NH Guns to Gardens Forging Demonstration and Celebration
Join our live, hands-on forge demonstration & celebration, complete with silent auction and community art as we turn guns into garden tools!
Date and time
Location
Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NH
79 Clinton Street Concord, NH 03301Refund Policy
About this event
Welcome to the NH Guns to Gardens Forging Demonstration and Celebration! Join us for a day of reflection and inspiration, as we transform unwanted firearms collected at Guns to Gardens events into garden tools. Our live hands-on forging demonstration event includes a celebration; silent auction and raffle of Guns to Gardens tools, wooden bowls, and jewelry; creative community art collage with dismantled gun bits; and fellowship with fellow gun violence prevention advocates and supporters as we raise awareness and funds for our Guns to Gardens program.
About Guns to Gardens: Guns to Gardens is hosted by GunSense NH, a project of Granite State Progress and Engage New Hampshire, the NH Council of Churches, Kent Street Coalition, and other members of the NH Gun Violence Prevention Coalition, with support provided by the Greater Concord Interfaith Council and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Gilly Fund. Guns to Gardens provides an opportunity for Granite Staters to voluntarily surrender firearms that they no longer want and do not wish to sell or put back into circulation. Under state law, New Hampshire law enforcement must either store firearms voluntarily surrendered to them, use them, or sell them back out on the market. Guns to Gardens helps take unwanted firearms off the market by repurposing them into something more useful, and less harmful, to our community.
The first Guns to Gardens began as a project of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence and has grown into a nationwide effort to reduce the number of unwanted guns (and thereby gun deaths) in our country. Supporting organizations include RAWtools, The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, and the Gun Safety Alliance.
Frequently asked questions
Remarks and forging demonstration begin in first 30 minutes; hands-on live forging, silent auction, raffle, and community art project are ongoing during entire 2-hour event. We recommend arriving for start of program, but drop-in's also welcome.
Our event includes heavy appetizers and non-alcoholic drinks.
Yes! This is a family friendly event, children are welcome. All guns are dismantled prior to event and ready to forge.
There is ample parking available at the location, including ADA parking spots in a paved parking lot.
Note: this is a gun-free event, please bring no other firearms on the premises during this event. Please bring any unwanted firearms to the upcoming Guns to Gardens event on Saturday, June 8th between 10 am and 1 pm at the same location. Thank you for understanding!
Excellent! For a sponsorship packet, please contact Guns to Gardens Coordinator Nancy Brown, nancybrown@granitestateprogress.org and Admin Staff Doreen Desmarais, doreen@granitestateprogress.org.