After school adventures — 8/15/2024

Cover of Hippo showing young boy scaling indoor climbing wall

Yay, it’s back to school season! Looking for afterschool activities to get your kid excited about fall? Find music lessons, soccer teams, gymnastics and dance studios and so much more in our annual extracurriculars guide.

Also on the cover The Nashua Area Artists’ Association holds its annual Greeley Park Art Show this weekend (page 21). The Tom Dixon Band (briefly) returns (page 36). And forget about cooking this weekend: head to the We Are One Festival on Saturday, Aug. 17, for African-Caribbean and Latino-American food (page 31) and check out Mahrajan Middle Eastern Food Festival at Our Lady of the Cedars for Lebanese cuisine (page 30).

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