Salem Weekend At A Glance During May 21-23

Press release from Destination Salem:

May 20, 2021

Salem Weekend at a Glance: May 21-23, 2021

All events run Friday-Sunday.

all-day
Salem State Spring Dance Festival

Spend some time at Salem State’s Spring Dance Film Festival, featuring work by Salem State dance students and faculty. The films were created in a variety of interior and exterior locations with a wide range of soundscapes. Some reflect the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, while others are personal memoirs about life and art.
View the festival virtually here.

10 am-5 pm
“Salem Stories” at the Peabody Essex Museum

Using selections from PEM’s vast collection, see more than 100 works, including paintings, sculpture, textiles, decorative arts, photos, natural history specimens, manuscripts, posters, books, eyewitness accounts, and even a murder weapon. Advance tickets required.
pem.org

10 am-5 pm
“Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecked” at the Peabody Essex Museum

The subject of shipwrecks has long held broad fascination among artists and the public alike. Through this new series of dramatic depictions of historic shipwrecks, American artist Alexis Rockman symbolizes the impact that the migration of goods, people, plants, and animals has had on our planet.
pem.org

12 pm-5 pm
Broom Making, Book Binding

Craft a rustic broom from scratch or bind your own leather grimoire, book of shadows, spell book, art or dream journal- something for all your creative and magickal works! Personalize your projects with pendants, herbs, dried flowers, bones, charms, stencils. Hourly by appointment.
thewitcherysalem.com

This press release was produced by Destination Salem. The views expressed here are the author’s own.