First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare – Hawaii

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare was a touring exhibition from the Folger Shakespeare Library that visited one location in all 50 United States, Puerto Rico, and Washington DC in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

This article provides highlights from the exhibition’s visit to Hawaii

Exhibition Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Exhibition Venue: Kapi’olani Community College

Exhibition Dates: April 25, 2016 - May 25, 2016

Partner Organizations:

English Speaking Union
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Hawaii State Library
Diamond Head Theatre
Kennedy Theatre a UH Manoa
Hawaii Theatre
Hawaii Shakespeare Festival
Apparel Design, UH Manoa

Complementary Exhibitions:

Shakespeare Comes to Hawai’I, April 22 – May 25, 2016
The First Folio: A Dramatic Tale, April 28 – May 31, 2016
Thou Sayest What?, April 28 – May 31, 2016
- Interactive display that introduces and plays with words from Elizabethan English.

Event List:

October 10, 2015 – Folger Workshop for Teachers
October 19-24, 2015 – Master Class Series with The Shakespeare Theatre Company
October 24, 2015 – Scansion Dynamics. Persuasion, and Dialects with The Shakespeare Theatre Company
October 27-28, 2015 – Hamlet National Theatre Live Screenings
November 7, 2015 – Brush Up Your Shakespeare! Workshop
November 13-15, 2015 – Twelfth Night performed by Tenney Theater
December 8, 2015 – Evening with the Bard with Hawai’i Theatre
February 6, 2016 – Polishing Your Shakespeare Performance Workshop
February 10, 2016 – Opera for Everyone: Benjamin Britten’s Opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Hawai’i Opera Theater
February 11 and 14, 2016 – Romeo is Bleeding Screening at Doris Duke Theatre
February 12, 14, 16, 2016 – Benjamin Britten’s Opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Hawai’i Opera Theater
March 15, 16, 2016 – National Theatre Live: As You Like it
April 2, 2016 – Folger First Folio Workshop for Teachers
April 2 and 9, 2016 – Early Music Hawai’i Concert Series, Bridging the Centuries II: Shakespeare Songs, Then & Now
April 8, 9, 15, 16, 2016 – Much Ado About Nothing by Hawai’i Pacific University Theatre
April 14-16 and 21-23, 2016 – Richard III by Leeward Community College Theater Lab
April 18-25, 2016 – Folger First Folio Programming for Families
April 20, 21, 22, 23, 2016 – Othello by Hawai’i Theatre
April 23, 2016 – Folktales that Inspired the Bard
April 23, 2016 – The Wonder of Will LIVE: Sharing Shakespeare Stories viewing
April 25, 2016 – Performance, Hamlet, by Hawaii Shakespeare Festival
April 25, 2016 – Opening Reception First Folio!
April 28, 2016 – Music from Shakespeare’s Time
April 29, 2016 – First Folio Friday Lecture Shakespeare’s First Folio: The Book’s Own Story, by Valerie Wayne
April 30, 2016 – Shakespeare in Hawai’I and in Hawaiian, Hawai’i Book and Music Festival panel with Professor Emerita Valerie Wayne, Professor Paul Mitri, Professor Puakea Nogelmeier, and Professor Mark Lawhorn
April 30, 2016 – Shakespeare and the Ali-I Nui, Hawai’i Book and Music Festival panel with Professor Theresa Di Pasquale, Professor Puakea Nogelmeier, and Professor Craig Howes
April 30, 2016 – Invented Language, Hawai’i Book and Music Festival, with Tony Pisculli, Stephanie Keiko Kong, and Victoria Brown-Wilson
April 30, 2015 – Performance of The Gravedigger’s Tale by Folger Theatre at Hawai’i Book and Music Festival
May 1, 2016 – Performance of Othello, by HTYAE
May 6, 2016 – First Folio Friday Lecture: Hoonaueueihe, Ka Haku Hoolelo Kaulana Loa o Enelani: Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Language Newspapers, by Dr. Laura Lehua Yim
May 7, 2016 – Shakespeare’s Fairies & Jesters family program
May 7, 2016 – Saturday Afternoon at the Movies: Hamlet (1990)
May 13, 2016 – First Folio Friday Lecture: Turning the Pages: The Sensory Experience of Books, by Karen Jolly
May 14, 2016 – Saturday Afternoon at the Movies: 10 Things I Hate About You
May 20, 2016 – First Folio Friday Lecture: Shakespeare’s Quartos and the First Folio, by Mark Heberle and Shakespeare in Hawai’i during World War II, by Mark Lawhorn
May 21, 2016 – Saturday Afternoon at the Movies: Reduced Shakespeare Company: Complete Works of Shakespeare
May 24, 2016 – Folktales that Inspired the Bard
May 24, 2016 – Closing Event Lectures: Shakespeare at 400: Why? by Paul Edmondson, Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon poetry Festival for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Behind the Scenes of the Preservation and Conversation Department at the Folger Shakespeare Library, by Renate Mesmer, Head of Conservation
July 8 – July 17, 2016 – Performance of Twelfth Night by Hawai’i Shakespeare Festival
July 22 – July 31, 2016 – Performance of The Witch of Edmonton by Hawai’i Shakespeare Festival
August 9 & 10, 2016 – Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen, Measure for Measure
August 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, 2016 – Two Gentlemen of Verona, by Hawai’i Mission Houses
August 12 – August 21, 2016 – Performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Hawai’i Shakespeare Festival
August 30, 2016 – Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen, Merchant of Venice
September 7, 2016 – Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen, Merchant of Venice
September 20, 2016 – Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen, Richard III
September 28, 2016 – Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen, Richard III

Click here to learn about the First Folio that visited Hawaii.