North of Boston

Mornings at the Museum
2025-05-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-22 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-21 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Wenham Museum, 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, 01984, United States
🎉 Join us for Mornings at the Museum 🎉
Start your day with joy, discovery, and creativity—just for little ones and their grown-ups!
🗓 Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM
🎟 Free with Admission | Ages 0–5 | No Registration Needed
Experience drop-in fun for little learners like:
🧵 Hands-On History & Play: Step into the past with interactive play inspired by real museum objects.
🎨 Arts & Making: Hands-on crafts, open-ended projects, and sensory art activities.
🎵 Movement & Music: Sing, dance, and play your way through rhythm and motion.
📚 Literacy & Language: Build early literacy through stories, rhymes, and interactive reading fun.
🔬 STEM & Discovery: Explore science, nature, and problem-solving through playful experiments.
Discover something new every week—and make memories that last a lifetime!
Drop in with your little one to play, learn, and grow through joyful, play-based museum fun!
Learn more at: www.wenhammuseum.org/events

Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe presents One Act Wonders
2025-05-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-05-21 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-05-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-05-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-05-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Gloucester Stage, 267 East Main St., Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe presents “One-Act Wonders”, a program of four modern one-act plays exploring boundaries, loyalties, and the absurdities of life. The program will run for four performances only, at Gloucester Stage Theater, April 17th (7:30pm) 18th (7:30pm), and 19th (3pm + 7:30pm). Tickets are $28.

Improv Variety Show
2025-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Off Cabot Comedy & Events, 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
A fun night of Improv comedy featuring a diverse talent group from beginners to professionals alike… its sure to be a great time!!!

Newburyport’s Road to Revolution, Part V – Powder and Shot
2025-05-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Museum of Old Newbury, 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Curious about what Newbury(port) soldiers carried into battle?
Join Joel Bohy, Revolutionary War weapons expert, for an exploration of the muskets, swords, and accouterments carried during the earliest days of the American Revolution, featuring notable items from the Museum of Old Newbury collection. The session concludes with a musket drill outside.
Joel Bohy is the director of Historic Arms & Militaria at Blackstone Valley Auctions and a frequent appraiser of Arms & Militaria on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, an active member of the American Society of Arms Collectors, the Company of Military Historians, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, an instructor for Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archeologist, and an advisory board member of American Veterans Archaeological Recovery.

CLICK HERE for more information and to purchase tickets

Funded, in part, by the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism

Newburyport Art offers "Cornell Box Workshop with Belle Carver Struck"
2025-05-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Newburyport Art Association, 65 Water St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Cornell Box Workshop with Belle Carver Struck, is how Artist Joseph Cornell made exquisite, personal and complex dioramas. Maybe you want to build an alter to a person or a place. Perhaps you want to build a momento mori or memory garden. Maybe you just want to play intuitively and assemble objects. No prior experience necessary-Belle will bring examples and demonstrate options for assemblage. Bring your magic bits, weird stuff from your drawers, old hardware, cloth remainders, maps, old books, and ephemera for this two hour workshop with NAA’s own Belle Carver Struck!

Gallery Talk – C.B. Fisk Organs: Voicing an Organ, with John Schreiner & Steve Malionek
2025-05-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Cape Ann Museum Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Thursday, May 22, 2025
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Janet & William Ellery James Center, CAM Green
13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
CAM Members Free, Non-Members $10
Registration is required as space is limited.
Led by organ builders John Schreiner and Steve Malionek, learn about the art and science behind voicing an organ once it is installed at its final location.
John Schreiner will be joining the talk in place of Nami Hamada.
Steve Malionek has spent more than 30 years at C. B. Fisk experiencing most every aspect of organ building. Primarily a reed pipe voicer, he has also been involved in woodworking, pipe making, drawing and design in AutoCAD, CNC programming and operation, organ maintenance, among other tasks. When not in the organ shop, you can most likely find him in the orchestra pit of a musical theater production playing a variety of woodwind instruments.
For complete biographies, please visit: John Schreiner and Steve Malionek
To learn more about C.B. Fisk visit www.cbfisk.com
Image Credit: Opus 150, designed by C.B. Fisk in 2018 for Christ Church Episcopal, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Dana Sigall. Photo courtesy of C.B. Fisk.

Energy of Color | Exhibit at Cove Gallery
2025-05-22 12:00 - 19:00 | Cove Gallery, 37 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA, 01930
May 15 – June 8 | Curated by Nic Bannerman
Closing Reception: Sunday, June 8, 2pm-5pm
Gallery Hours: Sunday & Monday, 12pm-5pm; Thursday-Saturday, 12pm-7pm
“Color is more than a visual experience—it’s memory, mood, and moment.” Nic Bannerman, curator and painter
“Energy of Color” explores the profound relationship between artists and their environments. The distinct palettes of land, sea, and sky influence both conscious and instinctive artistic choices. The result is a body of work that pulses with life, emotion, and a deep sense of place. Experience a dynamic range of media, including painting, ceramics, and photography, all unified by their passionate engagement with color as a storytelling force.
This immersive and vibrant show features the work of North Shore artists who draw inspiration from the striking hues and natural beauty of Cape Ann and beyond. Whether rooted in the shimmering coastal light or influenced by far-flung travels, each piece in this exhibition offers a unique interpretation of color’s emotional and expressive power.
Exhibiting Artists: Nic Bannerman (Painter, Curator), Danette English (Ceramic Artist), Pia Juhl Nadel (Painter), Martin Sorger (Painter), and Jonathan Wilson (Photographer)

Newburyport Art presents "May Exhibits"
2025-05-22 11:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-21 11:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-20 11:00 - 17:00 | Newburyport Art Association, 65 Water St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Newburyport Art (NAA) presents three new exhibits on view at Newburyport Art. On view in the Sargent and Hartson Galleries is Paper Stories, featuring works by 84 artists. In the Hills Gallery is Light, Color… Action!, a featured artist exhibition by Adrienne Circelli-Silversmith. Lastly, in the Mural Gallery is Artist Spotlight Bill Balsam.
Paper Stories features 107 works on paper and works created out of paper. This show includes paper sculpture, watercolor, mixed media collage, pastel, printmaking and photography. Participating artists hail from across the east coast, and include work by NAA members and non-members. Visitors can expect to find themselves immersed in a wide range of subject matter, artistic techniques, and color palettes.
In the Hills Gallery, Light, Color….Action by Adrienne Circelli-Silversmith explores the nuances of light, shadow, and color. Adrienne writes, “in these still lifes I create dynamic compositions utilizing light and shadows on objects especially on vibrant color flowers. It is a cacophony of color that I hope brings joy to all that view it.” Adrienne’s exhibit features over 30 works from her exploration into this concept.
Artist Spotlight Bill Balsam is on view in the Mural Gallery, highlighting his photographs. Bill’s pieces include nature photography, landscape, coastal, and industrial. His show is on view from May 9th to May 22nd.
A joint reception will be held for Paper Stories and Light, Color, Action! On Saturday, May 10th from 4:00-6:00 PM.
The galleries are free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00am–5:00pm and Sunday from 1:00pm–5:00pm. Newburyport Art is closed on Mondays. The ground-floor Hills Gallery has an accessible entrance. More information, as well as an online gallery is available at newburyportart.org.
Founded in 1948, Newburyport Art is dedicated to promoting and exhibiting members’ work and to providing art education and access to the visual arts for the entire community.

Coffee and Conversations at the Carlson Education Center: Portrait of a Fisherman
2025-05-22 10:30 - 11:30 | Cape Ann Museum Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Carlson Education Center & Janet & William Ellery James Center
CAM Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA
CAM Members Free, Non-Members $5
Registration Required as space is limited.
Come for a presentation about American Impressionist, Edward Potthast (1857-1927), and his painting, Portrait of a Fisherman. Potthast was a prominent figure in American Art, exhibiting at the National Academy of Design and the Paris Salon whose paintings are characterized by their use of light and color.
Join us Thursdays for a unique experience. Led by a CAM docent, these deep dives into a single artwork or object from the Collection will begin with conversation, a short presentation and complimentary coffee at the Carlson Center, followed by a special trip to the James Center to view the object being discussed. No special knowledge needed! Just a curiosity to learn more in a small group setting and enjoy a unique experience.
Image Credit: Edward Potthast (1857-1927), Portrait of a Fisherman. 1900, oil on canvas. Gift of Marietta E. Lynch, given in memory of Margaret Farrell Lynch, 1999. [1999.70.1].

Revolutionary Tea on a Gambrel Roof
2025-05-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Tapley Memorial Hall, 13 Page Street, Danvers, M, 01923, United States
A dramatization of ‘A Gambrel Roof’, a poem by Lucy Larcom.
A creative multi-disciplinary theatrical presentation of a circa 1875 local poem about the historic Danvers Jeremiah Page House. Period music, and an art installation add to the illustration of the story:
In about 1770, when the British monarchy started taxing tea in the colonies, Jeremiah told Sarah that “no tea shall be drunk in this house”. However, while her husband was away one day, Sarah and two friends secretly had their tea ON the roof of the house. In Sarah’s words, “Upon a house is not within it”, so she was still obeying her husband’s wishes. This story was told to Anne L. Page, Jeremiah’s granddaughter, by a family friend many years later. Anne then told it to her friend Lucy Larcom, the famous Beverly poet. Lucy romanticized the story in the poem “A Gambrel Roof” written as the 100th birthday of our nation approached and published in the Atlantic Monthly.
There will be a Q&A session after the production.
Wheelchair accessible building and parking available. Additional parking in the Elm Street lot.
Donations appreciated
We are proud to participate in Mass Cultural Council’s Card to Culture program.
Danvers Historical Society: 978-777-1666 or E-mail to connect@danvershistory.org

Bonsai Workshop at Ipswich Ale Brewery
2025-05-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Ipswich Ale Brewery, Soffron Lane 2, Ipswich, M, 01938, United States
Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it.
This workshop will be hosted at Ipswich Ale Brewery. In January of 2016, the Ipswich Ale Brewery opened their onsite restaurant the Ipswich Ale Brewer’s Table, which features 15 tap lines and a diverse menu with a mix of tastes ranging from brewpub to New American cuisine. The restaurant is open daily for lunch and dinner.
Join us inside for a behind-the-scenes-peak of the brewery or join us on our dog-friendly brick patio.
Under 21 policy: Please contact Ipswich Ale Brewery for details regarding underage entry
For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at: https://bonsaibar.com/products/ipswich-ale-brewery

Music in the Gallery
2025-05-21 13:00 - 13:30 | Cape Ann Museum Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Wednesdays, April 16 – June 25, 2025
1:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.
Janet & William Ellery James Center, CAM Green
13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Free and open to the public.
Parking is first come, first served.
Join us Wednesdays, April – June in the James Center Gallery to enjoy music during your visit played by C.B. Fisk musicians on a continuo organ. For more information about C.B. Fisk please visit: www.cbfisk.com.
C.B. Fisk organists: Carl Klein, Tim McEwen, Ted Stoddard, Michael Kraft, Barbara Bruns, Mark Nelson, David Pike, along with Kathleen Adams. For biographies please visit: cbfisk.com
Image Credit: Opus 150, designed by C.B. Fisk in 2018 for Christ Church Episcopal, Philadelphia, PA. Photo courtesy of C.B. Fisk.

Story-Time & Craft Wednesday
2025-05-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
NEW PROGRAM ALERT!! Summer is the PERFECT time for outdoor story time and craft making! This BRAND NEW family event is an extension of our Newburyport Arts and Culture Shanties Program and will take place each Wednesday in the Pop Up Park on Merrimac Street – where the Shanties are currently located. Come join the fun this Wednesday and see what it’s all about!
Running each Wednesday until August 21st from 10 AM-12 PM
Free of charge, but donations are welcome

5-Day Bare Bones Wood Carving Workshop
2025-05-21 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-20 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-19 09:00 - 17:00 | Calvo Wood Carving School, 235 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Here is a great opportunity to learn the fundamentals of woodcarving in 5 days from a professional!
For those of you who cannot find time for the five consecutive days, this is what I do. If you take a two or three-day course you are taking the first two or three days of my five-day workshop which is broken up into daily learning chapters. So three days brings you to chapter three, two days to chapter two. The weekend workshops will give you a basic understanding of the skill of wood carving which includes hand-carving technique, sharpening, and designing skills among other topics but the full training takes five days. You will also do the carving projects to reinforce the hand techniques that we talk about so that you gain much needed muscle memory in your hands.
Some students may be satisfied with the information learned, others may choose to find their way back for another weekend and finish the last two or three days to get all the necessary techniques and insights. When you return, (it can be during that calendar year or the next) everyone else is at the beginning point on the start of the weekend, but you pick up where you left off to finish your training. That’s the story in a nutshell. Call me if you are looking for more info. I am happy to answer any questions.
All class days run from 9 am – 5 pm.
For more information:
Call: (978) 283-0231
Email: david@calvostudio.com
Website: https://www.davidcalvo.com/woodcarving_classes.html

5-Day Bare Bones Wood Carving Workshop
2025-05-21 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-20 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-19 09:00 - 17:00 | Calvo Wood Carving School, 235 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Learning woodcarving is a lot like learning how to write in a language. You need to know the letters of the alphabet and what is a vowel and what is a consonant. You need to learn how to put together a word and understand the meaning of it. Then you need to learn how to form a sentence and a paragraph that carries a theme. These are absolute necessities that you need to know in order to write. The same is true in woodcarving, there are absolute necessities you need to know in order to carve with intent and confidence. So in all truth, I need five days of your time in order to get the complete set of fundamentals into both your hands and your head.
However, I often get asked if I have weekend courses because of time restrictions. For those of you who cannot find time for the five consecutive days, this is what I do. If you take a two or three-day course you are taking the first two or three days of my five-day workshop which is broken up into daily learning chapters. So three days brings you to chapter three, two days to chapter two. The weekend workshops will give you a basic understanding of the skill of wood carving which includes hand-carving technique, sharpening, and designing skills among other topics but the full training takes five days. You will also do the carving projects to reinforce the hand techniques that we talk about so that you gain much-needed muscle memory in your hands.
Some students may be satisfied with the information learned, while others may choose to find their way back for another weekend and finish the last two or three days to get all the necessary techniques and insights. When you return, (it can be during that calendar year or the next) everyone else is at the beginning point on the start of the weekend, but you pick up where you left off to finish your training. That’s the story in a nutshell. Call me if you are looking for more info. I am happy to answer any questions.
All class days run from 9 am – 5 pm.
For more information:
Call: (978) 283-0231
Email: david@calvostudio.com
Website: https://www.davidcalvo.com/woodcarving_classes.html

Crane Beach Star Party
2025-05-19 20:30 - 22:00 | The Crane Estate, 310 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Join us for a star party with the North Shore Astronomy Club. Club members will bring telescopes and expertise to help us explore and view the dark sky from the Crane Beach parking lot. Bring your binoculars, scopes, starfinding apps, and curiosity. You may also want to bring: red light/head lamp, bug spray, water bottle, chair or blanket to sit on. This event is all ages, so bring the family!
Please arrive between 8-8:30pm – night sky viewing will begin at 8:30pm.
Here are some of the exciting things we may be able to see through the telescopes:
– Double star systems
– Quadruple and larger star systems
– Open clusters (collections of 100 to 1000 stars in our galaxy)
– Globular clusters (collections of 100’s of thousands of stars that orbit our galaxy)
– Nebula (exploded stars as well as star forming regions)
Learn more about our co-hosts, the North Shore Astronomy Club, here: https://nsaac.org/
Parking and meeting location for events will be emailed to registrants approximately 24 hours before the event start at the address provided upon registration. Please note that registration closes 24 hours before the start of the event and we will not be able to accommodate walk-ins or on-site sales. Thank you for understanding.
Space is limited for this event and pre-registration is required. This event is suited for all ages.

Cape Ann Youth Chorus
2025-05-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Kristina Martin & Thomas Smoker, co-directors
Rockport Music’s Cape Ann Youth Chorus brings a program full of fun and joy with their inaugural spring concert.
ABOUT THE CAPE ANN YOUTH CHORUS
Rockport Music’s Cape Ann Youth Chorus provides a comprehensive musical experience in an inclusive and supportive environment for young singers ages 8 and up. Singers participate in weekly rehearsals, concerts at different community events and at the Shalin Liu Performance Center. Singers in the chorus join a wonderfully supportive community that values high artistic excellence and diverse musical programming that reflects the Cape Ann region within a global context.
The vision for Rockport Music education programming is to provide engaging and interactive programming of all musical genres throughout the community to encourage curiosity, participation and creativity through music and the arts.
Free, Reservations Encouraged

Boston String Academy
2025-05-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
Enjoy an inspirational performance from the talented youth musicians from the Boston String Academy. Serving 130 students each year in the Greater Boston community, the BSA was cofounded in 2012 by violinists Mariesther and Marielisa Alvarez, twin sisters who learned music in Venezuela’s storied national music education program, El Sistema, before attending Boston Conservatory together. The youth ensemble performs roughly 10 concerts per year at such notable halls as Carnegie Hall and the Hatch Memorial Shell with Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
Free, Reservations Encouraged
“I left the concert feeling uplifted artistically and spiritually, recognizing that I just witnessed the best possible outcome of music education.”
– Cynthia Price-Glynn, Dean of Harp/Guitar at the Boston Conservatory
