Saturday 24 August
11am - 9pm
Free (but some events require advance booking)
Community & Family
Workshops & Learning
The Ditch
Discover Shoreditch in a whole new light with a free weekend festival celebrating its most famous local, William Shakespeare. Presented by The Theatre Courtyard Gallery.
All day on Saturday, families can enjoy a free day of Elizabethan ruff making, art workshops, music, dancing and sword fighting!
Other activities across the weekend include talks by Before Shakespeare, walking tours by Look Up London, music by David William Hughes, performance by The School of Night and Elizabethan yoga!
You can find out more about the whole weekend here
Room of Ruffs
11am - 5pm
Servants Parlour, The Ditch
No booking necessary, drop in
Elizabethan Card Games
11am - 5pm
Pipe Room, The Ditch
No booking necessary, drop-in
Before Shakespeare: Rethinking London’s Earliest Playhouses
11:30am – 1pm
Rivington Room, The Ditch
Free entry, booking required
From Marchpane to Mutton: A Sniff of Shakespeare’s Time
1pm – 1.30pm
Rivington Room, The Ditch
Free entry, booking required
Shakespeare: A Ruff History
1.30pm - 2pm
Rivington Room, The Ditch
Free entry, booking required
Burbage V Brayne by The Dolphin’s Back
2pm - 3pm
The Ditch
Free entry, booking required
Sword Fighting Demonstration
3.15pm - 4.15pm
The Long Room, The Ditch
Drop in, no booking necessary
“Elizabethan”
5pm - 6pm
The Ditch
Free entry, booking required
Can you Cut a Caper? Elizabethan Dance Workshop with Sian Williams
6.30pm - 7.30pm
The Ditch
Drop in, no booking necessary
The School of Night: Creating a New Shakespearean Masterpiece on the Fly
8pm - 9pm
Rivington Room, The Ditch
Free entry, booking required
020 7739 6176
info@shoreditchtownhall.com
Shoreditch Town Hall,
380 Old Street,
London EC1V 9LT
