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
Angel’s Envy November Fundraiser for the Children’s Auction
We are happy to take part in the Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction with Angel’s Envy Bourbon! Try our special Nighthawk Old Fashioned cocktail, available now through November 30, and Angel’s Envy will donate $1 for each sold to the Children’s Auction so that they can financially support local children and families in need to ensure that every child is empowered to succeed and contribute to a thriving GLR community. Learn more about the Children’s Fund here: https://www.childrensauction.org/glrcamissionandstory
CASA NH Joins us for our October Community Partnership Series
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of New Hampshire is a nonprofit organization that recruits, trains and supports community volunteers to serve as advocates for children throughout the state who have experienced abuse or neglect. Volunteers who work with CASA get to know children and the important people in their lives to provide vital information to help a judge make decisions based on children’s best interests. In addition to providing crucial trauma-informed, best-interests advocacy, a CASA volunteer is also a caring, consistent presence in a child’s life during a time of confusion and turmoil.
Dine at Firefly on Wednesday, November 20 to help this amazing organization that supports children in need throughout New Hampshire. Firefly will donate 10% of food and non-alcoholic beverage sales (alcoholic beverages excluded) for the entire day to support CASA.
If you would like to learn more about CASA and everything they do or if you would like to sign-up to volunteer as an advocate (or make a donation!), please visit casanh.org.
Encourage your friends, family, and co-workers to join us at Firefly on Wednesday, November 20, and together we can help make a difference. Reserve your spot now!
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
Thanks for joining us on the patio for live music this summer! See you next summer.
Weather Permitting
Friday 4pm – 7pm
Saturday 12pm – 3pm
Sunday 11am – 2pm
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
