RESOURCES
- Check Statesman Journal for more local events
- Attend a fair or festival
- Check out the Salem Library's events
- Statesman Journal music listings
- Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity
- Volunteer at the Willamette Humane Society
- Volunteer with the Marion-Polk Food Share
- Volunteer with The Boys & Girls Club
- Save a life by donating blood
ACTIVE
- Archery at Pacific Crest
- Silver Falls State Park, hiking and camping
- Watch a Volcanoes game - that's baseball, even if you don't like baseball, go with some friends and hang out somewhere other than your living room or a bar!
- Go for a walk or jog at Minto Park and eat blackberries along the way
- Sign up for a race
- Participate in On Your Feet Fridays
- Take a yoga class at Indigo Wellness Center
- Play in the Willamette River at the West Salem Boat Ramp
- North Santiam river trips
ARTS
- Theater performances at Willamette University
- Improv at Capitol City Theater
- Do a life drawing class at The Nest
- Paint a ceramic or try your hand at glass fusing at Create-a-Memory My favorite part is that you can leave unfinished things for up to 6 months and come back again and again to work on it. So if you want to take your time and do something intricate you won't have a time cut off!
- Take a pottery class at Willamette Art Center
- Get creative at DIY Studio
- So does the Salem Chamber Orchestra
- Willamette Master Chorus
- Salem Pops Orchestra
- Salem Youth Symphony
COMMUNITY
- Volunteer with the Marion-Polk Food Share They also have community gardens, so that's another idea to get a plot and grow some food! Or just help out people who are growing food.
- Network with young professionals
- Attend a church service at a church you haven't been to before
- Take a class or be a guinea pig at the Salem Campus for the Oregon School of Massage
- Try out meditation at the Unitarian Church
- Get involved in the Salem Food Cooperative
DIY
- U-pick some fruit during the summer/fall
- Swap some homemade jam at the Cherry City Food Swap
- Paint a ceramic or try your hand at glass fusing at Create-a-Memory My favorite part is that you can leave unfinished things for up to 6 months and come back again and again to work on it. So if you want to take your time and do something intricate you won't have a time cut off!
- Take a pottery class at Willamette Art Center
- Get creative at DIY Studio
ENTERTAINMENT
- Theater performances at Willamette University
- Improv at Capitol City Theater
- Have some tasty fries and play some arcade games at The Coin Jam
- Participate in a board game or Magic The Gathering tournament or learn some other games at Borderlands Tuesday night is Boardgame night (they have lots of other games and tournaments, but I'm a boardgamer :P
- Play Cards Against Humanity at Franklin's Bottle Shop I think they play almost every night.
- Watch a Volcanoes game - that's baseball, even if you don't like baseball, go with some friends and hang out somewhere other than your living room or a bar!
- Go see a cheap movie at Northern Lights Theater Pub, only $3... $8 if you count the Blue Moon you'll want to accompany the movie :)
- Go to a Drive-In movie! We are lucky enough to have 2 within a reasonable distance! Dallas Motor Vu and Newberg's 99W Check both because sometime they play the same things and sometimes they play different things. In the summer time the second movie is crazy late, going at the end of the season is awesome though awkward to watch through windshield wipers!
- Check out some live music, here are a few places that have it: IKE Box, McMennamin's Boon's Treasury, The Half Penny, Statesman Journal music listings
- Check out free screenings of Break Bad (and other shows) at Cinebarre Note, they won't bring you water anymore once you are in the theater, so as for it at the bar before you go in if you want water.
- Oregon Symphony performs some concerts at Willamette University
- So does the Salem Chamber Orchestra
- Willamette Master Chorus
- Salem Pops Orchestra
- Salem Youth Symphony
- Willamette Live music listings
- Enchanted Forest, rides
FOOD AND DRINK
- U-pick some fruit during the summer/fall
- Make a custom popsicle, almost instantly, at Twinsies
- Have a beer and some food and play some arcade games at The Coin Jam
- Go to the Saturday Farmer's Market
- Swap some homemade jam at the Cherry City Food Swap
- Go to the Wednesday lunch time Market I'm not sure why the address says Waverly, it's on Chemeketa between High and Liberty)
- Play Cards Against Humanity at Franklin's Bottle Shop I think they play almost every night.
- Explore the restaurants of Salem during Salem Restaurant Week
- Go to The Ram on Sunday after 9pm for discounted beer and food
- Take a cooking class at Lullus' Tutto Cucina
- Take cooking classes or attend food demonstrations at Marion Polk Food Share
- Grab a slice of pizza and a beer at Church Street Pizza I've only been a couple times but the beer selection was stellar and the pizza quite good.
- Go to Happy Hour at Orupa on the rooftop
- Taste 30 beers and have a pint or take home a growlette or growler at Growl Movement
- Go to f/stop Fitzgerald's and hang out by the fire outside while having a beer on the patio, they have a boardgame night, show movies, and have a craft night!
- Go to Word Of Mouth Bistro on a weekday morning early for a tasty cheap breakfast and probably less of a line!
- Wine tasting The list of wineries is longer than any other list of things to do here!
- Get involved in the Salem Food Cooperative
- Support a new brewery in Salem, Salem Ale Works
LEARNING
- Archery at Pacific Crest, lessons are $25
- Participate in a board game or Magic The Gathering tournament or learn some other games at Borderlands Tuesday night is Boardgame night (they have lots of other games and tournaments, but I'm a boardgamer :P
- Take a class at The Nest
- Take a continuing education class at Chemeketa
- Take a cooking class at Lullus' Tutto Cucina
- Take cooking classes or attend food demonstrations at Marion Polk Food Share
- Try out meditation at the Unitarian Church
- TEDxSalem, happening November 16, 2013
MINGLE-ING
- Network with young professionals
- Explore meetup groups for things going on in Salem and to meet people
- Attend a church service at a church you haven't been to before
- Try out meditation at the Unitarian Church
SHOPPING
- Go to a Flea Market
- Go to the Saturday Farmer's Market
- Go to the Wednesday lunch time Market I'm not sure why the address says Waverly, it's on Chemeketa between High and Liberty)
- Find deals at DealChicken for new things to try, at a discount!
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