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A Shakespeare Festival just for Middle School and High School Teens in Santa Fe
Our Youth Shakespeare Festival trains teens to speak Shakespeare, use a sword, dance a coranto, swear like an Elizabethan, fight like a villain, and drink from tankards and flagons.
Students produce short scenes in a festival performance and in the process develop skills in critical thinking, close reading, literary analysis, public speaking, voice, stage combat, and Shakespearean staging.
The 2020 Youth Shakespeare Festival Santa Fe was lost in the pandemic shut-down.
But we have plans for 2021!
Whatever slings and arrows of outrageous fortune may come this year, the Youth Shakespeare Festival will go on. We are prepared to meet in-person and/or online with school Shakespeare clubs when the fall semester begins.
The theme this year is Scenes from Macbeth
For students who would like to try Shakespeare, acting, stage combat!
The Upstart Crows will provide weekly mentoring in person (and on Zoom with professional actors and directors) who will help each Club stage and act in at least one scene from Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy. It’s a six month workshop in creativity and collaboration. ShakesClubs will start in October and then perform as many scenes from the play as we have the ambition to create in our Festival in March.
Participants receive:
invitations to all ISC/Crow workshops with visiting artists during the school year
a chance to take part in an open mic night
participation in a costumed outdoor performance and filming opportunities
Teachers: The Upstart Crows and their staff are always pleased to come to your school and present the program to you and your students. Festival programming is all-inclusive - you provide the students and the space, we will provide the staff and activities. We are happy to discuss support for English and Drama classes for any part of the school year.
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