Negro Election Day Returns For 283rd Year and Inaugural Commemoration as State Holiday.   One-day festival includes music, dance, live performances, and a parade.  A new beginning to an old history. Salem United, Inc. presents this year’s festival, which celebrates and honors the first black voting system and its annual coronation.   SALEM, MA — July 3, 2023  The daylong celebration at

Salem Farmers Market 2023 Opens June 8! The Salem Farmers’ Market will officially kick off its fifteenth season on the second Thursday in June. With over 25 vendors, the market will be held at Derby Square on Front Street in Salem, MA every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. from June 8th through October 12th, 2023. “The Salem Farmers’ Market

photos by John Andrews   On Saturday, May 20th the City of Salem raised several flags representative of countries across the Asian continent to celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month.   See the whole gallery: https://creativecollectivema.pixieset.com/aapiflagraising-salem2023/  

Gu Wenda: United Nations On view April 1–November 5, 2023 SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents a monumental installation that immerses visitors in a vision of shared humanity, global connectivity and mass participation. Gu Wenda’s united nations – man and space uses a material viscerally associated with the human body to create a dramatic installation: 188 flags measuring

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