Teaching Macbeth?

Teaching Teachers: Macbeth
Wednesday, January 13
9:30am – 3:30pm
Ripley Grier Studios (520 Eighth Ave.)
FREE for Shakespeare Society Members*

The Shakespeare Society‘s series of professional development workshops for teachers will continue with “Teaching Macbeth.” Veteran teacher Wendy Halm-Violette will lead the full-day session that will ask participants to put themselves in their students’ shoes as they learn dynamic and creative approaches for bringing Shakespeare’s dark tragedy to life in the classroom.  Methods presented are applicable to all of Shakespeare’s plays.

*For more information and to register, please contact Jackie Tralies at (212) 967-6802.

Happy Holidays!

Enjoy these festive lines from the Bard:

• “Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.” – As You Like It
• “It is a holiday to look on them.” – Two Noble Kinsmen
• “If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work…” – Henry IV, Part 1
• “This little one shall make it holiday.” – Henry VIII
  
• “Come hither from the furrow and be merry. / Make holiday…” – The Tempest

Coming in 2016: First Folio Exhibition

In celebration of Shakespeare 400, our friends at the Folger Shakespeare Library are sending out their collection of First Folios to to all 50 states, Washington, and Puerto Rico.  Learn more about First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare.

Nearby Exhibition Hosts

CT – Storrs: University of Connecticut, Sept 2 – 25

MA – Amherst: Amherst College, May 9 – 31

NJ – Madison: Drew University and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Oct 3 – 31
Additional Events:  Teaching Shakespeare Workshop (March 1st)

NY – New York: New-York Historical Society, Jun 7 – Jul 17
Additional Events:  Teaching Shakespeare Workshop (July 2016)

PA – Elizabethtown: Elizabethtown College, Nov 8 – Dec 5
Additional Events:  Teaching Shakespeare Workshop (November 2016)

RI – Providence: Brown University, Apr 11 – May 1
Additional Events:  Teaching Shakespeare Workshop (April 30th)

VT – Middlebury: Middlebury College, Feb 1 – 28

See a full list of exhibition locations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Shakespeare Society: Teaching Teachers Workshop

Teaching Teachers: Macbeth
Date and Time:  Wednesday, January 13th from 9:30am – 3:30pm
Location:  Ripley Grier Studios (520 Eighth Ave.)
FREE for Shakespeare Society Members*

The Shakespeare Society‘s series of professional development workshops for teachers will continue this year with “Teaching Macbeth.” Veteran teacher Wendy Halm-Violette will lead the full-day session that will ask participants to put themselves in their students’ shoes as they learn dynamic and creative approaches for bringing Shakespeare’s dark tragedy to life in the classroom.  Methods presented are applicable to all of Shakespeare’s plays.

*For more information and to register, please contact Jackie Tralies at (212) 967-6802.

Scholarships for Teachers: Summer Study in the UK

Scholarships for Middle and High School NYC Area Teachers:  Summer Study in the United Kingdom

The English-Speaking Union of New York will award two scholarships to an instructor of English, humanities, drama, or history to engage in three weeks of formal study in the British Universities Summer Schools Program at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh or Shakespeare’s Globe in London. One scholarship will cover tuition, accommodation and most meals. The other scholarship will provide $1000 towards tuition. International airfare is the responsibility of both teachers. For more information on this scholarship, click here.

If you are interested in becoming a BUSS Scholar for the Summer of 2016, please complete the following steps:

1. Start your application Here to be considered for the New York City Branch BUSS Scholarship.

2. Go to esu-buss.org for information on 2016 courses and dates.

Application Deadline:  Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 4 pm

Questions?  Contact:  Alice Uhl, International Programs Manager, at auhl@esuus.org or 212-818-1200 x 212.

Twelfth Night Teacher Workshop

Twelfth Night Teacher Workshop

A partnership between The English-Speaking Union and NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts

Date & Time:
February 17, 2016
9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Location:
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
New York University
566 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012

Registration Fee:
$75

This fee includes the workshop, lunch, a ticket to Twelfth Night (2:00 PM matinee) and a post-show discussion and Q&A with the artists.

Registration Deadline:
February 3, 2016

Registration is now open:  Register today. 

For more information, please contact:  Katharine Strobel, Manager of Shakespeare Education Programs, at kstrobel@esuus.org or 212-818-1200 x 223.

Last Chance: All-Female Henry IV

Like Orange Is the New Black?
Then don’t miss this Henry IV (an all-female version set in women’s prison)!

HENRY IV
November 6 – December 13
Donmar Warehouse Production
St. Ann’s Warehouse

Winter Preview

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
January 13 – January 21, 2016
American Sephardi Federation at Center for Jewish History

AS YOU LIKE IT
February 5 – February 27, 2016
Part of Shakespeare Off-Broadway
The Players Theatre

PERICLES
February 14 – March 27, 2016
Directed by Trevor Nunn
Theatre for a New Audience (Brooklyn)

TWELFTH NIGHT
February 16 – February 20, 2016
Filter Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company
NYU Skirball Center

OTHELLO
February 24 – March 11, 2016
The Young Company
Classic Stage Company

KING AND COUNTRY:  SHAKESPEARE’S GREAT CYCLE OF KINGS
March 24 – May 1, 2016
The Royal Shakespeare Company
BAM Harvey Theater (Brooklyn)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fun Fact for Thanksgiving Day:  Although the word “thanks” comes up many times in the Bard’s plays, the word “thanksgiving” appears only twice.

• “I cannot stay thanksgiving.” – Berowne, Love’s Labor’s Lost
• “There’s not a soldier of us all that in the thanksgiving before meat do relish the petition well that prays for peace.” – First Gentleman, Measure for Measure

 

Coming in 2016: ESU Shakespeare 400

What is ESU Shakespeare 400?

April 23, 1616:  William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon in England, and his legacy began.

Around the globe, theaters, universities, museums and schools will celebrate the plays and sonnets and their impact from Renaissance England to the entire world today.

The English-Speaking Union, a leader in Shakespeare education in America, celebrates this legacy through the hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and members who have participated in our National Shakespeare Competition, workshops and classes for educators in the US and UK, and lectures and events across the country.

Please join us for these events and more in 2016

• National Shakespeare Competition
  Students compete in school competitions in the fall and winter, seeking a spot at the National Competition in New York City in Spring 2016.
• Teaching Shakespeare Workshops
  One-day workshops sponsored by ESU Branches across the country teach teachers, in a dynamic up-on-your-feet way, about Shakespeare’s language, the First Folio, and how to engage all students in the Bard’s texts.
• British Universities Summer School
  Study this summer at Shakespeare’s Globe in London or at Oxford (and, of course, you’ll have the chance to walk in Shakespeare’s footsteps with a visit to nearby Stratford-upon-Avon).
• Evelyn Wrench Speaker Program
  Paul Edmondson, Head of Research and Knowledge, at Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, will visit the ESU West Coast Branches.  Andrea Mays, economics professor and author, will speak in Kansas City and New Orleans about industrialist, Henry Folger, and his obsessive search for Shakespeare’s First Folio.
• International Tours
  Discover the Bard’s homeland on one of our travel opportunities: Shakespeare Rediscovered and Town & Country Life in the English Countryside, Oxford and Cotswolds