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FRONT PORCH EVENTS
The “Front Porch” is where we gather to talk with our friends, family, and to engage in intelligent civic discourse.
• FrozenRiverFilmFestivaland GRSF Company member Christopher Gerson, in partnership with GRSF presented “Darwin: e Series.”
• Renowned playwright Carlyle Brown performed his one- man show: erapy and Resistance.
• Symposiums on e Merry Wives of Windsor and Hamlet led by renowned regional scholars in partnership with Winona State University.
• Festival favorite and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Peter Saccio lectured on “What Happened in Elsinore.”
• e Annual Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest brought in over 400 entries from 138 poets in 36 states, Washington D.C. and 6 foreign countries.
GRSF partnered with seven libraries in Southeast Minne- sota to bring Shakespeare education to hundreds of students and adults.
• Participating libraries were: La Crescent, Lanesboro, North eld, Rochester, Rushford, St. Charles and Winona.
• is programming was sponsored in part by a grant from SELCO (Southeast Libraries Cooperating), and allowed over 250 people to attend a Shakespeare play.
• Opening night party at the Winona Public Library, allowing 500 patrons to experience new types of programming at their library.
is project was funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
WILL READS
The entire community gets ready for GRSF by reading and discussing each of the profes- sional and the apprentice plays.
• Discussions and reading open to anyone and led by local scholars and teachers.
• Prepares Shakespeare fans, new and old, for the season.
LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP
PROGRAM
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GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
EDUCATION