Booking and details
Dates Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 4:30pm
Tickets Free
Folger Salon
Learn about research happening at the Folger in real time! Each month, Folger Institute scholar and artist fellows will share their most exciting finds and thought-provoking challenges, followed by casual open conversation. Tea and coffee will be provided, but arrive early to purchase treats from the Folger’s new cafe, Quill & Crumb!
This is a free event. No registration required.
Speakers
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva is Associate Professor of History at the University of Rochester.
Ania Upstill
Ania (they/them) is a queer and trans theatre maker, educator, and clown.
They hold a Master of Arts in Applied Theater from the City University of New York, and are a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (Professional Training Program). As a theater maker Ania’s work celebrates LGBTQIA+ artists with a focus on gender diversity, and through their company Butch Mermaid Productions Ania seeks to make queer joy irresistible and contagious, envisioning a world where all queer people experience joy and belonging. As a teaching artist and facilitator, Ania works for institutions including Lincoln Center Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, Theater of the Oppressed NYC and New Victory Theater. Ania also co-owns GenderWise, a gender diversity training company that aims to upskill educators, administrators and arts workers to better support gender diverse young people and audiences.
About Folger Institute
The Folger Institute is a center for early modern research at the Folger Shakespeare Library that brings public audiences together with researchers to explore the cultures and legacies of the early modern world. Learn more.
See what our fellows are researching
Third Time’s a Charm: W. Blount Reads Sidney’s Arcadia
An examination of marginalia in the Folger’s 1593 The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
Painting the birds of Shakespeare
Folger Artist Fellow Missy Dunaway shares what she’s learning while working on The Birds of Shakespeare, her project to paint the 65 birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s works.
Working Through the Tangle: Language, Archives, and Practice
What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee language?
Miscellaneous Race
Looking at enslaved Black workers and the 1588 Spanish Armada’s afterlives in a 17th-century English miscellany
Artist Elise Ansel Reimagines Macbeth
Ansel shares how her questions as an artist fellow about Fuseli’s take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth inspired her to create two abstract, large-scale oil paintings but this time from a woman’s perspective that celebrates the play’s sisterhood.