Annual Garden Party

Event

The Boston Branch of
The English-Speaking Union
Cordially invites you to a
Festive Garden Party and Champagne Reception.

The event will be held at the lovely home of
Eli and Jody Dow
3:00 P.M. Rain or shine
Sunday, June 8, 2014

The proceeds from this annual garden party, our major fundraiser, are to benefit the ESU Education Fund, which supports the Shakespeare Competition for high school students. More than 20,000 talented teenagers from schools in the Greater Boston area have participated in this annual educational event over the last 30 years.

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Evelyn Wrench Speaker Adrian Tinniswood

Event

The Boston Branch of the English-Speaking Union
in cooperation with the Boston Athenaeum
10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston
presents the ESU's 2014 Evelyn Wrench Speaker

 Adrian Tinniswood, OBE

speaking on his new book, The Rainborowes

More than a century before the American Revolution, Bostonians—and Boston ideals—played a role in overthrowing another English king.  The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds as it carries the reader back and forth across the Atlantic, between Boston and England, weaving together the lives of different members of the Rainborowe clan (including members of other prominent Boston families to whom they were related) as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World and in the Old, as colonists, entrepreneurs and idealists. The narrative unfolds between 1630 and 1660 – a time which shattered England and shaped America – and follows the fortunes of William Rainborowe, a formidable merchant-mariner and shipmaster, and his equally formidable sons and daughters. As it does, the reader comes to know and understand not only the lives and loves of a single family, but the dreams of an entire culture – confused and chaotic, catching hold of hope and losing its grip on old certainties.

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National Shakespeare Competition

News

The 31st ESU Shakespeare Competition for High School Students is pleased to announce the following students:

Claire Glover
Esha Nihoff Asser
Gabrielle Farrah
Josh Champagne
Caroline Clancy
Jack Duff
Jacqueline Balter
Samantha Marchiony
Victoria Greenwald
Oliver Hernandez

will be moving onto the Boston Finals  to be held on Saturday, March 1 1pm to 4pm at

The Semel Theater
on the 3rd floor of
The Tufte Performance Center
Emerson College, Boston
10 Boylston Place
Boston 02116
(Boylston Place is a pedestrian walkway located off Boylston Street, halfway between Charles Street and Tremont Street.)

 Click Here for directions & parking

Your participation will provide vital support and enthusiasm for our cast of brave and brilliant students and your hopes for the next generation will be enhanced by seeing these young people in action doing important work.  It is by no means an accident that our past contestants have gone onto illustrious careers in academia, the professions and industry.  You will be the better for joining us at this final.

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National Shakespeare Competition

Event

The National Shakespeare Competition semi-finals will take place on Saturday, February 22 at the Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson College located on 231 Forest St., Park Manor South, Wellesley, MA 02457 strating at 10:00 a.m.

The Boston Branch is collaborating with the British School of Boston and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.

The finals will be at the Tufte Performace Production Center in the Semel Theater of Emerson College on Saturday,  March 1 at 12:30 p.m.

21 Schools are participating in the Semi-Finals at Babson from which approximately 10 will participate in the finals at Emerson.  We welcome all visitors. We would like to have an enthusiastic and substantial audience for these deserving, brave, and highly talented young Shakespeare competitors. 

This will one of the Boston's Branch primary events of the season.

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A Pre-Oscar Evening with Ty Burr

News

Take a look at this flyer! Click Here.  This is a unique ESU event that we are co-sponsoring with the Union Club of Boston. It's a great value -  at $30, you will be sufficiently satiated with hors d'oeuvres plus a complimentary glass of wine prior to hearing Ty Burr's stimulating talk on the Oscar and Bafta films nominated this year, how they got to this position - and what is going to happen next. You will go out on a limb and pick winners and losers and explain why, given industry politics in Britain and the United States.

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