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Shakespeare & Co. Awarded $5,000 Berkshire Bank Grant - September 26, 2007
LENOX - Shakespeare and Company has received a $5,000 grant from Berkshire Bank Foundation to support the company’s 19th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare.
Considered the crown jewel of Shakespeare and Company’s Education Program, the nine-week residency program puts company artists in schools across the region, bringing Shakespeare to more than 500 students. Ten high schools in Berkshire County, Pioneer Valley and eastern New York participate in the festival, which concludes with a four-day marathon of plays performed by students at company’s Founders’ Theatre. Through this annual event, students get to experience firsthand the vibrancy and relevance present in Shakespeare’s work. Visit www.shakespeare.org for information on the 2007 festival. The marathon of performances runs Nov. 15 to 18 and is open to the public.
Berkshire Bank and the Berkshire Bank Foundation have supported Shakespeare and Company since 1993, with most of the donations earmarked for the education department.
"It is our good friends in the community like Berkshire Bank Foundation who make it possible for us to do what we do. We are extremely grateful to the Berkshire Bank Foundation for its generous support over the years of this important program,” said Kevin G. Coleman, director of education.
Coleman is currently on his second trip this month to Colchester, England, where he is working with the Mercury Theatre Company to help it expand its education programming based on Shakespeare and Company models.
"There’s no other program like this anywhere. No program so ambitious, so important to the parents, participating schools, or so valued by the students. We are grateful that business and community leaders continue to step forward to make this possible, as an investment in our schools and students," Coleman says.
The Fall Festival touches countless thousands of students through their direct participation and also their peers, teachers and family through the public performances that cap the program. Shakespeare and Company has created one of the most extensive arts-in-education programs in North America, and it continues to be a leader in arts-in-education programming across the country. Headed by Coleman, the festival sends teams of trained company artists and production staff into area high schools to direct and work with students in Grades 6 through 12. The result is 10, 90-minute student productions of different Shakespeare plays that are performed first at area schools and then at Founders’ Theatre.
Specifically designed as a celebration rather than a competition, the festival has become a local institution. It is one of the few interscholastic performance projects in the country that brings together hundreds of students to celebrate language, human nature and youthful achievement through Shakespeare’s plays.
"Berkshire Bank Foundation is pleased to continue its ongoing support of the Fall Festival of Shakespeare," said Peter Lafayette, president of Berkshire Bank and Berkshire Bank Foundation. "This well-regarded program gives hundreds of high school students a unique artistic and educational experience unduplicated anywhere. It enhances the education these students are receiving in their schools, broadens their horizons and instills new pride and self-confidence. We hope the program continues for years to come."
Shakespeare & Company offers a wide range of education programs designed to give elementary and secondary school students an active, imaginative, and engaging experience of Shakespeare’s plays. |
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