unfamiliar format to a foreign audience. The challenges also 

 involved making a powerful and coherent statement about the 

 relationship of culture to development. 



"Thailand: Household, Temple Fair, and Court" presented 

 craft and music produced in those three institutional settings. 

 The program presented traditional culrure from Thailand and 

 was directed to the general American public, but special ef- 

 forts were made to incorporate and draw on the knowledge 

 and skills of Thai Americans living in the Washington, D.C., 

 area. With their help a small section of the Mall, for a brief 

 time, became known to many Thais as the American Sanam 

 Luang, the "field of kings" in the center of Bangkok where all 

 major Thai national events take place. The local community 

 participated in several ceremonies and presentations and by 

 the end of the Festival, the Thai community reaffirmed a 

 sense of its own identity and was able to see that identity hon- 

 ored on the Mall as a part of the American cultural fabric. 



The Bahamas program featured some 90 Bahamian tradi- 

 tion bearers presenting sacred and secular music, dance, tradi- 

 tional healing, storytelling, and craft traditions of both the 

 home and the market place. On July 4th Bahamian partici- 

 pants were joined by another 100 folks from home for an exhil- 

 arating Junkanoo Rush Out on the Mall. Most important, the 

 project has had an impact in The Bahamas on a number of lev- 

 els. The fieldwork research was the first systematic nation- 

 wide documentation of traditional Bahamian culture. Several 

 hundred Bahamians were interviewed during the proiect, and 

 many more were identified for future research. The photo- 

 graphs and audio- and videotaped interviews will be accessi- 

 ble to the public at the Department of Archives. And 

 donations of crafts by tradition bearers have added to the col- 

 lections of the Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation, 

 which plans an exhibit on Bahamian crafts. 



Publicity before and during the Festival has stimluated in- 

 terest in The Bahamas about traditional culture, who the tra- 

 dition bearers are, what range of traditions are maintained, 

 and what differences there are in traditions from island to is- 

 land. Other outcomes of the Festival include the maintenance 

 of the interministerial advisory committee convened for the 

 project, and a national literacy program that will feature Baha- 

 mian culture. A half-hour video documentary on The Baha- 

 mas program premiered in August in Nassau on the national 

 television station, and an hour-long verison was later shown at 

 the Heritage Film Festival in Nassau. Funds have been raised 

 for the development of an educational kit on traditional Baha- 

 mian culture by the Ministry of Education in cooperation 

 with the Center. It is hoped that the kit can be ready for dis- 

 tribution in Bahamian schools for the 1996 academic year. 

 And finally, the Festival has Bahamians saying, "We can pre- 

 pare a cultural presentation of The Bahamas for consumption 

 abroad, now we need to do it at home." Discussions are under- 

 way to plan for an annual Heritage Festival to be located at a 

 permanent site. 



Three of the four programs were co-curated by a Center 

 staff person and a scholar from a collaborating institution. 



The Center worked with scholats from the National Archive 

 of The Bahamas, the Inter-American Foundation, and the 

 Thai National Cultural Commission. In addition, collabora- 

 tion with the National Endowment for the Arts Folk and Tra- 

 ditional Arts Program saw the "Masters of Traditional Arts" 

 program to fruition. These collaborations with other institu- 

 tions and scholars both enriched the planning and production 

 of Festival programs and increased the possibility of follow-up 

 programs after the event. 



The Center continues to work with those involved in previ- 

 ous Festival on the local level. The New Mexico program, fea- 

 tured at the 1992 Festival, was remounted in October in Las 

 Cruces by New Mexico State University and several collabora- 

 tors. For many, the Festival remounting was an affirmation of 

 local and regional cultural integrity. During the festival thou- 

 sands of school children came, saw, heard, talked, asked ques- 

 tions, and took away a more profound understanding of their 

 culture. 



Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings continue to be a success 

 story, with the release of Bernice Reagon's Wade in the Water se- 

 ries on African American sacred musical traditions, Woody 

 Guthrie's Long Ways to Travel, a new Lead Belly boxed set, and 

 Creation's Journey, an American Indian musical anthology 

 timed for the opening of the American Indian Museum. Folk- 

 ways has been receiving some noteworthy national press, in- 

 cluding a front-page feature in the July 23rd issue of the 

 industry's key trade magazine, Billboard. Another key develop- 

 ment for the label was the transformation of its European dis- 

 tribution. Sales this year through the archival fulfillment 

 service, the label (distributed by Koch International), and spe- 

 cial products will top $2 million wholesale. Royalties are 

 going to musicians, production fees are going to folklonsts 

 and ethnomusicologists, and a national collection is being 

 widely disseminated at no cost to the taxpayer. This summer 

 we were able to send out to many public-sector organizations 

 inventories of our archival sound recordings for their state or 

 region. Several people have already taken advantage of these 

 to upgrade their own reference guides and add to their hold- 

 ings. This is a first step in assuring access to our collections, 

 so that materials can reach back home to the communities 

 from which they are generated. In the future, we will likely 

 go online with subsets of our materials. We will continue to 

 produce media products from our collections that are widely 

 distributed. 



The "Workers at the White House" exhibition based on 

 the 1992 Festival program was on view at the Charles Sumner 

 School Museum and Archives in Washington, D.C. The Sum- 

 ner School is the museum and archives of the public schools of 

 the District of Columbia. Its active exhibition and educa- 

 tional programming schedule includes bringing in teachers 

 and students from the D.C. public schools for programs every 

 week. Another ttaveling version of the exhibit with phototext 

 panels, video, worker scrapbooks, and exhibit booklet is on 

 tour to presidential libraries over the next three years, having 

 already been at the Ford, Truman, and Eisenhower libraries. 



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