The Bookish Ball & Shakespeare Birthday Bash!
Mother Nature Strikes Again…
But Shakespeare and Bookstore Lovers
Rally to celebrate the Bookish Ball, Shakespeare’s Birthday,
and the Written Word in Harvard Square
Saturday, April 17th 2010
from 12:00 until 6:00
Due to expected unsettled weather Shakespeare's Birthday Party in Harvard Square will now take place entirely indoors!!! THE PARADE IS CANCELLED as are the outdoor performances BUT here's what WILL happen:
Come to Harvard Square to enjoy FREE INDOOR Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations that are part of an International celebration of Shakespeare’s Birth taking place in cities and countries across the globe!
Enjoy the Bookish Ball Bookstore Stroll that takes place in the bookstores and printed word shops of Harvard Square! Pick-up a Passport to Wisdom, get it stamped, and enter to win the “Great Things Come in Harvard Square Packages” prize!
“Literary Cakes & Ice Cream” by will be provided by Finale Desserterie and Bakery and Fire + and Ice and “Sugar high Sweetz” to be accompanied by Ice Cream from J.P. Licks and UpStairs on the Square!
Shakespeare Birthday Bash in Harvard Square:
* Curious George: SHAKESPEARE ON THE OUTS! at 1:45!
* Grolier Poetry Book Shop: Sonnets Reading by Jean Dany Joachim and Ifeyani Menkiti from 2:00 – 2:30 p.m.
* SHAKESPEARE SLAM Birthday Events Start at John Harvard's Brew House at 3:00pm:
* A Shakespeare Slam with performances by Actors Shakespeare Project, Orfeo Group, A.R.T. - all preceded by Revels' own artistic director Patrick Swanson leading a community reading of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Be sure to pick up your script and "Romeo" or "Juliet" signs crafted by the Revels crew so you can participate in this international YouTube event!
The Shakespeare Smack Down is 75 minutes of NON-STOP Shakespeare scenes, story and song - you don't want to miss this! All ages and families are welcome! Cakes and ale will be served. Event is FREE and space is limited. Seats will be given on a first come, first served basis.
John Harvard's Brew House, 33 Dunster Street.
The official colors of Shakespeare’s Birthday Bash are Yellow and Black, the colors of Shakespeare’s Coat of Arms and the official theme is Romeo and Juliet, the public is welcome to dress in Yellow & Black, or as Romeo and Juliet -- or as you like it!
Harvard Coop will feature performances from Romeo and Juliet by 9th Grade students from the Community Charter School of Cambridge at 3:30 p.m.
The students will perform monologues from Romeo and Juliet. The Students performing are Sumayyah Abdul-Hadi, Shadia Ahmed, Donnell Hogan, Jessica Martin, Hugh Merisier, Vivianne Nufio.
Harvard Coop will also feature musical performances from 3:00 – 6:00 by Longy School of Music Conservatory students
SEE OTHER SHAKESPEARE EVENTS THAT ARE PART OF THE BOOKISH BALL BELOW…
Bookstores Participating in the Bookish Ball!
Pick-up your Passport to Wisdom!
• At participating bookstores throughout Harvard Square between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m
• At the HSBA Table located on Brattle and Palmer Street near the entrance to the Coop.
Get your passport stamped!
• At any of the participating bookstores in Harvard Square: Harvard Coop, Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Harvard Book Store, The Globe Corner Book Store, Curious George Books and Toys, and Raven Used Books.
Return your stamped passport by 6:00 p.m. to the HSBA Table located on Brattle and Palmer Street the drawing will take place on Tuesday, May 20th winner does not need to be present to win.
Curious George Books and Toys:
Harvard Square's annual Bookish Ball, this year we'll celebrate Shakespeare's birthday! Come for a poetry themed story-time, color a coat of arms, and a performance by SHAKESPEARE ON THE OUTS! Shakespeare books will be discounted 10%
Curious George Books & Toys, 1 JFK St, Cambridge MA 02138
617.498.0062, www.curiousg.com and www.curiousgeorgestore.blogspot.com
The Globe Corner Bookstore:
The Globe Corner Bookstore's Bookish Ball offers for April 17th!
Please join us for a 15% discount off all books and maps for England. A free luggage tag or Boston Pop-Up Map with any purchase by a Bookish Ball Passport holder.
The Globe Corner Bookstore, 90 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138 www.globecorner.com
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop:
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop celebrates its 80th anniversary this year! We stock current publications of poetry and its concerns (books, cassettes, periodicals, reference volumes) with some 16,000 volumes.
Join us for 10% off any purchase during the Bookish Ball for those who have a Passport to Wisdom.
From 2:00 p.m. until 2:30 p.m enjoy “Sonnets” read by Jean Dany Joachim, the Cambridge Poet Populist, and Ifyeani Menkiti, the owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop!
Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 6 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 617-547-4648 www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org
Harvard Book Store presents:
HARVARD BOOK STORE CELEBRATES THE BOOKISH BALL
1:00-9:00pm Harvard Book Store joins with the Harvard Square Business Association in hosting a Bookstore Stroll, featuring refreshments, readings, and special events in bookstores around Harvard Square.
Saturday, April 17 / 4:00pm
MARK OPPENHEIMER
Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate
@ Harvard Book Store | 1256 Mass. Ave.
This event is free. No tickets are necessary.
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2501
Harvard Book Store, as part of the Harvard Square Business Association’s third annual Bookish Ball, is excited to host journalist and author MARK OPPENHEIMER for a presentation about his unlikely childhood and his new memoir, Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate. "Mark Oppenheimer’s journey from loquacious preschooler to smart-ass grade-schooler to champion high-schooler is funny, painful, and brutally honest. Wisenheimer may focus on the small, strange world of competitive debate, but its message is much broader: that words, properly harnessed, can set you free."
—Stefan Fatsis (Word Freak)
Saturday, April 17 / 7:00pm
CHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
@ Harvard Book Store | 1256 Mass. Ave.
This event is free. No tickets are necessary.
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2502
Harvard Book Store, as part of the Harvard Square Business Association’s third annual Bookish Ball, is excited to host journalist and newly minted barefoot runner CHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL for a discussion of his best-selling new book, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, and the resurgence of the barefoot running movement. "McDougall’s writing style —equal parts hilarity, explanation and earnestness — whisks the reader along on a compelling dash to the end, and along the way captures the sheer joy that a brisk run brings." —Science News
The Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, 617-661-1515, www.harvard.com
The Harvard Coop
The Harvard Coop presents an entire day of fun-filled activities for EVERYONE! Calling all curious kids, athletes & Shakespeare fans!
11:00 a.m. Story Time & Crafts for Toddlers with Peter Rabbit**! Lower Level Stories, Fun Crafts, and Snacks – be sure to bring your camera! **costume character
From 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m -2nd Floor - Ages K-12
Drop-In Discovery Day with The Peabody Museum at The Harvard Coop
Museum educators will be engaging children and families in programs that highlight regions and cultures around the world! How did the ancient Maya create their intricate carvings? How did the Inuit survive in the Artic? Find the answers as you handle genuine artifacts & interact with educators & volunteers from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. And there’s more… try your hand at Maya glyph rubbings. Make your own take-home snow goggles modeled after Inuit technology. Learn to write numbers the way the ancient Maya did. Taste some “Aztec Chocolate” made from an ancient recipe. Then head over to the nearby Peabody Museum for a scavenger hunt!
From 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m - 3rd floor - Musical Shakespeare Birthday Bash!
Two Longy School of Music Conservatory students in Early Music and a Harvard student will perform "Songs and Sonnets: Celebrating Shakespeare," featuring Renaissance music and readings. The Conservatory students include mezzo-soprano Emily Lau Fuhrmann and Harvard lutanist Ryaan Admed, performing songs by John Dowland. James Dargan, a Longy vocal performance student, will recite Shakespeare sonnets. Emily Lau Fuhrmann, a Presidential Scholar at the Longy School of Music Early Music Department, is going to perform a collection of lute songs by Dowland and Frescobaldi. Mr. Admed is also going to share a collection of rarely performed English lute music from the Marsh, Wickhambrook, Cosens, Pickeringe, and Folger manuscripts.
Shakespeare fans! Visit our DRAMA section on the 1st floor for the largest selection of writing & art of William Shakespeare, including: a complete selection of new & classic Shakespeare criticism & theory titles, many by Harvard faculty authors.
All Shakespeare related books are 20% off in recognition of the global celebration of Shakespeare's birthday!
The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, 617-499-2000 www.thecoop.com
Raven Used Books
Browse our collection of “Scholarly and General Used Books!”
Enjoy 20% off ANY ONE book during the Bookish Ball for Passport Holders.
Raven Used Books, 52-B John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 617-441-6999 www.ravencambridge.com
The Globe Corner Bookstores
Adventure Travel Lecture Series
EVENT SUMMARY:
SATURDAY, APRIL 17TH
MARK LOWENSTEIN - SPRING IN TO GREAT RUNS
Author Mark Lowenstein will talk about Great Runs in Boston's Burbs, his new guide covering Cambridge and surrounding communities.
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Mark Lowenstein, author of Great Runs in Boston's Burbs, will be in the store on Marathon Weekend to discuss recommended runs in this new guide and his two previous guides, Great Runs in Boston and Great Runs in Brookline & Vicinity. Mark will talk about a range of local runs (many under 10 miles) and offer advice about public transportation to one-way routes appropriate for longer training runs. He’ll inspire us to unearth running shoes and try new routes!
Date: Saturday, April 17th
Location: The Globe Corner Bookstores, 90 Mt. Auburn Street, Harvard Square
Accessibility: Wheelchair Accessible
Time: 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Admission: Free
Globe Corner Bookstore, 617-497-6277 or www.globecorner.com
Information about Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration:
The idea of incorporating a Shakespeare Parade and celebration into the Bookish Ball was the brainchild of Actors' Shakespeare Project who have arranged for our events to be included in the many celebrations happening across the globe in conjunction with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
Each event will share key elements--text from Romeo & Juliet's balcony scene, rosemary boughs tied with Shakespeare's crest colors (gold and black), poems by kids posted on neighborhood walls and parking meters, and three toasts--one to Shakespeare, one to theatre, and one to the world.
The British Consulate has been invited to attend our event and accept poems and banners from the citizens of Cambridge which will then be sent to Stratford to be used in their Shakespeare Parade the following weekend. Actors' Shakespeare Project and the Harvard Square Business Association have pulled together a colorful array of local arts organizations, the Cambridge Public Schools, and local businesses to create a wonderful, free event for everyone to enjoy!
The Harvard Square Business Association and Actors’ Shakespeare Project Present the Third Annual Bookish Ball with a special Birthday Celebration of William Shakespeare! Actors’ Shakespeare Project, is the first American Theater partners of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
We wish to thank all the performance groups who committed their time energy and creativity to producing today’s event:
Organizations Participating in Shakespeare Parade, Celebration, and Performances! The American Repertory Theater, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston Arts Academy, Boston Opera Collaborative, Cambridge Arts Council and the Cambridge Poet Populist, The Community Charter School of Cambridge, Central Square Theater, Charlestown Working Theater, GAN-e-meed Theater, Hyperion, Improv Boston, Jose Mateo Ballet Theater, Longy School of Music, MassMouth, Moonship Productions, Orfeo Group, Revels, and Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company.
For more information:
www.harvardsquare.com
www.actorsshakespeareproject.org
www.shakespearesbirthday.org.uk/
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