Interpreting Shakespeare Professional Learning Day

Date: 28 July, 2016
Time: 9:30am–3:30pm
Venue: ACMI Cinema 2, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square Melbourne, Australia
Admission Cost: Teacher: $110 ($95 early bird registration closes 30 April 2016); Student teacher: $70
More info. and registration: https://www.acmi.net.au/education/teacher-programs/interpreting-shakespeare

In conjunction with La Trobe University, ACMI invites teachers to bring Shakespeare back to life in their classrooms by attending professional learning day Interpreting Shakespeare.

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, this one-day professional learning program offers teachers stimulating and thought-provoking approaches to reading and teaching Shakespeare texts. Focusing on moving image and theatrical interpretations of Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, this all-day program offers a range of perspectives
to re-enliven this educational rite of passage.

Presenters include members of the English, Drama and Cinema programs at La Trobe, ACMI’s team of expert educators and special guest, Dr David McInnis, Gerry Higgins lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, University of Melbourne. Registration includes morning tea, lunch and resource pack.