SHAKESPEARE CLUB
In light of the COVID pandemic, we have created a virtual Shakespeare club for Kids. Our newest offering is geared specifically for 8-12 year old youngsters. Weekly interactive online sessions are accompanied with at-home projects designed to engage in and illuminate the Bard through play.
DETAILS
Ages: 8-12
Time: Thursdays, 11am-12pm CDT (GMT-5)
Dates: September 17th – December 17th (no class November 26th)
Cost: $50/month or $140/semester
DESCRIPTION
The ImprovEd Shakespeare Club for Kids offers a playful approach to engaging with the Bard. Hour-long and extremely interactive weekly virtual sessions are combined with at-home projects, such as sending sonnets to pen pals, recording selfie videos as Shakespeare characters, and performing spontaneous Shakespeare flash mob soliloquies for the trees in your back yard. Each week layers upon the other, so attendance at the online sessions is necessary. In order to limit “Zoom fatigue,” participants will be required to work on projects outside of the weekly virtual sessions.
Join the ImprovEd Shakespeare family and enroll in a Shakespeare production class. Need-based scholarships available.
VIRTUAL SHAKESPEARE CLUB FOR KIDS ON VIMEO
In the spring of 2020, our Elementary Cast had to quickly adapt for the COVID pandemic. Moving our rehearsals online was challenging for the younger ages, but they adjusted with aplomb. Moreover, we learned valuable tips and tricks for your own online endeavor. Finally, feel free to check out the video of our Zoom play.
ABOUT IMPROVED SHAKESPEARE
SHAKESPEARE FOR ALL
Working with Shakespeare in education frightens many. Because Shakespeare experts, including professionals, surround us. Escaping them is difficult. This can be intimidating. Thus, feelings of dread usually accompany the act of presenting, but moreover be introduced to, the Bard.
For this reason, ImprovEd Shakespeare is here to help. Founder and Director, Andee Kinzy, offers the layman’s approach to Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE FOR TEACHERS AND DIRECTORS
If you’re an English teacher, a theatre director, or a well-trained Shakespeare advocate, here you will find inspiration, as well as techniques, for making our favorite bard fun for Kids. Accordingly, we present old, new and improved ideas for introducing Shakespeare to youth for the non-Shakespeare-academic. Among them, we include theatre games, improvisation, tips, tricks, plus activities for using Shakespeare in education.
SHAKESPEARE FOR KIDS
In honor of the traditional Renaissance traveling troupe, during a period of a few weeks each semester, ImprovEd Shakespeare presents family-friendly plays at various venues around town. Suitable for all ages, each performance runs for about an hour.
Furthermore, these shows are always FREE. However, we gladly accept Donations! Additionally, visit ImprovEd Shakespeare, Shakespeare for Kids by Kids on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter. Consider subscribing to our YouTube channel for family-friendly Shakespeare videos. And don’t forget to click on our BLOG for the stories behind these videos.
