From the Peabody Essex Museum The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) honors the 100th birthday of global fashion icon Iris Apfel with a month-long celebration featuring special programming, a pop-up shop, and the inaugural Iris Apfel Award presented to American designer Tommy Hilfiger. Known for her daring personal style and signature round glasses, Iris has bedazzled fashion, interior design, and museum

From The Peabody Essex Museum As a curator, scholar, and museum executive, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to PEM. During her time as Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, she led an internationally recognized acquisition initiative to build collections of works by Black, self-taught, and modern and contemporary artists. In 2003, Lynda was

Related reading: “Your Weekend is Booked with Salem Lit Fest 2021” The twelfth Salem Literary Festival (aka Salem Lit Fest) will be presented September 9-12, 2021. Having hosted a very successful virtual festival in 2020, we’ll be delivering most sessions online in 2021, with our Children’s program presented in person at the Peabody Essex Museum on September 11. Featuring four

From The Peabody Essex Museum This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents a new exhibition about the tragic events and lasting legacy of the 1692 witch trials. The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming dives into the circumstances that fueled the crisis while recognizing the individuals who rose to defend those unjustly accused. The exhibition features authentic 17th-century court documents and

From The House of the Seven Gables Anyone making plans during the time of the pandemic has learned how easily plans must and do change. The House of the Seven Gables is no exception. Amid an uptick in COVID-19 infection rates and related unknowns regarding public safety, The House of the Seven Gables has decided to remake its annual fundraiser

From The Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Salem State University The Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Salem State returns to presenting live performances and other arts events on campus with a Faculty and Guest Artist Dance Concert on Thursday, September 9 at 7:30 pm in the Sophia Gordon Center.  Admission is free but advance registration is

From CinemaSalem Calendars tell us the new year begins in January, but in many ways September is our most notable time for beginnings — new academic years, fresh performing arts seasons, and the renewal of.patterns and routines interrupted by summer vacations. At Cinema Salem, September is arriving with a twist. Along with our regular fare. we’ve scheduled three special screenings

The Witch City Celebrates Halloween with Time-Honored Festivities and New, Unique Special Events The world-renowned Salem Haunted Happenings returns to Salem, Massachusetts in October with street fairs, traditional event favorites, and new expanded programming. Believed to be the largest celebration of Halloween, Salem Haunted Happenings is comprised of hundreds of events during the month of October. Programs range from reverent commemorations of the Salem

From The Ridiculous Project The Ridiculous Project is taking over Derby Square with Dream Love Escape, an exciting remix of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 7pm on September 3, 4, 5, 11, 12. Directed by Rebecca Holderness and Kate Kohler Amory, Dream Love Escape is a free-to-the-public immersive outdoor performance event that invites audience members to learn dance sequences

The Great Animal Orchestra: Bernie Krause and United Visual ArtistsOn view November 20, 2021–May 22, 2022 This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are proud to present the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra, a collaborative work between pioneer bioacoustician Bernie Krause and United Visual Artists. Over the course of nearly 50 years,