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Snapology April Vacation Program - Snapology Favorites: Video Game Edition x Everyday Engineers: Vehicle Edition
2026-04-22 09:00 - 15:30, 2026-04-23 09:00 - 15:30, 2026-04-24 09:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Fivesparks Cove
Snapology April Vacation Program

Monday, Apr 20, 2026 — Friday, Apr 24, 2026 9am-3:30pm ET

Ages 6–12
Snapology Favorites: Video Game Edition x Everyday Engineers: Vehicle Edition
Full-Day & Half-Day Options | Ages 6-12
Get ready for an action-packed week of creativity, engineering, and hands-on fun! This April Vacation, students can join us for a half-day program or stay for the full-day experience featuring two of our most popular themes.

🎮 Morning Program: Snapology Favorites – Video Game Edition
Indulge your child’s love of video games — in real life! This hands-on, creative workshop is all about bringing favorite games off the screen and into the classroom using LEGO® bricks.
Each day features a new gaming-inspired adventure:

Roblox Day – Recreate favorite “obbies,” design 3D character skins, and invent LEGO-based Roblox-style games.
Fortnite Day – Build island scenes, detailed maps, and creative character skins.
Minecraft Day – Craft your own brick-built world, explore the Nether, and watch out for creepers!
Super Mario Day – Join Mario and Luigi for zany building challenges and imaginative level design.
Pokémon Day – “Catch,” build, and battle your favorite Pokémon characters.

Throughout the week, students will also enjoy mini-games and themed challenges inspired by these popular worlds.
PLEASE NOTE: This program is completely SCREEN-FREE and VIOLENCE-FREE. The focus is on characters, scenery, creativity, and collaborative play — no devices required!

🚗 Afternoon Program: Everyday Engineers – Vehicle Edition
In the afternoon, students shift gears and become engineers! Students will tackle exciting vehicle-themed engineering challenges that blend physics, creativity, and teamwork.
What Students Will Learn:
⚙️ Engineering & Physics Concepts
Students are introduced to real-world engineering and physics principles before building, allowing them to see their knowledge in action. Concepts come alive as they design and test their own vehicles.
🚀 Innovation & Ingenuity
Students will design and build vehicles that may have never been seen before! Using the Engineering Design Process, they’ll experiment, redesign, and innovate in a supportive, risk-friendly environment.
🧠 Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Each challenge encourages students to think creatively, test ideas, troubleshoot, and refine their designs. We focus on developing 21st-century skills: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.
🤝 Communication & Collaboration
Working in small groups and peer partnerships, students strengthen teamwork skills while learning how to respectfully share ideas and solve problems together.
Some lessons involve following structured instructions to understand key concepts, while others allow students to build fully original vehicle designs that meet specific challenge criteria.

Full-Day Experience
Enroll for the full day and enjoy the best of both worlds:
🎮 Creative video game-inspired building in the morning
🚗 Hands-on engineering and vehicle design in the afternoon
It’s the perfect combination of imagination and innovation!
Children will enjoy Supervised active indoor and/or outdoor movement breaks throughout the day to stay focused, energized, and engaged.

Drop-Off & Pick-Up Instructions

The workshop will take place in the Cove (basement, to the right at the bottom of the stairs). For safety and to help protect the art exhibits upstairs: Caregivers must sign children in and out directly from the classroom. Please come to The Cove at pickup so we can dismiss your child safely.
Lunch & Snacks
Please pack: A nut-free lunch, Two nut-free snacks, A water bottle
We’ll have dedicated snack and lunch breaks throughout the day.

Click HERE to register for Full day, 9:00am – 3:30pm | $450
Click HERE to register for Morning Only Half-Day, 9:00am-12:00pm | $250
Click HERE to register for Afternoon Only Half-Day, 12:30pm-3:00pm | $250
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Snapology is the premier partner for STEAM programs worldwide. The organization’s goal is to provide children’s enrichment with STEAM learning programs that engage kids 4-14 years old with fun, hands-on activities to teach science, technology, engineering, art and math. While children are exploring robotics, coding and design challenges using LEGO® bricks, K’Nex, and technology, they’re building skills that will help them throughout school and their careers. To kids, it’s just fun!
Fivesparks is partnering with Snapology of Harvard, MA to bring these fun and educational programs to our community! Snapology of Harvard, MA is owned/operated by area parents whose family fell in love with Snapology’s methods and philosophies. So much so, they want to share them! You will find Snapology of Harvard, MA programs at Fivesparks, in local schools and community centers around the Metro-West area. https://www.snapology.com/massachusetts-harvard/

Taiwan Mahjong for Beginners
2026-04-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Fivesparks
Taiwan Mahjong is easy to learn and fun to play with friends. It is a four-player’s game but different than American version and doesn’t require to purchase a play card yearly. Once you know how, you can play with anyone. Let’s grab a friend and learn it together.
Meets on Saturday mornings 10:00am – 12:00pm: 3/28/2026, 4/11/2026, 4/18/2026, 4/25/2026 (no class on 4/02/2026)
$150 for 4 class series.
To sign up, please contact the instructor, Fay Childers at faychilders@gmail.com.

Slime Time with Miss Lisa
2026-04-28 15:45 - 17:00, 2026-05-05 15:45 - 17:00, 2026-05-12 15:45 - 17:00, 2026-05-19 15:45 - 17:00 | Hildreth Elementary School, 27 Mass Ave, Har vard, MA, 01451, United States
Join Miss Lisa for a fun, hands-on slime club where kids will learn how to make a different type of slime each week!
Participants will mix their own slime and customize it with fun add-ins like glitter, sequins, and foam beads. Each session includes time for slime play, creativity, and cleanup, and kids will take their slime creations home with them after class.
Classes will be held on Tuesdays from 3:45–5:00 PM, at Hildreth Elementary School beginning April 7 for 6 weeks. There will be no class the week of April 20.
Cost: $120 per child for entire 6 class session. Ages 5 and over.
Click HERE to register for Slime Time with Miss Lisa

The Drawing Room - May
2026-05-01 10:00 - 12:30, 2026-05-08 10:00 - 12:30, 2026-05-22 10:00 - 12:30, 2026-05-29 10:00 - 12:30 | Fivesparks Cove
The Drawing Room – May:
An open drawing studio with artist guidance
The Drawing Room offers a welcoming space for focused drawing, creative exploration, and artistic community, led by artist and teacher Mara Levin. These open studio sessions invite artists to work at their own pace, with guidance available whenever it’s helpful. Drawing on decades of experience, Mara offers demonstrations, support, and practical insights that help artists find their creative rhythm. Sessions conclude with an optional informal sharing time for feedback or conversation about their work. All levels are welcome.
You may bring work in progress or start something new. Please bring your own references (photographic or real-life objects), drawing tools, and supplies. Feel free to bring a beverage in a no-spill travel mug.
What Would You Like to Work On?
Here are some ideas:
* Subjects from nature, real or imaginary
* Comics
* Portraits
* Abstract art
* Anything that sparks your creativity
Drawing Mediums
All drawing mediums are welcome. (Please bring solvent-free materials suitable for a shared indoor studio space.) Examples include graphite pencil or stick (dry or water-soluble), colored pencil (dry or water-soluble), charcoal, Conté crayon, pastel pencil, watercolor, gouache, and pen or brush with ink.
Supplies
You may bring supplies you already have or purchase new ones. Please bring appropriate paper for your chosen medium(s).
For your convenience, I have created a web page with recommended drawing supplies—including both basic materials and optional extras—with clearly marked affiliate links for graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, Conté crayon, gray marker, and watercolor:
https://www.maralevinfineart.com/page/38107/art-class-supplies
Meets weekly on Fridays 10:00am – 12:30pm: 5/01/2026, 5/08/2026, 5/22/2026, 5/29/2026.
$100 for 4 session series.
Questions: info@maralevin.com
Click HERE to register for The Drawing Room

Pastel Painting - Spring Session
2026-05-06 10:00 - 12:30, 2026-05-13 10:00 - 12:30, 2026-05-20 10:00 - 12:30 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Pastel painting with a focus on local landscapes but you are welcome to explore whatever interests you.
I’ll share my process including exploring composition, values, color and mark-making. I will have a combination of weekly demos and exercises at the beginning of class, followed by plenty of one-on-one feedback at your easel.
All pastel levels are welcome but some previous drawing or painting experience is necessary.
Contact agillespieart@gmail.com to register and for a supply list or any questions you have.
This class is appropriate for adults. $330/participant.

Artist Talk with Barry Van Dusen: Out the Studio Window
2026-05-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
OUT THE STUDIO WINDOWS
an illustrated talk by Barry Van Dusen
Many artists travel widely in search of new subjects, while others spend their entire artistic lives much closer to home. Andrew Wyeth did all of his work in two small areas of Maine and Pennsylvania, and Claude Monet spent the last four decades of his life painting the gardens right out his back door.
Nature artist Barry Van Dusen has done his share of traveling, but he, too, continues to find abundant inspiration nearby – many of his paintings feature subjects observed out the windows of his studio in central Massachusetts.
In this one-hour illustrated talk, Barry takes you along in his explorations of nature “Out the Studio Windows”.
To reserve your spot, please register HERE.

Fivesparks Theater Presents: Talley's Folly
2026-05-15 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-16 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-23 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
Fivesparks Theater announces its next production, Talley’s Folly, by Lanford Wilson. Directed by Kathleen Sills, performances will take place on:

Friday, May 15 (7:30pm)
Saturday, May 16 (7:30pm)
Sunday, May 17 (2:00pm)
Friday, May 22 (7:30pm)
Saturday, May 23 (7:30pm)
Sunday, May 24 (2:00pm)

Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic drama is set in 1944, in the deserted boathouse on the Talleys’ farm in Lebanon, Missouri. This moving and lyrical play deals with the courtship of the young Sally Talley and her suitor, Matt Friedman. Matt, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally, the cautious, still-unmarried daughter of the Talley family. Through his charm and persistence, Matt gradually overcomes her resistance, revealing his innermost secrets and gradually awakening Sally to the possibilities of a life together.
Talley’s Folly is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, a division of Broadway Licensing.

Adult Improv Workshop
2026-05-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-06-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Fivesparks Cove
Improv is the act of making up a scene, plot, characters and dialogue spontaneously without preparation. Actors work together to create a scene, often based off a suggestion from the audience, without rehearsal or discussion beforehand. Studying improv involves a “retraining” of the brain to learn to work in the moment, accept ideas from a team member and allow the creativity to flow and create something marvelous. Because improv is done “in the moment” it often takes a silly or wacky turn, and there’s plenty of laughing! When you create improv scenes, you never know where the mind will take you. This improvisation workshop is designed to challenge and inspire participants to stretch their brains and limits. A great class for both the seasoned performer and those new to the world of theatre who are looking to try it out.
3 workshops will be held. One each in April, May, and June (4/20/2026, 5/18/2026, & 6/8/2026). There is no fee for the workshops, however registration is required. See below for registration link.

This class is being offered free of charge to participants through a generous grant from the Harvard Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
REGISTER FOR ONE OR MORE SESSIONS HERE

Birds! Last day to view
2026-05-30 12:00 - 16:00 | Fivesparks
Don’t miss the amazing celebration of Birds!
Last day to view is Saturday, May 30, 2026. 12:00-4:00pm.

Celebrating Summer's Abundance: Illuminated Labyrinth Walk & Meditation Tool Creation
2026-05-31 15:00 - 17:00 | MA
“Celebrating Summer’s Abundance” is a one-time event that involves walking an illuminated labyrinth path accompanied by meditative music (in The Loft), followed by the opportunity to create a handheld labyrinth path meditation tool (in The Cove). Materials are included in the $25 event fee. Minors are welcome if accompanied by an adult.
Participants will be encouraged to call to mind a form of abundance that brings them great joy in Summer as they walk the path. The craft will involve painting a square canvas with acrylic paints, then gluing on the path with a choice of thread, ribbon, gemstones, seeds, faux moss, etc.

The Drawing Room - June
2026-06-05 10:00 - 12:30, 2026-06-12 10:00 - 12:30 | Fivesparks Cove
The Drawing Room – June:
An open drawing studio with artist guidance
The Drawing Room offers a welcoming space for focused drawing, creative exploration, and artistic community, led by artist and teacher Mara Levin. These open studio sessions invite artists to work at their own pace, with guidance available whenever it’s helpful. Drawing on decades of experience, Mara offers demonstrations, support, and practical insights that help artists find their creative rhythm. Sessions conclude with an optional informal sharing time for feedback or conversation about their work. All levels are welcome.
You may bring work in progress or start something new. Please bring your own references (photographic or real-life objects), drawing tools, and supplies. Feel free to bring a beverage in a no-spill travel mug.
What Would You Like to Work On?
Here are some ideas:
* Subjects from nature, real or imaginary
* Comics
* Portraits
* Abstract art
* Anything that sparks your creativity
Drawing Mediums
All drawing mediums are welcome. (Please bring solvent-free materials suitable for a shared indoor studio space.) Examples include graphite pencil or stick (dry or water-soluble), colored pencil (dry or water-soluble), charcoal, Conté crayon, pastel pencil, watercolor, gouache, and pen or brush with ink.
Supplies
You may bring supplies you already have or purchase new ones. Please bring appropriate paper for your chosen medium(s).
For your convenience, I have created a web page with recommended drawing supplies—including both basic materials and optional extras—with clearly marked affiliate links for graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, Conté crayon, gray marker, and watercolor:
https://www.maralevinfineart.com/page/38107/art-class-supplies
Meets weekly on Fridays 10:00am – 12:30pm: 6/05/2026, 6/12/2026, 6/19/2026, 6/26/2026.
$100 for 4 session series.
Questions: info@maralevin.com
Image displayed: Ribbon Drawing
Click HERE to register for The Drawing Room

Dialogues in Dual Languages
2026-06-06 - 2026-07-19 | Fivesparks
When people speak in different languages, how do they develop empathy and understanding? When the world is full of noise and misinformation, how do we learn to listen and to hear each other? This show presents thirteen pairs of visual artists and poets in collaborations that seek to illuminate, advance, reflect and resonate with one another.

Off Brand Improv Comedy Troupe
2026-06-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Fivesparks Gallery, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA, 01451, United States
We are a local improv troupe and have been performing at different locations since 2018.
Our Improv show is for adult and young adult audiences (not for kids). We do not pull anyone on stage. If we have a game where we ask for a volunteer to join us, then we take someone who has raised their hand.
Two performances, Friday, June 12 at 7:30pm and Saturday June 13 at 7:30pm. Tickets $18 in advance, $20 at the door (cash or venmo).
Doors open at 6:30pm. Bring your own snacks and non-alcoholic beverages.
RESERVE TICKETS HERE
Fivesparks is an ADA-accessible venue.
