Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Curatorial director Matilda McQuaid from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, will lead designers, marketers, and futuristic fashion powerhouses through a discussion about traditional and modern clothing materials and practices that are reshaping what we wear to be in harmony with the planet.
ACCESSIBILITY: Live real-time captioning and American Sign Language Interpretation are available for this program.
Curatorial director Matilda McQuaid from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, will lead designers, marketers, and futuristic fashion powerhouses through a discussion about traditional and modern clothing materials and practices that are reshaping what we wear to be in harmony with the planet.
ACCESSIBILITY: Live real-time captioning and American Sign Language Interpretation are available for this program.
![De Libertate: Sounds of Freedom and Hope from Ukraine [updated]
On the Fourth of July, De Libertate: Songs of Freedom and Hope from Ukraine features four groups of performing artists who express and share Ukrainian identity, tradition, and cultural resilience through the power of song. The four groups—Bozhychi, Katya Chilly, Mariya Kvitka, and Shchuka Ryba—use folk, traditional, and contemporary styles to illustrate how music unites and inspires the Ukrainian people during this pivotal moment in their history.
ACCESSIBILITY: Live real-time captioning is available for this program. De Libertate: Sounds of Freedom and Hope from Ukraine [updated]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kBJ9Ew9WTQs/mqdefault.jpg)








![The Folklife Festival’s Pakistani Painted Truck Keeps on Truckin’
In May 2022, Loraine Goetsch acquired the Pakistani “jingle truck” created for the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Silk Road program by Haider Ali and Jamil Uddin. For most of the past twenty years, the truck has been exposed to the elements at a Smithsonian storage facility in Maryland. Thanks to Goetsch, the truck will have a new life in New Jersey.
Video produced by Yijo Shen
Music: “Bhawaiya” - Bengali Farmers’ Work Song by Mumtaz Ali Khan, Folk Music of Pakistan (Folkways Records, 1951)
[Catalog No. CFV11484; © Smithsonian Institution, 2022] The Folklife Festival’s Pakistani Painted Truck Keeps on Truckin’](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mPXpesg1c_U/mqdefault.jpg)
