Please join us for this alternative offering of our traditional Francis Scott Key Lecture Series.
Today, African American women are an organized and consequential facet of our body politic. How did they get here? To understand their story is to understand the politics of our own time, setting aside old narratives and learning about the future through black women’s ongoing quest for rights. Vanguard, a new book by Martha S. Jones, tells how they built their movement, which was plagued by ridicule and resistance, and extended to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Dr. Martha S. Jones is a Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is a writer, commentator, researcher, and historian whose work is permeated by the intersections of race, gender, law, and history. Martha’s most recent book, Vanguard. How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All is a new history of African American women’s political lives in America.
This virtual program is free and open to all audiences. Registration is required. After registering for the program, attendees will receive an automated confirmation email with connection instructions.
If you walk by the Folger this month, you’ll start seeing more signs of our renovation! Recently, we moved the statue of Puck on the west side of our building. In the next few weeks, we'll be picking up one of our beloved (and very big) magnolia trees and moving it sixty feet south of where it currently stands. Click below to learn more about our renovation, and follow us on social media to stay up to date on the latest magnolia moves!
Toi Derricotte
There Is Too Much To Say
Thusday, October 22, 7:30 pm ET
$15 (suggested price) – $5 (minimum price)
Live on Zoom
Poet Toi Derricotte brings a fierce tenderness to the page. She reads from her recent collection of poetry I: New and Selected Poems, published in 2019 and shortlisted for the National Book Award.
Subscriptions on sale now. Single tickets available soon.
Words, Words, Words
Virtual Book Club
Thursday, November 5, 6:30 pm ET
Free, Registration Required
Live on Zoom
Spaces for our virtual book club fill up quickly, so don't wait to sign up! Registration opens October 6 for our November meeting, when we'll discuss License to Quill by Jacopo della Quercia.
Food and the Book: 1300 – 1800
This interdisciplinary virtual conference from the Folger Institute's Before 'Farm to Table' project and the Newberry Library examines the book as a primary intersection for foodways throughout the early modern world.
Cooking by the Book
A Conversation with Chefs and Authors
Friday, October 2, 1 pm ET
Free, Registration Required
Live on Zoom
What do cooks and writers learn from history's recipes and foodways? Food writers Tamar E. Adler and Michael Twitty, chef Paul Fehribach, and scholars Irina Dumitrescu and David B. Goldstein explore.
Indigenous Foodways
Past and Present
Monday, October 12, 1 pm ET
Free, Registration Required
Live on Zoom
Chef Sean Sherman and scholars Elizabeth Hoover, Eli Suzukovich III, and Rose Miron discuss the ways Indigenous peoples preserved traditional foodways in spite of settler-colonialism.
Check out more free virtual events from the conference.
Critical Race Conversations
We Are What You Eat
Conversations on Food and Race
Thursday, October 15, 3 pm ET | Free
Live on YouTube
Scholars Gitanjali G. Shahani (San Francisco State University) and Jennifer Park (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) present a new Critical Race Conversation.
Shakespeare Lightning Round
Tune in on Instagram Live
Join us for a fun, fast-paced, Shakespearean chat show. We ask our guests 30 lightning-fast questions about their favorite—and least favorite—things about the Bard.
Debra Ann Byrd
Wednesday, October 7, 5 pm ET
Live on Instagram
Debra Ann Byrd, actor, writer, and Harlem Shakespeare Festival Founder and Producing Artistic Director joins us to talk about her play Becoming Othello: A Black Girl's Journey, her research at the Folger, and more.
Ken Ludwig
Wednesday, October 28, 5 pm ET
Live on Instagram
Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig joins us to talk about his newest play, his book How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare, and the most underrated and overrated Shakespeare plays.
New episodes of the Shakespeare Lightning Round coming soon!
Folger Consort
Folger ENCORES
“Sonata Sopra L'Aria di Ruggiero”
Streaming on YouTube | Free
Watch Folger Consort's 2018 performance of one of Salamone Rossi's violin sonatas, with a new introduction from Folger Consort Co-Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein.
Macbeth
Streaming on YouTube | Free
Witches! Ghosts! Something wicked coming this way! Folger Theatre and Two River Theater's bloody and magical Macbeth is perfect viewing for Halloween.
Folger ENCORES
Love's Labor's Lost
Streaming on YouTube | Free
Director Vivienne Benesch and actor Zachary Fine both garnered Helen Hayes Award nominations for their work on Folger Theatre's Love's Labor's Lost. Watch a scene from that production with a special introduction from Benesch.
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