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HDSNA Blog and News - A place to read neighborhood news and information provided by HDSNA
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
March Events Destination Salem
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Salem Transfer Station Opening for Storm Clean-Up
Salem
Transfer Station Opening for Storm Clean-Up
Yard waste
drop-off for March
10-11
Following
the major storm of March 2-3, the Salem Transfer Station on Swampscott Road
will be open for yard waste drop-off by Salem residents with proof of residency on Saturday,
March 10th from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and on Sunday, March
11th from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Yard
waste should be dropped off in a paper yard waste bag or dumped loose at the
designated area inside the site. Please do not leave yard waste outside of the
fence or gates, as it may obstruct traffic on Swampscott Road. Yard waste in
plastic bags will not be accepted.
SALEM ARTS FESTIVAL 10th ANNIVERSARY – CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
SALEM
ARTS FESTIVAL 10th ANNIVERSARY – CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Salem Arts
Festival announces an invitation for the community to participate in the
festival’s 10th year, running June 1 through June 3, 2018. Over 5,000 people
regularly attend the family-friendly festival, transforming downtown Salem, MA
into an opportunity for the arts community to showcase a wide range of talents.
The festival includes a gallery of juried artists’ work in Old Town Hall,
outdoor stage venues for performance and dance, an artist and artisan street
fair, a collaborative public arts project, and much more!
"Salem is
busting at the seams with visual artists, musicians, poets, dancers, makers,
and creative individuals of all types. It’s one of the many reasons people love
living and visiting here," said Kylie Sullivan, Executive Director of
Salem Main Streets, co-organizer of the Salem Arts Festival. "In
celebration of our 10 year anniversary, we will focus the festival around the
Salem Main Streets themes of ‘Live, Work, Play.’ I’m very excited to see the
different ways we can use the arts to explore what it means to live, work, and
play in Salem.”
The Salem Arts
Festival is especially pleased to announce that the festival, initially run as
a project of Salem Main Streets, has expanded this year to be run in
collaboration with the Creative Collective. The Creative Collective is a group
of invested creative professionals with the mission of connecting creativity,
community and commerce. John Andrews, Creative Director, shared his thoughts
about this partnership. “I am very excited to partner on another project with
Salem Main Streets and expand the impact that the festival has on Salem and
support the over 100 artists, performers, artisan vendors, and creatives that
participate in this dynamic event.”
Applications for
performers and street fair vendors are now live at salemartsfestival.com,
with a deadline of April 7th. The juried gallery will be selected by an on-site
review process again this year, to be held the weekend before the festival, May
25 through May 28. Artists interested in the gallery should complete an Intent
to Apply online in order to receive the most up-to-date information about the
gallery process.
For the 5th
year, we are including a community-built public art installation as part of the
festival. Bee to Brick, this year's community art project, embraces the
"Live, Work, Play" theme by celebrating some of the hardest
"working" bugs out there - pollinators! Bee to Brick will install
playful swarms of several hundred "bees" around the festival area,
created entirely out of recycled plastic bottles and other reusable plastic
pollution. After the project, the bees will be transformed into “bricks” by
Phoenix School students for their “Bottle Brick Project.” We are currently
looking for community groups who want to participate in a workshop, and/or
individuals who can come to one of our Monday night workshops. All ages and
abilities are enthusiastically encouraged to contribute, no skill set required.
More information at www.salemartsfestival.com/bee-to-brick.
Last but
certainly not least, planning is underway for the hottest event of the spring –
our 5th annual Fashion Show fundraiser! On April 6th, the Salem Arts Festival
will transform the upstairs floor of the beautiful and historic Old Town Hall
at 32 Derby Square for a night of local fashion, food, drink, and fun in
support of one of Salem’s greatest festivals. Information and ticket links are
available at www.salemartsfestival.com/2018-fashion-show-fundraiser.
The Salem Arts
Festival is organized by Salem Main Streets, the Creative Collective and a collaboration
of Salem organizations which provide support for the festival, including the
City of Salem, Salem State University, Salem Food Tours, the Phoenix School,
Salem Public Space Project, the Salem YMCA, Peabody Essex Museum, and the Salem
Arts Association. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Salem
Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts
Cultural Council, a state agency. The festival also relies on the gracious
support of its other creative partners, including Retonica Event Lighting, The
Scarlet Letter Press, and Octocog Marketing and Design.
If you would like to support this dynamic annual
cultural mainstay for its 10th anniversary celebration, please contact Robyn
Gianoppolo at robyn@creativesalem.com or visit salemartsfestival.com/support
For more information about the Salem Arts Festival,
please see www.salemartsfestival.com
or contact Kylie Sullivan at kylie@salemmainstreets.org
or (978)744-0004 (x115).
Kylie Sullivan
Executive Director, Salem Main Streets
265 Essex Street
Salem, MA 01970
978/744-0004 x15
March HDSNA Meeting
March HDSNA Meeting
Monday, March 12, 2018
The House of the Seven
Gables
115 Derby Street
6:30-7:00 pm coffee and
refreshments
7:00-8:00 pm
SAFE
Salem Alliance for the Environment
Learn about the gas leaks in Salem,
in our neighborhood, and how is this affecting you and the trees in Salem. Be
part of the conversation.
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