Celebrate all things Shakespeare!
Join hundreds of students from all grades representing all of San Diego County!
Perform scenes and monologues from Shakespeare's plays!
Join in the revelry as we bring the Bard to life!
Join hundreds of students from all grades representing all of San Diego County!
Perform scenes and monologues from Shakespeare's plays!
Join in the revelry as we bring the Bard to life!
The 2021 San Diego Student Shakespeare Festival will consist of two parts!
A Virtual Festival and local Socially Distanced Parades!
A Virtual Festival and local Socially Distanced Parades!
VIRTUAL FESTIVAL
Participants are invited to prepare Monologues or Two-Person Scenes, and to record their performances in a short video. Videos will be submitted, then edited together into a Full Festival Video, to be live-streamed on Saturday & Sunday, April 24 & 25, 2021.
Please see Handbook for specific requirements.
PARADES
Participants in the Festival are invited to march in one or more of our Socially Distanced Parades!
A Giant Shakespeare Puppet will serve as the Grand Marshall. Participants will follow our Big Bard through local parks. Costumes, school banners, and signs encouraged!
NOTE: ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST ADHERE TO STRICT SOCIAL DISTANCE GUIDELINES.
MASKS ARE REQUIRED, NO EXCEPTIONS.
Please see Handbook for specific schedule and requirements.
Participants are invited to prepare Monologues or Two-Person Scenes, and to record their performances in a short video. Videos will be submitted, then edited together into a Full Festival Video, to be live-streamed on Saturday & Sunday, April 24 & 25, 2021.
Please see Handbook for specific requirements.
PARADES
Participants in the Festival are invited to march in one or more of our Socially Distanced Parades!
A Giant Shakespeare Puppet will serve as the Grand Marshall. Participants will follow our Big Bard through local parks. Costumes, school banners, and signs encouraged!
NOTE: ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST ADHERE TO STRICT SOCIAL DISTANCE GUIDELINES.
MASKS ARE REQUIRED, NO EXCEPTIONS.
Please see Handbook for specific schedule and requirements.
"...April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
- Sonnet 98
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
- Sonnet 98
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Teachers and FacilitatorsFor Program and Scene Descriptions, Requirements, and Suggestions, please click HERE.
COMING SOON! To Register click HERE. COMING SOON! For the full Information Handbook, please click HERE. COMING SOON! For Study Guides, Handouts, and other Teaching Resources, please click HERE. |
"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame."
- The Passionate Pilgrim
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame."
- The Passionate Pilgrim
Workshop InformationVirtual Workshops Videos will be offered this year.
Workshops will be offered in: General Shakespeare Performance (40 Minutes) Poetics and Text Analysis (15 minutes) Performance and Filming Techniques (15 minutes) Shakespearean Swordplay! (15 minutes) Please check back or get in touch for further information on workhsops. |
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"I rather would entreat thy company;
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
- The Two Gentlemen of Vernoa
Act I, scene i
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
- The Two Gentlemen of Vernoa
Act I, scene i
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Watch a sampling of the 2020 Virtual Student Shakespeare Festival below!
Watch this compilation of scenes from past festivals!
