Special Events, For Kids & Families, Weekend Festivals
Edible Art
Weekend Festival
Sunday, October 10, 2010 from 11am - 4:30pm
Location: Peabody Essex Museum
Tour
Family Gallery Exploration: Visual Feast | 11–11:30 am | Meet at the information desk | Reservations by October 7
Food influences art everywhere! Explore a banquet for the eyes in PEM's galleries.
Drop-in Art Activity
Scratch-and-Sniff Painting | 11 am–1 pm | Art Studios
Create your own fragrant masterpiece with our special food-scented paints.
Artist Demonstration
Chocolate Architecture with Jorg Amsler | 11 am–3 pm | Atrium
Jorg Amsler, contestant and champion on the Food Network's Chocolate Landmarks Challenge and proprietor of Truly Jorg's Patisserie in Saugus, Mass., uses chocolate to sculpt incredible edible creations. Try out a few chocolate-shaping techniques yourself!
Drop-in Art Activity
Still Life Drawing | Noon–3 pm | Atrium
Still lives can be symbolic, realistic or surprising combinations of foods and other objects. Take a closer look at artworks based on still life arrangements, and then sketch your own with guidance from artist and teacher Jim Chisholm.
Performance
Hansel and Gretel with the Tanglewood Marionettes | 1–2 pm and 3:30–4:30 pm
Atrium
Tanglewood Marionettes return to PEM! The storybook comes alive in this performance based on the classic fairytale by the Brothers Grimm, featuring melodies from the Humperdinck opera.
Drop-in Art Activity
Food Printing | 1–4 pm | Art Studios
Spaghetti stripes, pepper flowers, and lemon wheels — stamp your own design and explore patterns in food.
Tour
Three Centuries of Cooking and Dining | 2–2:45 pm | Meet at the information desk Reservations by October 7
How does meal preparation today differ from the way settlers and colonists prepared for meals? What can we learn about earlier timese by thinking about the food they served? Recommended for adults and children ages 10 and up.
Story Time
Perfect Pancakes If You Please! | 3–3:30 pm | Meet at the information desk
Reservations by October 8
A hungry king has promised his daughter to whoever can cook a perfect pancake, and the princess is not pleased! Will the kingdom be buried in pancakes, in this story by William Wise? Recommended for children ages 3 and up with accompanying adult.
