BRING BRITTNEY BACK!

BRING BRITTNEY BACK!

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...
Here Comes the Poetry Bus!

Here Comes the Poetry Bus!

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...
Eats of Street, featured on WFSB

Eats of Street, featured on WFSB

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...