Special Events, For Kids & Families
Illusions and Delusions!
Featuring the Devil Music Ensemble
Evening Event
Museum admission $10, members free
Friday, October 22, 2010 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Reservations by October 20
Location: Peabody Essex Museum
Before the live music and horror movie at 8 pm, make illusion art, create spooky sounds and visit Eye Spy, Playing with Perception in the interactive Art & Nature Center from 6:30 to 8 pm.
For adults and families with children ages 9 and up
Refreshments available for purchase at the Atrium Café. Program made possible by the Lowell Institute and ECHO.
Drop-in Art Activity
Flip Books and Thaumatropes | 6:30–8 pm | Atrium
The history of animation (and moviemaking) began with a simple device called the thaumatrope. This optical toy, in wide circulation by 1826, consists of a card attached between two pieces of string. When twirled, the images on each side of the card appear as one. The first flip book was patented in September 1868 under the name kineograph, or "moving picture."
Workshop
Spooky Sounds | 6:30–6:50 pm and 7:15–7:35 pm | Morse Auditorium
Separate reservations required for this event by October 20
Included with museum admission
Create your own sound effects for a spooky story with foley artist and old-time radio producer John Lovering. Learn to make the sounds of wind, thunder, creaky doors, creepy footsteps and space-alien rays.
Film and Live Music
Devil Music Ensemble presents The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 8–9:15 pm | Atrium
Devil Music Ensemble returns to PEM to perform its original, haunting score during The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Noted as a masterpiece of German Expressionism, the 1920 silent film's use of distorted set design, illusion and gripping suspense set the standard for horror filmmaking for decades to come.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari recounts the story of traveling magician Dr. Caligari and Cesare, his sleepwalking assistant. Their arrival in small German town coincides with savage killings. Francis, the narrator, describes his friend's murder and his fiancée's abduction by Cesare. Who is Dr. Caligari? Does he hypnotize Cesare to do his evil bidding? And who are the real inmates of the local insane asylum?
Featuring percussion, electric violin, vibraphone, guitar and lap steel guitar.
Tickets Available at the Door, first come, first served. Doors open at 6:30pm. Film starts at 8pm.
