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Center for Art Tradition and Cultural Heritage CATCH is a non profit created by a group of NYC organizations to develop collaborativeprojects that foster the citys living cultural heritage. CATCH is a consortium of fournationally prominent organizations with almost 100 years combined programmingexperience infolk arts Center for Traditional Music and Dance CTMD City Lore Society of theEducational Arts SEA a Latino childrens theater and World Music Institute WMI. Thesegroups joined together to a develop collaborative projects among the four foundingorganizations and other groups and b incubate and assist smaller ethnicspecificgroups to develop their own organizational structures and foster the cultural heritages oftheir respective communities c to seek a permanent physical home for folk arts in NewYork City. In 20072008 the Center for Art Tradition and Cultural Heritage CATCH formally cameintoexistence as an organizational home for the collaborative programming which had takenplacebetween the partners for decades.