Folklife Festival Events for Sunday, July 5
Events are divided by each of the three cultures featured at this year’s festival—Giving Voice, Las Americas and Wales—and subdivided by the pavilion where the event takes place. Don’t forget to get your festival map so you can plan your day!
GIVING VOICE
Barbershop/Beauty Parlor
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Beauty Tales with Joni Jones, Novena Peters, and Toni Blackman
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Storytelling with Brother Blue and Valerie Tutson
1:00 PM-2:00 PM The Barbershop with Thomas Sayers Ellis and Kenny Carroll
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Hair Stories with Dylan Pritchett and Baba Jamal Koram
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Our Mothers' Gardens: Growing Up Black and Beautiful
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Wit and Wisdom with Kenny Carroll and Tejumola Ologboni
5:00 PM-5:30 PM Closing Theater
Radio Station
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Gospel Radio in the Black Community
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Vintage Black Radio, M.L.King - On the Power of Peaceful Persuasion with Lorne Cress Love
1:00 PM-2:00 PM The Next Generation of Black Radio
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
3:00 PM-4:00 PM A Voice for Our People: The Power of Black Radio presented by Lorne Cress Love
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Vintage Black Radio Broadcast with Paul Robeson at Peekskill
5:00 PM-5:30 PM
The Oratorium
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Asante Children's Theater
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Drama
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Poetry with Sonia Sanchez, Novena Peters, and Tonya Matthews
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Roger Guenveur Smith Frederick Douglass Now
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Storytelling with Nothando Zulu and Valerie Tutson
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Poetry with Sonia Sanchez
5:00 PM-5:30 PM Closing Story Circle
The Stoop
11:00 AM-12:00 PM In the Beginning was the Word with Nothando Zulu
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Neighborhood Stories with Holly Bass and Toni Lightfoot
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Stoop Stories with Onawumi Jean Moss and Diane Ferlatte
2:00 PM-3:00 PM A Poetic Dialogue with Toni Blackman
3:00 PM-4:00 PM The Artist's Voice with Roger Guenveur Smith
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Drama with Tonya Matthews
5:00 PM-5:30 PM Closing Poetry
Young Wordsmiths
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Creative Challenge with Esther Washington
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Storytelling Workshop with Sonia Sanchez
1:00 PM-2:00 PM The Blues. Raps, Rhymes, and Snaps Program/ Mind Builders
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Asante Children's Theater Workshop
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
4:00 PM-5:00 PM The Blues, Raps, Rhymes, and Snaps Program/ Mind Builders
5:00 PM-5:30 PM Closing Children's Culture
LAS AMERICAS
Folkways Salón
11:00 AM-11:45 AM Jíbaro Music: Ecos de Borinquen
11:45 AM-12:35 PM Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos
12:35 PM-1:25 PM Las Estrellas del Vallenato
1:25 PM-2:15 PM Joropo Llanero: Grupo Cimarrón
2:15 PM-3:05 PM Los Maestros del Joropo Oriental
3:05 PM-3:55 PM Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos
3:55 PM-4:45 PM Son Jarocho: Son de Madera
4:45 PM-5:30 PM Mariachi Chula Vista
La Peña
11:00 AM-11:45 AM Learning Mariachi Music Workshop
11:45 AM-12:35 PM Currulao Workshop
12:35 PM-1:25 PM Sonoran Music Traditions: Don Beto Cruz & Jesús García
1:25 PM-2:15 PM Mariachi Workshop
2:15 PM-3:05 PM Making a New Place Home
3:05 PM-3:55 PM Song Stories
3:55 PM-4:45 PM Música de Arpa Grande Workshop
4:45 PM-5:35 PM Improvisation Workshop
Salón de Baile
11:00 AM-11:45 AM Los Maestros del Joropo Oriental
11:45 AM-12:35 PM Chanchona de los Hermanos Lovo
12:35 PM-1:25 PM Música de Arpa Grande: Arpex
1:25 PM-2:15 PM Huasteco Music & Dance: Los Camperos de Valles & Artemio Posadas & Dolores García
2:15 PM-3:05 PM Drumming Workshop
3:05 PM-3:55 PM Joropo Llanero: Grupo Cimarrón
3:55 PM-4:55 PM Dance Party: Chanchona de los Hermanos Lovo & Las Estrellas del Vallenato
WALES
Rugby Club
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Singer-Songwriters
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Female Harmony Singing
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Stories with Music
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Ashtons
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Harp and Voice
4:00 PM-5:30 PM Sild and Guests
Story Circle
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Stories for Children
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Poetry about Welsh Identity
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Stories from the Mabinogion
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Poetry and Song
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Welsh Songs and Stories
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Festival Poetry
5:00 PM-5:30 PM Welsh Lesson: Days of the Week
Taste of Wales
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Welsh Breakfast and Patagonian BBQ prep
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Bakestone and Cauldron Cooking
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Celtic Caribbean
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Game and Wild Foods
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Recipes from My Patagonian Grandmother
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Preserving Food in Wales and Patagonian Welsh
5:00 PM-5:30 PM Regional Specialties
The Square Mile
11:00 AM-11:45 AM My Square Mile: City and Country
11:45 AM-12:30 PM Heritage Meets Innovation: Museums
12:30 PM-1:15 PM Wales and the World: International Events
1:15 PM-2:00 PM Think Globally, Act Locally: Building for the Planet
2:00 PM-2:45 PM Working and Playing Outdoors: Stone and Wood
2:45 PM-3:30 PM Adapt, Reuse, Recycle: Ceramics and Dressers
3:30 PM-4:15 PM The Arts in Action: Arts Education in Wales
4:15 PM-5:00 PM Festival Experiences: Tell Your Story
5:00 PM-5:30 PM Festival Experiences: Tell Your Story
Welsh Dragon
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Fiddles, Pipes, and Guitar
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Crasdant
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Only Men Aloud!
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Parti Cut Lloi
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Crasdant
4:00 PM-5:00 PM The Hennessys
5:00 PM-5:30 PM
Welsh Media
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
5:00 PM-5:30 PM