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General Festival
Information
FESTIVAL HOURS
The Opening Ceremony for the Festival
SERVICES FOR VISITORS
WITH DISABILITIES
To make the Festival more accessible to
visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing,
audio loops are installed in the main
MaUan educators, area experts, and artists,
observe and interact with Festival participants,
and regroup to share thoughts and
experiences. Teachers will share lesson
plans and strategies with educators from
Mali and take that knowledge back to
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takes place at Appalachia's Harmony Stage
music tent in each program area.
their classrooms. The symposium presents
at II a.m., Wednesday, June 25. Thereafter,
Festival hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
with special evening events daily. See the
schedule on pages 96-119 for details.
American Sign Language interpreters are
on site
every day of the Festival. Check
the printed schedule and signs for
interpreted programs. Special requests
a unique opportunity for all educators,
especially those whose curriculum
specifically includes the ancient kingdom
or modern country of Mali.
FESTIVAL SALES
Traditional Appalachian, MaUan and
Scottish food is
sold. See the site map on
pages 116-17 for locations. A variety of
crafts, books, and Smithsonian Folkways
recordings related to the Festival are sold
in the Festival Marketplace on the Mallside
lawn of the National Museum of
American History located at Madison
Drive and 12th Street.
PRESS
for interpreters should be made at the
Volunteer Tent. Service animals are
welcome. Other modes of interpretation
wiU be provided if a request is made a
week in advance by calling (202) 275-0572
(TTY) or (202) 275-1905 (voice).
Large-print copies of the daily schedule
and audio-cassette versions of the program
book are available at Festival information
kiosks and the Volunteer tent.
A limited number of wheelchairs are
Ongoing Festival
Presentations
In addition to the daily scheduled
performances, there will be ongoing
demonstrations in the individual program
areas, as indicated on the site map on
pages 116-17.
Appalachia: Demonstranons of railroad
work and song by the Buckingham Lining
Bar Gang, June 25 through June 29.
Visiting members of the press should
register at the Press tent located near the
Metro Station on the Mali at Jefferson
Drive and 12th Street.
FIRST AID
A first aid station is located near the
Metro Station on the Mali at Jefferson
Drive and 12th Street.
available at the Volunteer tent. Volunteers
are on call to assist wheelchair users and
to guide visitors with visual impairments
on an as available basis. There are a few
designated parking spaces for visitors with
disabilities along both Mall drives. These
spaces have three-hour time restrictions.
THUNDERSTORMS
Mali: Demonstrations in textiles arts
(carding, spinning, hand weaving of wool
and cotton fabrics, dyeing techniques of
mudcloth [bogolan], indigo, and tie-dye
cLunask, hand and machine embroidery,
and fashion design), metalwork and jewelry,
leather work, baskets, straw mats and jewelry,
pottery, sculpmre, traditional medicine
and the arts of adornment (henna
RESTROOMS & TELEPHONES
There are outdoor facihties for the
pubUc and visitors with disabilities
located near all of the program areas on
the Mall. Additional restroom facilities
are available in each of the museum
buildings during visiting hours. Public
telephones are available on the site,
opposite the National Museums of
American History and Natural History,
and inside the museums.
LOST & FOUND/LOST PEOPLE
Lost Items or family members should be
mrned in or retrieved at the Volunteer tent
located near the Metro Stanon on the
M,ill at Jetferson Drive and 12th Street.
METRO STATIONS
Metro trains will be running every day
of the Festival. The Festival site is
easily
accessible fi-om the Smithsonian and
Federal Triangle stations on the Blue and
Orange Lines.
In case of a severe rainstorm visitors
should go inside a museum. If museums
are closed, visitors should go into the
Metro station. Summer rainstorms are
usually brief and often the Festival
resumes operations within an hour or
two. In the event of a severe thunderstorm
the Festival must close. Do not
remain under a tent or a tree!
Teachers Symposium
The Smithsoman Center for Folklife
and Cultural Heritage, in parmership
with the M-iUan National Mimstry
of Education, the Alrica Society of the
National Summit on Afi-ica, and the
World Affairs Council ofWashington,
DC, IS sponsoring the first-ever U.S.-
Mali Teachers Symposium.
The symposium gives teaching
professionals a chance to learn about
Mahan culture, history, and geography.
Teachers will hear presentations from
decoration, hair braiding and hairstyling
with beads, and incense-making).
Scotland: Demonstrations of tartan
weaving and designing; Harris Tweed
weaving; sUversmithing; Shetland basketweaving;
Orkney chair-making; kiltmaking;
whisky-distilling and the related
skiUs of malting, cooperage, and
coppersmithing; Fair Isle boat-building;
heraldry; genealogy and genealogical
research; golf club and curling stone
making; knitting traditions from
Shedand, Fair Isle, and Sanquhar; tapestry
weaving; sporran-making; stonemasonry;
gilding and restoration crafts; harp- and
bagpipe-making.
ESPECIALLY FOR
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
The Family Activity Tent wiU draw
performers from the Appalachia,
Scotland, and M,ih programs for
interactive music activities, storytelling,
puppet shows, and children's games.