Welcome to the
VIOLA PROJECT

Shakespeare
for Girls

The Viola Project is a 501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to empowering young women through the understanding and performance of Shakespeare's plays. We provide a space where gender, race and age pose no obstacles, where girls can be whoever they want to be. Even Hamlet.

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Our Workshops

Summer interlocking camp

The Presence of Justice

Saturday, January 19th, 10am-4pm

What makes a happy ending, and what makes a tragedy? In honor of Martin Luther King, the Viola Project will investigate three plays in which characters face great injustice, from prejudice and persecution to false accusation. “King Lear,” “Measure For Measure” and “A Merchant of Venice” are beautiful plays that raise difficult questions. At this workshop, the students will judge.

The tempest: An Enchanted Bootcamp

AS WE LIKE IT

Saturday, February 16th, 10am-4pm

Damsels are doing it for themselves! This February, be your own Valentine with a workshop that focuses on Shakespeare’s independent women. Sure, romantic songs and handwritten poems are fun, but sometimes a girl just has to run off into the forest, and learn to love her-self. You go, Rosalind!

Kids art / view our gallery