by Jacques Lamarre | Nov 23, 2022 | In the Community, News
In February 2022, nine-time WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Brittney Griner was detained at an airport in Russia for possession of vape cartridges with trace amounts of medicinal cannabis. Most people arrested for such an offense are fined and... 
by Jacques Lamarre | May 24, 2021 | In the Community, News, Youth Arts
Arts, Culture and Social Justice Non-Profit to Expand and Upgrade Downtown Campus, Serve Double the Number of Hartford Youth Charter Oak Cultural Center unveiled today the acquisition of an adjacent historic property, major renovation and restoration work on... 
by Jacques Lamarre | Apr 27, 2021 | In the Community, News, Youth Arts
Charter Oak Cultural Center is proud to present The Poetry Bus, a CT Transit vehicle featuring excerpts from poems written by our Youth Arts Initiative students. Working with YAI teaching artist and Poetry on the Streets founder Melanie Faranello, the youth created... 
by Jacques Lamarre | Mar 9, 2021 | Get Involved, In the Community, News
Charter Oak Cultural Center is working to expand its Eats of the Street program with the addition of new container gardens on the streets of Hartford, arbors added to existing pots to increase food output, and the hiring of additional Hartford individuals experiencing... 
by Charter Oak | Sep 14, 2020 | In the Community
Donna Berman, Executive Director of Charter Oak Cultural Center, explains Beat of the Street’s fresh food program Eats of the Street. “We put these pots on the street and we fill them with organic vegetable plants, and anybody can pick the vegetables when...