This program encourages and supports adult Shakespeare reading groups by providing resources and asistance in getting started and maintaining reading circles. These groups have been shown to enhance literacy, build community, bring a cachet of intellectualism to the most rural areas, improve critical thinking, provide substantive mental exercise for elders seeking to keep their minds active, and even inspires greater civic involvement.
The International Shakespeare Center (ISC) is dedicated to making Santa Fe a destination for world-class Shakespeare. We support performances, provide education for people of all ages, and create opportunities for people to meet in community to read and discuss Shakespeare.
The ISC believes Santa Fe is able to sustain a permanent state-of-the-art Shakespeare center that includes a theater with an Elizabethan thrust stage, a black box theater, gift shop, lecture hall, community rooms, administrative offices, court yard, commons area, and even a tavern—a center that will draw not only our vibrant Shakespeare community in town, but tourists and theatrical artists from all over the world. It will also act as a focal point to elevate local talent and a training center to create a professional repertory company.
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