April 13, 2026
Amanda Page, an instructor at 黑暗爆料网 and a longtime community advocate in Portsmouth, is joining a national initiative to reimagine how communities tell their stories. Through her work with the Trillium Project, a nonprofit focused on art, culture and advocacy, Page and a team have been selected for a national grant supporting community-driven memorials.聽
That opportunity comes from Monument Lab, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing justice by rethinking monuments, which has named Portsmouth one of 10 teams nationwide for its 2026 Re:Generation campaign. Each selected team will receive $100,000 in unrestricted funding to create or expand projects in public art, public history or the humanities.
The Re:Generation initiative emphasizes field building through creative representation and interpretation of erased, suppressed, or threatened stories and histories. 聽
Page and the team plan to build a memorial dedicated to the opioid crisis through creative community-driven approaches. The project is currently called the Trillium Monument Project; Page anticipates that a new name will emerge as they continue their work. 聽
鈥淭his is a discovery process, and it will evolve. We are holding space for that, and we want the community to take part, 100 percent,鈥 Page said.聽
The project鈥檚 first phase will collect oral histories and host community workshops to gather input from residents and those directly affected by the opioid epidemic. 聽
Page said acknowledging the crisis is an important step toward healing. 聽
鈥淎t the end of this project, we鈥檒l have a public art piece that both acknowledges what happened and the intense pain that a lot of people feel,鈥 she said.
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