AN IDAHO FILM + FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL
Roots of a Nation: An Idaho Film and Folklife Commemoration
Two days of film, conversation, storytelling, and hands-on activities in Moscow, Idaho.
This commemoration marks the 250th by creating space to reflect on American and Idaho history in all its complexity: meaningful, difficult, unfinished, and shared.
AT A GLANCE
Film Festival
August 28–29 • Kenworthy Theatre • Moscow
Folklife Festival
August 29 • 10:00 AM–2:00 PM • 1912 Center • Moscow
Featuring
Film screenings, scholar discussion, storytelling, music, and family activities
About the Program
Roots of a Nation brings together a film festival and a folklife festival to consider how history is remembered, told, challenged, and carried forward. The program is connected to the 250th, while intentionally avoiding a triumphalist or simplified story of the American past.
This is not a pageant of easy patriotism. It is an invitation to gather with care, engage the past honestly, and recognize that this anniversary holds different meanings for different communities, especially Indigenous peoples whose histories, cultures, and partnership are vital to this event.
As we reflect during the 250th, this program makes room for complexity. American and Idaho history includes creativity, community, conflict, dispossession, endurance, and change. We aim to create a thoughtful public space shaped by respect, curiosity, and dialogue.
1912 Center
Folklife festival on August 29 from 10 AM to 2 PM
412 East 3rd Street, Moscow
Open to the public, no tickets needed!
More information
Questions? Contact johanna@idahohumanities.org.
Thank you to these event sponsors and partners:
By the People: Conversations Beyond 250 is a series of community-driven programs created by humanities councils in collaboration with local partners. The initiative was developed by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.