Join us for the opening of the fourth Shakespeare and Race Festival, which marks the launch of a new research collaboration between Shakespeare’s Globe and King’s College London: The Shakespeare Centre London.

The theme of the Shakespeare and Race Festival 2022 is ‘Spoken Word(s)’.

Speakers and performers will include Terrance Hayes (award-winning Poet and Author), Karen Ann Daniels (Artistic Director, Folger Theatre), Iqbal Khan (Associate Director, Birmingham Rep), Cameron Knight (Head of Acting at Rutgers Conservatory), and Akiya Henry (Much Ado About Nothing, RSC), with more to be announced.

The festival will also showcase new and exciting creative work from the Folger Institute, as well as ground-breaking research from Shakespeare and Race scholars from around the world. This year, the Festival is co-produced and co-sponsored by King’s College London.