Express Yourself, in partnership with the Department of Mental Health, will be hosting their annual event and extravaganza Imagine Nation this May. The event will be streamed virtually on May 20th at 7:30pm via their website at exyo.org.  “We are thrilled and grateful for the generosity of North Shore Music Theater’s Bill Hanney and Karen Nascembeni for assisting us in

by Joey Phoenix This past semester has been anything but “business as usual” as universities faced many challenges in determining how best to bring students back to campus, among which were the safety of programming that could be made available to students. And while it might have been easy for some colleges to put arts programming lower down on the

by Joey Phoenix This past week, The Ridiculous Project held performances excerpting their newest work, Pandemic Plays 2020, an interactive storytelling studio written and produced by the project’s Founding Artistic Director Kate Kohler Amory. The studio was hosted via Zoom and contained a mix of pre-recorded content, live performance, and interactive storytelling.  2020 has been the advent of new digital

Busking in Salem looks different this year than past years, leaving street performers to figure out creative ways to do what they do best. Some of them are putting up fences, others are crafting elaborate social distancing signs, and still others have taken to the internet, choosing to entertain the masses in their own homes.  The reason they do it

by Joey Phoenix The Salem Literary Festival opens this coming weekend, September 10-13, with virtual discussions and events featuring local authors, poets, and performers. Although this year presents some challenges in regards to how to have a public festival safely during a global pandemic, the Festival will maintain its longstanding tradition of hosting readings, writing workshops, panel discussions, and artistic

Image Credit: PBJ Arts CollectiveWords by Joey Phoenix “I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever. – Susan Griffin 2020 has been a hard decade, and it’s just getting started. People are collectively experiencing social grief and screen burnout like never before, but,

NAGLY (North Shore Alliance of GLBTQ+ Youth) and MassOpera invite you to join in for A NAGLY Virtual Cabaret this Saturday, July 25 at 8:00 PM. The evening will feature queer and GLBTQ+ spectrum performers singing their favorite pop hits and show tunes along with mini-interviews and testimonials by those who work most closely with NAGLY.  MassOpera has been successfully

“In times of chaos, that’s when magic is possible. Chaos is from the Greek, it’s the primordial force by which all things are created.” – Peter Mercury Peter Mercury (he/they) is a non-binary aerialist, movement artist, and circus arts performer whose wild and wicked way has brought them to venues around the world. Their work has been featured in notable

Boston, 26 de mayo de 2020 – Las principales organizaciones latinas con sede en Massachusetts lanzaron hoy Cadencia Latina, una serie de eventos virtuales que apoyan a los artistas de Boston con raíces latinoamericanas y amplifica su presencia en el escenario virtual. Con la colaboración de Amplify Latinx, Hyde Square Task Force y el Boston Latin Quarter, Cojuelos’ Productions y

Accessibility Note: Scroll to the end of this post to find the audio transcript. Bekah Jordan is a jill-of-all-trades director, producer, writer, designer, teacher, installation artist, and performer. She joins Joey Phoenix on the podcast to talk about art as a lifeline, children’s literature, her in-the-works zine Attn: Pandemic and how well-produced immersive theatre can ruin your life in the