North of Boston

Beauport Hotel Pack the Bus Toy Drive
2024-11-30 08:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-26 08:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Beauport Hotel Gloucester, 55 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Help brighten the holidays for local children by donating a new, unwrapped toy to our annual Pack the Bus Toy Drive! Let’s pack our Beauport Beach Bus with gifts that will make this holiday unforgettable for children in our community. Our Pack the Bus Toy Drive supports the Cape Ann Kids Holiday Fund. The Cape Ann Kids Holiday Fund is a collaboration between Action Inc., Pathways for Children, and Wellspring House that focuses on helping to ease the financial burden of the holidays for families living on Cape Ann. Your thoughtful contribution will make a big splash in our community, bringing joy to children who need it most. Learn More & Make a Cash Donation: https://bit.ly/3O84EdT

Seaport Grille Holiday Toy Drive
2024-11-30 08:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-26 08:00 - 20:00 | Seaport Grille, 6 Rowe Square, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Spread holiday cheer at Seaport Grille! Join us in giving back to children of local families in our community this season by donating a new, unwrapped toy to help brighten the holidays. Our Toy Drive supports Cape Ann Kids Holiday Fund. The Cape Ann Kids Holiday Fund is a collaboration between Action Inc., Pathways for Children, and Wellspring House that focuses on helping to ease the financial burden of the holidays for families living on Cape Ann. Together, we can make the holidays a little brighter! Learn More & Make a Cash Donation: https://bit.ly/3O84EdT

Small Business Saturday at Cider Hill Farm
2024-11-30 08:00 - 14:00 | Cider Hill Farm, 45 Fern Avenue, Amesbury, M, 01913, United States
With 100+ locally sourced goods including cheeses, candles, soaps, coffee, treats, sauces, butters, maple and pet treats, it’s easy to shop local at Cider Hill Farm. Here’s the schedule:
OUTDOOR TREE STAND ∙ 8 am – 6 pm – Pick out your trees and holiday greens in the Upper Courtyard.
FARM STORE ∙ 8 am – 6 pm – Stock up on groceries, baked goods, hard cider, gingerbread kits, honey, farmhouse gifts and more for the winter.
WINTER WONDERLAND PHOTO OP ∙ 8 am – 3 pm – Snap a holiday pic with family and friends.
FREE JAM TASTING ∙ 10 am – 2 pm – Our jam maker has created 2 new jams this season including our new Holiday Jam made with strawberries, cranberries and spices.
HOT COCOA BAR ∙ 10 am – 2 pm
MEET THE MAKERS ∙ 10 am – 2 pm – Here’s who’s coming to sample and sell:
– Twisted Crochet – Peggy is here with handmade hats and more.
– SAIA Soups – Nancy is serving small batch Italian soups.
– Big Jims – Jim is sampling assorted spice rubs and blends.
– Simply Grateful – Missy is bringing 100% recycled reusable wooden ornaments and more.
– Cape Ann Fresh Catch – Get to know your local fishermen.
– KAHA Coffee Roasters – Tyler and Sal are sampling coffee. Stock up for winter!
– Bracelet Babes – Kiddo entrepreneurs making wearable art.
– Simply Abby – Abby is bringing handmade holiday cards and seasonal stocking stuffers

Self-Guided Fall Orchard Walk at Cider Hill Farm
2024-11-30 08:00 - 14:00 | Cider Hill Farm, 45 Fern Avenue, Amesbury, M, 01913, United States
Bundle up this November and get out amongst the farm’s 10,000 fruit trees. Enjoy the fresh air and views of Historic Amesbury as you walk through the orchards. Open Saturdays and Sundays 8 a.m. – 2 p.m from Saturday 11/2 – Sunday 11/30. FREE. No registration required. Closed weekdays and weekend afternoons. Grab a cup of hot cider or cocoa from the farm store and take advantage of a beautiful space on the North Shore! Area closures possible.

Karaoke with DJ Lou
2024-11-29 20:30 - 23:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Don’t miss our second Open Mic Karaoke night at The Cut with DJ Lou on Friday, November 29th! Grab a mic, showcase your talent, and enjoy a fantastic selection of food and drinks while you cheer on your friends or perform yourself.
21+ / 8:30PM / $5 Cover at Door

The Popperpuff Girls: A Night of Sabrina Carpenter, Charlie XCX, and Chappel Roan!
2024-11-29 20:00 - 22:00 | Off Cabot Comedy & Events, 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Miz Diamond Wigfall is ready to give an event like no other. Welcome to the Off Cabot Theater The Popperpuff girls…featuring Miss Michael and Maxine Harrison. This is a night for the pop girlies and we will be celebrating the music of Sabrina Carpenter, Charlie XCX and the icon Chappel Roan. See these three queens unite for a fierce Black Friday pop music extravaganza. Get ready for Brat Fall to continue on, drink those espresso martinis, and head down to the Pink Pony Club of Beverly.

Caspian
2024-11-29 20:00 | The Cabot, 286 Cabot Street, Beverly, CA, 01915, United States
Long-running cinematic rock band Caspian don’t want you to call their fifth album a “redemption,” a “comeback,” a “rise from the ashes,” or any of the other sentiments that emerge when bands return from nearly five years of silence. “I’ve grown weary of reading about bands discuss the renewing, rehabilitative properties their most recent [album] has had on them,” says guitarist/keyboardist Philip Jamieson. “They incur corrosion, come close to running out of gas, descend into the dark abyss, and finally emerge on the other side with a record that has given them crystal clear perspective and a confident path forward. On Circles is not that record.”
Instead, this majestic collision of post-rock, metal, shoegaze, electronics, noise, minimalism and ambient music is an existential meditation, an acceptance of the cyclical nature of both life and career. Recorded at Studio 4 in Conshohocken, PA, by producer Will Yip (Code Orange, Defeater, Quicksand, Turnstile), On Circles marks the most organic writing and recording sessions in Caspian’s 15-year history. Together for four weeklong songwriting sessions, the band (joined by propulsive new drummer Justin Forrest), opted for music gleaming with visceral impact instead of over-thought tangles, over-arching concepts and drawn-out crescendos
On Circles is an art-rock record swirling with fourth-world saxophones, dubby textures, 7/8 rhythms and hard-sawed cello from Jo Quail (Myrkyr, Winterfylleth, Poppy Ackroyd). The band stretches out to make room for guitarist Jonny Ashburn’s melodic interplay (“Division Blues”), bassist Jani Zubkovs’ punk shredding (“Collapser”) and the mandolin of founding member Calvin Joss (“Flowers of Light”). Guitarist Erin Burke-Moran wrote a pastoral-to-epic, chamber-rock journey (“Ishmael”) as a tribute to eight months spent on the Appalachian trail. The wistful “Nostalgist” features vocals from Kyle Durfey of fellow Northeastern alterna-rock grandeur artists Piano Becomes the Teeth. For the first time, each track is meant to stand alone.
“They’re just songs that we got together and wrote over the course of a year while trying to have a good time and reclaim whatever it is that’s simple about all of this,” says Jamieson. “Don’t get me wrong, we kicked our own asses constantly and stayed up staring at the ceiling thinking about song structures all night for a year here … but being free from the yolk of having our music relentlessly try to answer the un-answerable was emancipating and humbling.”
The band’s deeply personal 2015 LP Dust and Disquiet was a concept record about grief, dealing with the emotions after losing friend and bassist Chris Friedrich in 2013. After the two years of global touring that followed, Caspian took their first-ever long term hiatus – or what Jamieson called “an overdue emotional inventory.” The reflection raised questions about the friction between artistic inspiration and financial reality, the increasingly demystified trudge of road life, and if “the healing power of music” is even a realistic expectation after all. During that time Jamieson personally traversed an “ugly grey underworld of depression, lethargy and emotional ambivalence,” inspiring the lyrics to the title track.
“Music is a mediator to the unspeakable, and the unspeakable is always by definition out of reach, moving somewhere invisibly along the closed curve of a circle,” says Jamieson. “Acknowledging all this, what if we just made an album for the simple sake of making music, with as few existential expectations as we are capable, with as much of our self-importance sidelined as possible in order to facilitate that?”
Eschewing many of the giant, enveloping wall-of-guitar build-ups of past Caspian albums, the songs inside On Circles even take circular paths, with no beginning or ends.
“Life isn’t a series of epic crescendos, ” says Jamieson. “Sometimes it’s the hint of one (‘Onsra’), or a sequential series of crescendos that come in waves but aren’t set up to go for an obvious jugular (‘Wildblood,’ ‘Ishmael’), or end up in a completely different place than where you expected, but pivot at the very last moment back to their beginning (‘Division Blues’).”

Prima Facie
2024-11-29 19:00 - 21:05 | Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport, MA, 01966, United States
The Empire Street production of Jodie Comer’s (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas.
“West End debuts don’t come much more astonishing than this” — Daily Telegraph
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
Prima Facie takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game. Justin Martin directs this solo tour de force, captured live in 2022 during a sold out run at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End.
★★★★ “West End debuts don’t come much more astonishing than this” (Daily Telegraph)
★★★★ “masterful West End debut” (Guardian)
★★★★ “Jodie Comer takes the stage by storm” (The Times)
★★★★ “an extraordinarily gutsy and rich performance by Jodie Comer” (Evening Standard)
Rating: R
Approx. runtime: 125 minutes

A Colorful Christmas at Castle Hill
2024-11-29 16:00 - 20:00 | Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, Argilla Road 290, Ipswich, M, 01938, United States
Visiting Castle Hill at Christmas is a time-honored tradition. This year’s A Colorful Christmas is a feast for the eyes. Each room in the 1920s mansion, summer home to the Chicago industrialist Richard Teller Crane, Jr. and his family, has been decorated in a different color or color scheme. Guests can enjoy complimentary refreshments and the Castle Hill Gift Shop. Timed entry limits the number of guests per hour. Sensory-friendly hours with limited capacity and noise reductions have been scheduled for Saturday and Sunday mornings, December 7 – 22, 10 a.m. -11:30 a.m.

Newburyport Art presents the Members' Holiday Show
2024-11-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-27 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-26 11:00 - 17:00 | Newburyport Art Association, 65 Water St, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
Newburyport Art (NAA) is thrilled to introduce the 2024 Members’ Holiday Show, featuring just over 100 works by Newburyport Art members. The exhibition is on view in the Sargent and Harston Galleries, running concurrently with the Holiday Gift Shop and Then & Now, a featured artist exhibition by Lance Hidy.
The Members Holiday Show is a highly-anticipated and much-loved exhibition by the Newbuyrport Art Members. Each artist could submit a maximum of one work to this exhibit, allowing the NAA to feature a large variety of member artwork! Artwork includes printmaking, sculpture, glass, mixed media, collage, oils, acrylic, photography and more.
In this exhibit you will find breathtaking landscapes, colorful abstracts, and a mix of winter, summer and fall scenes. With the work of over 100 contributing artists, visitors will find an impressive variety of media, styles, and techniques. Join artists and the community for an opening reception on Saturday, November 23rd 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.

Deck The Halls Holiday Celebration at Hammond Castle Museum
2024-11-29 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-28 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-27 10:00 - 16:00 | Hammond Castle Museum, 80 Hesperus Avenue, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Join us for the 2024 Holiday Season as we proudly present our sixth annual “Deck The Halls” holiday celebration! Delight in the enchanting ambiance of Christmas and White Birch trees, meticulously arranged garlands, festive wreaths, and the warm embrace of candlelight that will envelop you throughout your tour of the Hammond Castle Museum. Immerse yourself in a bygone era of opulent tranquility and holiday grandeur that promises to be unlike any other experience on the North Shore.

Beauport Hotel Thanksgiving by the Sea
2024-11-28 11:30 - 18:30 | Beauport Hotel Gloucester, 55 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Seashells & stuffing – our holiday tradition, coastal edition.
Gather with family and friends for a sophisticated seaside celebration at Beauport Hotel and 1606 Restaurant & Oyster Bar, where Thanksgiving takes on a coastal twist. Indulge in an array of gourmet dishes, blending comforting flavors with the fresh essence of the ocean.
We invite you to experience two elevated dining options: a refined New England Thanksgiving Buffet in the Beauport Grand Ballroom for $94 per adult and $49 per child, or a Prix Fixe coastal feast in our 1606 Restaurant & Oyster Bar for including a sparkling complimentary welcome toast for $99 per adult (children’s menu available upon request).
Reservations with a credit card are required. You may also call to book your reservation at (978) 491-5090.
Price does not include tax and gratuity. Credit Card to hold reservations are required. Cancellations made after 11/21 at 9PM will be subject to a $67 per adult fee and $30 per child fee for the Buffet Dinner, and a $67 per adult fee for the Prix Fixe Dinner.

The Reverie Sessions Presents: Thanksgiving Eve Bash with DJ Skully and DJ Vito
2024-11-27 20:00 - 23:30 | The Cut, 177 Main Street , Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
Come celebrate Thanksgiving Eve at The Cut Live thanks to our friends at Reverie 73!
DJ Vito and DJ Skully will be sharing The Cut stage for a night you’ll be thankful for.
21+ / 8:00p / $5 Cover at Door (cash or card)

Greta Goucho's 2nd Annual Thanksgiving Bingo Bash!
2024-11-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Off Cabot Comedy & Events, 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
GRETA WILL BE JOINING OUR pre-THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION for another BINGO extravaganza! In her own words, “Dot it if you got it!! Classic bingo, fabulous prizes and a whole lot of sass! Are you feeling lucky? Because Greta has got your number!” Bring your family & friends and grab a table before they go/go/go!

Wenham Wednesdays
2024-11-27 13:15 - 16:00 | Wenham Museum, 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, 01984, United States
Early release drop-off program for Hamilton-Wenham elementary students
October 2, 2024: LEGO Club
October 9: Origami & Papercrafts
October 16: Board Game Club
October 23: Seasonal Craft – Pumpkin Decorating
October 30: Drawing League (One time only!)
November 6, 2024: LEGO Club
November 13: Board Game Club
November 20: Seasonal Craft – Turkey Draw-a-long and Gratitude Craft
December 4, 2024: LEGO Club
December 11: Board Game Club
December 18: Seasonal Craft – Holiday Ornament / Winter Craft
Enjoy an afternoon at the museum with friends
Bring a snack
Free build with LEGO or take on a building challenge prompt
Explore the museum galleries until it is time to go home
Every Wednesday during the school year, Wenham Wednesdays will feature activities such as craft projects, board games, LEGO building, paper crafts, and more – plus time for students to explore the museum galleries with friends.
Sign up for one Wednesday, or every Wednesday!
Learn more: www.wenhammuseum.org/wenham-wednesdays

Story-Time & Craft Wednesday
2024-11-27 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

Seaport Grille Thanksgiving To-Go
2024-11-27 | Seaport Grille, 6 Rowe Square, Gloucester, MA, 01930, United States
From harvest to home, Thanksgiving is on us here at Seaport Grille!
Starting at $70, pick up your on-the-go Thanksgiving feast for two, featuring a Traditional Turkey Dinner including White & Dark Meat Turkey, Stuffing, Whipped Potatoes, Whipped Butternut Squash, Green Bean Casserole with Crispy Onion Topping, Cranberry Sauce, Gravy, and Dinner Rolls with Butter.
Elevate your Dinner with a Bottle of Wine:
Chardonnay: Douglas Hill, +$38 | Hess Allomi, +$54
Cabernet: Douglas Hill, +$38 | Hess Allomi, +$60
Looking to make the holiday just a bit sweeter? We are excited to be offering Thanksgiving Pies To-Go again this year! Choose from four pie choices, including Pumpkin, Pecan, Apple Crumble, and Oreo Cookie Cream for $22 each.
We will be taking Thanksgiving Dinner To-Go orders from now until Friday, November 22nd. Pickup will be Wednesday, November 27th. We will be taking Pie To-Go orders from now until Sunday, November 24. Pickup will be on Wednesday, November 27th.
Please call 978-282-9799 to order. Credit card required upon placing order. Does not include MA state tax.
