After Hope: Videos of Resistance On view March 11–December 31, 2023 SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents 54 short videos in an exhibition exploring the role of hope in contemporary art and activism. Organized by the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, After Hope: Videos of Resistance is an immersive experience in PEM’s Jeffrey P. Beale Gallery featuring the perspectives

The city will offer a year filled with music, comedy, film, and arts in addition to its month-long Halloween and Holiday Celebrations. SALEM, Mass.— Salem is gearing up for a fun-filled 2023 with a lineup of events that offer historical, artistic, and interactive activities. Embracing chocolate and ice sculptures during the cold winter months, discovering ancestral connections to the city, and

Images and Story by Joey Phoenix  This fall, Salem Artist-in-Residence Maia Mattson of Stixsense partnered with sound engineer Casey Keenan of Gravity Wave Studios for a unique project highlighting and documenting Salem’s diverse green spaces.  Their new exhibition at Old Town Hall, FIELD NOTES, will pair audio interviews the duo recorded with local individuals impacted by these parks alongside an

Photos by Creative Collective Santa arrived in Salem in style this past week for the start of the holiday season. Once he descended (with a little help from the Salem Fire Department) he and his many fans processed down the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall to Lappin Park for the Holiday Tree Lighting and carols by History Alive performers. The tree

Salem Holiday Happenings is a month-long slate of cheer, tales,  shopping, and sweet winter treats The City of Salem, Massachusetts will feature a holiday season of activities that include traditional favorites such as Santa’s arrival at the Hawthorne Hotel and Christmas in Salem House Tours, and the return of Winter Walk on Pickering Wharf. Holiday events will accommodate the tastes

Partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum, City of Salem and Creative Collective to honor town as inspiration for ParaNorman’s fictional ‘Blithe Hollow’ setting As part of Salem, Massachusetts’, iconic “Salem Haunted Happenings” month-long Halloween festival, the award-winning animation studio LAIKA has partnered with the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), the City of Salem and Creative Collective to present a series of ParaNorman screenings and live

Interviewee: Mistral Dodson (She/Her) In your words… Tell us about your organization, business, initiative. The Phoenix School is a magical place where kids get to be curious about anything. It’s the building blocks to their future and how they interact with their surroundings. The Phoenix Philosophy is to meet each student where they are at and work to bring out the best in every child. The results

A month full of creative activities for the spooky season, including new self-guided witch trials walk This October, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) offers an action-packed month of Eerie Events programming to celebrate the season through storytelling, fashion, film and more. On the heels of two highly successful witch trial exhibitions in 2020 and 2021, this fall PEM will offer a pop-up

Editor’s Note: Please be advised that topics discussed in this piece lean towards NSFW. Reader discretion encouraged.  The Poetry Brothel returns to Salem this October for another night of decadent and wordy delights. This time the troupe is taking over Diehl Marcus & Co., and this immersive literary cabaret will fuse poetry, activism, vaudeville, burlesque, live music, visual art, magic,

In August we celebrated the ribbon cutting of Roseadela’s in Salem! Roseadela’s is a local, family owned coffee/chocolate shop & cafe, featuring a full espresso menu with classic and unique hot and cold drinks, hand dipped chocolates, house made syrups and confits, in-house tea mixes, decadent hot chocolate, soups, sandwiches, snacks, and artisanal and locally produced foodie products and gifts.