BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Shakespeare & Company - ECPv6.0.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://shakespeare.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Shakespeare & Company REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20240310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20241103T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T093000 DTSTAMP:20241207T082013 CREATED:20240829T120001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T120146Z UID:34278-1727602200-1727602200@shakespeare.org SUMMARY:WIT Literary Festival 2024 DESCRIPTION:The Authors Guild Foundation’s WIT: Words\, Ideas\, and Thinkers Literary Festival returns to the Berkshires September 27 – 29 to explore the theme The Power of Words: Why Writers Matter. The 2024 Festival features a special lineup of 8 conversations between Jennifer Egan & Joseph O’Neill; Emily Wilson & Stephen Greenblatt; Tony Kushner & Rachel Maddow; Ruth Simmons & Sherrilyn Ifill; Cathy Park Hong & Sayed Kashua; Jamaica Kincaid & Sandra Guzmán; Ruth Reichl & Monique Truong; and Marie Arana & Luis Alberto Urrea. \nJamaica Kincaid & Sandra Guzmán\n“You only start to make a garden—growing things because they’re beautiful and inspire thoughtfulness and reflection—after you have enough to eat\,” Jamaica Kincaid has said. Best known for deeply personal works of lyric fiction\, Kincaid reflects on the stories of the plants that have made up the colonized world in her new book\, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. Joining Kincaid for a conversation exploring their shared passion for gardening of all sorts is the journalist and editor Sandra Guzmán\, whose talents for tending and cultivating are on glorious display in her groundbreaking anthology\, The Daughters of Latin America. URL:https://shakespeare.org/calendar/2024/11/21/wit-literary-festival-2024-4/ LOCATION:Tina Packer Playhouse 70 Kemble Street \, Lenox\, MA\, Tina Packer Playhouse 70 Kemble Street \, Lenox\, MA\, Lenox ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://shakespeare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ClientFile535385.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T113000 DTSTAMP:20241207T082013 CREATED:20240829T120044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T120234Z UID:34277-1727609400-1727609400@shakespeare.org SUMMARY:WIT Literary Festival 2024 DESCRIPTION:The Authors Guild Foundation’s WIT: Words\, Ideas\, and Thinkers Literary Festival returns to the Berkshires September 27 – 29 to explore the theme The Power of Words: Why Writers Matter. The 2024 Festival features a special lineup of 8 conversations between Jennifer Egan & Joseph O’Neill; Emily Wilson & Stephen Greenblatt; Tony Kushner & Rachel Maddow; Ruth Simmons & Sherrilyn Ifill; Cathy Park Hong & Sayed Kashua; Jamaica Kincaid & Sandra Guzmán; Ruth Reichl & Monique Truong; and Marie Arana & Luis Alberto Urrea. \nRuth Reichl & Monique Truong\n“There is almost no story you can’t tell through food\,” Ruth Reichl has written. Joining Reichl\, who recently published The Paris Novel and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Foundation\, for a fresh conversation on the language and literature of food is Monique Truong\, whose own appetite for the discussion is perhaps reflected in the delectable titles of her three indelible novels—Bitter in the Mouth\, The Book of Salt\, and The Sweetest Fruits. URL:https://shakespeare.org/calendar/2024/11/21/wit-literary-festival-2024-5/ LOCATION:Tina Packer Playhouse 70 Kemble Street \, Lenox\, MA\, Tina Packer Playhouse 70 Kemble Street \, Lenox\, MA\, Lenox ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://shakespeare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ClientFile535385.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T140000 DTSTAMP:20241207T082013 CREATED:20240228T141957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240930T191523Z UID:31887-1727618400-1727618400@shakespeare.org SUMMARY:Three Tall Persian Women DESCRIPTION:WORLD PREMIERE\n \nThree Tall Persian Women\, by Awni Abdi-Bahri\n\nDirected by Dalia Ashurina\n\nAugust 30 through October 13\n\nElayne P. Bernstein Theatre\n\n\nGolnar\, a punkish Iranian-American millennial\, returns home to her mother Nasrin for the anniversary of her father’s passing\, and walks into hoards of family memorabilia that her grandmother Mamani has moved in with her. This comedic and touching play is about generational differences\, grief\, control\, and learning to let go; but more than anything\, it’s a love story to immigrant mothers. URL:https://shakespeare.org/calendar/2024/11/21/three-tall-persian-women-22/ LOCATION:Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre\, Lenox ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://shakespeare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/unnamed-file-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240929T140000 DTSTAMP:20241207T082013 CREATED:20240829T120128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T120736Z UID:34276-1727618400-1727618400@shakespeare.org SUMMARY:WIT Literary Festival 2024 DESCRIPTION:The Authors Guild Foundation’s WIT: Words\, Ideas\, and Thinkers Literary Festival returns to the Berkshires September 27 – 29 to explore the theme The Power of Words: Why Writers Matter. The 2024 Festival features a special lineup of 8 conversations between Jennifer Egan & Joseph O’Neill; Emily Wilson & Stephen Greenblatt; Tony Kushner & Rachel Maddow; Ruth Simmons & Sherrilyn Ifill; Cathy Park Hong & Sayed Kashua; Jamaica Kincaid & Sandra Guzmán; Ruth Reichl & Monique Truong; and Marie Arana & Luis Alberto Urrea. \nMarie Arana & Luis Alberto Urrea\n“My whole career has been devoted to trying to explain the Latin American personality\,” Marie Arana has said. In LATINOLAND\, she offers readers a sweeping\, personal portrait of the largest racial and ethnic minority in the United States. Joining Arana for a discussion of the many “Latinolands” they have lived in\, imagined\, and reported on is the acclaimed writer Luis Alberto Urrea\, who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore themes of love\, loss and triumph. URL:https://shakespeare.org/calendar/2024/11/21/wit-literary-festival-2024-6/ LOCATION:Tina Packer Playhouse 70 Kemble Street \, Lenox\, MA\, Tina Packer Playhouse 70 Kemble Street \, Lenox\, MA\, Lenox ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://shakespeare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ClientFile535385.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR