Events North of Boston

Connie Converse at 100: America’s Cassandra

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission Advance registration recommended. When the music of the previously unknown Connie Converse was released in 2009, decades after she deliberately disappeared in 1974 (never to be heard from again), it created a new reference point in American music, and a need to rewrite...

Music in the Atrium: Celebrate Mother Earth with Johnny Fireseed

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Atrium Included with admission Salem residents and workers always get free admission. This program will contribute to the sound in the Atrium. If you would like to borrow noise canceling headphones, please pick up a KultureCity bag at the coatroom. ABOVE IMAGE: Illustrations by Chris Cyr. This month,...

PEM Reads: Donna Walker-Kuhne: Champions for the Arts

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission Preregister and receive free general admission for the day of the event. Join author and community engagement legend Donna Walker-Kuhne as she delivers a keynote address on engaging audiences today. She will discuss her upcoming book, Champions for the Arts, and her classic...

Spring Equinox Sound Bathing with Healing Haus

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Anila Quayyum Agha’s All the Flowers Are For Me Gallery $5 Members and Salem residents; $10 nonmembers No experience with sound bathing or mindfulness is needed to participate. Come as you are — we’ll meet you there! Sealed water is permitted in the galleries during meditation. We recommend...

$5 – $10

Create Night with Erica Feldmann of HausWitch Home + Healing

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Main Atrium $10 members, $20 nonmembers Join Erica Feldmann, the owner of Salem’s Hauswitch Home + Healing, for a special Create Night based on her book Intention Obsession: Rituals and Witchcraft for Every Season. Observe the spring equinox hands-on with a selected project from the book! Book purchase...

Curator Conversation at PEM: Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission; same-day tickets required. Tickets available at the Admissions or Information desks. Join us for an insider's look at Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks with Karina Corrigan, Associate Director–Collections and the H. A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export...

PEM Presents | The New York Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Saturday: $25 members; $35 nonmembers Sunday: $25 members; $35 nonmembers (includes admission for the day) Saturday performance may include adult themes, humor, language and content. Sunday performance is family-focused and appropriate for all ages. Join the New York Neo-Futurists for an off-the-wall theater experience at PEM....

$25 – $35

PEM Presents | The New York Neo-Futurists: The Infinite Wrench

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Saturday: $25 members; $35 nonmembers Sunday: $25 members; $35 nonmembers (includes admission for the day) Saturday performance may include adult themes, humor, language and content. Sunday performance is family-focused and appropriate for all ages. Join the New York Neo-Futurists for an off-the-wall theater experience at PEM....

$25 – $35

PEM Presents | Shayok Misha Chowdhury: RHEOLOGY

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission Preregistration is required for this event. Award-winning playwright and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury will spend a week as an artist in residence at PEM, developing his new play RHEOLOGY. This work is a performance memoir created with Chowdhury’s mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty....

Event: The Mysteries of Anna Eva Fay

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission This event includes loud, sudden noises. Join Jennifer and Gene Yee of Yee Magik to unveil the life and secrets of spiritualist and magician Anna Eva Fay! Born in 1851, Fay toured internationally as a medium and mentalist and became a household name...

Event: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Create Space Studios FREE All visitors enjoy free admission for the day! Programming begins at 11 am. Join us as we celebrate the legacy and leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Come explore America, A Hymnal, David Boxer’s The Black Books, Alison Saar’s Weight and other...

Free

Event: Curator Conversation: Conjuring the Spirit World with George Schwartz

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

Peabody Essex Museum  

Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Know before you go In-person event Location: Morse Auditorium Included with admission; preregistration required. Tickets available at the Admissions or Information desks. Join us for a captivating conversation with George Schwartz, the curator of Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Mediums, and Magic, and explore the exhibition's origins and its connections to local North Shore stories....