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Support local artists at East Regiment Beer Company with their Friday Night Music series. Each week will highlight a new local artists that will take the stage to fill the bar with tunes. Enjoy the bars bespoke aesthetic and delicious locally made beers.
Please join us for the opening headline event of the Festival! This reading will feature poets Andrea Cohen and January Gill O’Neil. The event will open with a special performance by The Boston Typewriter Orchestra and a reading by the winner of Mass Poetry’s First Poem Contest. Andrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in The New...
Fresh off a sold-out show, Hello Friends Productions brings the NEW Broadway Review, “Once Upon A Time” to the Hammond Castle Museum! Act I combines songs from Broadway greats such as Sunset Boulevard, Man of LaMancha, Hadestown and more. Act II re-tells Cinderella with a modern twist with hits from the 50s through today with...
Stop by Bit Bar every Friday night for a live viewing of Ru Paul’s Drag Race with local Drag Queen Miz Diamond.
A poetry slam open to any team.
Enjoy a live DJ set every Friday night at the Village Tavern Salem with great food and drinks. Enjoy a night out on the town with the Salem community.
How often does a poem turn into a meditation? How often does a meditation turn into a poem? Could this happen more often? In this workshop we will explore how breath, yoga, and meditation can help create the soft space from where a poem emerges. Or maybe a simple word or meditation creates the soft...
Get a jump on your Mother’s Day and Father’s Day shopping! Snacks and refreshments will be available for purchase. All proceeds for this event will support the Essex Scholarship Fund.
Are you a teen who loves drawing, doodling, designing, sketching, scribbling? Do we have the wall for you! Drop in to add some art, or a couple lines of poetry, to our mural anytime from 10-5 on Saturday. Be in conversation with other teen artists, and create something cool and collaborative together.
The “House of Hope” Poetry Quilt for Sekou Sundia and Lucille Clifton Mass Poetry is pleased to present “House of Hope,” a quilt made by multimedia visual artist, activist, and poet L’Merchie Frazier. Made of nylon, organza, and silk, the quilt excerpts lines from 200 poems published by Mass Poetry during the pandemic as part...
Spring has sprung and summer is just around the corner. It’s the perfect time to shake off the winter blues with the shops on Artists’ Row at our season grand opening Market Day Launch Party! On Saturday, May 6, 2023, Artists’ Row will come alive with activity for all ages. Starting at 10 AM visitors can...
In this interactive panel, five poets whose projects have engaged with—and challenged—representations of women as one-dimensional archetypes (sinner, saint, virgin, mother, witch) that appear in many historical, religious, and literary texts will share their poetry and brief comments on their creative process; ample time will be allotted for questions and discussion with the audience. Therese...
Shabdaguchha, an International Bilingual Poetry Magazine, will celebrate its 25 years of publication with poets from different parts of the world. This will be a multilingual presentation, headed by Hassanal Abdullah, poet and the editor of Shabdaguchha. Each of the six panelists will read their work previously published in Shabdaguchha. There will also be a...
The “Sum Poets” are some Women and Non-Binary Poets that belong to the Bunker Hill Community College community. We are both of and more than the sum total of our intersectional and unique identities that include Black, Latinx, Muslim, Jewish, White, Lesbian, Bi, Cis, Women, Non-binary, Trans, Queer, and Straight. And we are some of...
Invented by Mykhaylo Semenko in 1914, kverofuturism (often translated into English as “panfuturism”) was intended to be a thoroughly modern poetics for a modern age. In this workshop, we will learn about Semenko, the Ukrainian avant-garde, and the broader world of radical Soviet art that swept Europe and the United States at the beginning of...
Recommended for ages 12 and up. Perfect for an intergenerational workshop. Participants use random words salvaged from various sources to create associations, then write a poem. The words on salvaged paper will be incorporated (recycled) into their art project, which is a five page, accordion fold-out book. All participants will take home a finished product....
This showcase of young poets pairs poetry with other art forms: poetry and music, theater, visual art, dance. Hear a variety of youth voices and see all the different ways poetry can take shape. (A few open mic sign-up spots will be available: if you’re a teen who would like to perform, come a few...
This year’s small press fair will be back on the Essex Street pedestrian mall outside the Peabody Essex Museum. Featuring small presses and organizations from across Massachusetts and beyond! Broadside Giveaway and Anthology Signing Time: 11:00AM – 12:00PM Press: Broadsided Press Feature Author & Book: Elizabeth Bradfield, “Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005 –...
In early 2020, the pandemic struck with most of the world facing indefinite lockdown. Poets were just one of many groups taking to the internet with the hopes of forming or maintaining bonds during uncertain times. Then came the advent of Zoom, and the online open mic became popularized. Not since the introduction of slam...
Join Su Cho, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Joan Kwon Glass & Eugenia Leigh for a panel discussion & reading of the authors’ work. They will share writing on themes that have historically been stigmatized, ignored or denied in the Korean American community, including mental illness, suicide & the complexities of identity. How does writing and speaking...
Massachusetts, a state filled with poets and poetry, including a significant number of national poets laureate, to its shame, is one of the few states without a state poet laureate. But in Massachusetts, many towns and cities have their own poets laureate: Boston, Somerville, Springfield, Amesbury, Arlington, and Brookline, just to list a few. In...
According to the National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer’s is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and it’s estimated that over six million Americans struggle with dementia as a result. To be in the presence of someone with Alzheimer’s is a lesson in appreciating the very present moment because both the past...
There is a long tradition of poets writing about their dreams, including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Lucille Clifton, Jean Valentine, and Alice Notley. Like the best poems, the dream juxtaposes odd elements, framing them in surprising ways and shedding light. In this workshop, we will explore dream vision and the art of drawing...
Enjoy delicious food while enjoying live music with your community every Saturday at the Village Tavern in Downtown Salem.
On this expert-guided, interactive and deep-dive into the Witch Trials explore in rare detail how a house and neighborhood reveal stories of terror and survival as they witnessed one of the darkest periods in American history. We’ll start inside the c1667 Daniels House where you’ll tour a living home from the Trials and choose from a...
Fresh off a sold-out show, Hello Friends Productions brings the NEW Broadway Review, “Once Upon A Time” to the Hammond Castle Museum! Act I combines songs from Broadway greats such as Sunset Boulevard, Man of LaMancha, Hadestown and more. Act II re-tells Cinderella with a modern twist with hits from the 50s through today with...
Who doesn’t love those delicious dumplings? Join us for a hands-on pierogi-making party with Ukrainian native Svitlana Rozghon and other members of Dobro New England. They will guide you through the steps for making pierogis while learning about Ukrainian culture and customs. There will be plenty of pierogis with a variety of fillings to sample...
Join us for a new, six week lecture series celebrating Gloucester’s rich culture and history in partnership with the Gloucester 400+. The series includes: * May 9: The Indians Who Live Among Us – Presented by Mary Ellen Lepionka * May 16: Unboxing Dogtown – Presented by Les Bartlett * May 23: From Fitz Henry...
Join the staff over at Bit Bar for a truly unique trivia experience! Get your friends and family together and team up to take on Tuesday Trivia Nights with Bit Bar.
Stop by Bit Bar on Tuesday nights for Karaoke, drinks, and delicious food for your entire crew. After 8pm Bit Bar becomes a 21+ venue so keep that in mind when making your plans.