Shakespeare in the park articles

  • Who Is Shakespeare For?

    “What do we do with Shakespeare?” “Who is Shakespeare for?” “What would it look like to reject Shakespeare?” These were questions I put at the center of the Pop Culture Shakespeare class I taught in the summer of 2020, and which I’ll return to this fall. Four hundred and sixty years after the Bard’s birth (nearly to the day, we like to imagine), people have answered these questions many times over. But working with my students taught me that one powerful way to understand Shakespeare today is as...

  • Earth Day park cleanup event at Thompson Park

    AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — Amarillo Parks and Recreation announced that the Earth Day park cleanup will happen on April 27. The cleanup will be from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Thompson Memorial Park in Amarillo. Numerous volunteers and groups are signed up to participate in the park cleanup, one of the groups being the West []

  • Park Clean-up held at Hampton Ponds State Park in Westfield

    Local Earth Day efforts were underway Sunday ahead of the official Earth Day holiday on April 22nd.