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Welcome, Anthony Poore, our new executive director! Read more about Anthony HERE.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Friday, April 20, 2018
Friday, April 20, 2018
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Anders Carlson-Wee was a professional rollerblader before he studied wilderness survival and started hopping freight trains to see the country. He has bicycled across the United States twice, hitchhiked to the Yukon and back, and walked on foot across Croatia and Bosnia through the farm villages of the Dinaric Alps.
The directors and staff of New Hampshire Humanities are thrilled to welcome our new executive director, Anthony Poore, who took the helm at New Hampshire Humanities on March 1. "We’re excited by the skills, network, and passion Anthony will bring to New Hampshire Humanities," the search task force noted in enthusiastically recommending Anthony for executive director.
During National Poetry Month, 21st U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will visit the state to celebrate the vital role of poets in our world. A public event including a poetry reading, conversation, and book signing at the Currier Museum of Art on April 11 kicks off "A Year of New Voices" for our Connections adult literacy program. Mr.
"I’m a good person. Isn’t that enough?" ...one of the many philosophical questions raised in Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debbie Irving. Community members in Madbury, Lee, and Durham chose the book as the inspiration for this year’s Oyster River Community Read project, funded in part by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant.
New Hampshire Theatre Project’s provocative series, Elephant in the Room, has tackled topics that we as a society often have difficulty discussing–topics like human trafficking, mental illness, and the opioid crisis. Each program has included a playreading and a facilitated discussion among audience members, artists, and a panel of experts.
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