Join the Palace Press for the opening of The Book’s the Thing: Shakespeare from Stage to Page, an interactive exhibit (through February 28) in collaboration with the Museum of Art’s First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare. Come through the Blue Gate on Lincoln Avenue and follow the bonfires back for the exhibit and refreshments.
The Press will make facsimiles of a First Folio page using a replica “Gutenberg” wooden hand press. Visitors can make their own prints for a take-home treat. Members of the Santa Fe Book Arts Group have crafted contemporary art books inspired by the works of Shakespeare. And Palace Press Director Thomas Leech and internationally known calligrapher Patricia Musick will collaborate on broadsides from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
A Free First Friday Evening event. Free admission to the entire museum 5-8 pm.
Public programs for this exhibit throughout February:
Public programs throughout the month:
Tuesdays–Sundays, February 6–28, 1:30–3:30 pm, Printing demonstrations
Palace Press printers Thomas Leech and James Bourland demonstrate Shakespeare-style printing on a replica Gutenberg press in the exhibit space for The Book’s the Thing: Shakespeare from Stage to Page. Free with admission.
Saturday, February 13, 11 am: Music and design preview for the Santa Fe Opera’s UnShakeable
To commemorate both Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary and its own 60th, the Santa Fe Opera commissioned a new work from composer Joseph Illick and librettist Andrea Fellows Walters. Mixing Shakespeare and sci-fi, UnShakeable travels 25 years into the future after a pandemic called “Erasure” has corroded people’s memories. Will Shakespearean actors and former lovers Wyatt and Meridian reconnect and restore their bond? Hear selections performed by baritone Samuel Schultz, soprano Jacquelyn Stucker, and Joseph Illick.
Free in the New Mexico History Museum auditorium; reservations required. Go to the Santa Fe Opera box office or call (505) 986-5900 or (800) 280-4654. Seating is limited.
Sunday, February 21, 1:30–3:30 pm: Family Fun Day
Check out First Folio and The Book’s the Thing, then come to the History Museum classroom to learn how to use crow quill pens and practice calligraphy, Shakespeare-style. Free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents and all children.
Tuesday, February 23, 10 am: Community-in-Residence at the History Museum
Local arts organizations and Gary Glazner, founder of the internationally acclaimed Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, lead a fun-filled morning creating poetry and song inspired by The Book’s the Thing: Shakespeare from Stage to Page. This event is crafted especially for people with memory illnesses and their care partners, though everyone is welcome to participate. Free.
Friday, February 26, 6 pm: “Hamlet, Hamlet, Hamlet”
Literary scholar Joshua Calhoun analyzes the three distinct versions of Hamlet produced in the 1600s. The Bad Quarto, Good Quarto, and First Folio are often mixed into one during modern performances. The result? A Hamlet who seems more passive and indecisive than the one in the First Folio. Free; seating is limited.
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