The English-Speaking Union
Boston Branch
411 Waverly Oaks Rd., Suite 331B
Waltham, MA 02452
(781) 647-7029
fax: (781) 647-7222
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Winter 2010
2010 SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
School Registration Date: December 1, 2009
SemiFinals: Saturday January 30, 2010, 10AM-4PM
Sorenson Art Center, Babson College, Wellesley
Finals: Sunday February 7, 2010, 1PM-4PM
Tufte Performance Center, Emerson College, Boston
2010 MIDDLE SCHOOL PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION
School Registration Date: December 15, 2009
Competition Date: March 6, 2010, 10:00 AM
The Newman School, 245 Marlborough Street, Boston
For a description of the Middle School Public Speaking Competition, please go to the "Who We are" page.
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE WINNERS
OF THE 2010 SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS:
Paris Ellsworth, Winner
Madeline Schulman, Runner-up
FINALISTS IN THE 2010 SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS:
Angela Bilkie
Paris Ellsworth
Amose Pierre
Lindsay Mailer-Howat
Madeline Schulman
Matt Tanner
Benjamin Heath
Molly O'Rourke-Friel
Zack Johnson
Ruby Wolf
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Welcome to the Boston Branch of The English-Speaking Union. We are a membership organization sponsoring educational programs for students and teachers, as well as lectures, social events, and travel for our members.
For students, we offer the annual Shakespeare Competition for High School Students, in which competitors perform a twenty-line monologue from one of Shakespeare’s plays, and recite a sonnet. All high schools – public, private, parochial, or charter schools -- in Boston and the metropolitan area are eligible. Winners of school-based competitions go on to the semi-finals, held this year on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at the Sorenson Art Center, Babson College, Wellesley from 10 AM to 4PM. Ten finalists went on to the finals, held on Sunday, February 7, 2010, at the Tufte Performance Center at Emerson College, from 1-4PM. The Boston winner will represent the Boston ESU at the ESU’s National Shakespeare Competition at New York’s Lincoln Center in April, competing with over 60 branch winners from around the country. For more information about the Shakespeare Competition, go to our Calendar of Events page.
This year the Boston ESU is continuing a new program for middle school students, The ESU Middle School Public Speaking Competition, featuring famous speeches in American and World History. Middle school students choose, excerpt, introduce and declaime a speech for two minutes in school-based contests. School winners will compete on Saturday, March 6th at The Newman School in Boston. For more information, please go to the "Who We Are" page.
For teachers in the greater Boston area, we offered a workshop on Teaching Shakespeare Interactively in June, 2005, presented by Michael LoMonico, a well-known Shakespeare specialist. We repeated this one-day workshop on Saturday, May 31, 2008, with a Folger Library-trained presenter.
Members of the ESU’s Boston Branch enjoy a stimulating mix of activities. Last season,in March, the beautifully redecorated College Club was the setting for a cocktail reception and talk, "Great Events Launched at British Country Houses," by Curt DiCamillo, Executive Director of the Scottish National Trust USA. In April, ESU members enjoyed dinner at the Harvard Club and a talk by British diplomat, Sir Brian Donnelly on "Diplomacy with Dictators. Our annual Garden Party and Silent Auction took place on June 7th at a gorgeous hillside garden overlooking the Sudbury River. Please check the Calendar of Events section for a list of upcoming events and recent events.
ESU Boston Branch members also have the opportunity to travel. In June,2005, members of the Boston Branch attended the launch of the Czech Republic ESU in Prague, which featured five days of tours and special events, as well as a weekend tour of Southern Bohemia. The 2005 National Conference of the ESU took place in San Diego, and the 2006 National ESU Conference was held in Nashville. At the end of October, 2006, ESU Chile was launched in Santiago. The 2007 National ESU Conference was held from October 31st to November 4th in Richmond, VA to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Jamestown. It featured a lecture and visit to Jamestown, a Churchill symposium, a Shakespeare festival and talk by the Chinese ambassador to the UN. In September 2008, an international ESU conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland. In November 2009 a National ESU conference will be held in New Orleans.
Whether at home in Boston, at ESU branches around the U.S., or at ESU branches abroad, ESU members participate in activities designed to further our mission of Creating Global Understanding Through English.
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