PEM Weekend Festival: Sensational India!
| Hours: | 10:00am-5:00pm |
| Ages: | Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Fairs & Festivals |
Art Activity: Food and Memory | Atrium | 10 am - noon
Krina Patel, founder of a community food and art project called Stir a Memory, leads this drop-in activity.
Demonstration: Rangoli | Atrium | 10 am - 3 pm
Gowri Savoor creates a rangoli, or traditional decorative design, on the floor of the Atrium. Help fill it in.
Drop-in Art Activity: Paisley Patterns | Art Studios | 10:30 am - 1 pm
Explore paisley patterns and their origins, then design your own.
Dance Workshop: Garba and Dandiya Folk Dance | Atrium | Noon - 12:45 pm
The Sa Dance Company incorporates Indian and contemporary dance movements and music from Bollywood and America. Afterward, join the dancers in an interactive Garba workshop.
Interactive Gallery Tour: The Salem-India Story | 1 - 1:30 pm | Reservations by 3/29
For ages 10 and up | Meet at information desk
Author Vanita Shashtri leads a tour focusing on works of art that are featured in her book The Salem-India Story: Maritime Trade between Salem, Massachusetts, and India, 1788–1845.
Lecture and Demonstration: Indian Classical Music | 1 - 2 pm | Reservations by 4/1
For adults and teens | Morse Auditorium
Sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri talks about the history, theory, performance and practice of Indian classical music. He demonstrates instruments and welcomes questions.
Drop-in Art Activity: Indian Peacock | 1:30 - 3:30 pm | Art Studios
Create you own work of art referencing a mounted peacock.
Story Time: Mama’s Saris | 2 - 2:30 pm | Meet at information desk
A mother and daughter talk about each of the mother’s saris won for special occasions, including the little girl’s seventh birthday party, in [Mama’s Saris] by Pooja Makhijani.
Workshop: Spice Blends | 2 - 2:45 pm | Bartlett Gallery | Reservations by 3/29
Krina Patel talks about dry spice blends used in the cuisine of Bengal and Gujurat. Create your own blend to take home.
Concert: Sitar Virtuoso Kartik Seshadri | 3 - 4 pm | Reservations by 4/1
East India Marine Hall
Kartik Seshadri is a world-renowned force as a composer, educator and performer in the field of Indian classical music. The sitar prodigy blossomed into an “amazingly accomplished” musical powerhouse, praised the Washington Post.
Dance Performance: Sa Dance Company | 4:15 - 5 pm | Atrium
Sa Dance Company performs its five-part signature piece, combining traditional Indian folk, classical, and Bollywood-inspired dance forms with ballet, jazz and contemporary styles.
| COST | ↑ top |
All programs FREE with museum admission. Adults $15, Seniors $13, Students $11 Youth (16 and under) and Salem, Mass. residents admitted free*.
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.pem.org/calendar/2011/April
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
East India Square 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, 01970 map
Phone: 978-745-9500
The museum is approximately 16 miles north of Boston, at 161 Essex St. in historic Salem, Massachusetts (corner of Essex and New Liberty Streets). For recorded directions, call 978-745-9500, ext. 4145.
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