Fall 2025 afterschool classes
Ages 7 + | Spring Semester: Sept 23 - Nov 20 | *Nourishing Fire (October exact date/tbd)
Sign up for Fall 205 afterschool programs, including classes and clubs for youth (ages 7-14) and teenagers (ages 13+). Fall dates by program are outlined below.
Fall 2025 Semester Dates | 9 weeks | Sept 23 - Nov 19. *FREE community event Nourishing Fire will be held in October (exact date/tbd)
Our Youth Afterschool Program (ages 7-14) includes our Tuesday Roots & Rebels Garden Club, and Wednesday Arts Under the Sun workshop. We’ll also be offering an SJLA Arts Lab each semester for teenagers 13+.
Roots & Rebels Garden Club, Tuesdays, 3-6pm, Ages 7-14 | Cooking, games, field trips, and lots of garden time at our weekly garden club!
Arts Under the Sun, Wednesdays, 3-6pm, Ages 7-14 | Experimenting with all kinds of art mediums together!
SJLA, Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30-7PM, Ages 13+ | A teen space for exploring arts, healing, and political organizing
Enrollment and cost: These programs are FREE. Donations are always welcome and can be made here. Given the limited size of our current program offerings, priority for these after-school programs will be given to students currently enrolled in the Hudson City School District, and residents of Bliss Towers, Schuyler Court, Hudson Terraces, and Providence Hall.
ROOTS & REBELS GARDEN CLUB
Tuesdays | 3 - 6pm | Ages 7-14
Fall 2025 semester | 9 weeks | Sept 23 - Nov 18
With Kite’s Nest Teaching Artists
Get your hands dirty at the River City Garden!
Join us every Tuesday afternoon for the Roots + Rebels Garden club! We’ll meet each week at our River City Garden to plant seeds, grow plants, prepare delicious meals together and create art inspired by nature while discovering the magic and medicine of plants! This season we’ll build our own garden apothecary and stock it with a mix of practical and sweet potions.
This program is FREE. If you would like to make a donation to support the program, we suggest $150-$400 per semester.
arts under the sun
Wednesdays | 3 - 6pm | Ages 7-14
Fall 2025 semester | 9 weeks | Sept 24 - Nov 19
With Immanuel Williams + Guest Teaching Artists
As Kite’s Nest prepares to break ground on our new building, Arts Under the Sun is ready to design and create furnishings!
Join us every Wednesday as we learn about, design, and create materials that will be utilized in Kite’s Nest new building, breaking ground in October 2025. In our River City Garden, and other local artmaking spaces, we’ll work with guest artists to create items like pillow cushions, tiles, planter pots, switch plates and furniture knobs that our community will see and use in our new building once it opens in 2027!
This program is FREE. If you would like to make a donation to support the program, we suggest $150-$400 per semester.
sOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Mondays & Wednesdays | 3:30 - 7PM | Ages 13+
Fall 2025 semester | Sept 22 - Nov 21 | 9 weeks
With Anna Parisi + Guest Teaching Artists
An open studio for youth to express stories of freedom and practice building community!
Social Justice Leadership Academy (SJLA), is a leadership program for teens (ages 13-19) based on the principles of social justice and youth-led change. SJLA brings together local youth from different backgrounds, primarily youth of color growing up in Hudson. Over the past year, SJLA as been exploring the concept of home. This Fall, as the days get darker and days get cooler, SJLA will turn its focus to explore the role of community as home, as our nurturing place. We invite youth to join us for liberation, arts, embodiment, healing and community!
This program is free. Teens ages 13+ are welcome to apply. If you would like to make a donation to support the program, click here. Enrollment is prioritized for BIPOC teens and HSCD students.
If you’re 16+ and have your working papers, you’re invited to apply for a paid position helping to lead this program. Apply here.
Our arts-based afterschool and out-of-school-time programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.