A copy of First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare is currently on display in Lama Library, 2nd Floor.
But you know this, right?
What you may have forgotten, since the announcement was made much earlier, is a series of First Folio! Friday presentations that will be presented in connection to Shakespeare’s exhibition, all happening at Kapi`olani CC, ʻŌhiʻa Building, 220 Grille.
Friday, April 29, 3:00pm – 5:00pm. UH Professor Emerita Valerie Wayne, “Shakespeare’s First Folio: The Book’s Own Story.”
Friday, May 6, 3:00pm – 5:00pm. Laura Lehua Yim, San Francisco State University, “Hoonaueueihe, Ka Haku Moolelo Kaulana Loa o Enelani: Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Language Newspapers.”
Friday, May 13, 3:00pm – 5:00pm. Karen Jolley, History Department, UHM, “Turning the Pages: The Sensory Experience of Books.”
Friday, May 20, 3:00pm – 5:00pm. Mark Heberle, “Shakespeare’s Quartos and the First Folio,” and Mark Lawhorn, Kapi`olani CC, “Shakespeare in Hawaiʻi during World War II.”
A complete calendar of events for the First Folio Exhibit is available at: https://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/shakespeare/
Please spend a Friday afternoon with us and enjoy a rare gift of 400 years!