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central New Hampshire. The Festival program was produced 

 by rhe Center for Folklife and Cultural Herirage with the 

 New Hampshire Commission on the Smithsonian Folklife 

 Festival and its nonprofit affiliate Celebrate New Hampshire 

 Culture in partnership with the New Hampshire State 

 Council on the Arts, Department ot Cultural Resources, and 

 rhe State of New Hampshire. Several days of Festival New 

 Hampshite were dedicated to school visits, attracting nearly 

 10,000 students from across the state. 



June 8-October 24 



■ Exhibition and publication The National Museum of Nat- 

 ural History featured a photographic exhibition "Selections 

 from Forces of Change: A New View of Nature," featuring 28 

 large-format photographs rhat represent the interplay be- 

 tween humans and natural forces of change. The exhibition 

 coincided with the release of the book Forces of Change: A 

 Neiv View of Nature, the firsr-ever publishing collaboration 

 between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geo- 

 graphic Society. Among the Smithsonian contributors to the 

 book are museum director Robert Fri; William Melson, 

 geologisr and vulcanologist; Alan Cutler, geologist and 

 writet, "Forces of Change" program; Anna Behrensmeyer, 

 research curator, Department of Paleobiology; and Bee 

 Wuethrich, writer, "Forces of Change" program. Scientists 

 Melinda Zeder, William Melson, and Don Wilson served as 

 science advisers. The exhibirion and book are part of rhe mu- 

 seum's ongoing "Forces of Change" program, which 

 eventually will include traveling exhibitions, publications, 

 intetactive computer products, public programming, and 

 the Forces of Change Gallery, featuring rotating exhibits. 



June 9 



■ Workshop The Smithsonian Libraries hosted members of 

 rhe Chesapeake Information and Research Library Alliance 

 for a workshop in the Libraries Imaging Center on digital 

 technology. CIRLA, a consortium of nine libraries of which 

 SIL is a founding member, CIRLA members in addirion to 

 the Smithsonian Institution Libraries are the Library of Con- 

 gress and rhe National Agricultural Libtary and several 

 universiries (Georgetown Universiry, George Washington 

 Universiry, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, 

 Universiry of Delaware, and University of Maryland). 



June 9 



■ Public program "Panopticon: Vijay Iyer Solo/Quartet": 

 This musical performance blended the American jazz aes- 

 theric of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk with 

 pianist-bandleader Vijay Iyer's South Asian heritage. Iyer's 

 compositions draw from South Asian and African American 

 rraditions to create highly original, subrle, powerful music 

 in the creative jazz tradition. Joining Iyer were Rudresh 

 Mahanthappa on alto saxophone, Derrek C. Phillips on 

 drums, and Srephan Crump on bass. Piano provided by 

 Yamaha Corporation of America. Organized by the Program 



for Asian Pacific American Studies Program. Funded by 

 the Washington Post. Cosponsored by the Freer and Sackler 

 Galleries and "Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of 

 People and Pianos," and copresented with Transparent 

 Productions. 



June 10-September 5 



■ Exhibition "An American Diary and Memories of Child- 

 hood: Paintings and Prinrs by Roger Shimomura," a 

 temporary exhibition at the National Museum of American 

 History. "An American Diary" is an insrallarion of painting, 

 illustrating Shimomura's grandmother's diary entties re- 

 membering her Japanese American internment camp 

 experiences berween 1941 and 1943. "Memories of Child- 

 hood" is a series of prints that depict the artist's memories of 

 his own internment expetiences from age three to five. 



June 1 1 



■ Milestone The loggias, or open galleries, overlooking the 

 courtyard at the Freer Gallery of Art opened to the public for 

 the first time. Two bronze sculptures by American sculptor 

 Augusts Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) and four furnirure 

 groupings were installed. The project aimed at opening the 

 loggias to the public was made possible by a generous grant 

 from rhe Philip L. Graham Fund. 



June 1 1 



■ Exhibition "A Well-Watched Wat: Images from the 

 Russo-Japanese Front, 1904-05" went on view at the Arthur 

 M. Sackler Gallery. The exhibition presenred 29 woodblock 

 prinrs by Japanese artists and nine gouache dtawings by 

 British illustrators rhat were created as propaganda during 

 this early twentieth-century war. 



June 14-16 



■ Conference Ninery-six members of affiliate institutions 

 participated in the National Affiliations conference held 

 in Washington, D.C. Highlights of the 2000 conference 

 included major collaborative planning workshops, the 

 Secrerary's speech to the affiliates at the congressional recep- 

 tion, the launch of the redesigned Affiliations Web site 

 (http://afffiliations.si.edu), the unveiling of the proposed 

 National Affiliations membership program and producr 

 line, and the announcements of the Smithsonian Affiliations 

 National Fellowship Award and rhe Smithsonian Affiliations 

 Intern Partnership Program. 



June 1 5 



■ Award The National Portrait Gallery's book Hans 

 Namuth: Portraits, by Carolyn Kinder Carr, received a design 

 award in the Ttade Illustrated Category from the Association 

 of American University Presses. 



