Community Arts & Heritage Education Project Information

CAHEP is a grass roots arts education organization that collaboratively develops and implements multi-disciplinary arts and heritage based educational programming in the schools and community of Thunder Bay. Organizations, the community and all grades in every school are encouraged to engage in arts and heritage-based programming through using the resources CAHEP creates and makes available (CAHEP website, the Arts & Heritage Directory, CAHEP Resource Book and DVD in Best Practices in Arts Education). CAHEP has developed a unique approach by integrating the arts with heritage and the arts with other arts disciplines. We offer an After School Program in arts and heritage. We are currently running a program in arts and heritage for excluded children and youth over two years with 12 local partners. We offer workshops and seminars in arts education and all the arts disciplines. We encourage and participate in cross-sector partnership development. CAHEP's signature program - Artists in the 5th - Arts Fiesta involved over 500 grade 4, 5 and 6 students in 2006/07. The theme for the 2007/2008 school year is "In Our Voice, Through Our Eyes".