AT THE SMITHSONIAN

Today’s Events at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Thursday, June 26

Senior Editor

June 26, 2008

The 42nd annual Folklife Festival on the National Mall takes place this week through Sunday, June 29; and again from July 2 through July 6. Programs are: "Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon;" "NASA" Fifty Years and Beyond;"and "Texas: A Celebration of Music, Food, and Wine."

BHUTAN

Bhutan Kitchen: 11 a.m. Dragon Drinks: Tea and Alcohol; 12:00 p.m. Cattle God's Gifts: Butter and Cheese; 1 p.m. Taste of Bhutan; 3 p.m. Buckwheat Noodles; 4 p.m. Festive Foods

Four Friends Narrative Stage: 12:30 p.m. What's in a Name?; 11:45 p.m. Movie Making in Bhutan; 12:30 p.m. Cultural Identify; 1:15 p.m. Prayer Flags and Prayer Wheels; 2 p.m. Protecting Bhutan's Environment; 2:45 p.m. Birth, Death and Rebirth; 3:30 p.m. Crops: From Farm to Family; 4:15 p.m. Natural Resources Used in Art; 5 p.m. Storytelling

Tsechu Sta ge: 11 a.m. Traditional Bhutanese Music and Dance; 12:00 p.m. Ritual Monastic Dance; 1 p.m. Traditional Bhutanese Music and Dance; 2 p.m. Ritual Monastic Dance; 3 p.m. Traditional Bhutanese Music and Dance; 4 p.m . Teaching; 5 p.m. Closing Ritual

NASA

Exploration Stage: 11 a.m. Mysterious Universe; 11:45 p.m. NASA and Popular Imagination; 12:30 p.m. Why We Explore; 1:30 p.m. Astronaut Adventures; 2:15 p.m. Science Update; 3:15 p.m. NASA and Popular Imagination; 4 p.m. Rocket Scientists; 4:45 p.m. Astronaut Adventures

Food Lab: 11 a.m. Packaging Food for Space; 12:00 p.m. Planning for the Moon and Mars; 1 p.m. Creating Menus for Space; 2 p.m. Packaging Food for Space; 3 p.m. Planning for the Moon and Mars; 4 p.m. Creating Menus for Space

Galaxy Stage: 11 a.m. Moon Bound; 11:45 a.m. NASA Pioneers; 12:30 p.m. NASA and Popular Imagination; 1:30 p.m. What on Earth?; 2:15 p.m. NASA and Nation; 3:15 p.m. Space Shuttle; 4 p.m. Probing the Planets; 5 p.m. Mysterious Universe

TEXAS

Dance Hall: 11:30 a.m. Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines; 12:30 p.m. The Jones Family Singers; 1:30 p.m. Los Texmaniacs with Mingo Saldivar; 2:30 p.m. Jody Nix and the Texas Cowboys; 3:30 p.m. Texas Johnny Brown; 4:30 p.m. Little Joe y La Familia

Lone Star Kitchen: 11 a.m. Southern African American Cooking; 12:15 p.m. Polish Texan Cooking; 1:30 p.m. Cowboy Cooking; 2:30 p.m. Vietnamese Cooking; 3:30 p.m. San Antonio Tex-Mex Cooking; 4:30 p.m. Cowboy Cooking

Opry House: 11 a.m. The Jones Family Singers; 12 p.m. The Gillette Brothers; 1 p.m. Les Amis Creole; 2 p.m. The Gillette Brothers; 3 p.m. Los Texmaniacs with Augie Meyers; 4 p.m. Jody Nix and the Texas Cowboys

Texas Talk: 11:15 p.m. San Antonio Sounds; 12:15 p.m. Ethnic Restaurants in Texas; 1:15 p.m. Family Bonds; 2:15 p.m. Remembering the Duke Peacock Record Label; 3:15 p.m. Becoming a Winemaker; 4:15 p.m. Texas: French Style

(Image Courtesy of NASA)