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San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s mission is to make the words and themes of Shakespeare accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, financial status or level of education. By lowering practical and perceptual barriers, we encourage broad participation in the arts and make these activities a part of community life.
The Festival serves as a catalyst for audience development by reaching thousands of people who otherwise do not attend live theater or may have never experienced it at all. Our programming represents the plays in their finest light, demonstrates their relevance to today’s society, and inspires our students and audiences to seek out additional theatrical experiences.
We are dedicated to arts education, using our programs to foster a life-long appreciation of learning and the arts. We offer day camps and classes for children age 7 to 17, as well as in-school residencies and playshops.
Get all the info you need, including dates, times and locations, to attend this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest.
Experience welcome but not required for our Bay Area Shakespeare Camp programs for ages 7-13. Sign Up Now for the 2024 session at Santa Clara University! (The San Francisco sessions for ages 7-13 are filled to capacity.)
The Advanced Shakespeare Workshop (in San Francisco, ages 12-18, audition required) is currently accepting applications.
Bring the magic of live theater and the beauty of Shakespeare’s poetic language to YOUR location. Send your booking requests NOW for this popular title!
Our annual gala fundraiser returns April 20, 2024 with All The World’s A Stage at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club. Celebrating our 42 years of Shakespeare, there will be dining, a live performance of As You Like It, and everyone can participate in the auction to make donations and bid on wine, travel, experiences, and more.
The August 19 panel conversation will feature cast and company members from this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest in conversation with SF Shakes Board Member Dan Rabinowitz and Artistic Director Carla Pantoja.
Register now to join us for these behind-the-scenes perspectives on the show and pose any questions you may have!
The July 8 conversation featured Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper, the incoming Director of The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.
Board Member Dan Rabinowitz hosted this third discussion, in which he and SF Shakes Artistic Director Carla Pantoja engaged in conversation about The Tempest with Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper. The discussion explored and examined her deeply thoughtful analysis of race, gender and otherness in The Tempest, along with a radical reappraisal of society in Elizabethan London, the backdrop from which Shakespeare’s plays emerged and against which they were presented.
The June 17 conversation featured this summers’ Free Shakes in the Park Director Rotimi Agbabiaka in conversation with SF Shakes Artistic Director Carla Pantoja and was hosted by SF Shakes Board Member Dan Rabinowitz.
Dan and Carla engaged in lively and insightful discussion with Rotimi, who shared his directorial perspectives on this summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest and his intent to highlight the themes of forgiveness and recovering from loss.
We’re delighted to share a recording of this fascinating panel conversation (that took place on March 25), featuring Dr. Will Tosh, Head of Research at Shakespeare’s Globe, London in conversation with SF Shakes Artistic Director Carla Pantoja and hosted by SF Shakes Board Member Dan Rabinowitz.
Dan, Carla, and Will touched on a wide variety of the remarkable features and the artistic and historical context of this wonderful comedy. They see it as a remarkable social commentary that is just as relevant today as it was in 1599, as Shakespeare’s great implicit feminist statement, and as a play that touches on and implicates gender issues more broadly in ways that resonate with our audiences.
Shakespeare’s Heartbeat uses the Hunter Heartbeat Method developed by Kelly Hunter of Flute Theatre, utilizing the iambic pentameter (heartbeat rhythm) of Shakespeare’s words and the physicality of his characters to engage with students on the autism spectrum. Geared towards grades 4-12.
Saturday Upstart Crows classes are physically and mentally engaging weekend sessions where students age 11-18 deepen their skills and knowledge through a comprehensive rehearsal process that explores language, history, voice, movement, text analysis, and play.
Summer in the Bay Area means Shakespeare! We hope that you’ll spend the summer with us, and will consider a charitable donation to help us serve the community!
sfshakes.org/donate/
For over 40 years, our annual Free Shakespeare in the Park productions have broken down barriers to arts accesses for people all across the Bay Area. Free Shakespeare is free to attend, family-friendly, and often serves as people’s first exposure to live theatre and the performing arts.
When you donate to support SF Shakes and Free Shakespeare in the Park, you help make Shakespeare accessible and available to everyone!
Please join us in the parks this summer for a professional production of Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST!
- CUPERTINO
Memorial Park Amphitheater, 21163 Anton Way: July 27-Aug 4, Saturdays and Sundays at 6 pm
- REDWOOD CITY
Red Morton Park, Vera Ave and Valota Road: Aug 10-Aug 25, Saturdays and Sundays at 6 pm
-SAN FRANCISCO
McLaren Park, Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, 40 John F. Shelley Drive: Sat Aug 31, Saturdays, Sundays, and Labor Day Monday at 2pm
We hope to see you at THE TEMPEST soon!
Details at sfshakes.org/performance/free-shakes/tempest/
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How can we build healthier communities, as people, as artists, as friends, as a country?
Hundreds of artists working together in 18 cities across America are going to find out.
In Oakland on July 27, Edutainment for Equity (edutainmentforequity.com/) hosts “No Place Like the Town”.
This event will take place at Frank Ogawa Plaza by Oakland City Hall and is part public dialogue and part interactive art exhibition, featuring musicians, visual artists, activists, healers and appreciators of art coming together to make art, to demand more from our city, to collectively affirm what we want and deserve for ourselves and our city. This ceremony will be held outdoors on the plaza from 12 - 4 pm.
www.artsforeverybody.org/oakland-ca
#ArtsForEveryBody
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