Name: Porter Mill Holiday Open Studios
Start: 2026-12-05T11:00:00-05:00

Porter Mill Holiday Open Studios Saturday, Dec 5, 11am-5pm Sunday, Dec 6, 11am-5pm
Explore four floors of art studio, offering a variety of work including painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, jewelry, video, poetry, fashion and more. Shop directly from the artists while learning about their media and techniques. Decorate your own home or use this fantastic opportunity to secure gifts for the holidays. In the lobby, take in two group exhibitions: "Glyph" exploring the integration of text in art and a grid wall featuring "Smol" an exhibit of small affordable artwork. Enjoy traditional holiday music (live) on Sunday. The taproom at <a href="https://coastalmassbrewing.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Coastal Mass Brewing</a> will be in full swing and you can enjoy your beverages throughout the studio spaces on Saturday. Park all day for $2 at the MBTA parking garage, across Rantoul Street from Porter Mill.
This program is funded in part by a grant from the Beverly Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. <a href="https://massculturalcouncil.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">massculturalcouncil.org</a>

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Porter Mill Holiday Open Studios

Porter Mill Holiday Open Studios Saturday, Dec 5, 11am-5pm Sunday, Dec 6, 11am-5pm
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IN 2008, NORAH JONES, SASHA DOBSON, AND CATHERINE POPPER FORMED PUSS N BOOTS.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Initially it was a vehicle for Jones and Dobson to play music together and try new things, with Popper joining on bass shortly after. The trio played various New York clubs, with a repertoire anchored in Americana, country, folk, pop and rock. The band became an outlet for Jones, Dobson and Popper to switch instruments, and allowed them to showcase a different side of themselves than in their various solo and side projects.
In 2013, some five years after the group began playing, they signed with Blue Note Records and set out to assemble their debut record. Comprised of originals and covers, studio recordings and live performances, that debut was called&nbsp;No Fools, No Fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;Released in the summer of 2014, it was supported by a tour of the U.S.
In 2019, the trio took the stage at the MusiCares charity event honoring Person of the Year Award recipient Dolly Parton, and performed Parton’s “The Grass Is Blue”. Later that year Jones, Dobson, and Popper&nbsp;released their holiday album&nbsp;Dear Santa,&nbsp;followed by their 2nd&nbsp;full length album&nbsp;Sister&nbsp;in 2020. &nbsp;

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Manninen Center for the Arts at Endicott College

Experience The Sparrow, a powerful and inventive play by Chris Mathews, Jake Minton, and Nathan Allen. The story follows Emily Book, a teenage orphan whose life changes forever after surviving a devastating accident. Years later, Emily returns to her hometown. Attempting to navigate the challenges of high school, Emily begins to uncover mysterious talents that set her apart from everyone around her.

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Experience The Sparrow, a powerful and inventive play by Chris Mathews, Jake Minton, and Nathan Allen. The story follows Emily...

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck

November 6–22, 2026 
Friday–Sunday, noon–5 p.m. Opening reception: NOVEMBER 7, 4-6 PM 
Rocky Neck Cultural Center, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester MA 01930

Gloucester, MA — The Great Marsh Starts Here! A Living Landscape in Motion brings together artists from the Great Marsh Artists Fellowship for an exhibition celebrating three years of artistic exploration, collaboration, and engagement with one of New England’s most significant coastal landscapes.
The exhibition features work by artists who have participated in the Great Marsh Artists Fellowship, a program created to support artists in developing new projects inspired by the Great Marsh, its natural and man-made history and significance, as well as its beauty and immediate fragility. Over the past three years, 22 artists have been selected as Great Marsh Artist Fellows and have dedicated themselves to creating 24 projects that connect art, ecology, history, science, and community. Some have been completed and presented to the community, others are still underway.
The exhibition marks an important milestone in a partnership that began with The Great Marsh Concert in 2023, a collaboration between Manship Artists Residency and Artists for the Great Marsh. The concert brought artists and members of the Great Marsh community together around a shared interest in the landscape and its future. That initial collaboration led to the formation of the Great Marsh Artists Fellowship, which provides $2,000 grants to artists to develop projects that premiere at organizations and institutions connected to the Great Marsh.
The fellowship has grown into a network of artists and organizational partners extending across the Great Marsh region. Over the past three years, fellows have developed and presented projects with organizations including Essex Heritage, Greenbelt, Essex County’s Land Trust, Mass Audubon, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, The Trustees of Reservations, TownGreen, Essex National Heritage Area, Historic New England, Massachusetts Bay National Estuary Program, Merrimack Valley Planning Commission, Plum Island Ecosystems LTER at the Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Wilkie Center for the Performing Arts and Bass Institute at The Governor’s Academy. The Great Marsh Artists Fellowship and this exhibition are funded in part by the Kathleen Van Demark Fund for the Great Marsh.
Rather than asking artists simply to interpret the marsh, the fellowship invites them to spend time with the places, people, histories, species, and questions that make up this extraordinary landscape. The resulting projects have taken many forms, demonstrating the range of ways artists can engage with a living ecosystem.
“The Great Marsh Starts Here!” reflects both the geography and the philosophy of the exhibition. The Great Marsh begins here, but it also extends outward—through waterways, wildlife, communities, working landscapes, and the many people who care for and experience it. The exhibition offers a chance to see the Great Marsh through the eyes of artists who have spent time observing, listening, researching, imagining, and creating in relationship to the landscape.
Artists and Works
The exhibition brings together work by 18 of the 22 Great Marsh Artists Fellows including Resa Blatman, Gail Boyajian, Marcia Ciro, Robert J. Bradshaw, Michele Brody, Anne Eder, Karen Futral, Isaac Grenader, Robert Honstein, Jenn Houle, Amy Kaczur, Andrea LeBlanc, Susan Quateman, Katie Pustizzi, Norah Solorzano, Erika Sutter, and Alex Young.
The work presented moves across artistic disciplines and mediums—from painting, photography, and sculpture to video, book art, music, animation, and dance—revealing the many ways a living landscape can be seen, experienced, interpreted, and expressed.
About the Great Marsh Artists Fellowship
The Great Marsh Artists Fellowship was established following the 2023 Great Marsh Concert, a collaboration between Manship Artists Residency and Artists for the Great Marsh. The fellowship provides $2,000 grants to artists to create projects inspired by the Great Marsh and to develop those projects in partnership with organizations throughout the region.
The program recognizes artists as important observers, interpreters, storytellers, and participants in the life of a landscape. By placing artists in conversation with environmental organizations, historic sites, conservation groups, scientists, educators, and local communities, the fellowship creates opportunities for new forms of public engagement with the Great Marsh.



Some of the artwork will be for sale. 
Admission: Donations gratefully accepted to the FREE exhibition. Recommended donations requested for certain programs to pay the performers. Register to attend on exhibition page of Manship website: <a href="https://manshipartists.org/the-great-marsh-starts-here" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HERE</a>.
For more information, visit Manship Artists Residency at ManshipArtists.org or contact Rebecca Reynolds, <a href="mailto:rreynolds@ManshipArtists.org" target="_blank">rreynolds@ManshipArtists.org</a>, 978-290-8438.

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Friday–Sunday, noon–5 p.m. Opening reception: NOVEMBER 7, 4-6 PM 
Rocky Neck Cultural Center, 6 Wonson...

The Great Marsh Starts Here! A Living Landscape in Motion

In a career spanning over 50 years, dozens of albums, and too many shows to count, Marty Stuart charts a course through new territory at every chance possible.
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The five-time GRAMMY® Award winner, Congress of Country Music Founder, Country Music Hall of Famer, and AMA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient has left an indelible mark on successive eras of country music and culture. He went from accompanying Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash to launching a storied solo career highlighted by classic albums such as the Gold-certified “Hillbilly Rock” and Platinum-certified “This One’s Gonna Hurt You” as well as GRAMMY® Award-winning anthems, including “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’” (with Travis Tritt) and “Same Old Train.” &nbsp;Joined by his longtime band The Fabulous Superlatives, he cruises into another stratosphere with his first-ever full-length double LP of original instrumentals, “Space Junk”. The inimitable interplay between Stuart, Kenny Vaughan, Harry Stinson and Chris Scruggs fuels this cosmic cowboy trip with sun kissed surf guitar, breezy California rhythms, soul stirring steel and fluid fretwork all-around. “Space Junk” sounds like country music’s preeminent band crash landing on a Malibu beach and performing the most epic jam you’ve ever witnessed by starlight…$39.50 - $89.50

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Jeffrey Gaines has been heralded for his soul-searching lyrics and his powerful live performances.
With only his voice and a guitar for accompaniment, Gaines has earned a reputation as a captivating performer, entertaining his audiences worldwide.
Throughout his three-decade recording career, Gaines has maintained an impressive standard for soul-searching, introspective lyrics and catchy, uplifting melodies. Since bursting on the scene with his self-titled 1992 debut album, the charismatic singer-songwriter-guitarist has built a beloved body of recordings that’s won him a large and deeply devoted international fan base. He has sold out theaters and clubs throughout North America and Europe. With his compelling live performances gaining high respect, Gaines was asked to join tours as support act for Tom Petty &amp; The Heartbreakers in Europe, Tracy Chapman, and Stevie Nicks with Sheryl Crow, among others. He will be supporting Roger Daltry on his upcoming tour.
Gaines landed his first record deal shortly after graduating from high school, and in 1992 released his widely acclaimed debut album Jeffrey Gaines. The eponymous disc won massive amounts of critical and audience acclaim, spawning the hit “Hero in Me.” Somewhat Slightly Dazed (1994) and Galore (1998) further expanded his audience. Interview magazine described Gaines’ work as “soul-searching” and “refreshingly free of jargon, sentiment or cliché.”
In 2001, Gaines’ release Always Be yielded a surprise hit in his deeply felt interpretation of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”; 2003’s Toward the Sun attracted even more critical accolades, with Mojo praising the “soul-folkie’s sexy growl” and The Boston Globe declaring that “Gaines’ soulful, wounded vocals make a case for his being one of pop’s finest singers.” Toward the Sun was followed by a pair of live albums, the 2004 CD/DVD Jeffrey Gaines Live and 2012’s Live in Europe, which reflected the deep and abiding rapport that Gaines has with his fans. In 2018, Gaines released his eighth studio album, Alright. The album was recorded in Los Angeles with Chris Price, Val McCallum and Elvis Costello’s Imposters, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher.
“The biggest pleasure I derive from this is playing live,” Gaines notes. “There’s nothing more satisfying for me than a good live gig. I’m in control, but the audience can take it to a place that’s higher than I can imagine. When I show up for a live gig, I don’t need much, there’s no rider. It’s just, turn it on, let the audience in, and we’ll do the rest. It’s the best job anyone could ever have.”
With more than a quarter-century of recording and performing under his belt, Jeffrey Gaines is enjoying life and music more than ever. “Nowadays, I know what the job is about so there’s nothing to stress about,” he says. “I know that there’s people out there who want it, so I have the opportunity to extend their experience. I guess I could lay my albums all out and see that they tell a story, but personally I prefer to keep looking forward.”

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Jeffrey Gaines has been heralded for his soul-searching lyrics and his powerful live performances.
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Copper Dog Books

Northshore author Douglas Wynne celebrates the release of his new rock music themed folk horror novel, Wellspring, with an event at Copper Dog Books in Beverly, MA on Friday, November 6th at 7:00 PM.
Wellspring is the story of three old friends and former bandmates who reunite to search a forbidden forest for a missing companion whose obsession with a dark chapter of rock history led him to a place the locals refuse to speak of. As strange forces close in around the group, they begin to understand why a gifted musician once emerged from those same woods a killer, and why some secrets are better left buried at the bottom of an old stone well.
The release event will feature a live acoustic performance of a song Wynne wrote for the book, followed by a conversation with fellow local author Cat Scully. In advance praise for the book, Scully says, “Wellspring feels like blowing the dust off of your favorite record and discovering a darker song than you were ever meant to hear. Part rock n’ roll epic, part folklore horror, Wynne wrote exactly the kind of book I love to read. I will be recommending Wellspring to everyone I know.”
The book was released by Promethean Publishing on October 26th. For more information, see the author’s web site: <a href="https://douglaswynne.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://douglaswynne.com</a>

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