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How is Shakespeare Still Shaping Our World?

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Shakespeare continues to influence modern world culture. This webinar explores the ways Shakespeare’s writing shapes language, literature, comedy, horror, and music. Studying and performing Shakespeare has many benefits that have been explored in many articles. This webinar looks at the fun to be found in Shakespeare’s works. His works are filled with insights into the human condition that are still relevant today. He created over 3000 words and phrases still in use.

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Pop Goes Shakespeare! a Webinar

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No writer has shaped modern culture more than Shakespeare. Come to this entertaining webinar and find out how he is still influencing you and why he is responsible for all your favorite fandoms. Shakespeare can be found in Doctor Who, Star Trek, and countless teen films. His works are the basis for hip hop music and rap. Shakespeare left us more than 1700 words and phrases. Studying and performing Shakespeare benefits us in so many ways. People that read or perform Shakespeare have better grades and webinar insult buttonvocabulary.  Come have fun while learning the highest and lowest that Shakespeare offers us May 21 at 7:00.

In the meantime, enjoy some Shakespearean insults

 

Teen Shakespeare Company Fights!

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Fights break out in the park, as teens with swords take over. The Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company is having fun and working hard. Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company brings a post-apocalyptic Henry IV, part 1 to Pensacola audiences April 28 – May 1. Enjoy this behind the scenes look at a little of what goes into choreographing all those breath-taking fights.

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SETSCO Presents Henry IV, part 1

The show features a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max style setting. If you like leather clad characters, swords and Shakespeare you will want to see this show. The thrills are surrounded by humor and humanity.

Henry IV, part 1 will hit the stage at the Opera Center in Pensacola April 28 – May 1. This is the first time SETSCO has performed one of Shakespeare’s histories since the company began 11 years ago.

www.setsco.org for tickets and more information.

Mobile Renaissance Faire Makes History Fun Today and Sunday

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The Mobile Renaissance Faire takes place November 14 and 15 in Robertsdale, Ala. The festival features vendors selling period clothing and jewelry, swords, and historical crafts like handmade soaps and mead. Visitors can watch jousting, juggling, music, and Shakespearian actors.

Fire breathing entertainers walk the aisles on stilts. The mascot dragon dances through the festival offering hugs to the crowds. Kids can get their face painted or try to throw a hula hoop on an accordion playing man in a hotdog suit. Watch a scene from Shakespeare and see dancing poodles. This festival gives visitors a full day of entertainment.

It started with a billboard. Festival organizer Steve Melei saw an ad for the Texas Renaissance Faire while attending law school. He fell in love when he saw this 6 week-long faire held on a recreated 16 century English township on 55 acres. He realized the Gulf Coast area had nothing like it after he graduated and returned home.

Robertsdale, Ala.(Nov.14,2015) Steve Melei, Organizer of the Mobile Renaissance Faire and Pirate Festival (Photo by PR by DeeDee owner, DeeDee Brustad)

Robertsdale, Ala.(Nov.14,2015) Steve Melei, Organizer of the Mobile Renaissance Faire and Pirate Festival (Photo by PR by DeeDee owner, DeeDee Brustad)

Steve Melei held the first Mobile Renaissance Faire in 2001 amidst terrible sleet. He barely broke even but people loved it. The festival is now held at Melei’s own Medieval Village, 30569 Eagle Lane Road, Robertsdale, Ala. “I’ve always been a history buff. I want to impart history to kids in a fun way that gets them outside”, says Steve Melei.

15 years and 30 festivals later, The Mobile Renaissance Faire has become a place where old friends gather to entertain the locals. Musicians Drunk and Sailor are regulars here. Phillip McGuinness, known to fans as Drunk, says “We’ve been doing this so long that the entertainers and crowds become family we look forward to seeing each year.” The crowds sing along and sometimes end up onstage dancing along McGuinness and Sailor, Captain Amos Muirhead.

Cassandra Garner was among the more than 1000 festival attendees today. She has visited the Mobile Renaissance Faire since 2002. Cassandra adds flavor with her brightly colored costume. She entertains the children with her carved puppets that move with the push of hidden buttons. “I used to come all the time, but life got in the way. This is where I recharge.”

Robertsdale, Ala.(Nov.14,2015) Cassandra Garner at Mobile Renaissance Faire(Photo by owner of Pr by DeeDee, DeeDee Brustad)

Robertsdale, Ala.(Nov.14,2015) Cassandra Garner at Mobile Renaissance Faire(Photo by owner of Pr by DeeDee, DeeDee Brustad)

Event: Mobile Renaissance Faire

Dates: Saturday Nov.14 and Sunday, Nov.15

Times: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Venue: 30569 Eagle Lane Road, Robertsdale, Ala

 

 

Information: http://www.gcrf.us/index.html

Tickets: $10 adults, $5 children, under 4 free