
North Shore Pride Community Forum: Speak Up Speak Out – VIDEO
from North Shore Pride On Thursday, September 24, 2020 North Shore Pride hosted its September Forum called Speak Up, Speak Out: Protesting, Voting, and Allyship 101. The 7 panelists discussed the Who, What, When, Where, and Why of Protesting, Allyship, and Voting. Panelists included: Yves Singletary, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Community Health & Prevention Massachusetts Department of Public Health Ellyn

North Shore Pride Community Forum: Violence Against the Transgender Community – Video
On Thursday, August 27th North Shore Pride hosted their second Community Forum this year: Violence Against the Transgender Community. The event featured discussion about prominent Transgender issues with panelists fielding questions from the community about their personal experiences with Transphobia and violence. They also came up with action items that North Shore Pride examines on their weekly blog. Panelists included:

Creative Collective and Salem State University Collaborate with AREA CODE Art Fair to present a “Digital Art Drive-In”
Get Tickets In collaboration with AREA CODE – New England’s first art fair dedicated exclusively to regional artists – the North Shore’s Creative Collective, The City of Salem and Salem State University’s Center for Creative and Performing Arts will host a pop-up Digital Art Drive-In movie theater experience featuring contemporary digital, video, and light art. The event will be held

What’s Streaming This Week from Salem Film Fest 2020
Week 3 of Salem Film Fest starts tomorrow, July 24, giving you an opportunity to watch feature-length films and shorts from all over the world! These films are only available this week, so make sure to rent them while you can. Click here to view the full catalogue or click the film titles to be directed to the streaming page.

What’s Streaming This Week from Salem Film Fest 2020
Salem Film Fest 2020‘s virtual festival continues with week 2, bringing you a diversity of feature length and short documentaries from filmmakers all over the world. Click here to view the full catalogue or click the film titles to be directed to the streaming page. Here’s What’s Available from Salem Film Fest Week 2 Changing the Game Mack Beggs made

10 Movies to Stream this Week from Salem Film Fest 2020
Salem Film Fest 2020 started this weekend. Over the next few weeks, Salem Film Fest will present 80 features and short films for streaming as part of the virtual film festival. Click here to view the full catalogue. Included in this year’s festival is RETROSPECTIVE: BLACK IN AMERICA, a selection of films that have screened at past editions of Salem Film

Salem Film Fest Announces Virtual Film Festival – July 10-30, 2020
Image Credit: THE BLOOD IS AT THE DOORSTEP by Erik Ljung Salem Film Fest (SFF), one of New England’s largest all-documentary film festivals, will celebrate its 13th year by presenting more than 80 features and short films online in a virtual film festival – Friday, July 10 – Thursday, July 30. The festival was postponed due to COVID-19 just days

#UnitingCommunity with North Shore Pride’s Virtual Pride Parade
Last year, North Shore Pride announced the date for this year’s 9th Annual North Shore Pride Parade and Festival as Saturday, June 27th 2020, so when COVID-19 restrictions went into place, and an in-person event was no longer possible, Pride went virtual. This past Saturday, North Shore Pride held their first-ever Virtual Pride Parade, featuring submissions from the North Shore

Phase 2 (Part 2) Starts Today with Indoor Dining
On Friday, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced that the state would move forward with phase two of its reopening plan today, June 22, advancing into part 2 of step 2 just 10 days after the phase officially began. The biggest part of this phase is that indoor dining is now allowed, with many restrictions. Businesses on the North Shore are

EmVision Productions: Shifting the Narrative with #StayHopeful
by Joey PhoenixImages by EmVision Productions What do you have to look forward to? What allows you to stay hopeful when the world is turned upside down? In May of this year, minority-led EmVision Productions released a limited series of videos called #StayHopeful. The series features eight people: an artist-entrepreneur, a student government candidate, an activist-entrepreneur, an author, a hip