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Green Acre Opening Event

Green Acre: A Bahá’í Center of Learning 61 Green Acre Drive, Eliot, Maine

Immerse yourself in the spirit of insight—into the past, the present and the future—at the opening of the AFROFUTURISM 2022 art exhibit at Green Acre. In collaboration with the Seacoast African American Cultural Center, Green Acre brings you an exhibit that promotes a vision: a vision of the future in which people of African descent...

Moving Your Way

Green Acre: A Bahá’í Center of Learning 61 Green Acre Drive, Eliot, Maine

Moving Your Way is a movement experience that invites all participants to explore their rhythmic sensibility and tap into their authentic soul. After a 30 minute meditation participants will be guided though techniques of African dance and improvisational movement by Nailah Randall-Bellinger, artistic director of RootsUprising, and Jeryl Palaña Pilapil-Brown. Nailah Randall-Bellinger (she/her) is a...

RootsUprising

Green Acre: A Bahá’í Center of Learning 61 Green Acre Drive, Eliot, Maine

RootsUprising returns to Green Acre as they present We Are... an evening performance of new works, created by artistic director, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, will be performed including, Entangled Gaze, Zipporah, Rooted We Are, along with excerpt from Initiation- In Love Solidarity. RootsUprising is an intergenerational motion art collective composed of dancers and wordsmiths. The company reflects upon...

Black Authors

Seacoast African American Cultural Center (SAACC) 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Save the Date! Join the Seacoast African American Cultural Center for a discussion of Black authors. Details and registration coming soon!

Electric Voices | Octavia Butler

Green Acre: A Bahá’í Center of Learning 61 Green Acre Drive, Eliot, Maine

This is a night of spoken word, live music, and great discussion. On May 22nd we’ll blend these art forms to honor the words of Afro-Futuristic, feminist author, Octavia Butler. You don’t want to miss this! At this time masks are still required inside the building.

Black Comic Books & Superheroes

Seacoast African American Cultural Center (SAACC) 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Save the Date! Join the Seacoast African American Cultural Center for a review of Afrofuturism and Black Superheroes in the comic book genre. Details and registration coming soon!

Juneteenth Walk

Celebrate Juneteenth side-by-side with others of goodwill by walking from Kittery, Maine to the African Burying Ground in Portsmouth, New Hampshire! Meet at the John Paul Jones Memorial Park on the Kittery side of the Route 1 Memorial Bridge. Walkers will depart at 11:00 am and walk the 0.8 miles to the Burying Ground, located...

SeaChange Conference | Reshaping Tomorrow through Creativity & Community

Green Acre: A Bahá’í Center of Learning 61 Green Acre Drive, Eliot, Maine

“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.”– Ruha Benjamin Our community, country, and the world need artists’ contributions to heal and build something new. What would it look like to get working artists, arts administrators, activists, and the creative community to explore...

An Evening with Poet Laureate Diannely Antigua

Green Acre and Theater for the People present an evening of award-winning poetry with Portsmouth Poet Laureate Diannely Antigua. Her debut collection Ugly Music was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award. She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she won the Jack Kerouac...

A Night of Live Art, Music, Dancing & S’mores!

Join Green Acre and Theater for the People for a night of music, dancing and community art—complete with a bonfire and s’mores! Part of the SeaCHANGE Conference, which explores how the arts can be used for healing and social change, this is an evening to unwind and have a great time! We’ll start with a...

SeaCHANGE CONFERENCE 2024

Welcome to year 3 of SeaCHANGE! People are still talking about the experiences at the previous conferences, using words like “magic” and “transformational”.This is a conference like no other. We gather creators of different identities, races, and ages and explore how the arts can contribute to healing and social change through a series of daily...

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