2012 Northwest Folklife Festival: Full Schedule

3:00pm PDT

Northwest Stories: Video Portraits of Northwest Communities

Doug Plummer, Videographer

Friday May 25, 2012 3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

3:00pm PDT

Stage Down

Friday May 25, 2012 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Center House Court 47.62153, -122.35085

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4:00pm PDT

The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy

Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein

Friday May 25, 2012 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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Biography Paula Becker is a staff historian for Seattle's HistoryLink.org where her essays document the dance marathon craze of the 1920s and 1930s, war-effort knitting on the home front during World Wars I and II, the career of The Egg and I author Betty MacDonald, and numerous other subjects. She and co-writer Alan J. Stein also wrote the book - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington's First World's Fair. Alan J. Stein is a HistoryLink.org staff historian and award-winning author of four previous HistoryLink books, Safe Passage: The Birth of Washington State Ferries, 1951-2001; Bellevue Timeline: The Story of Washington's Leading Edge City from Homesteads to High Rises, 1863-2003; The Olympic: The Story of Seattle's Landmark Hotel. He is the Association of King County Historical Organizations' past president, and Ex Noble Grand Humbug of Doc Maynard Chapter 54-40, E Clampus Vitus.

5:00pm PDT

Book-It Repertory Theatre presents The Future Remembered: The 1962 World's Fair and Its Legacy

Gavin Cummins, Heather Hawkins Weinland, Laurence Hughes, Mark Waldstein

Friday May 25, 2012 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography Book-It Repertory Theatre Players

5:00pm PDT

Stage Down

Friday May 25, 2012 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Fountain Lawn Stage 47.62314, -122.35246

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5:00pm PDT

Stage Down

Friday May 25, 2012 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Warren's Roadhouse in the Fisher Pavilion 47.62127, -122.35212

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5:00pm PDT

Stage Down

Friday May 25, 2012 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
International Dance Stage in the Exhibition Hall 47.62415, -122.35151

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5:45pm PDT

Stage Down

Friday May 25, 2012 5:45pm - 6:45pm PDT
Mural Amphitheatre 47.62057, -122.35049

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6:00pm PDT

Stormwater: Life in the Gutter

Stokley Towles

Friday May 25, 2012 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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Biography For more than a decade, solo performer Stokley Towles has been studying us. He examines the mundane aspects of life in Seattle like an anthropologist from another planet--our libraries, our trash system, our police force, the history of a single city block--and delivers his findings in rich, understated monologues full of bizarre, colorful trivia and bittersweet observations about how people navigate the world and each other. -Brendan Kiley, The Stranger Weekly

6:00pm PDT

Stage Down

Friday May 25, 2012 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Indie Roots at Broad Street: Sponsored by BECU & 103.7 The Mountain 47.61938, -122.34979

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6:30pm PDT

Stage Down

Friday May 25, 2012 6:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
Center House Theatre: Sponsored by KUOW 47.62170, -122.35049

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12:00pm PDT

Northwest Stories: Video Portraits of Northwest Communities

Doug Plummer, Videographer

Saturday May 26, 2012 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

1:00pm PDT

Stormwater: Life in the Gutter

Stokley Towles

Saturday May 26, 2012 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography For more than a decade, solo performer Stokley Towles has been studying us. He examines the mundane aspects of life in Seattle like an anthropologist from another planet--our libraries, our trash system, our police force, the history of a single city block--and delivers his findings in rich, understated monologues full of bizarre, colorful trivia and bittersweet observations about how people navigate the world and each other. -Brendan Kiley, The Stranger Weekly

2:00pm PDT

We Did the Work - Voices of the the Workers Who Built Seattle Center

Lee Newgent, Keith Weir, Dale Bright

Saturday May 26, 2012 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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Biography Our performers are members of the Washington State Building and Construction Trades; and affiliates of the Washington State Labor Council, serving over 450,000 union members in Washington State. The panelists built the Seattle Center in 1962.

4:00pm PDT

The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy

Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein

Saturday May 26, 2012 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography Paula Becker is a staff historian for Seattle's HistoryLink.org where her essays document the dance marathon craze of the 1920s and 1930s, war-effort knitting on the home front during World Wars I and II, the career of The Egg and I author Betty MacDonald, and numerous other subjects. She and co-writer Alan J. Stein also wrote the book - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington's First World's Fair. Alan J. Stein is a HistoryLink.org staff historian and award-winning author of four previous HistoryLink books, Safe Passage: The Birth of Washington State Ferries, 1951-2001; Bellevue Timeline: The Story of Washington's Leading Edge City from Homesteads to High Rises, 1863-2003; The Olympic: The Story of Seattle's Landmark Hotel. He is the Association of King County Historical Organizations' past president, and Ex Noble Grand Humbug of Doc Maynard Chapter 54-40, E Clampus Vitus.

5:00pm PDT

Jack Straw Writers Program 2012

Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken hosts Stacey Bennetts, Lacey Jane Henson, Carol Light, Sally Neumann, Johanna Stoberock, Mitsu Sundvall, and Nick Wong

Saturday May 26, 2012 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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Biography The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to provide new venues for the writer and their work. The program was created in 1997, and each year a single curator selects 12 writers/writing teams out of dozens of applicants based on artistic excellence, diversity of literary genres, and a cohesive grouping of writers. The 2012 curator is Shawn Wong. Twelve writers/writing teams are selected to participate. The program features voice and presentation training, in-studio interviews, public readings, a published anthology, and internet podcasts. All live readings are recorded, and selected portions are produced for podcasts and radio broadcast.

6:00pm PDT

American Standard Time: More Dust Than Digital

Videos with Greg Vandy

Saturday May 26, 2012 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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Biography Short videos from MoreDust.com

11:00am PDT

Saving the Past: Tips and Strategies for Preserving Your Personal and Family Archives

Seattle Archives Preservation RoadShow

Sunday May 27, 2012 11:00am - 11:50am PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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Biography Hannah Palin, Film Archives Specialist, University of Washington; Joshua Zimmerman, Archivist/Records Manager, Archdiocese of Seattle; Nicolette Bromberg, Visual Materials Curator, University of Washington; John Vallier, Head, Distributed Media, University of Washington; Laurel Sercombe, Archivist, Ethnomusicology Archives, University of Washington

12:00pm PDT

We Do The Work

Labor videos and winners of statewide contest!

Sunday May 27, 2012 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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Biography as yet unknown

1:00pm PDT

Book-It Repertory Theatre presents The Future Remembered: The 1962 World's Fair and Its Legacy

Gavin Cummins, Heather Hawkins Weinland, Laurence Hughes, Mark Waldstein

Sunday May 27, 2012 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography Book-It Repertory Theatre Players

2:00pm PDT

Water Calling Short Films

Sunday May 27, 2012 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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Biography Water Calling films include: A Water Tale SJ Chiro Told in a fairy-tale style format, Chiro's film follows a young girl who is transported to an underwater kingdom, where the "Kingfish" informs the girl of the impact of pollution—caused by increased storms and storm water runoff—on the sea. Waterway Britta Johnson This stop-animation film follows large drops of water as they travel through rocks, ferns, plant roots, microbes and other creatures that naturally filter and clean water. Water Lab Susan Robb Investigating the interface that tap water creates with nature and our homes, Robb's video explores SPU's interventions through abstracted aerial shots captured in the Cascades and inter-spliced with quick cuts of sci-fi-like images of a "water laboratory." Space, the air, the river, the leaf Luke Sieczek Composed of four parts or movements, Sieczek's film marks the passage of water from sky to soil to stream to waterway. Along this path we see the various small and local efforts designed to transform the flow to a controlled, clean and filtered state. Displaced Rick Stevenson The importance of water as a healing, symbolic, life-giving and redemptive force in our lives is at the center of this story of two foster children in search of family who, despite the odds, find each other as brothers.

4:00pm PDT

The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy

Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein

Sunday May 27, 2012 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography Paula Becker is a staff historian for Seattle's HistoryLink.org where her essays document the dance marathon craze of the 1920s and 1930s, war-effort knitting on the home front during World Wars I and II, the career of The Egg and I author Betty MacDonald, and numerous other subjects. She and co-writer Alan J. Stein also wrote the book - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington's First World's Fair. Alan J. Stein is a HistoryLink.org staff historian and award-winning author of four previous HistoryLink books, Safe Passage: The Birth of Washington State Ferries, 1951-2001; Bellevue Timeline: The Story of Washington's Leading Edge City from Homesteads to High Rises, 1863-2003; The Olympic: The Story of Seattle's Landmark Hotel. He is the Association of King County Historical Organizations' past president, and Ex Noble Grand Humbug of Doc Maynard Chapter 54-40, E Clampus Vitus.

5:00pm PDT

Bread & Roses, Then & Now

This presentation will show how workers' struggles are not just a thing of the past but are very much alive today. The first 20 minutes feature a video about the original Bread & Roses strike in 1912. Following the video will be speakers from three current campaigns -- OUR Walmart; Seattle port truck drivers; and the Longshore union’s fight against union-busting by EGT in Longview, WA. Come and be inspired by workers telling their stories and standing up for justice in the 21st Century

Sunday May 27, 2012 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography unavailable

6:00pm PDT

Northwest Stories: Video Portraits of Northwest Communities

Doug Plummer, Videographer

Sunday May 27, 2012 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

11:00am PDT

Memorial Day Commemoration featuring the Total Experience Gospel Choir and the Vietnam Veterans of America - Jim Hinde Memorial Chapter 102

Please join us for a presentation of our Nation's colors in a commeroration of Memorial Day featuring the Total Experience Gospel Choir and the Vietnam Veterans of America - Jim Hinde Memorial Chapter 102.

Monday May 28, 2012 11:00am - 11:30am PDT
Mural Amphitheatre 47.62057, -122.35049

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11:00am PDT

Book-It Repertory Theatre presents The Future Remembered: The 1962 World's Fair and Its Legacy

Gavin Cummins, Heather Hawkins Weinland, Laurence Hughes, Mark Waldstein

Monday May 28, 2012 11:00am - 11:50am PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography Book-It Repertory Theatre Players

12:00pm PDT

The 1960s Folk Music Revival - Seattle style

Jon Pfaff and Friends

Monday May 28, 2012 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography TBD

4:00pm PDT

The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy

Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein

Monday May 28, 2012 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)

Biography Paula Becker is a staff historian for Seattle's HistoryLink.org where her essays document the dance marathon craze of the 1920s and 1930s, war-effort knitting on the home front during World Wars I and II, the career of The Egg and I author Betty MacDonald, and numerous other subjects. She and co-writer Alan J. Stein also wrote the book - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington's First World's Fair. Alan J. Stein is a HistoryLink.org staff historian and award-winning author of four previous HistoryLink books, Safe Passage: The Birth of Washington State Ferries, 1951-2001; Bellevue Timeline: The Story of Washington's Leading Edge City from Homesteads to High Rises, 1863-2003; The Olympic: The Story of Seattle's Landmark Hotel. He is the Association of King County Historical Organizations' past president, and Ex Noble Grand Humbug of Doc Maynard Chapter 54-40, E Clampus Vitus.

5:00pm PDT

Bread, Roses, and Happiness

John de Graaf & Laura Musikanski of Seattle Happiness Initiative

Monday May 28, 2012 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

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URL
Biography this is confusing.. by performer do you mean the speakers or just the musician if we have one?

6:00pm PDT

Northwest Stories: Video Portraits of Northwest Communities

Doug Plummer, Videographer

Monday May 28, 2012 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Narrative Stage at SIFF Cinema 47.62310, -122.35323

Panel, (if applicable)