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Community Programming & Events continued...
October, November, and December were a whirlwind of fundraising, with the Krakoa fund coming through with an offer of $10,000 for two years in a row to help us establish ourselves!! We accepted and got ⅔ of the way to our grant dollars goal!
Elizabeth created a design and we had benefit tees printed to sell as a fundraiser.
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In December, we did our final live printing for the year at the Wrong Brain Holidaze Bizarre, a tradition we love and hope to continue for years to come! We met our grant dollars goal and were able to distribute three $5000 unrestricted community grants to our recipients in late December!
After taking a much needed rest in January of 2023, in February, Black History Month, we organized a panel of our BEF grant awardees with panel chair Dinannely Antigua; it was the closing panel for the first annual Black Excellence Conference hosted by BLM Seacoast at UNH.
We also put on our first poetry event, “Love & Resistance: An Evening of Poetry & Conversation,” at Plymouth State University, with Portsmouth Poet Laureate, Diannely Antigua, in February. She recorded the event and it is now featured as an episode on her Bread & Poetry podcast. Look for more diverse poetry programming with her in the future, as we just received funding to continue our collaboration!
