{"id":7409,"date":"2012-06-14T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2021-04-07T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T01:04:24","slug":"uh-participates-in-smithsonian-folklife-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/06\/14\/uh-participates-in-smithsonian-folklife-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> participates in Smithsonian Folklife Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> will be among 20 public land-grant universities to be featured in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival<\/a> in Washington D.C. from June 27 to July 8, 2012. <\/p>\n

The festival celebrates the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Morrill Act, which paved the way for higher education for rural and working class Americans. <\/p>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> exhibits will feature traditional Hawaiian health and healing practices, a mini taro patch, non-instrument navigation, medicinal herb and organic farming and much more. Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College’s halau Unukupukupu and the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s Tuahine Troup will also perform. <\/p>\n

See more on the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s Smithsonian experience.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> will be among 20 public land-grant universities to be featured in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,309,12],"tags":[312,947],"class_list":["post-7409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-uhsmithsonian2012","category-video","tag-smithsonian-folklife-festival","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t