Byline: Yasamin Safarzadeh

Posts by Yasamin Safarzadeh

GMC oversees record-setting grow round, including 6 New Hampshire non-profits

read more…: GMC oversees record-setting grow round, including 6 New Hampshire non-profits

On a sunny day in the heart of Worcester, MA, 15 grassroots leaders from across New England gathered to start their journey together as Grow Grantmaking Committee members (GMC). Their assignment over the next week was not an easy one. Not only were they tasked with making final decisions on funding requests from 144 groups across the region, they were asked to do it in small groups of mostly strangers using a process that centers group consent.

United Through Color: June 12 Exhibition of PSA’s residency with Opportunity Networks

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Come to see our art! Members of Positive Street Art and Opportunity Networks are partnering together
again for their award winning 12-week art intensive United Through Color; the color of different people coming together to learn and experience art, science, professional skills, studying the human form. Come to see paintings and sculptures, performance, art and photography, signature food and dancing. We’ll have allergy friendly foods, with live DJ-ing from some of our own group members D.Original on the decks! Our DJs may even take your classic requests.

Dec. 13: Meet Rowan Jacobsen, author of ‘Wild Chocolate’; buy the book, get it signed

read more…: Dec. 13: Meet Rowan Jacobsen, author of ‘Wild Chocolate’; buy the book, get it signed

In 2022, Rowan Jacobsen released the most concrete and accurate depiction of the intention behind fine chocolate and the industry therein; the Obsessions: Wild Chocolate podcast guides the listener through five rare wild cacaos and the cacao farmers and chocolate makers who are changing sourcing practices in order to preserve exceptional flavors found throughout the world’s most precious and endangered tropical forests.

MY TURN: The quiet ways of healing our communities

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MY TURN’s unique ability to meet people of all ages, races and lived experiences exactly where they are with authentic human connection, love, and kindness is the magic that so many other organizations cannot replicate. Truly lightning in a bottle, their own ranks are composed of individuals whose very presence is a testament to the impact their services and help delivers upon a life.

Echoes and Shifts: Workshops and exhibition focus on resilience and reclamation

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Something unforeseen and unprecedented in the recent past  is growing in New Hampshire. Internationally renowned curator and metalsmith Margaret Jacobs (Akwesasne Mohawk) and notorious rabble-rouser and multimedia artist Yasamin Safarzadeh have joined forces with Positive Street Art to establish a multi-year endeavor with a growing list of community partners to bring us one of the most happening and accessible Contemporary Indigenous exhibitions to grace this side of the Northeast.

April 18: Exhibition with Positive Street Art and Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce

read more…: April 18: Exhibition with Positive Street Art and Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce

Positive Street Art and the Greater Manchester Chamber (GMC) invite you to join them in celebrating the work of two of New Hampshire’s greatest treasures: Richella Simard and Amber Nicole Cannan, at an opening reception on Thursday, April 18, from 5-7 p.m. at the GMC’s Positive Street Art Satellite Gallery at 54 Hanover Street, Manchester. 

Obscure: A Positive Street Art production celebrating homegrown fashion and creativity

read more…: Obscure: A Positive Street Art production celebrating homegrown fashion and creativity

Neon lights soaked into the pores of strikingly tall models like gamma beams from a 1950s pulp novel, carrying looks down the runway to the beat of pounding house music. While this may sound like a vignette from some hidden underbelly of New York Fashion Week, you might be surprised to discover such vogue emerging within the New Hampshire art scene. Last weekend’s Obscure fashion show, hosted by Nashua’s community art-centric nonprofit Positive Street Art, brought a taste of the high-fashion world to our own backyard through its own perspective. 

Let’s Talk About Jane: Celebration of artist Jane Kaufmann through Feb. 8 collaborative exhibit

read more…: Let’s Talk About Jane: Celebration of artist Jane Kaufmann through Feb. 8 collaborative exhibit

On Thursday, February 8, from 5-7 p.m., the Greater Manchester Chamber will present an artistic exhibition of free-thinking works by Jane Kaufmann. A lifelong artist of over 45 years in a variety of mediums, Kaufmann’s work in this exhibition pushes the boundaries of the cultural notions of art, materials, resourcefulness, aging, growth, and experimentation.

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