Please note that Welcoming New Hampshire promotes relevant events and learning opportunities on our calendar but we are not necessarily affiliated with these events or host organizations.

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  • Nashua – Home Buyer Seminar

    United Way of Greater Nashua 20 Broad Street, Nashua, NH, United States

    If you want to learn more about buying your home or are not sure where to start, join us for the next Home Buyer Seminar. This program reviews the Steps to Home Ownership and gives you the tools and resources needed to make good financial decisions at every stage of the home buying process. The […]

    $69
  • Concord – Multicultural Crafts and Activities

    Creating CommUNITY 18 North Main St, Suite 206, Concord, NH, United States

    Join us to learn about other cultures and make some crafts! We have maracas, henna hands, papel picado and more! Drop in, or stay the whole time! We will have a special guest this month: Sindy Chown is from Barranquilla, Colombia and will be sharing stories and information about her culture while we make maracas […]

  • Hudson – Songs of Emigration: Storytelling through Traditional Irish Music

    Rodgers Memorial Library 194 Derry Road, Hudson, NH, United States

    Through traditional music Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki relays some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish emigrants. The focus is on songs about leaving Ireland, sometimes focusing on the reasons for leaving (a man who is driven from his land by English persecution); sometimes revealing what happened upon arrival (an immigrant drafted into the Union […]

    Free
  • Enfield – Abolitionists of Noyes Academy

    Enfield Community Building 308 US Route 4, Enfield, NH, United States

    In 1835, abolitionists opened one of the nation's first integrated schools in Canaan, NH, attracting eager African-American students from as far away as Boston, Providence, and New York City. Outraged community leaders responded by raising a mob that dragged the academy building off its foundation and ran the African-American students out of town. New Hampshire's […]

    Free
  • Sunapee – Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music

    Lake Sunapee United Methodist Church 9 Lower Main Street, Sunapee, NH, United States

    Through traditional music Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki relays some of the adventures, misadventures, and emotions experienced by Irish emigrants. The focus is on songs about leaving Ireland, sometimes focusing on the reasons for leaving (a man who is driven from his land by English persecution); sometimes revealing what happened upon arrival (an immigrant drafted into the Union […]

    Free
  • Durham – Waking Up White: Author Read & Community Dinner

    Oyster River High School 55 Coe Drive, Durham, NH, United States

    How could a community with good intentions be home to discrimination and racism? How does a state like New Hampshire that is mostly white fit into the national narrative of racial strife, now and in our past? What do we know about race? Through April 2018, residents of Madbury, Lee, and Durham will have the […]

    Free
  • Hanover – The Use of Hiphop Rhetorics to Combat the Criminalization of Black, Brown, and Red Youth

    Howe Library 13 South Street, Hanover, NH, United States

    Hiphop culture grew out of the South Bronx in the 1970s and 1980s when young people of color combined their genius with available materials to produce the four original elements of hiphop: deejaying, graffiti art, breakdancing, and rapping. Since then, a confluence of young Blacks, American Indians, and Latino/as have used hiphop to reimagine everyday […]

    Free
  • Seabrook – A Short Course on Islam for Non-Muslims

    Seabrook Library 25 Liberty Lane, Seabrook, NH, United States

    The foundation of Western civilization rests on three monotheistic faiths - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The interaction between and among these systems of belief continues to impact events in daily life and politics on the world stage. Following an outline of Islamic beliefs and practices by Charles Kennedy, discussion turns to how Islam is practiced […]

    Free
  • Hip Hop Workshop

    Positive Street Art 48 Bridge St, 3rd Floor, NH, United States