With support from the California Arts Council, SHAKESPEARE – SAN FRANCISCO’s Midnight Shakespeare program will bring local professional artists to Paul Revere School to augment the school’s arts curriculum, developing students artistic expression and creativity. This program partners with schools that serve low-income communites, and ensures equitable opportunity to participate. No student pays to participate, and curriculum is customized to support the school’s Spanish Immersion program.
Free Shakespeare in the Park each year presents a professional production of Shakespeare in five public park venues, reaching up to 30,000 Bay Area citizens. The Festival also engages communities through five arts education programs: -Shakespeare on Tour performs an abridged Shakespeare play at 150 schools, libraries and community centers in the Bay Area and all over the state. -Over 300 youth ages 4-18 attend Bay Area Shakespeare Camps to explore Shakespeare’s plays and also learn the skills needed to perform them. -Tailor-Made Residencies connect Festival teaching artists with classroom teachers for in-school theater enrichment tailored to their students. -Midnight Shakespeare provides a challenging theater residency program for over 100 under-served youth in school settings in Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose.

