2017 Black New England Conference
2017-10-20 06:00 - 2017-10-22 13:00 (America/New_York) | Huddleston Hall, 73 Main St, Durham, NH, 03824, United States
2017 Black New England Conference
The Science and Engineering of Race: Living Through the Archives
The Carsey School is a proud co-sponsor of the 2017 Black New England Conference. This conference will discuss how modern medical and social sciences have made some extraordinary advances through the exploitation of Black bodies while simultaneously allowing myths of racial inferiority to continue as justification for centuries of enslavement and political disenfranchisement.
From the Tuskegee syphilis experiment to the unethical use of Henrietta Lacks’ cells to engineer a polio vaccine, to the ongoing forced sterilization of Black women in clinics and prisons, the story of American scientific advancement carries with it a shadow story of ethical corruption, pain, and silencing. The insidious parallel fictions of the innate athleticism, super strength and natural rhythm of African people are rooted in pseudo-scientific research and writings.
In unpacking this theme, conference presenters will examine the historical and current impact of “race science” and pseudoscientific movements to present “race as destiny” on fields of inquiry ranging on areas of modern medicine and health care, reproductive rights, public policy, criminal law, civil rights, athletics, educational access, and effects on the arts and entertainment industries.
Conference Panels Include:

Hidden Figures: Reintroducing Regional Black Scientists & Innovators
In the Name of Science: A Film Discussion
Out of The Shadows: A Conversation with Shelly Walcott & Katherine Sanders
Tracing Genetic Ancestry & Reclaiming Black Spaces
Inventing Race: Science, Medicine & Big Business
Skeletons in Our Closet: Anthropology’s Role in Constructing and Deconstructing the Science of Race
Afrofuturism: The Way Forward

View the Conference Schedule Here.
The Black New England Conference, now in its 11th year, is a regularly occurring 2-day gathering to share insights and scholarly work on Black experiences, past and present, in New England. Recent keynote speakers at the conferences have included comedian and activist Dick Gregory, columnist Derrick Jackson, actor and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph, director John W. Franklin, playwright Lydia Diamond, author Lorene Carey, and Professors James Campbell and James O. Horton, with topical presentations by professional and independent scholars, community researchers, writers, artists, and activists. The Conference is both an academic conference and a celebration of Black life and history.

Friday, October 20, 2017 – 10:00am to Saturday, October 21, 2017 – 5:00pm

Huddleston Hall Ballroom, UNH, Durham

Manchester - Turkish Coffee Night
2017-10-20 14:00 | Turkish Cultural Center of NH, 540 Chestnut St., Manchester, NH, United States
Turkish Coffee Hour featuring Noah’s Pudding
The Oldest Dessert In The World
‘Asure,’ is the Turkish name for Noah’s pudding. It is made of a mixture consisting of grain, fruits, dried fruits, and nuts. It is a symbol of diversity, friendship and unity. Asure is common throughout the Middle East and spans many cultures, traditions and religions.
Please RSVP at info@tccnh.org or 603-621-0620

Hanover - The Music History of French-Canadians, Franco-Americans, Acadians, and Cajuns
2017-10-22 10:00 | Howe Library, 13 South Street, Hanover, NH, 03755, United States
Lucie Therrien follows the migration of French-Canadians and the evolution of their traditional music: its arrival in North America from France; the music’s crossing with Indian culture during the evangelization of Acadia and Quebec; its growth alongside English culture after British colonization; and its expansion from Quebec to New England, as well as from Acadia to Louisiana. THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF HOWE LIBRARY’S EVERYONE IS READING, WHICH IS IN ITS NINTH YEAR.

Merrimack - I am a Muslim Woman: Conversations with Local Muslim Women
2017-10-23 14:45 - 16:30 | Our Lady of Mercy Church, 16 Baboosic Lake Road, Merrimack, NH, 03054, United States
Our Lady of Mercy Parish in association with Interfaith Women of NH invites you to: I am a Muslim Woman: Conversations with Local Muslim Women. This event will take place on Monday, October 23rd at 6:45PM at Our Lady of Mercy Church.
This is your second opportunity to attend the same program where over 200 people filled St. Catherine School Auditorium in March of this year.
Both men and women are invited to attend this event. Handicap accessible.
Check-in begins at 6:00pm and optional Church Tour begins at 6:15 p.m.

Webcast - Discrimination in America: African American Experiences
2017-10-24 08:00 - 09:00 | NH
How do African Americans experience discrimination in daily life? A soon-to-be-released poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will illuminate reports from African Americans who share their personal experiences with discrimination. With unprecedented documentation, the poll will cover a range of areas — from police interaction, to job applications, to health care, to racial slurs. This Forum will explore the poll results and their implications for a healthier, more equitable, and just society.
This poll will be the first among a series of reports that surveyed additional groups, including Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, men, women, and LGBTQ adults, on their experiences with discrimination.
EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
Robert Blendon, Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School
Elizabeth Hinton, Assistant Professor, Departments of History and of African American Studies, Harvard University, and Author, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Mary Lee, Deputy Director, PolicyLink
Dwayne Proctor, Senior Adviser to the President and Director, Achieving Health Equity Portfolio, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
David Williams, Professor of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MODERATOR
Joe Neel, Deputy Senior Supervising Editor and a Correspondent on the Science Desk, NPR
Spread the word:
Send our panelists questions in advance to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
We’ll be conducting a live chat on The Forum’s Discrimination in America website.
Tweet us @ForumHSPH #discrimination
We also will stream live on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Forumhsph

Dunbarton - Fresh Start Farms Volunteer Day
2017-10-25 06:00 - 08:00 | Fresh Start Farms, 5 Story Hill Rd., Dunbarton, NH, United States
It’s October! Time to pick up plastic, round up tools, and prepare to put the garden to sleep for the winter. This is an excellent time to learn about cover cropping, soil health, and how winter is a gift to farm soils.
Fresh Start Farms-NH is a collective of refugee and immigrant farmers. We sell our food through our CSA program, at farmers’ markets & farm stands, and through wholesale channels.

Manchester - NH Humanities 2017 Annual Dinner featuring Steven Pinker
2017-10-25 13:00 | Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
New Hampshire Humanities announces that renowned author and scientist, Dr. Steven Pinker, will present the keynote address at our 2017 Annual Dinner on Wednesday, October 25 at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Manchester. The event is New Hampshire Humanities’ only fundraiser and supports hundreds of free public programs that bring residents together to explore essential questions of meaning and value.
Join 700-plus leaders from the corporate, educational, philanthropic, civic, cultural, and nonprofit communities to hear our keynote speaker, connect with one another, and support the ongoing work of New Hampshire Humanities.
Sponsorship of the Annual Dinner puts your company in front of thousands of Granite Staters and gives you access to a mix of guests not found at other business and nonprofit events in New Hampshire. Your guests – clients and colleagues – will appreciate the unique insights of one of the brightest minds of our time. For more information about sponsor benefits, click HERE or contact Jane Pauley, Director of Development, at 603-224-4071 or jpauley@nhhumanities.org.

About Steven Pinker: One of the world’s foremost writers on language, human nature, and the mind, Harvard cognitive scientist Dr. Steven Pinker has been named one of Prospect magazine’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals,” Foreign Policy’s “100 Global Thinkers,” and TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” He writes for publications such as the New York Times, TIME, and The Atlantic, and is the author of ten widely-acclaimed books, including How the Mind Works and The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.

YWCA NH's 37th Annual Susan B. Anthony Award Celebration
2017-10-25 13:30 - 16:00 | Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 North River Road, Hooksett, NH, 03106, United States
DESCRIPTION

For more than three decades, YWCA New Hampshire’s Susan B. Anthony Award Celebration has been a premiere event highlighting the contributions of outstanding women who live or work in New Hampshire and exemplify the ideals of Susan B. Anthony.
Join Us for Our 37th Annual
Susan B. Anthony Award Celebration
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Cash Bar & Hors d’oevre Reception
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Program
7:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Coffee & Dessert
Southern New Hampshire University Banquet Hall, Manchester
Silent Auction throughout the evening
Individual ticket: $50
Table (8 tickets): $400
Tickets can also be purchased by calling 603.625.5785 x 107.
with special guest Melissa Ledutke
Melissa Ludtke is the producer, writer and co-creator of Touching Home in China: in search of missing girlhoods, a transmedia storytelling and curriculum project. She is an award-winning journalist who has reported for Time magazine, CBS News, and Sports Illustrated. She edited Nieman Reports at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism for 13 years. To pursue her writing in social and political justice issues, she was awarded academic fellowships from Harvard University, Radcliffe College, and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. In 2010 Ludtke received the Yankee Quill Award for lifetime achievement as a journalist.
Ms. Ludtke made history while covering baseball as a reporter for Sports Illustrated. After Commissioner Bowie Kuhn denied her access to interview ballplayers in team locker rooms, Time Inc., the company that owned Sports Illustrated, filed a federal lawsuit (Ludtke v. Kuhn). The lawsuit claimed that Major League Baseball’s media policy of providing unequal access to women reporters violated her rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by depriving her of the liberty to fully pursue a career in sports reporting. In September 1978, a federal judge agreed, establishing equal access to locker rooms for women reporters. Her papers related to this groundbreaking suit are archived at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library, and her oral history of this period in time is preserved as part of the Washington Press Club Foundation’s Women in Journalism oral history project.

Laconia - Songs of Old New Hampshire
2017-10-25 14:30 | The Belknap Mill, 25 Beacon Street East, Laconia, NH, 03246, United States
Drawing heavily on the repertoire of traditional singer Lena Bourne Fish (1873-1945) of Jaffrey and Temple, New Hampshire, Jeff Warner offers the songs and stories that, in the words of Carl Sandburg, tell us “where we came from and what brought us along.” These ballads, love songs and comic pieces, reveal the experiences and emotions of daily life in the days before movies, sound recordings and, for some, books. Songs from the lumber camps, the decks of sailing ships, the textile mills, and the war between the sexes offer views of pre-industrial New England and a chance to hear living artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Raymond - Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in New Hampshire
2017-10-26 15:00 | Regional Economic Development Center, 57 Main Street, Raymond, NH, 03077, United States
Uprooted is a 30-minute documentary based on interviews collected during the Humanities Council’s Fences & Neighbors initiative on immigration. It tells the story of five refugees who escaped from war-torn countries to resettle in New Hampshire. The film explores what it means to be a refugee and how it feels to make a new life in a strange place, often without English language skills, family, a job, or community contacts. The film leaves us pondering questions of belonging and citizenship. What does it mean to be an American? Once a refugee, are you destined always to be a refugee? What are our responsibilities toward one another? A New Hampshire Humanities presenter introduces the film and leads a post-film discussion. See bios and contact information in Presenter Directory for Whitney Howarth, John Krueckeberg, and Sara Withers.

Greenfield - Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories
2017-10-26 15:00 | Stephenson Memorial Library, 761 Forest Road, Greenfield, NH, 03048, United States
What family stories do you carry with you? What story do you tell over and over? What landscape do you cherish the most? One of the deepest human instincts is to tell our life stories, to figure out who we are and what it means to be human. This interactive workshop led by Martha Andrews Donovan explores how the landscapes of our lives shape the stories that we tell. Participants explore the themes of family, memory, and place through sample narratives and a series of short writing exercises, gaining a deeper awareness of how their stories can preserve personal, generational, and communal history.

Nashua - Active Bystander Training
2017-11-08 13:00 - 16:00 | Temple Beth Abraham, 4 Raymond Street, Nashua, NH, 03064, United States
Active Bystander Training – Nashua NH
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Temple Beth Abraham
4 Raymond Road
Nashua, NH
Join GSOP and United Way to learn how to be an “active bystander!” This training will be available in both Spanish and English.
Dinner will be served and there is no cost to attend. Donations will be accepted to cover the cost of the food.
To register, Click here or call 603-864-0202.
Active Bystander training is a short, interactive opportunity to think about what you would do if you witness someone doing harm to another.
Active Bystander training helps participants recognize when they are bystanders, analyze the situation and their options, and evaluate the consequences of their actions. It increases bystanders’ effectiveness by teaching how we each can interrupt harm doing and generate positive actions by others. Instead of becoming complicit through remaining passive, participants learn the competencies they need to decide to take action when they witness something they feel is troubling, unfair, or wrong. Active bystandership does not mean aggression against the harm doer, it means taking responsible action to help people in need.

Webinar - One Year Later: Immigrant Trauma and How to Deal with It
2017-11-09 09:00 - 10:00 | NH
Supporting children, refugees and immigrants in uncertain times

One year since the presidential election, immigration rhetoric and policies have upended millions of lives. Register for One Year Later: Immigrant Trauma and How to Deal with It, a free webinar hosted by The Immigrant Learning Center Public Education Institute on Thursday, November 9, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST to learn how immigrants are being impacted and what you can do to support them.

Among those affected are refugees awaiting family members, skilled workers on temporary visas and long-time residents fearing rejection from their adopted homeland. Especially vulnerable are the children of immigrants suffering from increased anxiety and classroom disengagement. Educator and author Eileen Kugler and clinical psychologist Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra will offer strategies on how schools, neighbors and employers can support their immigrant students, coworkers and friends.

Attendees will Learn:

Latest immigration policies and the breadth of their impact
The destructive effects on immigrants, refugees and their families
Best practices to deal with this trauma at the personal, institutional and community levels

This free, interactive webinar is for anyone interested in immigrant and refugee issues, including social workers, advocates, counselors, teachers, policy experts, immigrant- and refugee-serving organizations, health care professionals, and state and city officials.

Manchester - Conversation Cafe at Currier Museum of Art
2017-11-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, NH, 03104, United States
Join us on November 9 for a special Conversation Café at the Currier Museum of Art!
Participants can enjoy a free tour of the museum (including a special exhibit on French artist Toulouse Lautrec) as well as time for art-making and conversation in small groups. If you’ve never visited the Currier, this will be a great opportunity to experience all the museum has to offer! It will also be a chance for receiving community members and new immigrants to get to know each other in a unique (and creative!) setting.
Conversation Cafés are a program Welcoming Manchester and partners. These events are informal get-togethers of immigrant and non-immigrant community members where participants enjoy guided conversation and activities with new friends and neighbors. Each Conversation Café is unique, and we are always looking for new themes, locations and partners. This is a great opportunity to practice or help others practice English language skills, and it’s also a wonderful opportunity for community members to get to know one another in a relaxed setting. These events are always free and open to everyone.

Manchester - Global Tipping Points: How can the U.S. & Mexico Fight Heroin?
2017-11-13 13:00 - 14:30 | UNH – Manchester, 88 Commercial St., Manchester, NH, 03104, United States
THINK GLOBALLY & ACT LOCALLY
A three-part series looking at global issues from a local level
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 at 6PM
LUIS JIMÉNEZ
Mexico provides more than 90 percent of America’s heroin. As an addiction epidemic ravages New Hampshire, communities across the border have also paid a price as violence soars. How has U.S. foreign policy in Latin America impacted drug trade? How can both countries work together to combat the crisis? Luis Jiménez, an expert on Latin American politics, will address these issues and more. NH link: The Granite State recently ranked #2 in the nation for opioid-related deaths relative to its population and #1 for fentanyl-related deaths per capita.
Location: Multi-purpose Room, UNH Manchester, 88 Commercial Street (Pandora Mill), Manchester. Directions & Parking Info Here
Free & Open to the Public. Advance registration requested online or by phone: 603.314.7970.
Presented in partnership with UNH Manchester’s homeland security, history, humanities and politics and society programs

Exeter - Active Bystander Training
2017-11-14 12:30 - 14:30 | NH
DESCRIPTION:
Active Bystander Training is a short, interactive opportunity to think about what you would do if you witness someone doing harm to another.
Active Bystander training helps participants recognize when they are bystanders, analyze the situation and their options, and evaluate the consequences of their actions. It increases bystanders’ effectiveness by teaching how we each can interrupt harm doing and generate positive actions by others. Instead of becoming complicit through remaining passive, participants learn the competencies they need to decide to take action when they witness something they feel is troubling, unfair, or wrong. Active bystandership does not mean aggression against the harm doer, it means taking responsible action to help people in need.
Training includes:

What inhibits bystanders from acting
What promotes positive bystander behavior
Putting oneself into the victim’s situation
Feeling responsibility for others’ welfare
Competence. The ability to have a positive influence, avoid harm to oneself and others
Safe, non-confrontational strategies for intervention
Promote caring for people both within and beyond one’s own group
Promote the inclination to help others, and the moral courage to speak or act on behalf of positive values in the face of potential opposition
Interactive exercises and activities: students discuss, brainstorm and roleplay bystander responses to varied situations

Location: 104 Epping Road, Exeter, NH 03833
Granite State Organizing Project
GSOP is the largest grassroots community organization in New Hampshire. We are comprised of religious congregations, community groups, labor organizations and individuals in New Hampshire united in our concern for economic and social justice. Responding to requests from our members for more tools to support positive community- based interventions and building on our training expertise, GSOP has integrated into our work an active bystander training based on the widely-used program developed by Quabbin Mediation.

Milford - Becky Sakellariou - All Refugee Lives Matter
2017-11-14 13:30 - 15:00 | Wadleigh Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St., Milford, NH, 03055, United States
Becky Sakellariou, who lives in both New Hampshire and in Greece, has been involved with the refugees in Greece since they began pouring into that country from Turkey 2 1/2 years ago. She has visited transient camps with a team of midwives, emergency landing camps, and taught and worked in a couple of the 40+ mainland camps that are now home to about 65,000 refugees. She has also raised funds for goods, foods, clothes, toys and other needed items for about 7 NGOs operating at very small centers, both urban and rural. She will talk about her experiences, her perspectives and show slides to illustrate what is happening.

Concord - Cultural and Linguistic Competency Workshop
2017-11-15 04:00 - 11:00 | NH
For educators, clinicians, and members of community-based organizations!
WHEN: Wednesday, November 15, 2017
From 9 AM to 4 PM
WHERE: The Foundation for Healthy Communities
Room 1, 125 Airport Road, Concord, NH
FACILITATOR: Mercedes Avila, PhD
Workshop Objectives:
At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:
1. Demonstrate increased self-awareness of racial, ethnic and class biases.
2. Define cultural and linguistic competency and indicate familiarity with the stages of
cultural competency (or continuum).
3. Describe the implications of demographic trends for health disparities.
4. Identify links between racial and health inequities and health disparities.
5. Integrate National CLAS Standards into practice and service providing.
6. Describe how cultural beliefs shape clinical encounters and patients’ health outcomes.
7. Incorporate cultural and linguistic competence into service providing.
There is no cost to attend. Lunch will be provided.
Space is limited!
Pre-Register at snhahec-clc-workshop.eventbrite.com
Sponsored by the Northern New England Workforce Diversity Partnership and
Southern NH AHEC

Peterborough - Is Our Town Your Town?
2017-11-15 09:00 | Mariposa Museum and World Culture Center, 26 Main St, Peterborough, NH, 03458, United States
Is Our Town Your Town?
2:00 pm
Franklin Pierce University’s Global Citizens Club and First Year Inquiry Class lead the conversation, “How is Our Town Your Town?” Using Thornton Wilder’s play, “Our Town”, the US Constitution, the US immigration process, and the teaching of tolerance, as bases for discussion, the dialogue will center on the question, “What makes a community accessible and inviting?” Class and Club Members, Mariposa Museum staff, along with Ann Hayashi, Assistant to the Resident Director at The MacDowell Colony, and community members are invited to weigh in on this important topic. Admission: Free.

Hanover - Team Up, Take Action: Partnering for Health Equity
2017-11-15 11:00 - 12:30 | The Hanover Inn, 2 East Wheelock Street, Hanover, NH, 03755, United States
The Hitchcock Foundation Presents the Thirty-Fourth Annual Schumann Lecture
Team up, Take Action: Partnering for Health Equity
Camara P. Jones MD, MPH, PhD
Health equity means that everyone has the chance to be as healthy as possible. Health equity means reducing and eliminating disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups. Health equity is inextricably linked with opportunity. It requires addressing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and healthcare. Health equity is fundamental to building a vibrant society because of its practical, economic, and civic implications and impact on individuals living a good life.
Dr. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She seeks to broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high-quality healthcare but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism). Dr. Jones is the immediate past president of the American Public Health Association
This lecture is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary.
This public lecture is supported by an endowment to the Hitchcock Foundation from the late Helmut Wolfgang Schumann to provide a free lecture by a nationally renowned figure on topics related to healthful living. This year’s lecture will kick off the annual event for public health officials called “Team Up, Take Action: Improving Population Health Together,” co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Public Health Association, the Vermont Public Health Association and Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Though the larger conference is a paid event, the public may attend the Schumann Lecture from 4:00 PM-5:30 PM at no cost.

Manchester - Culturally Effective Organizations Framework Learning Forum for Organization Decision-Makers
2017-11-16 03:00 - 08:00 | NH
The NH Health & Equity Partnership’s Culturally Effective Organizations Priority Work Group is pleased to present a learning forum for leaders of organizations from health, healthcare, human, social service, people-serving, education, and non-profit organizations. Culturally effective organizations enable, cultivate, and support the delivery of high-quality care and services for all people. Decision makers from your leadership team are invited to attend this half-day learning forum on November 16th in Manchester to learn the roadmap for providing high quality services for all.
Registration details coming soon. For questions please contact Isabelle Valmont.
http://www.facebook.com/equitynh/

Manchester - 5th Annual Friendship Dinner & Award Ceremony
2017-11-16 13:30 | Puritan Conference and Event Center, 245 Hooksett Rd, Manchester, NH, 03104, United States
The 5th Annual Friendship Dinner & Award Ceremony
“An Evening of Celebrating Cultural Diversity”
Turkish Cultural Center & Peace Islands Institute request the pleasure of your presence at the 5th Annual Friendship Dinner & Award Ceremony to applaud our distinguished honorees.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6.30 pm
Puritan Conference & Event Center
245 Hooksett Rd
Manchester, NH 03104
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett
President
The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice
&
Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan
Executive Director
Alliance of Shared Values, New York
2017 Award Recipients:
Friendship Award:
Ben Gamache
President
Gamache Enterprise
Community Service Award:
Keith Howard
Former Executive Director
Liberty House
Dialogue Award:
Becky Field
Photographer & Author
Education Award:
Christine Brennan
Deputy Commissioner
Department of Education

The Annual Friendship Dinner & Award Ceremony is the Turkish Cultural Center’s the most important social outreach event of the year. The Center is dedicated to bringing together people from diverse backgrounds. At this event, people with vastly different upbringings, heritages, cultures and histories come together and share in the common hope and faith that people can understand, accept and learn from each other. This event is a prime example of how, despite differences, people will come together when there is a common goal at hand.
Turkish Cultural Center Awards publicly recognize the outstanding achievements of those who have distinguished themselves in their profession and service to humanity in US. The awards are based on a variety of criteria and given in different areas including community service, education, leadership, philanthropy, business and friendship etc.

Concord - An Attitude of Gratitude: A Thanksgiving Interfaith Celebration
2017-11-19 12:30 - 13:30 | Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 180 Loudon Rd, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
The Greater Concord Interfaith Council invites the Concord Community to participate in an evening Thanksgiving celebration. A reflection on an “attitude of gratitude” will be given by Reverend Jason Wells. Music and interfaith reflections will also be offered.
Donations of non-perishable food items for the Friends of Forgotten Children food pantry are appreciated.
Any monetary offerings will go towards the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness for their new cold-weather shelter.
Date: Sunday, November 19, 2017
Time: 5:30 pm
Place: Immaculate Heart of Mary
180 Loudon Rd. Concord, NH

Nashua - Holiday Stroll Luminaria
2017-11-25 12:00 | Downtown Nashua, 147 Main St., Nashua, NH, United States
Nashua’s 24th Annual Winter Holiday Stroll
The event takes place each year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving; and although it started small, it has steadily grown through the years.
The Stroll is recognized as the largest community event of the year in Southern New Hampshire. Each year, over 30,000 people from across New England visit downtown Nashua to enjoy this free and family-friendly holiday event. The evening kicks off at 5 p.m. with a candlelit procession up Main Street from City Hall to Railroad Square where the City’s official Christmas tree is lit. Much of the downtown is closed to traffic for the evening, so even after the tree lighting Strollers can enjoy the live entertainment, sample offerings from street vendors, dine in downtown’s fine restaurants and Shop Small at our unique specialty shops and boutiques.
Holiday Stroll Luminaria – Share A Light of Hope for the World from Our Welcoming City during the Holiday Stroll this Year
This year at the Holiday Stroll, One Greater Nashua offers you the opportunity to shine a light of hope for the world by purchasing a “luminaria” in honor or memory of your loved ones who immigrated to Nashua, or another place in the US, and contributed to our prosperity. Decorating the streets with luminaria is a Spanish-inspired holiday tradition, popular in many parts of the world.
You can purchase a luminaria – a battery-operated tribute candle placed in a white bag – for a $3.00 donation online, or at the Stroll at 147 Main Street. Your candle, with the name of the person you are honoring, will be placed along the RiverWalk, and it will be visible during the Holiday Stroll from the bridge on Main Street. Supplies will be available at the event for those who wish to decorate their own luminaria.
Proceeds from the tributes will be used to defray legal costs for our neighbors who are newly resettled in Nashua, such as refugees and immigrants currently seeking permanent resident status and citizenship.
As members of the community, we recognize that we are blessed. From our beginnings, we have thrived because of our value of diversity, ingenuity, and collaboration. These shared values have forged among us a strong community bond as greater Nashuans. In the Gate City, our prosperity has flourished through our openness and willingness to welcome newcomers who bring new ideas, innovations, and traditions, which we embrace with mutual respect.

Gorham - Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music
2017-11-29 14:00 | Gorham Public Library, 35 Railroad Street, Gorham, NH, 03581, 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 army during the Civil War); and sometimes exploring the universal feeling of homesickness of a stranger in a strange land (a factory worker in London missing his home in County Clare). The presenter discusses the historical context of these songs, interspersing their stories with tunes from Ireland that made their way into New England’s musical repertoire, played on his fiddle or guitar.

RootSkills Conference
2017-11-30 03:00 - 2017-12-02 12:00 | Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
Register for the RootSkills Conference!
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund invites all grassroots organizers, sustainable businesses, nonprofit leaders, and passionate community members to the annual RootSkills Conference in Manchester, NH from November 30 – December 2. RootSkills aims to connect community organizers and nonprofits working to address social justice challenges and improve community health, community resilience, and the environment in northern New England. Now more than ever, it is critical that organizers work together to build a shared vision for a more just and sustainable region.
Registration:
$160 General Admission
$80 One-Day Ticket
$40 Student Ticket
Limited scholarships available on a rolling basis.
ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE TO THOSE LIVING IN COOS COUNTY NH

Manchester - Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the SNHU Center for New Americans at YWCA NH
2017-12-01 07:00 - 09:00 | YWCA NH, 72 Concord St, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
The SNHU Center for New Americans @ YWCA NH Ceremonial Ribbon Cutting
Light refreshments and a tour of the new center. Please register in advance.

Manchester Citizenship Center
2017-12-02 05:00 - 09:00 | International Institute of New England – Manchester, 470 Pine St, Manchester, NH, 03104, United States
The Manchester Citizenship Center is a FREE program where immigrants ready to begin the citizenship process can get legal help from Catholic Charities NH’s qualified legal advocates and attorneys. The free clinics are also offered to those who want more information on naturalization.
The first session will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017, at the International Institute of New England, 1850 Elm St., Manchester, NH.
You must register in advance by calling CCNH at 603-624-4717 ext. 0277
Participants will be offered English reading and writing screenings at the start of their appointment.

Manchester - Welcoming Winter with Joy: Come be uplifted as part of our Interfaith Family
2017-12-04 13:45 | Temple Israel, 66 Salmon St, Manchester, NH, 03104, United States
Interfaith Women of NH presents:
Welcoming Winter with Joy
Come be uplifted as part of our Interfaith Family
Monday, December 4, 2017 at 6:45 p.m.
Check-In begins at 6:15
Temple Israel, 66 Salmon Street, Manchester 03104 **
Click here for directions.
Presentations

Karishma Manchanda – an Asian Indian dancer

Noam Wolf – an Israeli shlicha (emissary) /singer

Rimi Dwiadari – a Muslim Qur’an reader

Aksara – an a cappella ensemble

Holiday Sing-a-long – starring “you”

Join us for refreshments and conversation after the program!

Please register via email interfaithwomennh@gmail.com or
call 603-315-9386 before December 4th
** Temple Israel is handicapped accessible via a stair chairlift **

OUR MISSION:
To share religious beliefs, cultures, and traditions among women of diverse faiths in order to develop understanding and friendship between us and within our community.

Concord - New Futures Advocacy Training
2017-12-06 03:00 - 09:00 | New Futures, 10 Ferry Street, Suite 307A, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
New Futures trains advocates free of charge so that they can effectively reach out to their elected officials to share the impact that health and wellness issues have on NH families, communities, and our state’s economy. The expectation is that trained advocates will take action on New Futures priorities that matter to them in the upcoming legislative session.
This full-day (8AM to 2PM) training will be held on Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 at the New Futures office in Concord. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Additionally, a tour of the New Hampshire State House is included in this opportunity.
If you are interested in participating, please fill out the following form: http://new-futures.org/17DecemberAdvocacy
