We are on the doorstep of the 2019 Salem So Sweet Festival, hosted by Salem Main Streets, and the smells of love, chocolate, and ice sculptures are in the air. This is the time to hold your loved ones tight, get hot chocolate with friends, and enjoy all the wonderful things that the North Shore during Valentine’s Week has to

Weekly Buzz is a regular feature of special events and happenings on the North Shore. If you have an upcoming special event, project, or initiative that you’d like to see featured here. Send our editor an email at joeyphoenix@creativecollectivema.com  What: Bonche Latin Nights Where: Brothers TavernaWhen: Every other Saturday, continuing February 16th, 2019 at 10PM Event Page Joey Phoenix talks to

SALEM — The House of the Seven Gables is pleased to invite residents from Beverly to a free guided tour of the celebrated mansion made famous by Salem author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his novel, “The House of the Seven Gables.” Beverly’s Community Day is set for Sunday, February 24. The House of the Seven Gables is one of six historic

ArcWorks CALL FOR ART: ArcWorks Invites Artists from the greater metropolitan Boston area, northeast of Boston and southern New Hampshire to submit artwork(s) for exhibiting. IMPORTANT DATES Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 2019, 3-5 pmExhibition Dates – Saturday, March 9 – May 6, 2019 Submission Dates and Information Artists may submit artwork in a variety of mediums 2–D & 3–D

Weekly Buzz is a regular feature of special events and happenings on the North Shore. If you have an upcoming special event, project, or initiative that you’d like to see featured here. Send our editor an email at joeyphoenix@creativecollectivema.com  What: Winter Wonderland Character Ball at Salem’s Old Town Hall to benefit Carlton Elementary SchoolWhere: Old Town Hall, Salem, MAWhen: Saturday

By Joey Phoenix When an artist chooses to point her camera at a person, a conversation begins. The conversation isn’t just about how photographic technique and the effect of light captures appearance but instead encapsulates the perspective of the photographer and the reality of the human being who is being photographed. Sometimes that conversation is removed from its source material,

Weekly Buzz is a regular feature of special events and happenings on the North Shore. If you have an upcoming special event, project, or initiative that you’d like to see featured here. Send our editor an email at joeyphoenix@creativecollectivema.com  What: HamletWhere: Peabody’s Black Box Theatre, Peabody MAWhen: February 1&2, 8&9 at 7:30 PM, February 3 Matinee at 2:00 PMRuntime: 2

It’s happened to almost every one of us. We get to Karaoke and know we want to sing something, but we have no idea WHAT to sing. Although the options are limitless, and Soulo Productionz always has exhaustive lists on hand of the possibilities, they’ve also supplied Creative North Shore with a handy list, in no particular order, of the

The Arts and Culture Advocacy Series features voices in the community who are actively working to promote arts and culture as an essential and valuable part of business, community, and daily life.  Tell us a bit about yourself and what role you play in the creative community? Currently, I am working with the Essex County Community Foundation managing a two-year

Welcome to the Blue Economy: An Introduction and Discussion Tom Balf, OceanVest, LLC Ken Riehl, CEO, Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Katie Kahl, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst Gloucester Marine Station Gloucester, MA – Join us in a conversation about the “Blue Economy” defined by the World Bank as “the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods