Author: The Hippo Press

Queen City to Music City

Southwest Airlines will offer nonstop flights from Manchester Boston Regional Airport to Nashville International Airport five days a week (Thursday through Monday) starting Oct. 1, according to an airport press release. A nonstop flight between MHT and BNA, Nashville’s airport, takes two hours and 40 minutes, according to southwest.com.

Play for the cause

The Majestic Theatre, 880 Page St. in Manchester, will hold a bingo night on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 6:30 p.m. to benefit the theater. The evening will feature a raffle, door prizes, refreshments and more, according to majestictheatre.net, where you can register in advance.

Manchester movie

The Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford St. in Manchester, will show “The Lost Films of Amoskeag” on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 11 a.m. The program includes a black and white film made in the late 1960s during redevelopment of the millyard and a 1978 half-hour program called The Amokseag Transcripts produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, according to manchesterhistoric.org. The event is included with regular admission to the museum; rsvp by calling 622-7531 or emailing history@manchesterhistoric.org, the website said.

Museum days

Some area museums will be open extra days for New Hampshire’s vacation week (Feb. 23-27 for many schools). The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire, 27 Navigator Road in Londonderry, aviationmuseumofnh.org, will be open Monday, Feb. 23, and Tuesday, Feb. 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in addition to its regular hours Wednesdays through Sundays, with its Elite Flight Simulator operating Feb. 23, Feb. 25 and Feb. 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. for ages 13 and up and storytimes on Feb. 24 and Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., according to a press release. SEE Science Center, 200 Bedford St. in Manchester, will be open Monday, Feb. 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in addition to its regular hours, according to see-sciencecenter.org. The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, 2 Institute Drive in Concord, is open daily, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Sunday, March 1, according to starhop.com. The Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St. in Manchester, has a three-day workshop for ages 6 to 13+ running Wednesday, Feb. 25, through Friday, Feb. 27, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to currier.org, where you can find pricing and registration information. The museum’s regular hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Community Players of Concord will hold auditions for the May production of To Kill A Mockingbird on Sunday, March 1, and Monday, March 2, at 6 p.m. for youth and starting at 7 p.m. for adults at the Community Players Studio in Concord. See communityplayersofconcord.org for details.

Kids Coop Theatre will hold auditions for the May production of Newsies for ages 8 to 19 on Sunday, March 1, from 1 to 9 p.m. at KCT Studios in Salem. See kctnh.org for show and membership details and to sign up for a slot.

The Merrimack Parks & Recreation Winter Carnival at Wasserman Park in Merrimack will take place Saturday, Feb. 21, from noon to 3 p.m., and feature a cardboard box sledding contest, ice carving and more, according to merrimackparksandrec.org.

The Hudson Recreation Department will hold a comedy night featuring Corey Rodrigues with Dave Rattigan and Ian Rice on Saturday, Feb. 21, at 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) at the Community Center, 12 Lions Ave. in Hudson, according to hudsonnh.gov/recreation, where you can purchase tickets.

Safety summits

NH Recycles is offering three in-person Solid Waste Safety Summits and one webinar about lithium-ion battery safety open to solid waste and recycling facility operators and staff, local firefighters, municipal and town employees and interested residents, according to an email from nhrecycles.org. Choose an in-person event in Laconia on Thursday, Feb. 12; New London on Thursday, March 19, or Keene in July, the email said. The in-person summits run from 9 to 11:30 a.m. with light refreshments and travel stipends are available for some municipal employees, the email said. The webinar is slated for Monday, April 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m., the email said. See the website to register.

Services fair

The Moore Center will host a free transition fair on Thursday, Feb. 12, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at its offices at 195 McGregor St. in Manchester, for individuals of all ages and abilities with services and resources for those with disabilities (including developmental or intellectual disabilities and acquired brain disorders), according to a press release. The agencies, representing resources available in Greater Manchester and across New Hampshire, include those offering support related to education, employment, health care, housing and community life, the press release said. “The event is free and open to residents of Auburn, Bedford, Candia, Goffstown, Hooksett, Londonderry, Manchester and New Boston. Students interested in careers in human services are also encouraged to attend,” the release said. Call 603-206-2814 or see moorecenter.org.

Douglass Day

The Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St. in Nashua, will participate in the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon on Friday, Feb. 13, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. celebrating the Feb. 14 chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass by creating transcriptions related to Black history, according to nashualibrary.org. According to DouglassDay.org, “This year we are going to be transcribing a vast new collection of records on the Colored Conventions movement. Our transcriptions will range across dozens of states and stretch from the start of the movement in 1830 through the turn of the 20th century.” The library is closed on Fridays but staff will let participants into the library from noon to 12:45 p.m., the library’s website said. BYO laptop or tablet if you have one; the event will feature birthday cake, the website said.

Film fest

Tickets for the 18th annual New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival go on sale on Sunday, Feb. 15, at nhjewishfilmfestival.com. The festival will kick off Sunday, March 15, and the first in-person screening will be of Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire at the Rex Theatre in Manchester. In-person and virtual screenings continue through Sunday, March 29, and the festival will feature 13 feature films and four short films, according to a press release. Screenings will take place in Manchester, Concord, Portsmouth, Hanover and Keene, according to the website, where individual tickets and ticket packages will be available for purchase.

First Congregational Church in Concord will hold a Mardi Gras Jazz Sanctuary Service on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 2:30 p.m. featuring music “rooted in early jazz, gospel and blues traditions,” according to a press release. See jazzsanctuary.com.

Etz Hayim Synagogue, 1½ Hood Road in Derry, will hold a mah jongg tournament on Sunday, April 26, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to an event email. The entry fee is $30; sign up by April 12. “There will be four rounds of game play, four games per one-hour round,” the email said. The day will feature prizes, raffles, refreshments and more; register at etzhayim.org/mah-jongg-tournament.

The Concord Coachmen Chorus will send a barbershop quartet and a red rose to your Valentine’s Day sweetheart in and around Manchester and Concord on Friday, Feb. 13, and Saturday, Feb. 14. Go to concordcoachmen.org and click on “Singing Valentines” to see available time slots.

Nashua Community Arts and Spectacle Live will present the Navy Band Northeast Pops Ensemble on Wednesday, March 18, at 7 p.m. at the Nashua Center for the Arts. Tickets are free, first come first served. Reserve tickets at nashuacenterforthearts.com.