emancipacion of Texas slaves in 1865. The free festivities 

 included music, games, demonstrations, food, and fam- 

 ily activities on the museum grounds. 



June ip—30 



■ Research Seminar The Center for Museum Studies 

 offered "Interpreting Latino Cultures: Research and 

 Museums." This 1995 Latino Graduate Training Semi- 

 nar in Qualitative Methodology was cosponsored with 

 the Inter-University Program for Latino Research and 

 the University of Texas at Austin. 



June 20-July II 



■ Lecture and Concert Series This year's free summer 

 lecture and concert series at Cooper-Hewitt, National 

 Design Museum, "Crosscurrents," focused on contempo- 

 rary design and Latino culture. 



June 20 



■ Symposium The National Zoo's Office of Public Af- 

 fairs organized the symposium "Forever Changed: Birds 

 on the Hawaiian Islands." Smithsonian scientists dis- 

 cussed the history and conservation status of Hawaii's 

 remarkable bird population and the discovery of 

 recently extinct birds that have provided DNA samples. 

 As a result of these DNA analyses, scientists have begun 

 to rethink the evolutionary relationships between 

 Hawaiian avifauna. 



June 23— 2j. June 30— July 4 



■ Festival The Center for Folklife Programs and Cul- 

 tural Studies produced the 29th annual Festival of 

 American Folklife, featuring "The Cape Verdean Con- 

 nection," "The Czech Republic: Tradition and Transfor- 

 mation," "Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women," 

 and "Russian Roots, American Branches: Music in Two 

 Worlds." The festival included a visit by the president 

 of Cape Verde and salutations from President Clinton. 

 Two Smithsonian/Folkways recordings, Heartbeat: Voices 

 of First Nations Women and Old Believers: Songs of the 

 Nekrasov Cossacks, were released at the festival's opening. 

 More than one million people visited the festival. 



June 24—2$ 



■ Special Event The Center for Folklife Programs and 

 Cultural Studies presented the sacred and social music, 

 traditional poetry, dance, food, and crafts of Washing- 



ton-area African-born immigrants as part of the African 

 Immigrant Folklife Study Project. 



June 24 



■ Lecture The Office of the Provost sponsored a lecture 

 by Ana Maria Cabral, vice-president of the Amilcar 

 Cabral Institute of the Republic of Cape Verde, West 

 Africa. The address was delivered on the 20th anniver- 

 sary of Cape Verdean independence and held in conjunc- 

 tion with the Festival of American Folklife. 



June 25-50 and July 23-28 



■ Conferences The National Science Resources Center 

 conducted two Elementary Science Leadership Insti- 

 tutes for 36 teams from U.S. school districts and one 

 team each from Mexico and South Africa. Most teams 

 included a school superintendent ot assistant super- 

 intendent, a science coordinator or director of cur- 

 riculum and instruction, an experienced teacher, and a 

 senior scientist representing a company or academic 

 institution. The teams developed strategic plans to 

 improve the teaching of science in their elementary 

 schools. 



June 26—29 



■ Workshop The American Indian Museum Studies 

 Program, part of the Center for Museum Studies, spon- 

 sored "Developing and Managing Living History Pro- 

 grams," a workshop hosted in Tahlequah , Oklahoma, 

 by the Cherokee National Museum. 



June 27-30 



■ Public Program As part of efforts to make its collec- 

 tions accessible to Native Americans on reservations 

 and in communities around the country, the National 

 Museum of the American Indian displayed 24 19th- 

 century Navajo wearing blankets at the Ned A. 

 Hatathli Museum of the Navajo Community College 

 in Tsaile, Arizona. 



June 27 



■ Media Preview The Office of Public Affairs devel- 

 oped and carried out the media preview held before the 

 opening of the "Enola Gay" exhibition at the National 

 Air and Space Museum, which was covered intensely by 

 U.S. and foreign news media. More than 200 journal- 

 ists, including 85 television crews, attended the preview. 



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