Events
Shakespeare Workshop
Weekend with Shakespeare: Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis two-day event features leading Shakespeare scholars and theater artists who share their insights into this season’s plays through lectures, demonstrations, and discussions. Weekend with Shakespeare offers two options for purchase: a lecture-only package, which allows you to purchase and see the plays on your own schedule; or as a package that includes Premium seating […]
Remembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRemembering Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Readings from the works and about the man A memorial service, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in 1616. Saturday, April 23, 2016 Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz 6:00-6:45 p.m. Free and open to the public This event takes place before Experimental Baroque, a concert by Santa Cruz Baroque Festival. Concert info/tickets […]
Weekend with Shakespeare 2016
De Laveaga Elementary SchoolWeekend with Shakespeare - August 12 – 14, 2016 Join Shakespeare Workshop for a weekend of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s summer productions, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet. New this year is an Educators’ Workshop on Sunday, August 14, an event for teachers that provides creative and scholarly resources for enlivening Shakespeare’s […]
Questions That Matter: “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterPresented by the Institute for Humanities Research and Shakespeare Workshop What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political deliberations, or does the common good depend on the existence of political institutions and processes from which anger and other strong emotions are excluded? Has […]
Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop, focusing on practical techniques for translating work […]
Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryEvent Video: Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now 11.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: Karin Coonrod, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, will join Nathaniel Deutsch and Sean Keilen for a public discussion of her path-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venice Ghetto (2016). Join us to discover […]
Weekend with Shakespeare
UCSC ArboretumJoin Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2018 Season’s mainstage productions, Romeo & Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series: This year, the Weekend With Shakespeare Lecture Series is free! However, we suggest interested participants RSVP through The Santa Cruz Shakespeare website. Weekend with […]
Jessica Bauman: “What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare”
Kresge Town HallNew York City theater director Jessica Bauman and UCSC Professor Cat Ramirez will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the worldwide migration crisis. They will ask, how can we connect with the full humanity of displaced people, and what role should the arts and humanities […]
POSTPONED – Lisa Wolpe: Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall AuditoriumShakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender is a solo show, written and performed by Lisa Wolpe. It is an hour long, with no intermission. Lisa is an expert on gender-flipping Shakespeare as well as an actress, director, teacher, writer, traveler, and distinguished scholar. Her one-women show explores her experiences as an activist for inclusion, diversity, […]
VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 1
Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]