Want to knit OR crochet a bit? Join other tweens and teens ages 9-19 after school on Mondays from 2:30-4:30pm. Wait, you don’t get out of school until 3? No worries, we like tweens and teens arriving at staggered times and staying for some or all of the time allotted. We’ll have two adults...
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Welcome to the 2017 Summer Reading Program! This year’s theme for youth is Build a Better World! Please come in and register for the Summer Reading Program as a whole STARTING JUNE 1st, then register for each individual event that you would like to attend. HOVER AND HIT THE LINKS IN RED. June...
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Start with an idea, form a plan, and learn some cartooning techniques to help you draft and edit your own cartoon characters on the page. Make your cartoon silly, humorous, or insightful. Tell a story or make a joke. Leave with your own comic strip to show off to your friends! Register kids entering...
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Please make sure if you invite a friend, the friend must also register and be in grade 5-12. It’s very important we know how many are coming! Plan to wear comfy clothes as we’ll be doing some active events, and bring a simple snack to share for at least 12 others that don’t need...
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Join us for some puppet theater! Known for their playful performance style, exuberant creativity, and ability to make their audiences laugh, CactusHead Puppets will be performing a comedic, updated adaption of the traditional folktale ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. The Town of Hamelin has a rat problem, and there’s only one person who can...
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Join NH teaching artist Marek Bennett’s COMICS WORKSHOP to learn how cartoonists build entire worlds and universes out of the simplest possible materials! Using only blank pages, pencils, ink, and four basic ‘building blocks” of stories, we’ll craft dynamic characters and rich settings, and bring them to life in comics panels, strips, and pages. We’ll also...
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Professional juggler and touring performer Steve Corning will provide a fun, high-energy juggling demo, followed by hands-on instruction and lessons for all skill types. Juggling is not only a great skill to break out a party, it also can become an exhilarating hobby, and it’s a healthy exercise for both the body and mind!...
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Welcome to New England! Steve has decided the show will be inside. Steve Corning has brought his unique brand of variety arts and off-beat comedy to theaters and resorts across the country and even internationally. Steve’s one-man variety extravaganza features fast-paced juggling routines, mind-blowing escape artistry, contortion, comedy magic, and nearly endless amazing side...
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Registered summer reading participants and their guests are invited to join us for ice cream sundaes. We will have a myriad of toppings for you to choose from so you can ‘build a better sundae’. Come at 6:30pm and after you build your sundae you can stay and build some other structures for sport....
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Move, lift, tone, strengthen, sweat! You won’t even realize your working out with this strength training workout. We’ll use light weights, lots of repetitions, and movement set to music you will recognize. Bring your friends along if you like for a workout that will get your muscles ready for all those summer sports and...
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