Calendar
Events in Salem
The Week of
March 4, 2013
Exhibitions This Week Details

Freeport [NO. 005]: Michael Lin
161 Essex Street

Golden Light, Dutch Art Collection at the Peabody Essex Museum
161 Essex Street

Freeport [NO. 006]: Nick Cave
161 Essex Street
Monday, March 4, 2013
- 7:30 pm - 9:30pm
- Recital Hall, 71 Loring Ave
- www.SalemState.edu/arts
- Dünya (“world”) is a musicians collective based in the rich heritage of Turkish traditional music. Their concerts reflect the cultural cross-currents of the Ottoman Empire: folk tunes from Central Asia; Jewish, Greek and Armenian ballads, and Sufi chants. Dünya will lead a free lecture demonstration on March 4 at 11 am. Concert tickets are: $10 general / $5 students and seniors
- Schedule
Dünya Ensemble: Streets of Istanbul at Salem State University for the Arts
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
- 12:00 am - 12:00pm
- 161 Essex Street
- www.pem.org
- Original and otherworldly, Nick Cave’s art blends the boundaries between sculpture, costume, video, dance and public performance in unexpected ways.
- Schedule
- 1:05 pm - 1:05pm
- 316 Essex Street
- www.DerbySquareTours.com
- Get in the mood for March you know what with Jim's collection of offbeat facts, historical moments, important personalities, and entertaining anecdotes relating to one of America's most treasured architectural neighborhoods. Includes information gleaned from written memoirs, personal interviews, newspaper accounts, and regional history books.
Cleveland Room at the First Church in Salem. $12pp. Prepaid season series subscriptions (transferable) are available. 978-745-6314. - Schedule
Freeport [NO. 006]: Nick Cave
McIntire District Madness with Jim McAllister
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
- 12:00 am - 12:00pm
- 161 Essex Street
- www.pem.org
- Original and otherworldly, Nick Cave’s art blends the boundaries between sculpture, costume, video, dance and public performance in unexpected ways.
- Schedule
- 10:30 am - 11:30am
- Information Desk
- www.pem.org
- Caregivers with children up to age 5 with this fun, interactive program with books, movement, music, art and hands on activities is designed for preschoolers and their caregivers. Visit pem.org/calendar for program dates and thems. Made possible by American Dental Partners.
- Schedule
Freeport [NO. 006]: Nick Cave
Drop in Art Activities - PEM Pals
Thursday, March 7, 2013
- 12:00 am - 12:00pm
- 161 Essex Street
- www.pem.org
- Original and otherworldly, Nick Cave’s art blends the boundaries between sculpture, costume, video, dance and public performance in unexpected ways.
- Schedule
- 7:00 pm - 9:00pm
- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Ticket availability at Cinema Salem. (978) 744-1400 · One East India Square.
- Schedule
- 7:30 pm - 9:00pm
- Recital Hall, 71 Loring Ave
- www.SalemState.edu/arts
- An experimental music ensemble that combines traditional acoustic instruments, electronic instruments, computer programming, found audio, and video clips to create original musical soundscapes. The music department’s Handbell and Percussion Ensembles will join Wired in this performance. Admission is free. Information: 978.542.7890 or salemstate.edu/arts.
- Schedule
- 8:00 pm - 10:00pm
- Finz Restaurant, 76 Wharf Street, Salem
- www.finzseafood.com
- Join Finz on Thursday nights for Jazz on the Half-Shell, featuring a half-price, make-your-own Oyster Bar. Henley Douglas and the Cool Times Trio will perform at 8:00 PM.
- Schedule
- 8:00 pm - 11:30pm
- 76 Wharf Street-Pickering Wharf
- www.FinzSeafood.com
- Missed the movies or just got to town? Having difficulty deciding what docs to see this week? Join us for the trailer party at Finz, with continuous screenings of trailers from all of Salem Film Fest selected documentaries. Live music with Pocket Radio at 9pm-Henly Douglas in Lounge with 1/2 price oysters.
- Schedule
- 9:00 pm - 11:30pm
- 43 Church Street
- www.43Church.com
- The Session featuring music by The Dejas with special guests and featuring locally curated artwork
- Schedule
- 9:00 pm - 11:30pm
- 43 Church Street
- www.43Church.com
- The Dejas perform with special guest musicians and friends from all over. Every Thursday night also features a showcase of one local artist with mediums ranging from photography to painting.
- Schedule
Freeport [NO. 006]: Nick Cave
The Ghost Army
Wired.to.the.Edge at Salem State College
Jazz on the Half Shell
Henley Douglas Jr. and the Cool Times Trio at Finz
The Session at 43 Church
The Dejas and Friends at 43 Church
Friday, March 8, 2013
- 12:00 am - 12:00pm
- 161 Essex Street
- www.pem.org
- Original and otherworldly, Nick Cave’s art blends the boundaries between sculpture, costume, video, dance and public performance in unexpected ways.
- Schedule
- 5:00 pm - 6:00am
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A lyrical portrait of families living in shacks built upon stilts in the water slums of Brazil.
- Schedule
- 6:00 pm - 7:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- In Tajikastan, 200 horseman compete to drag a goat carcass across a goal line in an ancient form of soccer.
- Schedule
- 6:30 pm - 8:00pm
- 34 Chestnut Street
- www.HistoricNewEngland.org
- Discover the daily lives of the Phillips family's Irish domestic staff, their duties, living conditions, and interactions with family members. Visit the servants; work and living spaces not usually open to the public. Space is limited. 978-744-0440. $15, $10 Historic New England members.
- Schedule
- 6:45 pm - 8:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele..people with disability.
- Schedule
- 7:30 pm - 9:00pm
- 90 Lafayette Street
- www.SalemTheatre.com
- Creating thought provoking niche music is pretty tough but Shaun England is a master at it. This is music for the Bob Dylan fans of the world looking for another guy to step in and keep the torch lit.
- Schedule
- 8:20 pm - 9:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A film about fertility-an ode to womanhood and the body.
- Schedule
- 8:30 pm - 10:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- The story of new Salem, Ma resident Damien Echols' extraordinary and desperate fight to escape death row.
- Schedule
- 9:00 pm - 11:30pm
- 43 Church Street
- www.43Church.com
- Schedule
- 10:00 pm - 11:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- In 1963, New York disc jockey Bob Fass helps transform the radio dial.
- Schedule
Freeport [NO. 006]: Nick Cave
Bay of All Saints
Buzkashi!
The Irish Experience at the Phillips House
Scarlet Road
Shaun England at Salem Theater Company
Water Children
West of Memphis
9 Qwill and The Soul Review Project at 43 Church
Radio Unnameable
Saturday, March 9, 2013
- 12:00 am - 12:00pm
- 161 Essex Street
- www.pem.org
- Original and otherworldly, Nick Cave’s art blends the boundaries between sculpture, costume, video, dance and public performance in unexpected ways.
- Schedule
- 10:00 am - 11:00am
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A choreographer creates a dance spectacle performed by trash collectors and their trucks.
- Schedule
- 10:30 am - 11:30am
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A revealing portrait of the lives of four barbers in Jamaica, Ghana, the United States, and England.
- Schedule
- 10:30 am - 12:00pm
- 34 Chestnut Street
- www.HistoricNewEngland.org
- Discover the daily lives of the Phillips family's Irish domestic staff, their duties, living conditions, and interactions with family members. Visit the servants; work and living spaces not usually open to the public. Space is limited. 978-744-0440. $15, $10 Historic New England members.
- Schedule
- 11:00 am - 12:00pm
- 2 New Liberty Street-NPS Visitor Center
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A college doc shorts showcase for Massachusetts college and university students working in the documentary form.
- Schedule
- 11:30 am - 12:00pm
- www.pem.org
- These 30 minute gallery adventures are designed just for families. Hands on activity included.
- Schedule
- 12:00 pm - 1:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- An unlikely thief. An unthinkable theft. An unsolved mystery..until now.
- Schedule
- 12:30 pm - 1:30pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A lyrical portrait of families living in shacks built upon stilts in the water slums of Brazil.
- Schedule
- 1:00 pm - 3:00pm
- Information Desk
- www.pem.org
- Get hands on in the galleries! Look for our interactive Art Cart every weekend and explore more! Touch objects, experiment with art making techniques and discover the stories about the art around you.
- Schedule
- 1:00 pm - 3:00pm
- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Tickets available at Cinema Salem. (978) 744-1400 · One East India Square
- Schedule
- 2:30 pm - 3:30pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele..people with disability.
- Schedule
- 2:30 pm - 3:30pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A small time ride operator and his beloved carnival contraption become casualties in the battle over the future of Coney Island.
- Schedule
- 2:30 pm - 4:30pm
- 337 Essex St
- We will read two plays by each: Ghosts and Hedda Gabler by Ibsen, Major Barbara and Heartbreak House by Shaw, and The Seagull and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov. Together we will analyze how each writer handled dialogue, characterization, and theme; and how the three created a new theater--one whose shape and style reaches straight through to Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, and David Mamet. Lecture by Theo Theoharis. Course fee:$155 Members, $175 non-members. Reserve 978-744-2540.
- Schedule
- 3:30 pm - 5:00pm
- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Tickets available at Cinema Salem. (978) 744-1400 · One East India Square
- Schedule
- 4:45 pm - 6:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- An idealist Republican Congressman is confronted with racial politics in the American South and partisan tussles in Washington, DC.
- Schedule
- 5:15 pm - 7:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- In 1963, New York disc jockey Bob Fass helps transform the radio dial.
- Schedule
- 5:30 pm - 7:00pm
- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Tickets available at Cinema Salem. (978) 744-1400 · One East India Square
- Schedule
- 7:15 pm - 8:00am
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Mumford and Sons, and The Old Crow Medicine Show climb aboard a vintage train on a thousand mile musical tour of dreams.
- Schedule
- 7:15 pm - 8:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A revealing portrait of the lives of four barbers in Jamaica, Ghana, the United States, and England.
- Schedule
- 7:30 pm - 9:00pm
- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- This intimate look into the language of the soul shows how art will flourish, in spite of any obstacle.
- Schedule
- 7:30 pm - 9:00pm
- 90 Lafayette Street
- www.SalemTheatre.com
- This acclaimed duo features eclectic and at times a bit psychedelic acoustic rock pop style with lush vocal arrangements, blues-tinged guitar, accordion, harmonica, and a variety of percussion, bells and whistles.
- Schedule
- 8:30 pm - 11:30pm
- 43 Church Street
- www.43Church.com
- Andrew "Hacksaw" Harney presents Blues Haven Featuring Gregory Gallo. Andrew is a virtuoso from Berklee School fo Music who has an understanding of the Blues and guitar far beyond his years and the results are nothing short of amazing.
- Schedule
- 9:00 pm - 11:30pm
- 43 Church Street
- www.43Church.com
- Upstairs at Lyceum Hall will be the biggest Salem Film Fest party ever! Enjoy wonderful conversation, delicious hors d'oeurves, and a cash bar while rocking to Big Ol'Dirty Bucket in the comfy and historic confines of 43 Chruch. VIP loft access for film makers and all access pass holders. $20pp/Free with all access film fest pass.
- Schedule
- 9:15 pm - 10:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Upon fathering triplets a filmmaker explores the nature of technology, seeking what it means to be human.
- Schedule
- 9:45 pm - 11:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A film about fertility-an ode to womanhood and the body.
- Schedule
Freeport [NO. 006]: Nick Cave
Trash Dance
The Fade
The Irish Experience at the Phillips House
Mass Reality Check
Family Gallery Explorations at the Peabody Essex Museum
The Missing Piece: The Truth About the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
Bay of All Saints
Art Investigations at the Peabody Essex Museum
In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter
Scarlet Road
Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride
Ibsen, Shaw, Chekhov: Modern Masters at the Salem Athenaeum
The World’s Most Fashionable Prison
Mr. Cao Goes to Washington
Radio Unnameable
The World Before Her
Big Easy Express
The Fade
Poetry of Resilience
Bird Mancini at Salem Theater Company
Blues Haven at 43 Church
The Official Film Makers “Big Bash” at 43 Church
Welcome to the Machine
Water Children
Sunday, March 10, 2013
- 12:00 am - 12:00pm
- 161 Essex Street
- www.pem.org
- Original and otherworldly, Nick Cave’s art blends the boundaries between sculpture, costume, video, dance and public performance in unexpected ways.
- Schedule
- 10:00 am - 11:00am
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Two young girls in an Ethiopian town try to run their way to a different life as professional athletes.
- Schedule
- 10:00 am - 4:00pm
- 115 Derby Street
- www.7Gables.org
- Market Place Quilts and The House of Seven Gables will co-sponsor "Quilting at the Gables-Rangley Star". This two day workshop will create a star pattern quilt top. Participants will need a Rangley Star pattern and a Deb Tucker ruler. $65 pp for workshop. Bring bag lunch. Coffee, tea, water and goodies will be provided. 978-740-3890
- Schedule
- 10:30 am - 12:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- In 1963, New York disc jockey Bob Fass helps transform the radio dial.
- Schedule
- 12:15 pm - 1:30pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A Salem Film Fest 2013 sneak peek at a film about people, pets and preservation.
- Schedule
- 12:45 pm - 2:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele..people with disability.
- Schedule
- 1:00 pm - 3:00pm
- Information Desk
- www.pem.org
- Get hands on in the galleries! Look for our interactive Art Cart every weekend and explore more! Touch objects, experiment with art making techniques and discover the stories about the art around you.
- Schedule
- 1:00 pm - 3:00pm
- Peabody Essex Museum, Morse Auditorium
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Tickets available at Cinema Salem. (978) 744-1400 · One East India Square
- Schedule
- 2:00 pm - 3:00pm
- Meet at Information Desk
- www.pem.org
- Join the PEM for a participatory reading of William Joyce's The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and watch the short film based on the story. Then make an animated flip book to take home. Reservations 978-745-9500 x3011
- Schedule
- 2:30 pm - 3:30pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- The late-in-life rise of a 62 year old soul singer-from life in a housing project to Rolling Stone's top 50.
- Schedule
- 2:45 pm - 3:30pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A revealing portrait of the lives of four barbers in Jamaica, Ghana, the United States, and England.
- Schedule
- 4:00 pm - 5:00pm
- 2 New Liberty Street-NPS Visitor Center
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- An exclusive Sunday forum with producers from PBS Frontline.
- Schedule
- 4:00 pm - 6:00pm
- 86 Wharf Street-Pickering Wharf
- www.VictoriaStationSalem.com
- Local area chefs will enter their chili into a blind, public taste test. $10 tickets which includes a chili sample from each cook (at least nine different chilis).
- Schedule
- 4:45 pm - 6:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- For three years a young woman lies dead and unnoticed in her London apartment. Who was she and how could this happen?
- Schedule
- 5:00 pm - 6:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A film about fertility-an ode to womanhood and the body.
- Schedule
- 6:30 pm - 9:00pm
- 62 Dunham Road-Beverly
- www.NSMT.org
- One of America's most prolific comedians of all time, Bill Cosby has dazzled generations of fans with his comedy routines, also captured on his iconic albums and best-selling books such as Fatherhood and the groundbreaking The Cosby Show. His comedy transcends age, gender, and cultural barriers. For Reservations 978-232-7200 or NSMT.org
- Schedule
- 7:15 pm - 8:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- A lyrical portrait of families living in shacks built upon stilts in the water slums of Brazil.
- Schedule
- 7:20 pm - 9:00pm
- One East India Square-Cinema Salem
- www.SalemFilmFest.com
- Two elderly women in a lifelong struggle over a dozen cows, stunningly filmed and tenderly told.
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