south shore Community center

South Shore Community Center is a community hub in downtown Cohasset, a seaside town about 20 miles south of Boston. It offers programs for toddlers through adults, including STEM classes, Little Dippers, adult cooking classes and Come Play, a family class for children from crawling age through preschool. Its family music class, Music Together, serves families with children from birth to age five.

Enrichment classes for kids and teens include karate, gymnastics and Irish step dance, the last offered in partnership with the Woods School of Irish Dance. The center’s largest event of the year is its annual Kentucky Derby Party, with proceeds going directly to support classes and programs. Sponsors also help fund the center, among them the South Shore Music Circus, a Cohasset tent theater that has presented entertainment for more than 60 years.

What to Know

• Around the holidays, Santa rides through neighborhoods on a vintage Cohasset fire truck, posing for photos and handing out candy canes.
• The South Shore Music Circus, a continuing supporter, is one of only two continuously operated tent theaters in the round in the United States.
• The center is a member of the Cohasset Chamber of Commerce.