Optional cultural events

As announced in separate messages early in the summer, two cultural events are being offered as optional components of the SCIE258 course. While not directly related to the theme of our course, these events will contribute to the more general goals of global study through cultural understanding. The events are optional and will have no effect on your course grade. The Dickinson program will fully fund these events.

Event details:

Prom Concert at the Royal Albert Hall at 7:30 PM on Monday, September 3. This is in a spectacular venue with a great program of 20th-century classical music by Bernstein and Shostakovich. We will be buying "promming" tickets for the standing room in front of the orchestra area. To buy these tickets, we need to queue up at least an hour in advance. Therefore, please meet in the queuing area at the Royal Albert Hall by 6:15 PM. Optionally, you can visit the theater earlier in the day to obtain a placeholder ticket that guarantees your place in the queue. Let the instructor know if you are interested in pursuing this option.
Shakespeare's Othello at the Globe theatre, 7:30 PM on Wednesday, September 12. Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the playhouse built and used by Shakespeare's own theater company. We will be standing in the open-air "yard" area, watching the play on foot the same way most of the audience would have in Shakespeare's time. If it rains, we will get wet! We will travel to the theater as a group, leaving the Ridgemount hotel at 6:15pm.