Community Programming & Events continued...

The rest of the summer was busy, with Director Ben Bacote guest speaking at the Plymouth Businessmens’ Books Club hosted by Steve Rand and hosting a Fireside Chat about Art and Activism at Scrimshaw Farm in Thornton for visiting WPI students. Ben and Elizabeth attended the SEAChange conference in Eliot, ME and met our future collaborator, Portsmouth Poet Laureate, Diannely Antigua!

We began our first solo fundraising endeavor, a Fall Fund Drive, with the goal of raising $15,000 grant dollars to redistribute to our three nominees. In September, we did free live screen printing at emerging art’s org Queerlective’s End of Summer Art Takeover, and then again at New England BIPOCfestand we will be at both again in 2023!

We announced our 2022 BEF recipients: Akon Nakdimo, Niamiah Perry, and Ronelle Tshiela.

In October we began distributing free Plan B in the Plymouth area for RFFNH (distribution map)

In the summer we held a private “Responding to Racism” art making event for youth served by Project STORY with Yaz from Kimball Jenkins, at Keech Park, followed up in November with a potluck, film screening, and screen printing workshop for the same group of kids at the Concord Community Center.

Ben helped organize and find guests for an after school Trans Social for kids at Manchester West high with teacher Richella Simard. We continue to support her efforts to highlight and uplift her diverse students.