The "Perú: Pachamama" program at the 2015 Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured several chicha street artists, including Elliot Tupac, a Peruvian muralist and designer who hails from Lima.
In Huanchaco on the northern coast of Peru, local fishermen are renowned for building caballitos de totora (reed rafts), a tradition that goes back five thousand years.
At the 2015 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Nely Ninantay Yonaje shares her experience growing up in the remote Peruvian Amazon community of Queros. In the Festival's "Perú: Pachamama" program, she was one representative of the Wachiperi people who are fighting to preserve and revive their traditional customs and native language.
A video about Elliot Tupac, a Peruvian artist who stylizes traditional screen-printing designs and techniques to achieve a new level of valorization for chicha posters.
A short film produced at the Smithsonian about master gourd craftsman Ponciano Canto.
A video about Basque painter Jesus Mari Lazkano, who is known for his fantastic surrealist landscape paintings inspired by the Basque landscapes he encounters on a daily basis.
Choreographer and founder Edu Murumendiaraz of Basque dance company Aukeran and dancers Garazi Egiguren Urkola and Ander Errasti explain how the group started, the public’s reactions to their blend of contemporary and traditional, and their experiences at the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
