Salem Weekend At A Glance: May 14-16

Press release from Destination Salem:

May 12, 2021

All events run Friday-Sunday.

all-day
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is a biennial poetry festival, showcasing poetry readings and workshops, a small press and literary fair, panels, poetry slams, visual arts, and open-air performances.
festival.masspoetry.org

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.