WHO WE ARE
Shakespearience is a popular, critically acclaimed, charitable, non-profit organization celebrating its twenty-fifth year of operation. Its mission is to deliver inclusive educational programs to young people in Grades 3-12 which cross all age, academic, cultural, linguistic and socio-economic boundaries. This is accomplished with the help of more than one hundred of this country’s finest actors, including a number of Stratford and Shaw Festival stars
WHAT WE DO
Shakespearience currently offers three programs: an in-school workshop which visits more than a hundred schools affiliated with more than two dozen boards of education all over Ontario; an after-hours program for at-risk youth in one of the GTHA’s priority neighbourhoods – and a summer program for under-resourced youth. All three show young people between the ages of 8 and 18 how an artist’s tools, perspective and approach to classical text can help them unlock it in a way that makes it meaningful, relevant and useful.
Since we began operations in 1998 we have established a track record for developing a wide range of transferable soft skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, empathy, collaboration and teamwork by fostering confidence, developing character and improving communication skills.
This is achieved by bolstering young people’s resiliency in terms of the way they think, feel, behave and relate to themselves and each other by demonstrating how seemingly insurmountable challenges — such as demystifying Shakespeare’s language — can be overcome with a little persistence, patience, concentration, team-work and application.
There is more information about us on our website: www.shakespearience.ca
