Each day children at Afterworks are provided with healthy snacks, homework help, and indoor and outdoor recreation. Our small staff-to-student ratio enables us to be attentive to students with Individualized Education Programs and other special needs.

As a multicultural, arts-based program, we also offer children with a number of enrichment activities:

• African drumming provides our children with a powerful sense of pride and empowerment through learning about African cultural ancestry. Jafar Manselle has been teaching and performing drumming technique – including the Conga, Talking Drum and Djembe from Ghana, Senegal and the Ivory Coast – for over 25 years.
  
  
• Once a week our students take classes in hip hop and Latin dance.

• Afterworks' literacy program introduces our students to high-quality, multicultural children's books through 36 kits organized around history and science themes – such as "Plants and Trees," "Mapping Our World," "Family History," or "The Civil Rights Movement" – and reinforces these concepts through hands-on activities. The kits were designed by Agenda for Children as a part of a broader literacy initiative, and are loosely based on the learning standards used by Cambridge Public Schools.
  
  
• Afterworks participates in The Otis House Museum's "History for Early Learners" program, introducing children to the history and literature of New England through weaving, puppetry, and other arts and crafts projects.

• Passim Cultural Center offers our students monthly programming at their club in Harvard Square through their "Culture for Kids" program. This program celebrates a rich variety of communities, including the cultures of Bolivia and Ireland, Korea, Cape Verde, West Africa, Australia, Newfoundland, Brazil, Cuba, Native American and American folk cultures. Each program fuses music, history and performances, visual art workshops, and traditional cooking representative of a specific culture or ethnicity. Liza Connolly, a local educator and chef, provides expertise in menu planning and in teaching the children to prepare a rich variety of traditional foods.