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Each morning of the Festival, Around the Mall will publish a list of events to help you navigate the National Mall and get the most out of your visit. This year’s event features three programs: Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150, Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt, and Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River. Come celebrate summer with ten days of food, music, dancing, storytelling, culture and more.

Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150

 

Morrill Performing Arts Center

11:00 AM—12:00 PM       University of Hawai’i's Hula Halau Unukupukupu

12:00 PM—1:00 PM          West Virginia University Steel Band

1:00 PM—2:00 PM            University of Hawai’i Ensemble

2:00 PM—3:00 PM            Guernsey Brothers

3:00 PM—4:00 PM            University of Texas–Pan American Mariachi Aztlán

4:00 PM—5:30 PM            University of Hawai’i's Hula Halau Unukupukupu and Ensemble

 

Commons Discussion

11:00 AM—11:45 AM       The Land-grant Tradition: Research, Learning and Engagement

11:45 AM—12:30 PM       The Next 150 Years: Campus of the Future

12:30 PM—1:15 PM          Building on Tradition: First-Time Students in Family

1:15 PM—2:00 PM            Opening Doors: Veterans’ Oral Histories, University, and Community

2:00 PM—2:45 PM           Research into Action: Design Research into Action

2:45 PM—3:30 PM           Reinventing Agriculture: Gardens and Healthy Communities

3:30 PM—4:15 PM            Transforming Communities: Rural and Urban

4:15 PM—5:00 PM            Lifelong Learning: Young Learners

5:00 PM—5:30 PM            Sustainable Solutions: Sustainability by Design

 

Smithsonian U

11:00 AM—11:30 AM        What We Can Learn from Interviewing Veterans

11:30 AM—12:00 PM         The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer

12:00 PM—12:30 PM         Renewable Energy Through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program

12:30 PM—1:00 PM           From the Wild to the Domesticated: Surviving Climate Change by Plant Breeding

1:00 PM—1:30 PM              Design and Extension

1:30 PM—2:00 PM             Field Adventures in Mite Biology

2:00 PM—2:30 PM             The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer

2:30 PM—3:00 PM             The Future of Water

3:00 PM—3:30 PM             Community Visioning

3:30 PM—4:00 PM             Aquatic Invasive Species

4:00 PM—4:30 PM             Renewable Energy Through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program

4:30 PM—5:00 PM            Universities as Living Labs for Sustainability

5:00 PM—5:30 PM            Aquatic Invasive Species

Test Kitchen

11:00 AM—11:45 PM           Olive Oil

12:00 PM—12:45 PM           Traditional Hawaiian Cooking

1:00 PM—1:45 PM                Cooking from the Garden

2:00 PM—2:45 PM                Missouri Regional Cooking

3:00 PM—3:45 PM                Vermont Maple Syrup

4:00 PM—5:30 PM                Food as Medicine

 

Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt

 

Red Hot Stage

11:00 AM—11:45 AM            The NAMES Performers

11:45 PM—12:30 PM             The NAMES Performers

12:30 PM—1:15 PM               The NAMES Performers

1:15 PM—2:00 PM                 Spoken Word

2:00 PM—2:45 PM                 The NAMES Performers

2:45 PM—3:30 PM                 The NAMES Performers

3:30 PM—4:15 PM                  Spoken Word

4:15 PM—5:00 PM                  The NAMES Performers

5:00 PM—5:30 PM                  A Conversation about Arts and Advocacy

 

Giving Voice Stage

11:00 AM—11:45 AM            History of The Quilt and The NAMES Project Foundation

11:45 PM—12:30 PM            Positive Living

12:30 PM—1:15 PM              Global Voices

1:15 PM—2:00 PM                Stories from The Quilt (Quilt magic stories)

2:00 PM—2:45 PM                Material Culture in a Digital Age

2:45 PM—3:30 PM                Healing Arts and Care Giving

3:30 PM—4:15 PM                Quilting Workshops and Panel Makers

4:15 PM—5:00 PM                The Last One

5:00 PM—5:30 PM                HIV/AIDS Through Spoken Word

 

Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River

 

Panorama Room

11:00 AM—11:45 AM              Step Dance: The Taratibu Youth Association

11:45 AM—12:30 PM               Hip-Hop: Head Roc

12:30 PM—1:30 PM                 Go-Go: Cold Hearted Band

1:30 PM—2:30 PM                   Hip Hop: Christylez Bacon

2:30 PM—3:30 PM                   Hip-Hop: Head Roc

3:30 PM—4:30 PM                   Go-Go: Cold Hearted Band

4:30 PM—5:30 PM                   African Heritage Dancers & Drummers

Good Hope and Naylor Corner

11:00 AM—11:45 AM                Storytelling: Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C

11:45 PM—12:30 PM                Melanie Douglass

12:30 PM—1:30 PM                  African Heritage Dancers & Drummers

1:30 PM—2:30 PM                    Storytelling: Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C

2:30 PM—3:30 PM                    Tattoo Art: Charles “Coco” Bayron

3:30 PM—4:30 PM                    Dance Workshop: The Taratibu Youth Association

4:30 PM—5:30 PM                     Hip Hop: Christylez Bacon

 

Douglass Hall

11:00 AM—11:45 AM                Ongoing activities

11:45 PM—12:30 PM                 Jay Coleman

12:30 PM—1:30 PM                   Tattoo Art: Charles “Coco” Bayron

1:30 PM—2:30 PM                     Melani Douglass

2:30 PM—3:30 PM                     Jay Coleman

3:30 PM—5:30 PM                     Ongoing activities

 

No Evening Concert on July 4