Willamette Heritage Center presents: Open Studios and Sheep to Shawl – Sat. May 4th

Open Studios

Saturday, May 4, 2024 | 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Willamette Heritage Center | 1313 Mill Street SE, Salem

Art is too important not to share.

Studio Artists:

Elizabeth Bauman – A
Mona Cook – F
Carol Green – C
Lucy Hewitt – B
Leonard Kelly – I

Susan Napack – H
Bella Ramey – E
Jessica Ramey – G
Ross Sutherland – D/K
Jane Taliaferro – J

Sheep to Shawl

Saturday, May4 , 2024 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Willamette Heritage Center | 1313 Mill Street SE, Salem

Join us for an exciting day of woolly wonder at the 38th Annual Sheep to Shawl event!

• See live animals
• Watch shearing demonstrations
• Experience living history
• Take part in activities for kids
• Enjoy live performances
• Play lawn games
• Shop with vendors and retail partners
• Eat at Taproot

This is a FREE event, donations are appreciated!

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and check back here for more information as the date draws near.

Marion County Master Gardener PLANT SALE – Fri. and Sat. May 3-4 in #SalemOR

Mission Street Parks Conservancy SPRING PLANT SALE – April 26-27th in #SalemOR

Mission Street Parks Conservancy presents

2024 Spring Plant Sale

Jumpstart Your Spring Planting at our Spring Fundraiser Plant Sale!

Friday, April 26, 2024 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Saturday, April 27, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Bush’s Pasture Park Soapbox Derby Track

Find us at the foot of the Bush’s Pasture Park Soapbox Derby Track.

Proceeds will be used for projects in Bush Park! 

• Aislinn Adams, Artist – botanical art- in particular our area’s
  native plants of this area
• Garden Thyme Nursery – Drought tolerant & deer resistant
  perennials plus pepper, squash, cucumber, and tomato starts
• Pederson’s Nursery (formerly Egan’s) – colorful annuals,
  hanging baskets, and perennials galore
• Perennial Obsessions – “Unabashed addicts of hardy
  succulents”
• SeaDance Nursery – native and specialty plant nursery
• Van Hevelingen Herb Nursery – high-quality herbs, shrubs and
  perennials; free of chemical pesticides or growth stimulants

Experts will be on hand to give advice on planting locally.

You will find unusual plants offered by local specialty nurseries.

MasterCard and Visa are accepted.

Invite your friends and come check it out!  No charge to show up!
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Climate Vigil in Salem Oregon – Sat. May 4th #SalemOr

Climate Vigil

Saturday, May 4, 2024 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Oregon State Capitol Park

Be the light in your community

There is hope. You are not alone. Climate Vigil is a community of people who are concerned or curious about climate change. We are learning and taking action together. Will you join us?

You have the right to a safe climate. Everyone does.

When enough of us decide to exercise this right, we will overcome climate change.

Have you decided? Please let us know, so we can support your next step.

Read more…

Hallie Ford Museum of Art presents: Senior Studio Art Majors 2024 – April 20-May 18 in #SalemOR

IN/BETWEEN:

Senior Studio Art Majors 2024

April 20 – May 18, 2024

Hallie Ford Museum of Art | Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery

Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art studio majors at Willamette University. Characterized by a wide variety of styles and approaches, the exhibition includes work in a range of media. 

The exhibition, which represents the culmination of the student’s four years at Willamette, is paired with a small solo exhibition of recent work by one of the faculty members in the art department at Willamette University. The purpose of the exhibitions are to demonstrate the continuing connection and relationship between student and faculty research.

This year’s senior studio art majors exhibition is paired with the faculty exhibition, Alexandra Opie: What Remains, which focuses on recent works by Alexandra Opie, Professor of Art.

2024 senior art students include:

• Josefina Bovee 
• Patricia Jean Cambe
• Sage E. Clemons
• Eliana Belle Czuk
• Natalie Noelani Klett
• Hanna A. Krieger
• Sarah Jo Menke
• Morgan J. Murray

Exhibition Related Events

OPENING RECEPTION
IN/BETWEEN: Senior Art Majors 2024
April 19, 2024 | 6-8 p.m.
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

TUESDAY GALLERY TALK 
April 23, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. 
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

Join senior art majors Patricia Jean Cambe, Eliana Belle Czuk, Natalie Noelani Klett, and Hanna A. Krieger for a guided tour as they talk about their work.

TUESDAY GALLERY TALK 
April 30, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. 
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

Join senior art majors Josefina Bovee, Sage E. Clemons, Sarah Jo Menke, Morgan J. Murray for a guided tour as they talk about their work.

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OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Maribeth Collins Lobby, Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

Financial Support

Financial support for this exhibition has been supported with funds from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission. 

#SalemOR Mayoral Debate – Tues. April 30th

Two candidates for Salem mayor will meet on stage in a public debate…

The free evening event will feature a panel questioning Chris Hoy and Julie Hoy.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Doors Open: 5:00 PM

Elsinore Theatre | 130 High St. SE

Note: This is a free, ticketed event. Seating is general admission.

Salem has seen strongly-contested races for mayor in recent years and this is no different. This is your opportunity to see the candidates up close and judge how the address matters facing the community.

Chris Hoy is the current mayor, seeking a second term.

Julie Hoy, a local restaurateur, is serving on the Salem City Council. The Hoys are not related. Eiffler-Rodriguez, making his first run for public office, is a customer representative for a heating contracto

Free tickets are needed and are available online.

CLICK HERE FOR FREE TICKETS

The debate is sponsored by Salem Reporter and the Salem City Club. Two journalists from Salem Reporter and a representative of the City Club will pose questions to the candidates with follow-ups as necessary.

The city of Salem, Oregon, is holding a general election for mayor on November 5, 2024. A primary is scheduled for May 21, 2024. 

Tonight! Mid-Valley Travel Club Meeting on Zoom – Thurs. April 11th

Mid-Valley Travel Club presents:

“India: Hornbill Festival in Nagaland”   Presented by Eden Rose Brown

Thursday, April 11, 2024 | 7:00 PM

Zoom (link below)

Join us on a magical, once-in-a-lifetime journey to the Jewel of the Northeast: The Great Hornbill Festival of Nagaland, India!

In the farthest northeast corner of India, the tribes of Nagaland celebrate their festivals with appreciation and fervor. These celebrations are sacred, and all Nagas take part, with each having their own ways of promoting their culture. The festival is named after the Hornbill, one of the most respected and resplendent bird species in the state, and the bird’s importance is reflected in several tribal songs and dances.

To join the meeting, click on the link following “Join Zoom Meeting”.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89409640479?pwd=NzdUdXBhOWQ0Qjc2RVlQNDdnOU83QT09

Meeting ID: 894 0964 0479
Passcode: 956348

UUCS presents: An Evening with David Roth – Sat. April 13th in #SalemOR

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Salem presents:

An Evening with David Roth

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Salem (5090 Center St NE, Salem, OR 97317 corner of Center St NE & Cordon Rd)

Saturday, April 13, 2024 | 7:00 PM

Award- winning songwriter David Roth will perform Saturday, April 13 at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Salem.

David is a singer, songwriter, recording artist, speaker, and music educator who has taken his songs, experience, and expertise to a wide variety of venues in this and other countries full-time for more than three decades. His songs have found their way to Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, several Chicken Soup for the Soul books, the Kennedy Center, Peter, Paul, & Mary and Kingston Trio CDs, the Kerrville and Falcon Ridge Folk Festivals, NASA’s Goddard Space Center (his song “Rocket Science” sailed on the space shuttle Atlantis in 2009), the Rise Up Singing and Rise Again (sequel) songbooks, and 15 CDs on the Wind River and Stockfisch (Germany) labels.

The suggested cover cost is $20, but no one will be turned away. Enjoy an evening of unique original music, replete with hilarity, poignancy, spontaneity, and inspiration.

The former artist-in-residence at New York’s Omega Institute has also taught singing, songwriting, and performance at SummerSongs (NY, where he serves as Executive Director), the Augusta Heritage workshops (WV), Common Ground on the Hill (MD), the Woods Dance & Music Camp (Ontario), WUMB’s Summer Acoustic Music Week (NH), Moab Folk Camp (UT), Rowe Center (MA), Pendle Hill (PA), Lamb’s Retreat (MI), the National Wellness Institute (WI), the Swannanoa Gathering (NC), and for many other songwriting groups around North America.

David is also creator of the Cape Cod Songwriters Retreats and organizer/host of the Cape’s Full Moon Open Mic which for the past 15 years has provided a forum for musicians to connect and be heard while at the same time collecting donations (cumulatively over $16,000 to date) for local non-profits to help neighbors in need.

For more information contact music@uusalem.org or 503-364-0932.

Festival Chorale Oregon: Stabat Mater – Sun. April 14th in #SalemOR

Festival Chorale Oregon presents:

Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater

Sunday, April 14, 2024 | 4:00 PM

Elsinore Theatre | 170 High St SE, Salem
Doors open at 3:30pm

Join Festival Chorale Oregon as we close out our 45th anniversary season by returning to the Elsinore Theatre to perform Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater.

Considered Dvořák’s best known sacred work, the piece is an extended musical setting of the 20 stanzas of the liturgical sequence that portrays the suffering of Mary as a mother during Jesus’ crucifixion. This is a beautiful and moving masterpiece you won’t want to miss.

Soloists Jocelyn Thomas, Hannah Penn, Les Green, and Brett Peldyak will join the chorale and orchestra led by Founding Artistic Director Dr. Solveig Holmquist.

BUY TICKETS
$35 Mezzanine (reserved)
$25 General Admission
$20 Senior (62+)
$10 Student

We are pleased to offer discounted tickets to holders of the Oregon Trail Card in partnership with Salem for All. Each cardholder can purchase up to two $5 tickets at the door (subject to availability).

Online ticket sales are subject to fees. Tickets are also available from chorale members and at the door.

Supported by a grant of Transient Occupancy Tax from the City of Salem

Parking
Free on-street parking is available surrounding the theatre and a free parking garage is one and a half blocks away at the corner of Liberty and Ferry streets. Limited spaces for holders of disabled person parking permits are located in front of the theatre and are available on a first-come basis. Passenger pick up and drop off spaces are also available in front of the theatre.

Accessibility
Limited spaces for holders of disabled person parking permits are located in front of the theatre and are available on a first-come basis. Passenger pick up and drop off spaces are also available in front of the theatre. Step-free access to main seating area; mezzanine/balcony accessible by stairs only. Accessible restroom available.

International Uranium Film Festival “Boom or Bloom: It’s Up to Us” – Coming to #SalemOR April 19-20

Save the Date! Reserve Your Seat
for the

International Uranium Film Festival

Boom or Bloom: It’s Up to Us

Coming to Salem April 19-20

Ike Box Ballroom Theater | 299 Cottage St. NE, Salem.

Nuclear Abolition Now will present 5 films about nuclear weapons from the International Uranium Film Festival over two nights: April 19 and April 20. Mark your calendar now to make sure you don’t miss it and reserve your seat(s)

Schedule

Friday, April 19
6:00 “The Man Who Saved the World”
8:15 “Deadly Deception”

Saturday, April 20
5:30: Special guest speaker, Helen Jaccard with Veterans for Peace and the Golden Rule anti-nuclear peace boat project
6:00 “Anointed”
6:10 “Plutonium Dome”
7:10 “In My Lifetime”

Brief discussion will follow each film.

Admission is by sliding scale donation: $5-$20 per evening.
For additional details, including descriptions of all films, and to reserve seats, visit:
https://oregonpeaceworks.org/international-uranium-film-fest/.

Donations will be used to cover the costs of putting on the event and donating to the International Uranium Film Festival to keep it going. Any remaining funds will be used to finance future Nuclear Abolition Now projects.

Sponsored by
Nuclear Abolition Now (NAN)
Oregon PeaceWorks

And Co-Sponsored by
350 Salem
Salem CPR Center
Salem Friends Meeting
Indigo Wellness Center
Salem Progressive Film Series
The Book Bin
La Margarita Express
KMUZ
Wabi Sabi Tea Shop
Marco Polo
Braver Angels