MAS: Costumes from Hartford's Caribbean Community, August 25, 2011, 5-7PM at the Jean J. Schensul Community Gallery, at The Institute for Community Research, 2 Hartford Square West Suite 100, 146 Wyllys St, Hartford, CT.

This exhibit in ICR's Gallery featured colorful and imaginative costumes (Mas) such as those worn in Trinidad-style Carnivals around the world, including Hartford. The exhibit was the culmination of a six-week training course for 16 young women who learned how to make and wear the costumes under the direction of master costume makers and Carnival dancers. The teens formed a Carnival "Band" called the Exotic Ones, with three sections of masqueraders in different color schemes. They displayed their costumes in Hartford's Taste of the Caribbean Festival and West Indian Parade in August 2011. ICR's CT Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CHAP) collaborated with the Connecticut International Cultural Carnival Association (CICCA).

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