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The Freer and Sackler Galleries’ Silk Road Storytelling group is made up of volunteers from the Washington DC community who have cultural ties to various sites along the ancient Silk Road. They trained with professional storyteller Louise Omoto Kessel to learn to tell stories from their homelands in…

Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Oct 5, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
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Dilber, The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled

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The Discovery of Silk

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