Over its twenty-five years, CCHAP has produced a great variety of folklife and folk arts projects in partnership with Connecticut traditional artists and communities. See selected initiatives here
CCHAP Projects
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Sewing Circle
Beginning in 2007 to encourage production and marketing of traditional crafts among the immigrant communities in the Greater Hartford area and across the state.
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Mas: Carnival Costumes from Hartford’s West Indian Community
Since 2011, CCHAP has partnered with the Connecticut Caribbean International Carnival Association to train Hartford youth in Carnival traditions central to their ethnic background.
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Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program
This program is designed to foster the sharing of traditional (folk) artistic skills through one-on-one teaching by a master artist to a student/apprentice.
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New Lives / New England
This project highlights refugee and new immigrant traditional artists now living in Connecticut, Vermont and Maine.
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Radio Festivals Project
Words and sound were woven together by to create podcasts and audio slide shows.
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Sounds Like Home
Collaborating with WNPR to record the music and traditions of ethnic Connecticut.
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