Category: Community

Sign Up for our Funding Booster Program: Next Session Wed. April 12.

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The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County’s Funding Booster program is free and open to all members. The program is designed to help all grant writers, from beginners to seasoned veterans, learn new skills, and burnish old ones, in order to be as successful as possible in all their grant writing ambitions.

If you haven’t registered for the program, register here.

If you have registered for the program then you can register for our next meeting on Zoom here. Development consultant Jessica Morozowich will answer your questions and tackle any grant writing issues you currently have.  You can also book one-on-one consultations with her. Find out more at: https://culturalalliancefc.org/programs/funding-booster/

Podcast now available of “Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day”

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Hear our CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY interview show on WPKN as a PODCAST now at https://bit.ly/SpotIndigenous. Discover the histories and living cultures of native tribes in our area. What traditions, stories and practices are still alive? What can we learn from native cultures’ sense of time and of the land? Hear about the work of the Institute for Native American Studies, and about the specific cultural practices of the Schaghticoke and Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nations.

Our guests were:
Darlene Kascak, a member of the Schaghticoke Nation, and a Storyteller and Educator at the Institute for American Indian Studies, in Washington, CT

Shoran Waupatukuay Piper, Clan Mother and Tribal Leader, of the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nation, and author of the recent book, Red Road

Chelsea Garth, Curator at Fairfield Museum & History Center, and

Janet Evelyn, executive director of Norwalk NICE (Norwalk International Cultural Exchange) Festival and the newly appointed Coastal Fairfield County Folk & Traditional Arts Community Impact Coordinator.

Catch this latest edition of “Spotlight on Arts & Culture” as a podcast here.

Register for Zoom Info Session WEDNESDAY on CT Cultural Relief Fund Grant: Wed. Oct 13, 11am

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RECORDATORIO para REGISTRARSE AQUÍ para la sesión informativa, miércoles. 13 de octubre, 11 a. m. , sobre las  subvenciones del Fondo Cultural de CT , copatrocinado por la Alianza Cultural del Condado de Fairfield y la Alianza Cultural del Oeste de Connecticut, con Scott Wands de CT Humanities explicando la subvención y respondiendo a sus preguntas.