Hello friends-
I hope everyone is doing well in these crazy times. I wanted to let
everyone know about a new program Shakespeare at Winedale is rolling out as
part of the anniversary celebrations - "A Hundred Merry Tales (or More) of
Winedale"
We just announced this on our Facebook page, but I thought I'd share the
info below, since I'm hoping y'all might be interested in participating.
Let me know what questions you have!
All the best,
Liz
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“...that I had my good wit out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales’ — well this was
Signior Benedick that said so.”
Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing, 2.1
In his annual Camp Shakespeare email this spring, Doc wrote:
"This might be a good time to take turns telling stories to one another as
we travel together during this suffering, following the ten in the
Decameron during the plague of 1348. Or share with one another ‘journey'
stories of our own. Shakespeare’s imagination was alive during the plague
years. We need to keep that spirit going and ours!”
In that spirit, we are launching “A Hundred Merry Tales (or More) of
Winedale.” We are inviting anyone who has a personal connection to Winedale
— as a player, student, patron, local resident, employee, you name it — to
contribute a short video of you telling a story of a favorite Winedale
“journey” or moment. It could be about Winedale the place, or your times at
Winedale as a student, really any story that has Winedale as its center or
setting, since the journey out to Winedale is the beginning of a lifelong
love for all of us.
The invitation to tell stories has been a key theme to the reunion season
this year, and we’d love to build an online “virtual Barn” where we can
gather to share and hear stories of playing, working, and experiencing rich
moments of life at Winedale. This is also a way of gathering stories to
permanently archive them.
The stories can be filmed in any way you feel would best help tell the
story. We are suggesting a five-minute limit. They could be a short as 30
seconds! The stories will be posted online for everyone to enjoy.
Interested? Email Liz at lfisher(a)austin.utexas.edu for instructions on how
to upload your video today!
This from the Folger Shakespeare Library (click the link for the full Zoom
signup info and more information about being a Folger Teacher):
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Teaching Colleagues all:
Join us this Wednesday, May 20th at 7:00PM EDT for the 8th Folger Teacher
Community Conversation. In answer to your requests:
● Together, we will all produce a *FOLGER TWENTY-MINUTE PLAY*--and you'll
see immediately (a) why these are great learning tools, and (b) how you can
do this with your students before Friday.
● PAIRED TEXTS--PART ONE
- What are paired texts and why are they important?
- YOU pair up a speech of Lady Macbeth's with one from Rose (Fences), or
a poem by Ada Limón, or a passage from The Yellow Wallpaper
● *PAIRED TEXTS--PART TWO*
- YOU consider this mind-blowing pairing: Citizen: An American Lyric by
Claudia Rankine with Hamlet by William Shakespeare
● Lots of time to question, comment, learn from one another.
Cheers,
PO'B
Peggy O'Brien, Ph.D.
Director of Education
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
202.675.0372
folger.edu/teacher-membership
@obrienfolger
http://email.wordfly.com/view/?sid=MTAwMl8xNDIwOF8xNzQ4MTNfNzE4MQ&l=7ddfb3e…
Thanks Susan and Carl - keep keeping the Dream alive!😘
Sent from my iPad
> On May 13, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Susan Todd <susangayletodd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Oh, loved ones, I was going through files and found Carl's DREAM song from
our 2015 Reunion *Midsummer*. Get ready to feel the feels and click the
attached file.
Carl, this is too gorgeous!
"I can make you mine--
Taste a little Wine-dale
Anytime night or day . . ."