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 Camp
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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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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