Smithsonian Folklife festival to introduce Azerbaijani folklore
Washington, June 16 (AZERTAC). Visitors to the world-famous annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., June 27-July 1 and July 4-8, 2012, will experience Azerbaijani cultural traditions presented by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Karabakh Foundation.
Throughout the Festival, the visitors can purchase Azerbaijani food and drink from the Festival’s Azerbaijani food tent. And on two consecutive “Azerbaijani Thursdays”— June 28 and July 5—music lovers will enjoy the Festival’s concerts of Azerbaijani mugham music performed by Imamyar Hasanov.
The organizers of the event are Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Karabakh Foundation.
The Karabakh Foundation is working with the Smithsonian Institution to present Azerbaijani-themed items for sale in the Festival Marketplace. Azerbaijani decorative arts— notably textile design and production—feature prominently in the Foundation’s cultural programming.
In 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which was dedicated to the Silk Road, is a prime example of putting policy into practice.
The 2002 festival was also the largest in the Center's history, with 1.3 million visitors.
Initiated in 1967, the Festival has become a national and international model of a research-based presentation of contemporary living cultural traditions, a unique platform for international cultural diplomatic efforts.
Not eventually that in 2003 just this action promoted UNESCO to conduct an international conference on protection of World Cultural Heritage.
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