South Shore Conservatory Invites Families to Explore the Arts at Free Family Arts Festival

South Shore Conservatory (SSC) hosts a free Family Arts Festival on Sunday, September 27 from 12 to 2:30 pm at their Hingham campus. Open to the public, this event welcomes area families to spend time together exploring music, dance, drama and instruments.

Family Arts Festival kicks off with an interactive family concert with music, drama, and movement followed by an open house introducing the Conservatory’s many early childhood SSCreativeseeds programs. After the concert, children ages 3 to 10 are encouraged to use their “Arts Passport” to travel through a variety of fun activities which include:

- Music Together® and Music Sprouts classes

- Piano FUNdamentals sample class

- Suzuki Method Demonstrations

- Drum & Sing and Time Train music classes

- Curtain Going Up! drama class

- Creative Dance

- SSC Arts-Integrated Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten

Admission to all activities is free of charge. Families are welcome to tour the facilities, meet faculty and staff, and learn more about the broad range of programs offered for children of all ages and abilities. Families who attend are entered in a drawing to receive a $50 gift certificate toward any SSCreativeseeds program.

South Shore Conservatory’s Hingham campus is located at One Conservatory Drive, and the Duxbury campus is located at 64 St. George Street. For more information, contact Jana Kahn, Early Childhood Program Coordinator, at 781-749-7565, ext. 33, visit www.sscmusic.org, or follow South Shore Conservatory on Facebook.

About South Shore Conservatory

South Shore Conservatory, recently recognized as a national model for arts education by the National Guild for Community Arts Education, is celebrating nearly 45 years of enriching the lives of South Shore residents through music and the arts. SSC was founded as a not-for-profit community music school in 1970 and now has two beautiful campuses in Hingham and Duxbury. Currently serving over 3500 students of all ages and abilities, SSC is the largest community school for the arts in Massachusetts. Students participate in more than 50 diverse programs in music, dance and drama. Through innovative partnerships with social service agencies, SSC’s Creative Arts Therapies department supports the mental, emotional, and physical health of some of our community’s more fragile members. SSC’s Hingham campus is located at One Conservatory Drive, Hingham,781-749-7565. SSC’s Duxbury campus is located at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, 781-934-2731. South Shore Conservatory is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education. SSC programs are supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. For more information call us, follow us on Facebook or visit www.sscmusic.org.

In keeping with SSC’s inclusive mission to provide access to quality education in the arts for all, the Conservatory offers programs for all segments of the population to enjoy, regardless of age, ability, geography, and financial means. Furthermore, South Shore Conservatory admits students and families of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.