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PEM/PM Artopia – When Community Takes Over

Mar 202014

We’ve highlighted a number of PEM/PM events here at Salem Main Streets, but tonight’s event is going to be extra-special. The third Thursday of every month, the Peabody Essex Museum keeps their doors open late for a specifically-themed event – Steampunk, French culture, manga, you name it. But for this month’s “Artopia“, the museum is letting the local arts community take over!

Why is this so important to Salem Main Streets? Well, for a few reasons. First off, we love any chance to see our local arts community shine. We also feel that this type of partnership between a large institution, smaller creative initiatives, and artistic individuals is one of the many things that makes the Peabody Essex Museum so unique. But mostly because you’ll get a preview of this year’s Salem Arts Festival!

The Salem Arts Festival is a free, three-day festival located in downtown Salem, running from June 6 through June 8. A project of Salem Main Streets, the festival also represents a collaboration of local arts groups and invested individuals. For the first time, the festival will have a central theme – and this year’s theme will be SPICE! Also for the first time this year, the festival will feature a collaborative community-built public art installation, lovingly named “HulaArt“.

Tonight’s Artopia event allows the collaborators behind the Salem Arts Festival to give you a little taste of what you’ll see in June, including:

HulaArt making with the Salem Public Space Project and The Phoenix School
A “photo safari” tour exploring the museum’s Spice Trade collection with Salem Food Tours and Social Palates
A spice painting demo by Heather Reid-Barratt of the Salem Arts Association
Hoop dancers on the dance floor (always a festival favorite!), including Siren of the Circle, Eternal Lotus Collective, Family Fuego, and Spiral Glyphics

What better way to celebrate the first day of spring than to get a glimpse of summer? See you on the dance floor!

Eat, Drink and Be Salem for Salem Spring Restaurant Week

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Mar 162014

Dining is always a special event in Salem Ma. We have so many fine and diverse eating establishments that you can easily eat out every night for a week and not consume the same foods. To prove that and to entice more fans, the Chamber of Commerce once again serves up Salem Restaurant Week.

Actually it is two weeks: Sunday-Thursday this week, and repeated next week March 23-27. A two-course prix-fixe dinner menu for $18, or a three-course prix-fixe dinner menu for $28, or both will be on the special menus from participating restaurants. (this does not include drinks, taxes or gratuities).
These well known dining destinations of the North Shore include:
62 Restaurant and Wine Bar, 62 Wharf Street, Salem, MA – (978) 744-0062
Adriatic Restaurant and Bar,155 Washington Street, Salem, MA – Bella Verona,107 Essex Street, Salem, MA – (978) 825-9911
Capt’s Waterfront Grill & Club, 94 Wharf Street, Salem, MA – (978) 741-0555
Finz Seafood & Grill, 76 Wharf Street, Salem, MA – (978) 744-0000
Flying Saucer Pizza Company, 118 Washington Street, Salem, MA – (978) 594-8189
The Grapevine Restaurant, 26 Congress Street, Salem, MA – (978) 745-9335
Longboards Cafe & Bar, 72 Wharf Street, Salem, MA – (978) 745-6659
Nathaniel’s at the Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Square West, Salem, MA – (978) 825-4311
Naumkeag Ordinary, 118 Washington Street, Salem, MA – (978) 744-4968
O’Neill’s Irish Pub, 120 Washington Street, Salem, MA – (978) 740-8811
Opus, 87 Washington Street, Salem, MA – (978) 744-9600
Regatta Pub at the Waterfront Hotel, 225 Derby Street, Salem, MA – (978) 740-8788
Rockafellas, 231 Essex Street, Salem, MA – (978) 745-2411
Salem Beer Works, 278 Derby Street, Salem, MA – (978) 745-2337
Tavern In The Square, 89 Washington Street Salem, MA – 978-740-2337
Thai Place, Museum Place Mall, Salem, MA – (978) 741-8008
Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall, 43 Church Street, Salem, MA – (978) 745-7665
Victoria Station, 86 Wharf Street, Salem, MA – (978) 745-3400
Village Tavern, 168 Essex Street, Salem, MA – (978) 744-2858

Reservations are not required but strongly suggested, as this is becoming a well-known event along the North Shore. Bon appetit!

Salem Film Fest – Come to Salem, See the World

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Feb 282014

Global spotlights focusing on Salem, MA, are not unusual during October with Haunted Happenings festivities ensue. But we’re now getting used to world-wide attention and engagement in March for the Salem Film Fest.

From March 6 – 13, the largest all-documentary festival in New England will be presented at multiple venues in Salem by an all-volunteer organization of passionate film-lovers who have worked long hours to really make it a festival of film and more.

According to the website, “Besides presenting great documentary films, Salem Film Fest offers a rick schedule of discussions, parties, meet-and-greets, family-friendly screenings, student film showcases, and opportunities to meet visiting filmmakers in intimate settings.”

To just list the films would not do justice to the quality and variety selected, therefore we suggest you go to their website for the full effect.

To highlight the importance of this event, look no further than the fact that two-thirds of the featured filmmakers from all over the world are expected to attend and engage in post-screening dialogue.

Businesses around town are starting to decorate their windows in anticipation of this special festival, and “SFF super-fans” already have their viewing strategies planned for the full festival. This is a truly unique Salem event that you can’t miss!

Festival passes and General Admission tickets are currently on sale and can be purchased through the website or at the CinemaSalem box office.

Salem’s So Sweet Launch Party- A Delight for the Senses

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Feb 082014

Chocolate, wine and great conversation awaited a capacity crowd at Rockafella’s Colonial Hall, Friday evening. It was a successful Salem’s So Sweet launch party for the 12^th Annual Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival.

Kylie Sullivan, Manager of Salem Main Streets reported that “The room was absolutely bursting at the seams with good food and drink; you could see, taste, and smell delights from crepes filled with chocolate & strawberries to shrimp poached in chocolate stout, accompanied by everything from chocolate chai to pinot noir to honey mead.”

She added “Salem’s So Sweet really highlights how strong the Salem food scene has become.”

Salem Main Streets would also like to thank all the participating businesses:

62 Restaurant & Wine Bar, Artemisia Botanical, Caffé Graziani , Captain Dusty’s Ice Cream, Capt.’s Waterfront Bar & Grill, Finz Seafood & Grill, Flying Saucer Pizza Company.

Grapevine Restaurant, Gulu-Gulu Café, Harbor Sweets, Melita Fiore, Pamplemousse, Rockafellas, Salem Beer Works.

Salem Waterfront Hotel & Marina, Turtle Alley Chocolates, Victoria Station & Vic’s Boathouse , Village Tavern Grill and Oyster Bar, We All Scream Ice Scream Co., Ye Olde Pepper Co.

And a special thanks to our hosts, Colonial Hall at Rockafellas!

Salem Main Streets and the Salem Chamber of Commerce, along with local retailers, restaurants and businesses also invite you to attend events within Salem leading up to Valentine’s Day.

This year there will be more than 14 large ice sculptures, chocolate samplings and great discounts around downtown Salem the weekend of February 8-9, with some continuing until February 16th in celebration of Valentine’s Day!

The beautiful ice sculptures will grace downtown Salem starting February 8, with themes including a seahorse, a rubber ducky, a sailboat, a film projector, and more!

Many downtown businesses will offer discounts and special offerings during the festival. With over 60 places in which to dine, downtown Salem is the perfect place to have a romantic dinner or casual lunch.

Highlights for this weekend:

Salem Trolley from 12 to 4, will leave on the hour and half-hour, $1 / person;

Chocolate fountain at Maria’s Sweet Somethings;

Make your own Valentine’s at Mud Puddle Toys – 12 to 3pm;

Chocolate tea samplings a Artemisia Botanicals 11am to 6pm;

Pamplemousse – Wine and chocolate tasting Saturday 2 to 4pm, mead tasting Sunday 1 to 3pm;

PEM Shop giving away Harbor Sweets Saturday while supplies last;

Phillips House – 2 for 1 admission all weekend, Love Letters Saturday at 2pm

Once again, Golden Tickets will be available in downtown Salem for a chance to win the Salem’s So Sweet Gift Basket. Pick up your Golden Ticket at a participating location and have it validated at participating businesses (no purchase necessary) to enter to win a Salem’s So Sweet Gift Basket which features many fine items from area retailers.

Chocolate Gets the Salem Treatment for Valentine’s Day

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Jan 302014

What can we say? The city that gives Halloween an entire month to be celebrated, can’t just do Valentine’s… “Day”. We wrap it up into a nice festival package which runs from Feb 8-16. The 12th annual Salem’s So Sweet, Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival kicks it all off Friday, February 7th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, at Colonial Hall in Rockafellas, 227 Essex Street.

That is the night when everywhere you turn will be table after table of wine and chocolate samplings from premier Salem restaurants, stores and sweet shops. Within the walls of Colonial Hall you will sample light & dark chocolate, chocolate covered fruits or nuts, chocolate ice cream or mousse. Well, you get the point.

Tickets can be purchased by calling 978-744-0004, online at SalemSoSweet.EventBrite.com, or in person at the Salem Chamber of Commerce, 265 Essex Street, Suite 101. See the festival homepage for a full list of participating restaurants.

Kylie Sullivan, Manager of Salem Main Streets, says, “This event is the highlight of the season and sells out quickly!”

Salem Main Streets, the Salem Chamber of Commerce, and Destination Salem, along with local retailers, restaurants and businesses also invite you to attend events within Salem leading up to Valentine’s Day.

The beautiful ice sculptures will grace downtown Salem starting February 8, with themes including a seahorse, a rubber ducky, a sailboat, a film projector, and more!

The Salem Trolley will be offering trolley rides around the festival route (weather permitting) on February 8 & 9 for a minimal fee. More information about trolley routes, times, and price will be available closer to the festival.

In celebration of the chocolate festival, many of Salem’s finest restaurants will feature special chocolate offerings on their menus, including desserts, cocktails, and inventive sauces. Participating Salem retailers will offer in-store promotions, innovative displays and items geared toward chocolate and Valentine’s Day, ranging from a chocolate fondue fountain to discounts on diamond jewelry.

Specific store and restaurant offerings will be available on brochures distributed throughout the downtown or online at http://www.salemmainstreets.org.

Once again, Golden Tickets will be available in downtown Salem for a chance to win the Salem’s So Sweet Gift Basket. Pick up your Golden Ticket at a participating location and have it validated at participating businesses (no purchase necessary) to enter to win a Salem’s So Sweet gift basket which features many fine items from area retailers.

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