This Marlon Brando costume is on display with the First Folio exhibition at Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, IL.
From a Hot Pepper Shakespeare contest to a Romeo and Juliet masquerade ball, the party doesn’t stop. These First Folio host sites are living it up, celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare across the United States.
- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (Feb 2-28)
- Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (Feb 1-28
- Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (Feb 1-28)
- Lake County Discovery Museum, Wauconda, IL (Feb 3-28)
- New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM (Feb 5-28)
- University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (Feb 15 – Mar 15)
Highlights from Florida
Florida International University created a virtual reality experience of Shakespeare’s London.
Enter the New I-CAVE to Experience Shakespeare's London! https://t.co/5ipZ9Ksxft #FolioFIU #SHX400 #FirstFolio @FolgerLibrary @fiu
— FIU Architecture (@fiuarchitecture) February 3, 2016
The university also hosted a Hot Pepper Shakespeare contest. Participants had to read aloud a Shakespeare passage after eating hot peppers.
https://twitter.com/FIULibraries/status/694522514580619264
Highlights from Vermont
https://twitter.com/Middlebury/status/695296436611604481
https://twitter.com/Middlebury/status/694913814442147840
Highlights from Kansas
"It's magical," says #KState prof. Don Hedrick. @KSNTNews video about #FirstFolio visit: https://t.co/8JNvfepM44 pic.twitter.com/pZMlqvYpbg
— K-State Research (@KStateResearch) February 5, 2016
Romeo and Juliet masquerade @kstateshxp400 pic.twitter.com/xlFvd55RqI
— Lori Goetsch (@kstatelib_dean) February 14, 2016
Highlights from Illinois
Shakespeare's First Folio is now at the @LakeCoMuseum! Watch Congressman Robert Dold speak about the exhibit. pic.twitter.com/x9kCk72fGa
— Lake County Forest Preserves (@LCFPD) February 3, 2016
https://twitter.com/TeichPostcard/status/697142115466395648
Highlights from New Mexico
The Shakespeares (@JerryFerraccio and Deb Dennard) at NM Museum of Art #SHX400 pic.twitter.com/sA8Bhw1KxX
— S. F. Shakes (@SantaFeShakes) February 15, 2016
#firstfolio getting ready to start the teacher workshop! pic.twitter.com/1mcVJmjKI2
— S. F. Shakes (@SantaFeShakes) January 23, 2016
Highlights from Arizona
If Shakespeare's characters used social media. Now go see the #FirstFolio opened to Hamlet at the @AZStateMuseum! pic.twitter.com/E7de9xX4no
— University of Arizona Libraries (@uazlibraries) February 15, 2016
First story in our #Shakespeare series celebrating the @AZStateMuseum's First Folio exhibit https://t.co/WxM9esdoJI pic.twitter.com/RIzcmrPorP
— University of Arizona Research (@uazresearch) February 8, 2016
Find out where the First Folio will be in March, and share the excitement on social media with #SHX400 and #FirstFolio.
Have you gone to see the First Folio yet? Share your Shakespeare story by recording a short video and posting to social media using #MySHX400.
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