Hartford Open Studios Weekend: Traditional Arts Marketplace
An exciting array of artists from ethnic communities will demonstrate and sell their crafts at a folk artists' Marketplace on Saturday, November 12, 2010 from 11 am to 4 pm at The Institute forCommunity Research (ICR), 2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100 in Hartford, CT. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature carpet weavers, basket makers, crochet artists, embroiderers, henna painters, and jewelry makers.
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Rugs of Remembrance: Bosnian Weaving in Hartford
The Institute for Community Research will host the opening of Rugs of Remembrance: Bosnian Weaving in Hartford on November 3, 2011from 5-7PM at the ICR Gallery. The exhibit will feature handwoven rugs, carpents, and wall hangings made by skilled Bosnian weavers living in Hartford.
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Special Exhibit of Trinidad-Style Carnival Costumes Made by Hartford Teens
The Institute for Community Research will host the opening of Mas: Costumes from Hartford’s West Indian Community, on August 25, 2011 from 5 to 7 PM at the ICR Gallery, 2 Hartford Square West, 146 Wyllys St., in Hartford. The exhibit will feature colorful and imaginative costumes (Mas) such as those worn in Trinidad-style Carnivals around the world, including Hartford.
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Folk Musician Daniel Boucher invited to perform at Library of Congress & Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Daniel Boucher, a 31-year-old fiddler from Bristol, will perform on Wednesday, August 17th at noon at the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium and at 6PM at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in Washington, D.C. Boucher was invited by the American Folklife Center's Homegrown: Music of America project, a series that presents the very best of traditional music and dance from a variety of folk cultures thriving in the United States.
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ICR Participating in NIRHD Funded National Community Partner Forum
The Institute for Community Research is very pleased to announce its participation in The NIRHD funded  National Community Partner Forum, “Realizing the Promise of Community-Engaged Health Disparities Research. The forum, organized by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) and the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service (CCHERS) is supported by a founding committee of community research organizations seeking to improve the quality of community engaged health disparities research through effective community-university collaborations, and community based research.  Questions to be addressed through the forum include:

• How do we ensure that communities most affected by health disparities are at the tables that decide what research gets conducted, how and by whom?
• How do we support communities most affected by health disparities to conduct and manage research?
• How do we ensure that social justice is central to community-engaged research?

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Teens Perform Skits Based on Their Binge Drinking Research
Students from Hall and Conard High Schools are coming together to educate familes and peers about the dangers of binge drinking. Just in time for Prom season. Binge drinking is an epidemic among teens across the country, and West Hartford is not immune. The students are part of the Community Action Research Team, a group of West Hartford youth who engaged in a year-long research project in which they analyzed binge drinking among their peers. Through surveys and in-depth interview the group was able to learn about the scenarios and circumstances in which their peers engage in binge drinking.  In conjunction with Hartbeat Ensemble of Hartford, CT, the group developed scenes and skits that depict the scenarios. These scenes form part of a larger intervention being implemented in town to address one of the key findings, which is the pervasiveness and perceived normalcy of binge drinking among West Hartford teens. A performance of the scenes will be held on Thursday, May 19th at 7:30 PM at the Playhouse on Park, 244 Park Road, West Hartford, CT. For more information, contact Connie Yan at 860-278-2044 ext. 284 or connie.yan@icrweb.org
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