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Salem Arts Festival June 3 – 5

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May 212011

The annual Salem Arts Festival will be held June 3^rd-5^th. Now in its 3^rd year, the popular and ever- growing event will feature over 75 artists including painters, photographers, poets, performers, to name a few. The Festival is a family friendly event with free performances, free art making activities and a fantastic range of art on display.

Run by a team of volunteers, the Salem Arts Festival is a free event for residents and visitors, promoting the arts in Salem, and providing the entire North Shore arts community an opportunity to showcase their talents.

The Festival is spread out at a variety of venues in downtown Salem, anchored at the Essex Street Walking Mall and Museum Place Mall. This year live performances and demonstrations will be held outside, steps away from a large interior area where visitors can see the juried exhibitions.

This year some of the many performers include a night of song after the opening reception Friday night; children of the Phoenix School in exhibit and in art creation; belly dancing – one of our most attended performances; and lots of local favorites playing like Machine 475 and the Dejas.

The Salem Arts Festival is offered free to all. Volunteers interested in helping with the Festival are warmly welcome and encouraged to contact Jennifer Bell at SMS for more information.

Salem Arts Festival Needs Artists

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Mar 112011

The Salem Arts Festival is looking for artists to participate in the 2011 festival. Proposals are due by March 31. Visit the official festival website for full details www.salemartsfestival.com.

The Salem Arts Festival June 3 – 5 promotes the arts in downtown Salem through a collaborative festival for residents and visitors providing opportunities to highlight the existing artist community and encourage general community participation in the arts. The 2010 festival had over 4,000 visitors. The Festival is looking for art and performance for the sophisticated art patron as well as for the art novice including interactive events for children. It will engage participants of diverse backgrounds and ages by reaching out to current art patrons, local students, and the community at large.

The Salem Arts Festival, June 3 – 5 will celebrate all the arts: painting, photography, sculpture, dance, music, writing, film, new media, performance, theatre, poetry, culinary and visual art. We are looking for artists of all mediums to exhibit and/or perform. Did you ever want to:

Create art en plein air – with an audience?, Lead a workshop or an artist’s demonstration?, Draw with chalk on the sidewalk?, Play your instruments by a fountain?, Create an installation in a public space?, Display your artwork in a Salem coffee shop or retail business?

Use your imagination! Submit a proposal as an individual or as a group to help us Celebrate the Arts all over Salem! Various venues are available throughout the city from traditional gallery space to outdoor performance spaces. Let us know what would work best for you and/or your group. For more informatio contact Jennifer at (978)744-0004 or Jennifer@salemmainstreets.org.

An Evening With Artists and Authors

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Feb 232011

An Evening with Artists and Authors on Thursday, February 24 in the Grand Ballroom of the Hawthorne Hotel. From 5pm-9pm, the hotel will showcase some of the area’s most talented artists and authors, both new and established, while local orchestra Special Edition provides musical entertainment.

This event is free and open to the public. Some of the artists available to meet and greet you and who will have their work on display include: Ellen Hardy, Wendy Snow-Lang, Charles Lang, Elaine Snow, Ziggy Hartfelder, Nancy Barnes, Dan Browne, Jack Walsh, Sharon Billings and Karen Hallion. Authors include: Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin, Matthew Fraser, Kristie Poehler, and the North Shore Writers Group. Salem poet, Claire Keyes will be doing a poetry reading. Books and art work will be for sale. For more information call 978-825-4361.

SAF Receives $1,000 Grant!

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Jan 222011

Salem Main Streets is pleased to announce that SMS has been awarded a $1,000 grant by the Salem Cultural Council for the 2011 Salem Arts Festival This will enable us to continue our goal of showcasing the talents of the arts community in a free festival downtown Salem. The Festival is June 3 – 5, 2011 downtown Salem. Applications for the 2011 festival will be available soon. Anyone interested in volunteering for the festival or festival committee should contact Jennifer at (978)744-0004 or Jennifer@salemmainstreets.org. For future updates visit the festival website http://www.salemartsfestival.com Thank you to the Salem Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, for their continued support of the festival.

Salem Arts Festival This Weekend!

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Jun 042010

Don’t miss the Salem Arts Festival starting with the opening reception Friday, June 4 at 5:00 p.m. in Old Town Hall. The Salem Arts Festival is a free eclectic festival June 4 – 6 downtown Salem, in Old Town Hall and various locations celebrating local talent. Visit the offical website www.salemartsfestival.com for more information and a complete schedule of events.

Opening Reception at Old Town Hall: Join us on Friday for munchies and a glass of wine and the unveiling of the juried exhibit. Be entertained all evening from 5-9:00 pm. The show starts with A-Train, a young 5 piece jump-blues band, continues with Scottish Country Dancers and ends with a performance by soprano Jennifer Sgroe and pianist Beverly Soll.

Music, Music, Music & Dance: Saturday on Salem Common 2:30-7:30pm. Sunday at Pickering Wharf starting at 12noon. All Weekend at Old Town Hall: Friday 5pm-9pm, Saturday 10:30am-7pm, Sunday 10am-4pm. Folk, Rock, Blues, Celtic, Opera, Classical, Jazz, Techo, Contemporary, Multicultural, Funk, Pop – you’ll find them all.

Sunday Jazz Brunch: with East West Trio. 11:30 – 1pm. BYO box lunch to Old Town Hall; make your own or purchase one at participating restaurants.

Join the Arts Walk: Pick up a free map & program booklet at Old Town Hall then find the artists in their galleries or in local businesses (on Saturday 10am – 5pm). Meet the artists en plein air on Sunday 12 noon – 5pm.

For Teens: Get inspired by young bands such as A-Train, One Step Away and Standards of Excellence.

& Younger: Catch… Chris Cuddy and Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin at CornerStone Books, Kids Yoga moves on the Common, and Dan Covino playing orginal music on his 10 ft. long musical instrument made out of a tree limb.

Culinary Demos and Tastings on Pickering Wharf: Sunday 1- 5 at Victoria Station, Finz and Capt’s Waterfront. Cupcake Decorating at Coven on Sunday at 1.

Special Events Around Town: The grand opening of the Naimo Gallery, special art exhibits in restaurants and galleries, “The Kennedys, Portrait of a Family, Photographs by Richard Avedon” at the PEM, Improv Comedy (a fee may be charged for these events)

P.S. In my next post I will explain my two month absence in posting.

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