all my friends are in This show

all my friends are in This show

Kimball Jenkins
Carolyn Jenkins & Jill C. Wilson Galleries
April 20 – June 30, 2023

Reception, Saturday, April 22nd, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
No Bears, film screening & panel discussion May 8, 6-9pm, Red River Theatres

all my friends are in This show is an inclusive, interactive, engaging and bold curation of innovative artists who actively shape their communities as educators, organizers, activists, and facilitators. It is an integral show to challenge the norms of art curation in New Hampshire to be inclusive of people whose artmaking and facilitation through artmaking are equally important. Through the featuring of such considered, diverse and well informed work we can hope to share with our unique populations a breadth of work which not only inspires the audience to think of artistic expression as more than two dimensional representation of forms, but as a means to engage with their surroundings and express their multifarious insights in a more dynamic fashion.

Event Parking

Streets highlighted in pink are free street parking. Please be mindful of all parking signs and instructions. We have limited parking in our rear parking lots and anticipate a lot of activity on Campus during the Opening. The dotted purple line indicates a crosswalk that can be used to reach the historical area of N. Main Street and our Campus.

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No Bears

Film Screening & Panel Discussion
ADmission, free & By Donation
May 8, 6-9 PM
Red River Theatres

‘No Bears,’ Film Screening and Panel Discussion

The film screening and discussion of Mr. Panahi’s comparable film, No Bears, will be led by Yasamin Safarzadeh and Nahal Nazer, Somayeh Kashi and Dr. Fatemeh Rahmanifard regarding why Iran is in the middle of ongoing protests targeted at women.

Understanding the history of Iran/Persia is tens of thousands of years old. Understanding that there are different experiences of 'Iranian' which range from generation to region to gender identity and sexual orientation. The full panel will consist of five people, predominantly female identifying Iranian and Iranian-American. The panel will ask for and explore space and nuance in perceiving Iranian people.

No Bears film was illegally shot in Iran and is a satire on the missteps of a protagonist who is an exaggerated version of the writer/director himself as he directs the movie being shot in Turkey through video calls over the border in Iran; exemplifying the traumas of invisible borders. Panahi was jailed in Iran when he protested the incarceration of fellow filmmakers and subsequently released when he endangered his own life to go on a hunger strike while he was imprisoned.

No Bears won the Special Jury Prize in 2022’s Venice Film Festival, the award for Cinematic Bravery at the Chicago Film Festival, a Silver Mirror Award from the Oslo Films from the South Festival, and the SNCCI Award from the Trieste Film Festival.