Bard in the Classroom FAQ

You’ll receive an auto-confirmation that we’ve received your request. Then within a few days, our School Programs Coordinator will connect with you via email with more detailed information and/or questions. If we’re able to schedule a teaching artist for your workshop, you will receive an invoice for the refundable deposit. We’ll need to receive this refundable payment before we can confirm the workshop, so we recommend payment via credit card or electronic funds transfer. Once payment is received, we’ll send a confirmation of your workshop to you and to your teaching artist. The teaching artist may reach out for further information, to ensure that the planned activities will suit your group.

The Teaching Artist will arrive at your school shortly before the scheduled start time. They’ll report to the office and will need guidance on where to find the workshop location. Once there, we’d like to move any furniture to the sides of the room so that students can have space to participate actively. If this can be done ahead of time, there will be more time for the workshop. The teaching artist will lead the students through 2 or 3 activities that invite active exploration of a bit of Shakespeare text. The atmosphere is playful, encouraging, and non-judgmental. The teaching artists will encourage students to discover how the text resonates for them.

Our Teaching Artists are working artists in a gig economy, and it’s very important to us that we honour our commitments to them. As a not-for-profit organization, we in turn need teachers to honour their commitments to us.

Thanks to the support of the Y.P. Heung Foundation, we’re able to offer subsidies for our Bard in the Classroom workshops throughout the 2024/2025 school year. However, each workshop costs us $180 to fulfill. In order to manage our resources effectively, we require an up-front, fully-refundable deposit payment of 50% for each workshop booked.

While we’re thrilled to offer these subsidies, this funding is not unlimited. In order to serve as many schools and students as possible, we’d like to direct this support where it’s truly needed. Therefore, if you are able to make a contribution towards the cost of your workshop(s), we will be able to broaden our impact and make these workshops available to a greater number of young people. 

With that in mind, the fee structure for Bard in the Classroom is as follows: 

There is no limit to the number of workshops that you may request. In the spirit of fairness, we may have to limit the number of subsidies that we can provide any one school or teacher. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t request additional workshops! Residencies are available; please reach out to the Education Coordinator to enquire.

Yes! Please see our Professional Development page for more information about our workshops for school teachers.