Community Calendar

Circus camps are for every young person age 3 - 17! NECCA offers top-notch instruction in a noncompetitive environment where communication skills, perseverance, and self-determination are taught as well as how to be a spectacular acrobat, aerialist, juggler, or clown. Weekly June 22 - August 22.

The NH Furniture Masters Prison Outreach Program was founded in 1999 and educates select residents on the art of fine furniture making. We instruct three programs which take place at the NH State Prison for Men, the Maine State Prison and the NH Correctional Facility for Women.

Each program is distinctive, but they all bring Furniture Masters behind prison walls to teach valuable woodworking skills. Participants are spending their time productively, not only learning a valuable skill that can be executed upon their release but also building self-confidence and a sense of self-worth.

Our Prison Outreach Program exhibition is a wonderful opportunity to explore the impact this program has on the lives and livelihoods of those incarcerated. Many pieces in the show are available for purchase, with proceeds benefiting the maker and our organization.

Opening Reception: Join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, June 27 from 5-7pm. Tour the exhibition and learn more about our Prison Outreach Programs. This year’s Opening Reception coincides with Concord’s Annual Market Days Festival.

THROUGH LINE
September 5 – November 23, 2024
Reception: September 19, 5-7pm

Works by Carly Glovinski, Lynne Harlow, Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Rachel Perry, Patricia Rangel, and August Ventimiglia

THROUGH LINE celebrates basic mark-making as a foundation for the remarkable. Each of the six artists on view explores line through the lens of their distinct practices and mediums, ranging from marker to string, chalk, and even dirt! Together, they apply their shared interest in using lines as the basis for their work to boldly illustrate how understated, rudimentary marks can be explored more deeply. Collectively, the artworks on view act as tributes to the mark, celebrating the multitude of ways lines can be made, manipulated, and made monumental. In dialogue with one another, thematic commonalities or through lines between the works emerge and bring the exhibition into focus.

The featured artists shake up flat presentations of line, most breaking the plane entirely to render gesture and form in physical space. While their mediums are vast and divergent, each artist enters the conversation through painstakingly repetitious, modest, and slow gestures. They amass into vibrant works that arrest the viewer just as quickly as they entice them to slow down and look more closely. Through drawing (on and off the wall) digital media, sculpture, and installation, THROUGH LINE reminds us that simple lines are the basis of what can truly shape anything.

Jeffrey Augustine Songco
Society of 23’s Conservatory
January 2 – March 7, 2025

Society of 23’s Conservatory is an immersive, site-specific installation that combines photography, video, and sculpture in a multisensory experience. Jeffrey Augustine Songco captures the look and feel of a conservatory meets greenhouse during the sun-drenched days of summer, as he invites visitors to explore themes such as friendship, perfection, non-native, and exoticism. The greenhouse becomes a backdrop to Songco's camp exploration of a complicated relationship between his identity as an American of Filipino ethnicity and the colonial American behavior of conspicuously collecting “exotic” plants during the US rule over the Philippines from 1898-1946. Through the scope of florals and bouquet arrangements, Songco "plants" visual clues and non-verbal messages throughout the space, inviting viewers to reflect on their own personal and cultural origin stories and consider the constructs we create and dismantle for ourselves.

For the last fifteen years, Songco has continued to make artwork based on the Society of 23 — a fictional brotherhood of 23 mysterious gentlemen all portrayed by the artist himself. His artwork examines the construction of his personal identities and their relationships to the actual society in which he exists.

Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri: 9-5, Sat: 10-4. Reservations required

Holderness, NH – Squam Lakes Natural Science Center celebrates the start of the 2025 public trail season on opening day, Thursday, May 1. Regular hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (last trail admission at 3:30 p.m.)

For nearly 60 years, Squam Lakes Natural Science Center has been a favorite New England family destination, bringing joy, connection, wonder, and discovery to generations of visitors through live animal exhibits, natural science education programs, guided Squam Lake Cruises and the vibrant charm of Kirkwood Gardens. The Science Center is Certified Sensory Inclusive by KultureCity. The 3/4 mile live animal exhibit trail features coyote, fisher, red fox, bobcat, black bear, mountain lion, river otters, white-tailed deer, various owls and raptors, and more. Plan at least two and a half hours to walk the animal exhibit trail, which meanders through open meadows, mature forests, and marsh boardwalks on a packed gravel path.

Trail rates for 2025 are $28 for adults; $26 for seniors (age 65+); $22 for youth (ages 3-15); free for children 2 and under and Science Center members.

Tickets and information are available at www.nhnature.org

Classes & experiences for all ages and all abilities - try our a low trapeze, drop in on the Silver circus for 60+, enroll in summer camp (ages 3 -and up), come for a Birthday Party or just a family shared experience! We've got your indoor fun covered this summer! Book Now!

Holderness, NH – Squam Lakes Natural Science Center celebrates the start of the 2025 public trail season on opening day, Thursday, May 1. Regular hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (last trail admission at 3:30 p.m.)

For nearly 60 years, Squam Lakes Natural Science Center has been a favorite New England family destination, bringing joy, connection, wonder, and discovery to generations of visitors through live animal exhibits, natural science education programs, guided Squam Lake Cruises and the vibrant charm of Kirkwood Gardens. The Science Center is Certified Sensory Inclusive by KultureCity. The 3/4 mile live animal exhibit trail features coyote, fisher, red fox, bobcat, black bear, mountain lion, river otters, white-tailed deer, various owls and raptors, and more. Plan at least two and a half hours to walk the animal exhibit trail, which meanders through open meadows, mature forests, and marsh boardwalks on a packed gravel path.

Trail rates for 2025 are $28 for adults; $26 for seniors (age 65+); $22 for youth (ages 3-15); free for children 2 and under and Science Center members.
Tickets and information are available at www.nhnature.org

Choose from a canoe, kayak, or paddleboard as we travel along the route of the Northern Newfound Water Trail. With a Naturalist, we will visit as many stops as time allows while learning more about the geology and ecology of Newfound Lake. Children are allowed with adult supervision. Event registration is required.

Please review NH Audubon’s Outdoor Education Program Liability Release & Agreement Waiver before registering.

If your family never let you break open your Etch A Sketch® to find out how it operates, or if you’ve been wondering how Hungry Hungry Hippos® manage to gobble those marbles so quickly, you’ll love Toys: The Inside Story. Treat yourself to an inside peek at many vintage and iconic toys that reveals the mechanics of how they work this summer at the Montshire Museum of Science.

Artistree is holding our first-ever,
all-fiber-arts exhibit.
We encounter fibers and fabrics in their functional forms every day. The artwork in this exhibit will go "Beyond" function and will highlight the creative uses of fibers and fabrics.

Fiber artists working in VT and NH will exhibit work that, while based in traditional techniques and craftmanship, goes beyond the everyday to express their unique artistic visions.
image: Ocean Essence by David Stearns

The Expressive Fibers Exhibit runs from June 20 - July 19, 2025.

Opening reception on June 20th from
5:30 - 7:30pm!
Gallery hours:10:00am to 6:00pm
Tuesday to Saturday