extend their creativity by connecting it to broader civic and economic issues. The Festival's rich cultural dialogue on the National Mall was considered to be particularly significant for American civic life at the dawn of the 21st century, as we enter an era in which no single racial or ethnic group will be a majority. The Festival allows a broad array of visitors to understand cultural differences in a civil, respectful, and educational way. Little wonder it has become a model for public cultural presentation, adopted by organizations elsewhere in the United States and in other democratic nations. The 2000 Festival took place during two five-day weeks (June 23-27 and June 30-July 4) between Madison Drive and Jefferson Drive and between 9th Street and 14th Street, south of the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of Natural History (see site plan). It featured three programs, with several special events including the Ralph Rinzler Memorial Concert. The 2000 Program Book included schedules and participant lists for each program; essays provided background on the Festival and on each of the programs. The Festival was co-presented by the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service and organized by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Richard Kurin, Director; Richard Kennedy, Deputy Director; Diana Parker, Festival Director; Anthony Seeger, Director, Smithsonian Folkways Recordngs; James Early, Director, Cultural Heritage Policy; Thomas Vennum, Jr., Senior Ethnomusicologist; Olivia Cadaval, Chair, Research & Education; D.A. Sonneborn, Assistant Director, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings; Betty J. Belanus, Nancy Groce, Marjorie Hunt, Diana Baird N'Diaye, Peter Seitel, Cynthia Vidaurri, Curators, Folklorists, Education and Cultural Specialists; Carla M. Borden, Program/Publications Manager; John W. Franklin, Program Manager; Cynthia Vidaurri, Coordinator, Latino Cultural Resource Network; Jeffrey Place, Archivist; Stephanie Smith, Assistant Archivist; Arlene L. Reiniger, Program Specialist; Charlie Weber, Media Specialist; Zain Abdullah, Stanford Carpenter, Susan T. Chen, Roland Freeman, Dan Goodwin, Todd Harvey, Amy Horowitz, Ivan Karp, Guy Logsdon, Alan Lomax, Worth Long, René López, Kate Rinzler, Katherine Skinner, Saul Tobias, Bob White, Fellows & Research Associates Folklife Advisory Council and Folkways Advisory Council Michael Asch, Phyllis Barney, Jane Beck, Don DeVito, Pat Jasper, Ella Jenkins, Jon Kertzer, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, John Nixdorf, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Gilbert Sprauve, Jack Tchen, Ricardo Trimillos National Park Service Robert Stantion, Director; Terry Carlstrom, Director, National Capital Region
- Shared Stewardship of Collections
- The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://doi.org/10.25573/data.21771155.
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EAD Collection Results
- Festival Recordings: Michelle Banks, QuiquAviles and Friends, Memories: Nap Don't Forget the Blues Turner, Michelle Banks, QuiquAviles and Friends, Poets Corner (Quique Ariles, Joel Dios, Porter Ernesto Mercer) (Lisa Pegram)
- Festival Recordings: Barbara Graskins (Evelyn Woolston), Big Hillbillies Bluegrass (Evelyn Woolston), Kings of Harmony: Gospel Brass (James Freeman, Rodney Williams, Sam Cole, Glen Nowis, Steve Belk, Norvis Miller, Joe Chambers, Paul Webb, Nathanial Miller, Joseph Heyward) (Evelyn Woolston)
- Festival Recordings: Traditional and Contemporary Song and Dance: Chaksampa (Penpa Tsering), Tibetan Folk Song: Loten Namling
- Festival Recordings: Tibetan Opera: Bylakuppe Lhamo Troupe (Penpa Tsering), Tibetan Folk Songs: Loten Namling (Penpa Tsering)
- El Rio fieldwork: Bernalillo video recordings
- Festival Recordings: Archchie Edwards Blues Heritage (Brett Williams, Michael Baytop), Music Memories (Nap Turner, Richard Thomas, Michael Baytop) (Brett Williams, Nap Turner), Andrew Cocho African Drummers and Dancers (Charna Little, Sheila Cocho, Jelani Mannons, Femi Mannons, Shakir Mannons, Baba Ngoma, Andrew Cacho, Hasani Cacho, Bonita Cacho, Leroy Bess, Kehinde Kelly, Carlton Lemon, Jeremiah Littman, Damjon Littmin, Tarrance Johnson, Keisha Noel) (Bonita Cacho), Michelle Banks and Quiqu Aviles),
- Festival Recordings: Traditional Folk Songs (Loten Namling) (Tsok Khang, Gathering House), Traditional Field Work Songs (Lobsang Samten, Tashi Hondup) (Tsok Khang), Religious Implemants: Incense, Metal and Mani Stone Carving (Awang Dorjee, Soga, Tsering Norbu) (Tenzin Thokme)
- Festival Recordings: Religious Storytelling (Jhume) (Geshe Lobsang Tenzin)
- Festival Recordings: Meditation and Chant Debate, Great Prayer Festival
- Festival Recordings: Fish Fry Columbus Jones, Southern Italian
- Festival Recordings: DC Music Evening Concert Image
- Festival Recordings: Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Traditional and Contemporary Son: Chaksampa (Tashi Ohondup Sharzur), Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (Jamyang Dorjee)
- Festival Recordings: Migration Experiences (Morales Alvarez, J.G. Bautista, Enrique Bautista, Enrique Chavez) (T Gonzales), Puuablo Western Keres Dance (Arnold Herrera, Thomas Herrera, Tim Herrera, Mary Martin, Antoinette Suina, Sam Suina) (Tom Vennum), Ciudad Juarez: Question Answer (Olivia Cardaval) (NO TAPE)
- Festival Recordings: Joan Nafwen Chaliah, Bean Soup
- Festival Recordings: (NO TAPE), (NO LOG SHEET)
- Festival Recordings: Women's Voices in Praise; The Wright Singers (Patricia Bryant, Fannie White, Barbra Brady, Laura Wright, Elizibeth Hunter, Jacqueline Richardson, Eureka Robinson, Randolph), Holy Comforter: St Cypiran Gospel Choir
- Festival Recordings: Chants: Namgyal, Sogyal Rinpoche
- Festival Recordings: Tourist Culture (Mary Martin) (Norma Cantu), Crafts and Access to Resources (Felipe Lopez, Jose Quiroz)
- Festival Recordings: U Street Home of Leaders (Judith Bauer, Lori Dodson, Dominic Moulden, John Snipes) (Judith Bauer), Lesbian and Gay Choral Movement in U. S. (Ray Killan), Gospel Music Jouney: Carlton Burgess (NO TAPE)
- Festival Recordings: Namgyal Monks, Fire Puja Ritual, Sand Mandala Dismantling Namgyal Monks, Drepung Loseling Monks Debate
- El Rio fieldwork: interview with Julius Collins
- Festival Recordings: Traditional Song and dance: Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (Jamyang Dorjee), Tibetan Opera: Bylakuppe Lhamo Troupe (Pempa Tsering)
- El Rio fieldwork: interview with Julius Collins
- Festival Recordings: Fiesta Traditions: Matechines (Mooser, Raul Cornelio, Charles Aquilar) (Mooser), Pueblo Corn Dance (Tom Vennum)