The Sonnet Dessert
Sterling Memorial Library, Linonia and Brothers Reading Room, 120 High St., New Haven, CT, 06511
Sunday February 12, 2:00 pm (guests may come and go for 3.5 hours)
Arranged by Eric Sirakian; part of Shakespeare at Yale (Master Laurans, one of the 3 organizers)
Join for an afternoon of sonnets, music, and dessert, in which 154 members of the Yale community will perform a marathon of Shakespeare’s sonnets! Professors, graduate students, and actors at the Yale Repertory Theater have been invited to participate, and college students will fill the remaining spots. The event will include musical performances and will last about three and a half hours, so that guests may arrive and leave at any point. Part of Shakespeare at Yale, a semester of special events celebrating the Bard.
Spiders: you can do both! The JECP concert is not long. You can attend the sonnet dessert before –or after. Music, poetry and food what can be better?
This brings up my reflection, discussed with some freshmen at the Master's pre-freshmen party "screw" this weekend. There is so much to do at Yale, and it is so overwhelming, and so many people are busy participating in something consuming, that it is easy to get into their own track and never move off it. The new Yale arts calendar tells you what is offered in the world of the arts every single day. On Sunday, look at http://artscalendar.yale.edu and see what is available the next weekend! Get tickets! Th arts calendar is a new comprehensive calendar, which includes everything undergraduate and graduate going on at Yale. This weekend I attended the Yale Opera Theater of Yale College - but I wanted also to see Macbeth and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and go to the basketball and hockey games. Integrate some of this into your own work, conferences, arts events, sports, and planning. Participate in whatever you do – go to other things as well. You will NEVER have quite these opportunities again!
