Shakespeare in Action Workshops - Available Year-Round
If you are an educator who is interested in bringing The Nashville Shakespeare Festival to your school, university, or other group, please take a look at our Shakespeare in Action workshop page where you will find workshop descriptions. To schedule your workshop, please contact Claire Syler at claire@nashvilleshakes.org.
Shakespeare Workshops for Adults in Businessess
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival offers workshops for adults in businesses as continuing education in public speaking and project direction. Participants have the opportunity to explore an artist's methods of examining problems, revelaing meaning, and renewing motivation. Not only are these strategies beneficial to artists, they also have applications in business. Participants access creative choice in an immediate way and have a chance to "play" within their thoughts and choices. The result is imagination, vision, and invention that will inspire executives and invigorate their work. The Festival's Education staff will work with you create a workshop that addresses your specific goals.
To book a workshop at your school or business, contact Claire Syler, Education Director.
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Teacher Comments
Scottie Girgus:
The visits were a resounding success. The girls enjoyed it so much. Every single classroom teacher had nothing but praise for your work. We're looking for ways to let you work with all of our classes next year as they study Shakespeare.
Brooke Finan:
Our recent visit from the Nashville Shakespeare Festival was a highlight of the semester. My students repeatedly said how much they enjoyed having the actors come to the class. Studying Shakespeare can often present a challenge to students, and my students truly appreciated how much having the actors come helped to bring the play to life for them and to make it more accessible. Especially effective was the workshop format in which the actors and director presented the scenes as works-in-progress. Students loved the opportunity to offer their feedback on how a scene should be performed, and then to see those changes put in action by the skilled actors and director. Seeing a scene presented, and then presented again, with a different focus, helped them to act as directors themselves, and to pay close attention to Shakespeare’s language (as well as what was going on between the lines). All my students agreed it was a wonderful experience, and I wish we could have the Nashville Shakespeare Festival come to all of our English classes!
Diane Parness:
I wanted to thank you for all you have done to help us this year. Your presentations to my classes, both English and Theatre have been excellent. Not only was there a lot of concrete information presented, but you did it with an enthusiasm and energy that drew in the students. It is always good for them to have information from outside sources. It is fresh and corroborates what the teacher has said as well. Additionally the interaction with you and the NSF has involved many of my students in the Shakespeare Monologue Competition, the high school summer workshop, and attending the summer productions. They have a relationship with Shakespeare and the power of language they would not have had.
You have been moral support, provided me with contacts for materials, and persons who could help with our shows. I cannot thank you enough. The students may not realize now, but a mark has been placed on them. They will forever react to and embrace Shakespeare and theatre in a way they would not have had they not been exposed to the Nashville Shakespeare Festival..
