Happenings
Firefly Bistro’s downtown Manchester location makes for the perfect place to gather, celebrate, and enjoy art in all forms. Check back regularly to see our upcoming events!
Seasonal
Support Best Buddies with Firefly on February 4!
NEW DATE!
Our Community Partnership program continues this month as we welcome Best Buddies on Wednesday, February 4! Firefly will donate 10% of all food and non-alcoholic beverage sales from this date to Best Buddies, so when you dine at Firefly on 2/4 (whether for lunch, dinner, or a meal to-go), you’ll be helping support the incredible work that Best Buddies is doing in our community. Book your reservation now!
Mission
Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, inclusive living, and family support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Who We Serve
Best Buddies serves individuals with IDD and their families. The IDD community includes, but is not limited to, people with Down syndrome, autism, Fragile X, Williams syndrome, and other undiagnosed disabilities.
Programs
Best Buddies is the largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people worldwide with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our programs empower people with IDD to form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure jobs, improve communication and advocacy skills, and live independently, while also offering support for their families.
Artists in Residence
Bruce Jones
Bruce Jones is a local artist from seacoast NH. His loose, bold, and unique paintings are on display in Firefly’s dining room known as the Art Room.
He learned the nuts and bolts of design and composition while attending the New England School of Art and Design in Boston, but he believes that his real education came from working with other professional artists. He was fortunate to travel and learn the art of plein air painting, which generates a lot of abstract qualities, lending itself to his natural expressive style.
He is a lifelong New Englander, and currently lives in Exeter, NH with his artist wife, Tracy, whose artwork is also on display in Firefly’s foyer.
Tracy R. Jones
Tracy was trained as an Art Educator at the Massachusetts College of Art where she had an emphasis in painting, and was influenced to examine, experience, and enjoy the process of creating while finding one’s own aesthetic.
Her large-scale assemblages and paintings explore the relationships between color and shapes while salvaging and utilizing oft-discarded materials and bold forms.
Live Music on our Patio
Firefly summer music series - 2025
Thursday – Saturday 5pm – 8pm
Sunday 11am – 2pm (Chuck Alaimo Residency)
Weather Permitting
We’ll see you next year!
Thanks for a great season!
Community Partners
The Firefly community extends far beyond the walls of our downtown Manchester bistro. Here are some of the neighbors, near and far, that we support throughout the years:
March of Dimes
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
NH Food Bank/Share Our Strength
Concord Hospital
YMCA
Easterseals
Palace Theater
Webster House
Girls, Inc.
Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester
Animal Rescue League
Nashua Center
Goffstown Mother’s Club
Rights + Democracy Education Fund
Granite United Way
Dismas Home
CASA
NSquared Dance
Manchester True
Waypoint
