NOT You Billy: Elizabethan Theatre Beyond the Bard

Location: A&S Tent 6 Instructor:THL Katherine Coscombe Description: Shakespeare is not the only playwright to know from the 16th-C English stage. Explore other notable figures of Elizabethan Theatre.

Ottoman Marching Music

Location: Loud 1 Instructor:Master Osman Description: Marches of the World's first military marching band, the *Janissary Mehter* Band.

Storytelling Academy

Location: Minerva's Spindle Instructor:Gabrielle d'Auvergne Description: Students will participate in a cumulative 9-day class which encompasses the basics of becoming a storyteller.

Alliterative Verse

Tent 5

Location: A&S Tent 5 Instructor:Justinian Clarus Description: Learn about verse and the difference between free verse, rhyming verse, and alliterative verse.

Here. Play This. Now.

Location: PARC Instructor:THL Siri Toivosdotter Description: Sight-read with us! Bring your recorder, or a C or F instrument. Bring a music stand and a sense of humor.

Norse Poetry Overview

A&S Tent 9 Instructor:Lærifaðir Grim the Skald Description: Learn about Viking-era poetry. Includes forms, metrics, and alliteration and how to write in Norse verse. We'll talk about the ways poetry was used.

Beyond the (Cis) Male: Poets and Songwriters

Location: A&S Tent 1 Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: Medieval poets, songwriters, and composers who weren't (or at least, may not have been) cisgender men (a brief-ish sampling!).

The Pennsic Mightier: Improv Workshop

Amphitheater

Location: Amphitheater Instructor:Mistress Aibhilin inghean Daibhidh Description: Improv workshop for experienced performers: address higher level improv skills, create character, build scenes leading to a performance. **Age limit**

My Ukulele Is a Guitar

Location PARC Instructor:Tommaso Franceschi Description: History of the Renaissance 4-course guitar and its direct descendant the baritone ukulele, plus its surviving music.

Youth Recorder Jam Session

Location: A&S Tent 9 Instructor:Pia Maletesta d'Rimini Description: Did you learn to play the recorder in school? Don't know what to do with it? Let's figure that out. Ages 8-17