Shakespeare's Birthday

Shakespeare’s Birthday Open House Schedule

FRONT LAWN

• 12:00-12:15  US Army Baroque Ensemble and Opening Remarks
• 12:15-12:30  Rock Creek Morris Dancers
• 12:30-1:15    Tooth and Claw Combat Arts with Casey Kaleba - Sword Fight Demonstration
• 1:30-2:15      English Country Dance in DC – Instruction and Demonstration
• 2:15-2:30      Rock Creek Morris Dancers
• 2:30-3:15      Tooth and Claw Combat Arts with Casey Kaleba - Sword Fight Demonstration
• 3:00-3:45      Washington Revels Gallery Voices - Renaissance madrigals & songs from Shakespeare’s era
• 4:00               US Army Fife and Drum Corps – Parade and birthday cake cutting with Queen Elizabeth I

FOLGER THEATRE

• 12:15 - 1:00   US Army Baroque Ensemble
• 1:00-1:30       Spontaneous Shakespeare-Speak the speech from the Folger stage
• 1:30-2:00       A Shakespeare Insult and Compliment Rave-Revel in Shakespeare’s best compliments and insults and hurl them at your fellow audience members
• 2:00-2:45       Washington Revels Gallery Voices - Renaissance madrigals & songs from Shakespeare’s era
• 2:50-3:15       Romeo and Juliet, the balcony scene-choose your role and find your place in the theater, rehearse and perform Shakespeare’s famous scene – en masse.
• 3:15-4:00       The Gravedigger’s Tale – An Interactive Retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet

FOUNDERS’ ROOM

• 12:15-1:00     Tiny Tempest-Shakespeare’s last play staged by shadow puppets and performers
• 1:00-2:00       Shakespeare Sonnet Reading
• 2:00-3:00       Tiny Tempest- Shakespeare’s last play staged by shadow puppets and performers
• 3:00-5:00       Folger Shakespeare Library Docent Tours of the Founders’ Room

GREAT HALL 

• All day          Printing Press demonstrations 
                         Folger Shakespeare Library Docent conversations about Shakespeare’s First Folio
                         Become A Junior Docent Activity
                         Folger Shakespeare Library Docent conversations about A Monument to Shakespeare: The Architecture of the Folger Shakespeare Library
• 12:15-1:00     English Country Dance in DC – Instruction and Demonstration
• ​1:00                A Monument to Shakespeare: The Architecture of the Folger Shakespeare Library Curators, Michael Witmore and Heather Wolfe to lead a conversation about the exhibition
• ​2:00                A Monument to Shakespeare: The Architecture of the Folger Shakespeare Library Curators, Michael Witmore and Heather Wolfe to lead a conversation about the exhibition

PASTER READING ROOM

• All Day           Folger Shakespeare Library Docent Tours
• 12:15-1:45      Folger Staxpeditions Live with Folger Shakespeare Library Collections-see rare materials brought from the vaults of the Folger
• 2:00-4:00        WETA Classical Players-classical string quartet

SEDGWICK-BOND READING ROOM

• All Day           Shakespeare’s Closet-learn about Elizabethan dress in this hands-on activity
                          Color the Collection activity
                          Fold a Folio activity
                          Build A Shield activity
                          Renaissance Embroidery Demonstration
                          Shakespeare Trivia Contest

FOULKE ROOM

• 1:15-1:45         Rock Creek Morris Dancers 
• All Day            Play the Knave - Shakespeare video game
                            DC Public Library Mobile Library

GIFT SHOP  Open All Day  

AROUND THE FOLGER

• Shakespeare Portrait activity
• Print a Quarto activity
• Mobile Memento Shop
• The Fortune teller

PUCK CIRCLE

• BBQ Bus
• Captain Cookie and the Milkman
• DC Slices
• Red Hook Lobster