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Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.31, Connecticut Historical Soc…
Program: India Association of Rhode Island Holi Festival, 2008
Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.31, Connecticut Historical Society, In Copyright

Program: India Association of Rhode Island Holi Festival, 2008

Date2008
MediumPaper
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
DescriptionProgram for the India Association of Rhode Island Holi Festival, 2008.

This event featured a required public presentation of the Year 10 Southern New England Apprenticeship Program Year 10 team in South Indian tabla playing. Teaching artist Christopher Pereji with apprentice Nisha Purushotham in 2007-2008.
Object number2015.196.31
CopyrightIn Copyright
NotesSubject Note: The Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program is a CCHAP initiative since 1997 that fosters the sharing of community-based traditional (folk) artistic skills through the apprenticeship learning model of regular, intensive, one-on-one teaching by a skilled mentor artist to a student/apprentice. The program pairs master artists from RI, MA, or CT with apprentices from one of the other states, as a way to knit together members of the same community or group across state lines. Teaching and learning traditional arts help to sustain cultural expressions that are central to a community, while also strengthening festivals, arts activities and events when master/apprentice artists perform or demonstrate results of their cooperative learning to public audiences. The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program at the Connecticut Historical Society manages the program in collaboration with the Folk Arts Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council and independent folklorist Winifred Lambrecht who has a deep knowledge of the folk arts landscape of Rhode Island. Primary funding for the program comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, with support also from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Institute for Community Research, and the Connecticut Historical Society.


Subject Note: The Year 10 Indian tabla apprenticeship team of experienced table player Christopher Pereji from MA and student Nisha Purushotham from RI resented their work at two performances - one for a community audience at the Holi Festival in Westerly RI, and another one in a concert setting at India House in Providence RI. Nisha Purushotham moved to Massachusetts from RI and continued to learn from teacher Chris Pereji through the Massachusetts Cultural Council Apprenticeship Program.


Additional audio, video, and photographic materials exist in the archive relating to these artists.

Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.
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