Hammar’s Studios also specializes in events and birthday parties. Whether it’s a canvas painting, ceramics, or cooking party, Hammar’s truly puts the ART in PARTY! Our team of skilled artisans leads each event with step-by-step instruction and hands-on guidance. In addition to youth events, we host adult private events that are perfect for team bonding, family outings, and fun social gatherings. We also offer art and cooking camps that provide engaging, youth-focused creative experiences.
Pre-School
In Studio Services
Our in-studio services include weekly classes and programs in painting, drawing, cooking, and baking. No matter your child’s interests, Hammar’s Studios is ready to welcome aspiring artists into programs that foster creativity and help build lifelong skills. We also offer “make-and-take” experiences at our Salem, NH studio, including paint-your-own pottery and canvas painting.
Sensory & Immunocompromised Friendly Hours
The SEE Science Center is piloting a free program to welcome visitors who face barriers to visiting our museum during normal operating hours because of sensory or immune issues. While there is no admission charge for these hours, we require all attendees to sign up ahead of time through the SEE website so that we can control crowd sizes. Registration will open one month prior to each event.
View the schedule and details and sign up on the SEE website: https://see-sciencecenter.org/friendly-hours-pilot-program/
Other Programs and Opportunities
In addition, the Discovery Center offers monthly educational programs such as Super Stellar Friday, Universe Unplugged, Scout visits and even our annual Alex Higgins Memorial Space Camp Scholarship that provides funding for a young New Hampshire student to experience the U.S. Space Camp & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Outreach Programs
For schools and other organizations that can’t come to the Discovery Center, we can go to them with our outreach programs. We offer several programs that vary from highly hands-on workshops to exciting and engaging demonstrations, including: Mini Paper Rockets, a Traveling Planetarium, Telescopes to Go, and ISS: Living and Working in Space, a workshop featuring several activities that demonstrate what it’s like to be an astronaut. These programs are popular with libraries, community centers, and schools that would require a lot of travel time to visit.
Field Trips
The Discovery Center welcomes thousands of students for onsite field trips every year. Field trips offer schools the opportunity to explore the exhibit galleries and watch a planetarium show for a more accessible cost than regular general admission.
The 2025-26 school year price is $9 per person, with one chaperone for every 10 students receiving free admission. Next Generation Science Standards include Earth and space science topics in each K-12 grade level, making the Discovery Center the perfect place to expand and enhance classroom lessons. Thanks to a recent foundation grant, we can offer free on-site or outreach education programming to schools in New Hampshire with 40% or more of students qualifying to receive free or reduced lunch.
Granite Edvance Insider Guides
Written guides for education, career, and financial aid planning. Available on our website or printed.
Granite Edvance Appointments
We offer one-on-one appointments for students and families to receive guidance on their individual education and career pathway
Granite Edvance Presentations
Live and recorded, in-person and virtual presentations on college access, career exploration, and financial aid
Food Resource Guide 2024-2025
Please scroll to the bottom of this page to access the PDF document.
This document is created by the City of Manchester Health Department: The purpose of this Food Resource Guide is to provide residents, community organizations, and City Departments with contact information for agencies that are providing food assistance and related resources for individuals and families in need. This Food Resource Guide is not intended to be an exhaustive list of services but rather a quick reference to complement other resource information available from other local, city or state sources.
This is a working document. The goal is to update the Food Resource Guide annually with new, updated or previously unlisted services. The Guide will be posted on the Manchester Health Department’s website at www.manchesternh.gov/health.
To add resources or for more information, please contact: City of Manchester Health Department 1528 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire 03101 Phone: 603.624.6466
Mini Maestros
An early childhood opportunity that uses music to support healthy development. Offered in three sections for age appropriate development and skills.
Tiny Maestros 6 mo -15 mo; Little Maestros 15 mo – 30 mo.Mighty Maestros 2.5 yrs – 5 yrs.
603 Legal Aid
603 Legal Aid is a civil legal aid provider offering legal representation, advocacy, and education. In partnership with volunteer attorneys and community organizations, 603 Legal Aid works to make justice a reality for and with people who experience economic hardship that threatens their basic human needs. 603 Legal Aid helps low-income people by providing free civil legal advice and information by telephone, by representing someone in court, or through a referral to a volunteer attorney or another program for legal help.
Adverse Childhood Experiences Response Team (ACERT)
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Response Team (ACERT) is a collaborative initiative to address the impacts of adverse childhood experiences. Through a comprehensive referral mechanism, ACERT connects families and their children with
trauma-informed mental health services and social supports in Manchester. This initiative is a partnership between Amoskeag Health, the Manchester Police Department, and YWCA-NH, working in unison to provide assistance to families and children who have recently encountered police involvement.
Mission Statement: ACERT is dedicated to mitigating the adverse effects of childhood trauma by facilitating access to specialized services and community-based support for affected families and their children.
If you are an agency working with families or children, and the families we work with benefit from your services, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Center
Welcome to the barn – a unique, warm, and peaceful place for those seeking to improve overall physical and mental health. Life is better with horses!
UpReach is where teamwork and community come together to improve lives with the power of the horse. Our equine-assisted services, therapies and curriculum-based programs improve the quality of life for children, families, and adults in the Greater Manchester Communities. Here on 96 beautiful acres in Goffstown, we have open fields, wooded trails, as well as 2 indoor
arenas for year-round programming in a natural setting.
The UpReach mission is to inspire hope, assist in healing, build strength, develop confidence and forge resilience by connecting people with horses. We look forward to seeing you at the barn!
Amoskeag Health Primary Care
Amoskeag Health is Manchester’s community health center since 1993, caring for over 17,000 people. We provide high-quality comprehensive primary and mental healthcare. We invest in the well-being of our community through connections to social services, education for positive youth development, preventative screenings, medical care coordination, and chronic care management. We serve all ages with excellence in pre-natal care and delivery, early childhood development, family medicine, and healthy aging supports. We accept most insurance, offer a sliding fee scale to those who qualify, and serve everyone regardless of their ability to pay.
New Hampshire Rapid Response
The New Hampshire Rapid Response Access Point (NHRRAP) is a call, text, and chat crisis service for individuals experiencing a mental health and/or substance use crisis and their loved ones. Depending on your needs, or the needs of your loved ones, NHRRAP will offer crisis intervention and de-escalation, provide you with information about urgent services available in your area, or send a mobile crisis team from a local community mental health center to meet you right where you are. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.