Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts
ROE, by acclaimed playwright Lisa Loomer, is a theatrical survey of the complicated and divisive underpinnings of Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established a woman’s right to an abortion. The playwright has updated the script since the Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs. V. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning that constitutional...
Salem State University Recital Hall, Classroom Building, Central Campus
Vox One is an award-winning a cappella jazz quintet that combines elements of blues, funk, gospel, and folk into their own brand of vocal music, which is “most adventurous and distinction.” – San Francisco Examiner. The group, formed in 1988, has since developed a unique style considered to be the cutting edge of a cappella....
Salem State University Winfisky Gallery
This exhibition was first installed at Dartmouth College from February 24 – March 31, 2023 at the one- year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an effort to raise awareness about the war raging in the heart of Europe. The exhibition showcases some of the brilliant artworks of contemporary Ukrainian illustrators living and...
Salem State University Recital Hall, Classroom Building, Central Campus
TICKETS $15 general/$10 seniors/free for all students with student ID and under 18. Admission is free for Salem State students, faculty and staff with university ID. Entitled Silent Voices Remembered, this concert of Holocaust memorial trios will explore the music of five composers dating from the 1940s to the present. Although the subject is dark,...
Salem State University Recital Hall, Classroom Building, Central Campus
The University Band presents its end of semester concert under the direction of Cynthia Napierkowski. The program includes familiar favorites like the "Washington Post March" by John Philp Sousa, a "Phantom of the Opera" medley, and an arrangement of Charlie Daniels's "The Devil Goes Down to Georgia". The ensemble will also perform Gustav Holst's "Second...
Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts
The Salem Dance Ensemble presents its spring concert with works by faculty and students. The concert will also include a performance by the Hip Hop Ensemble and a new work by spring guest choreographer Matthew Cumbie titled, "a volume of pages". A suggested donation of $10 at the door supports the Dance Honor Society. Performances...
Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts
Tony Kushner’s searing epic Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches is the first of two stories that focus on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City during the 1980s. Set against the conservative Reagan era, the play follows a remarkable ensemble of characters: Prior Walter, a young man battling AIDS; his partner Louis Ironson,...
