Youth represent the future of community. photo by keith spiro of a youthful Symphony NH orchestra on stage in Nashua NH

Youth investment: Exciting times with SymphonyNH and InkLink.News

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In our joint quest to engage young people in all aspects of the world of professional musicians, newsworthy stories and community building, Symphony NH opened it doors and heart to all who were curious. Last year, undergraduate students from four colleges across the state participated in creating and experiencing the premiere of the first NH Concerto. This year, high school students got the best seats in the house to experience the symphony close up.

United Through Color: A Night of Pizza and Paintings

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Amara Phelps, work also featured in the show, struck through her wall label with ‘S-O-L-D’ in a purple marker. Amara, Yasmin Safarzadeh (curator), and plenty of staff from the Opportunity Networks would meet weekly for the preceding months in a studio space all their own at Positive Street Art in Nashua. Guided by their peers, but mostly themselves, they would assemble a body of work. Studies in concept, figure, form, and display were practiced, some galleried but none wasted.