Welcoming New Hampshire

Exeter - Active Bystander Training
2017-11-14 12:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

2017 Black New England Conference
2017-10-20 06:00 - 2017-10-22 13:00 | 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

Internal Event #1
2017-10-19 04:00 - 13:00 | NH
This is an example of an internal event.

Concord - Diwali Celebration
2017-10-18 14:00 - 15:30 | NH
Building Community in New Hampshire (previously known as Bhutanese Community of New Hampshire) and Creating Community invite you to attend a Diwali Celebration!
Join us on the first day of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, at City Plaza in front of the NH State House, to celebrate the “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair.”
There will be a brief welcome, dancing and food – Katmandu Bazaar will be selling momos and serving Nepali tea.
All are welcome to join our Hindu community in this celebration. Let’s rejoice together!!!
For more information, please visit the Facebook event by clicking here.
ABOUT DIWALI:
Diwali – or Deepavali – a Hindu festival of lights, is celebrated every year in autumn in the northern hemisphere (spring in southern hemisphere). One of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, its spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair. The festival preparation and rituals typically extend over a five-day period, but the main festival night of Deepavali coincides with the darkest, new moon night of the Hindu Lunar calendar. On Deepavali night, fireworks light up the neighborhood skies. Later, family members and friends are invited to celebrate the night over food and sweets.

Manchester - Global Tipping Points: Hot, Hungry Planet
2017-10-17 14:00 - 15:30 | 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
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 at 6PM
LISA PALMER
Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people on the front lines of fighting the food gap. She will share the story of the epic journey to solve the imperfect relationship between two of our planet’s greatest challenges: climate change and global hunger, as chronicled in her new book, Hut, Hungry Planet. NH link: Did you know our state’s farms have been increasing (including a big rise in young farmers) and 30% of agricultural sales to the public come from local farms? But, a longer growing season due to climate change could mean higher heat stress and new pressure from invasive weeds and pests.
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
Series presented in partnership with UNH and UNH-Manchester’s homeland security, history, humanities and politics and society programs

Portsmouth - Speaker Series: Hungary Today
2017-10-16 15:00 | Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave, Portsmouth, 03801, United States
GABOR GARAI
Consul General of Hungary to Boston
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 7 PM
Levenson Room, Portsmouth Public Library
Free and open to the public; Advance registration requested online or call 603.314.7970; Books for sale following program
This program is co-sponsored by the Portsmouth Public Library.
ABOUT GABOR GARAI:
Mr. Garai is the Hungarian Consul General for New England and founder of the Hungarian-American Chamber of Commerce of New England. He received the Hungarian Civilian Cross, the highest recognition to non-residents awarded by the Hungarian president. During his work as Honorary Consul, Mr. Garai was awarded the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2005 and an award pro auxilio cirium Hungarum in 2007 to recognize his efforts for the protection of Hungarian citizens. In 2013, he was selected as honorary commercial attaché for Hungary. In 2014, Mr. Garai was awarded the AmCham Hungary’s Dr. Iván Völgyes Award, which recognizes individuals for encouraging and facilitating Hungarian-American business partnerships and cultural and academic alliances.

Manchester - Ask a Muslim Anything
2017-10-12 14:30 - 16:30 | Manchester City Library, 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH, 03104, United States
The Manchester City Library on 405 Pine Street, Manchester, NH is offering an opportunity for conversation about identity, conflict and interfaith relations by hosting Mr. Robert Azzi in a presentation called “Ask a Muslim Anything.” This event will take place in the Library’s Auditorium on Thursday, October 12th, 2017 at 6:30 p.m.

Culture Shock! ArtFront NH
2017-10-12 14:00 - 2017-10-14 17:00 | Jupiter Hall, 89 Hanover St., Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
Join us for “Culture Shock!” at Jupiter Hall and explore the dissonance, diversity and cultural integration of Manchester’s lively and cosmopolitan community. Manchester’s Claudia Rippee will be showing her collection of poignant graffiti photographs. These crisp and riveting images will be juxtaposed against Patrick McCay’s vivid, textural paintings. Added to the mix will be the haunting faces created by photographer Tim Donovan. These remarkable images are borrowed from his Phantasmagoric portfolio. Rounding out the show will be sculptural elements created by installation artist Erin Sweeney. Erin’s work will be drawn from her mixed media installation “How To Build A Community” along with her storyteller sculptures. When combined, this work will challenge and inform preconceptions about the social, cultural and ethnic diversity within The Queen City.
Complimenting the art on the walls will be a steady but unexpected flow of dance and music. On the 12th and 13th, Wisty Andres, a classically trained contemporary dancer and Theo Marty, a dancer/drummer trained in several West African traditions will improvise together. The results will unwind in an entirely original, ephemeral and personal dance. Deo Mwano and Movement From Above will bring their inimitable blend of hip hop and jazz fusion to the event on the 14th Boston based Lorraine Chapman will return again with another rendition The Suit Lady character who will be a running persona in all Art Front events. She’s a surprise guest who reveals her own experience of the art and evening.

Manchester - Conversation Cafe
2017-10-04 14:00 - 16:00 | First Congregational Church, 508 Union St., Manchester, NH, 03104, United States
Everyone is welcome! Please join us in sharing language and culture through conversation. Conversation Cafes bring together our newest community members with people who have been in Manchester awhile. This is an opportunity to meet your neighbors, learn more about Manchester, and engage in friendly conversation. Perfect for anyone hoping to practice English language or meet new faces in a friendly and relaxed setting. Light refreshments provided!

Nashua. Health and Wellness Fair
2017-09-23 07:30 - 09:30 | NH
Please join us for activities, information about health and wellness, and learn how to sign up for benefits under the Affordable Care Act. Translators will be available.

NHUnites Gathering for Connection and Change. Track B Session. 11:30 - 1. Weaving Cultures, Building Communities: Creating a Welcoming Community with New Americans. Location: 18 North Main Street, Second Floor. Box lunch available for purchase.
2017-09-23 06:00 - 11:00 | NH

Turkish Coffee Hour
2017-09-22 14:30 | Turkish Cultural Center of NH, 540 Chestnut St., Manchester, NH, United States
Join the Turkish Cultural Center of NH for a special welcoming-themed Coffee Hour. Enjoy Turkish coffee, tea, and refreshments with new friends and neighbors and learn more about the country of Turkey. The event will include stories and reflections from New Hampshire’s Turkish community members.
Event starts at 6:30pm
Turkish Cultural Center
540 Chestnut St, 2nd Floor
Manchester, NH

Concord. New American Africans Family Fun Night. Experience globally inspired music, movement, and cuisine at this multi-cultural event for the whole family. African Drumming by Mamaduo. Free ice cream from Ben & Jerry's. World Vision Music. Free traditional Somali meat pies. Suggested Donation $10/person or $20/family
2017-09-22 14:00 - 16:00 | NH

Suitcase Stories - Live in Manchester
2017-09-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover Street, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
Suitcase Stories Live is a traveling performance series that features foreign and U.S.- born residents sharing refugee and immigrant stories. Storytelling professionals, local residents, and Institute staff and clients weave unique stories throughout the night of courage, love, and survival.
All funds from Suitcase Stories Live benefit the International Institute of New England. Help us continue to welcome and assist families with our refugee resettlement, English language instruction, employment, and citizenship services.
VIP ticketholders will pay $125.00 to include the show and a post-show reception.

Ask A Muslim Anything
2017-09-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Jupiter Hall, 89 Hanover St., Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
Bring your questions and don’t be shy! Writer, public speaker, and practicing Muslim Robert Azzi will host a lively discussion where he will answer any questions the audience has for him. Azzi welcomes questions on Islam, on being Muslim, on issues related to terrorism and on the geopolitics of the Middle East as he has experienced and understands them.
About Robert Azzi:
Robert Azzi is a photojournalist, columnist and public speaker who lives in Exeter, NH. An Arab American Muslim, he writes on issues of Identity, Conflict, and Islam, particularly as they apply in the Middle East and the Global South. Born in New Hampshire, he’s lived in Beirut, Cairo, Athens, Jeddah and New York. Although he returned to the Granite State in the late 1980s, he continues to travel to work with Middle East clients and friends on a regular basis.
Azzi has been a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard Divinity School, an adviser to Tufts University’s Fletcher School committee on Islam and South-West Asia and recently became a board member of ACLU-NH. As a photojournalist his work appeared frequently in such publications as Life, Time, Newsweek and National Geographic, Fortune and other domestic and international publications.

Volunteer Day at Fresh Start Farms
2017-09-20 06:00 - 09:00 | Fresh Start Farms, 5 Story Hill Rd., Dunbarton, NH, United States
Celebrate Welcoming Week 2017 by volunteering and helping the immigrant and refugee farmers of Fresh Start Farms with harvesting, weeding, and other needs during the September volunteer day. Volunteer time is from 10am – 1pm. Come for a portion or stay for the whole thing. Put on your farm clothes, bring a water bottle, and get ready to work and have fun!
Fresh Start Farms is a local food aggregate consisting of immigrant and refugee farmers from the greater Manchester area. The farmers produce CSA shares and sell at local farm stands throughout Manchester.
Directions: From Route 13, turn onto Story Hill Road. Take the first right on Story Hill Road and park in the right hand parking area.
Fresh Start Farms
5 Story Hill Road
Dunbarton, NH
