<p>First Folio! Exhibition Events, 2016</p><p>FEBRUARY 16 English Speaking Union, 6330 St. Charles Avenue, Lecture by Michael P. Kuczynski (Chair, English Department, Tulane University), “Hamlet and Our Problems”; open to the public by ticket purchase only. </p><p>MARCH 23-26 44 th Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal Street; open to the public by registration only: https://saa.memberclicks.net/</p><p>APRIL 23 Tulane in Stratford: The Wendell Brunious Band and Tulane School of Liberal Arts take part, by invitation, in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon’s and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Shakespeare Anniversary Celebrations </p><p>28 27 th Annual Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture, James Shapiro (Columbia University), “Shakespeare in America,” Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, 6:00 p.m.</p><p>MAY 9 First Folio! Exhibiton opens on the Tulane campus with a Jazz Funeral for Shakespeare, conducted by Michael White and the Liberty Brass Band, 6:30 pm</p><p>15 First Folio! HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER WORKSHOP, Newcomb Art Gallery, 1:00-3:00 pm, conducted by Scott Oldenburg (Associate Professor, English Department, Tulane University); open to the public, to participate, contact English Department, Tulane University, (504)865-5160 </p><p>16 “Sonnets in the Gallery,” Poetry Reading, hosted by Peter Cooley (Professor, English Department, Tulane University and Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana), 1:00-3:00 pm; open to the public, to participate, contact English Department, Tulane University, (504)865-5160 </p><p>18 Historic New Orleans Collection, French Quarter, Exhibition: “‘Merry as the Day is Long’: Shakespeare’s Hand in New Orleans” and Public Lecture, “Shakespeare in New Orleans,” Oliver Hennessey (Professor, English Department, Xavier University), topic TBA 20 Lisa Wolpe, “Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender,” Lupin Theatre, Tulane Campus, for tickets contact http://neworleansshakespeare.org/tickets/. Read more on Lisa Wolpe’s performance,. </p><p>21 Lisa Wolpe, “Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender,” Lupin Theatre, Tulane Campus, for tickets contact http://neworleansshakespeare.org/tickets/</p><p>22 Lisa Wolpe, “Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender,” Lupin Theatre, Tulane Campus, for tickets contact http://neworleansshakespeare.org/tickets/</p><p>26 Lecture “Is Shakespeare Enough?,” Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, 6:00 pm. Hillary Eklund, Associate Professor of English, Loyola University. Free and open to the public.</p><p>28 First Folio! FAMILY WORKSHOP, main branch of the New Orleans Public Library (219 Loyola Ave.), 1:00-3:00 pm, conducted by Adam McKeown, (Associate Professor, English Department, Tulane University); open to the public; to participate, contact English Department, Tulane University, (504)865-5160 </p><p>31 Closing reception for First Folio! Exhibition and dramatic prelude to the 2016 season of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane; time TBA</p>