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This year represents the 16th annual Grand Valley Shakespeare competition for student work in the sciences, arts, and humanities. More than $12,000 in cash awards has been distributed to Grand Valley students over the years for their work in writing, science, music, history, dance, visual arts, photography, and other areas.
The Shakespeare Festival's Student Competition awards about $1,000 in prize money each year to up to 15 students whose work is judged by a committee of all-campus jurors.
Features this year
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Late submission deadlines
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The Awards Ceremony will be on November 7, preceding the Bard to Go: Lovestruck performance.
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First place recipients will be recorded on a perpetual plaque
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Love's Labour's Lost, 2007
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Students from any discipline in the university may enter their work in the categories of writing (Graduate and Undergraduate categories), visual arts, music, drama, or dance performance.
Essays submitted for class projects, dance recital pieces, paintings, scientific models and demonstrations, musical performances, photographs--any work is acceptable as long as it has something to do with Shakespeare or the Renaissance period (1250-1680).
In the past, student entries have included essays on the work of Tyco Brahe and Galileo, fictitious television interviews with Shakespeare, recitation of Elizabethan songs, dresses made in the Renaissance style, paintings inspired by a Shakespearean movie, ballet performance based on Shakespeare's writings, essays on forms of Renaissance poetry, theatrical presentations of Elizabethan themes, and numerous other subjects.
The Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival Student Competition awards ceremony will immediately precede the performance of Bard to Go: Kissing and Courting as a Festival closing ceremony. The students will be honored and their work showcased at the event.
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Student Competition Awards Ceremony
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Free Public Bard to Go Performance
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November 7 at 1 p m
Loosemore Auditorium
Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
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Bard to Go: Lovestruck performance and reception immediately follow the Awards Ceremony.
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| Admission is free and is always a popular crowd-pleaser |
Click Here for the Student Competition Flyer
Click Here for the Student Competition Submission Cover Sheet
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