This year for the first time, Armenia will be featured at the annual Folklife Festival that takes place on the National Mall in Washington D.C. EVN Report’s Maria Titizian sat down with the Director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Sabrina Lynn Motley to talk about the festival, the opportunity it presents for extraordinary moments of cultural interaction and the importance of cultural democracy and cultural equity. Over the course of its history, the Folklife Festival has featured over 100 countries and aims to explore all the things that connect us, what it means to be human and how cultural heritage can sustain communities.
