Education Partners
Education Partners of Santa Cruz Shakespeare support and expand our community by providing opportunities to learn about Shakespeare, theatre, and the importance of the performing arts. If your organization is interested in becoming an education partner, let us know at education@santacruzshakespeare.org.
The Saturday Shakespeare Group holds three 5-week sessions per year. Each session focuses on an in-depth study and discussion of single play over five consecutive Saturdays. The first four weeks include lectures, presentations and group readings. Presenting speakers are often associated with UCSC or Santa Cruz Shakespeare, but some are distinguished scholars from further afield. On the fifth Saturday of each session, the group watches a recorded professional production of the play and shares potluck refreshments.
Meetings are held at the New Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, at 10:00 a.m. on Saturdays. Meeting are simulcast via Zoom. For more information or to be added to the email list, please contact saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com. Additional information is also available at the Santa Cruz Libraries website at www.santacruzpl.org.
UCSC professor of literature Sean Keilen established Shakespeare Workshop as a research center of The Humanities Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2013. The Shakespeare Workshop builds on a tradition that began in 1981 when Audrey Stanley founded Shakespeare Santa Cruz, extending an open invitation to members of the public to discuss topics of fundamental human concern, using Shakespeare’s works as a common vocabulary.
Each year Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC's Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute at UCSC partner to present Weekend with Shakespeare; a full weekend of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities in which participants can learn more about each play during the day before seeing a live performance the same evening.
The 2025 event was held on August 16th and 17th and included A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pericles.
OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) at UCSC is a community of folks from diverse educational, occupational, and geographic backgrounds who pursue new ideas, new friends, and new activities. OLLI specializes in social and educational interaction and fund scholarships to UCSC re-entry and transfer students.
OLLI at UCSC is a fantastic resource for intellectual stimulation and social interaction. Membership opens a world of intellectual fun and friendship, including access to a wide range of member-led interest groups, scholarly courses designed to expand understanding and experience, monthly speakers, and monthly newsletters.
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