Follow the First Folio! Tour updates from Florida, Vermont, Kansas, Illinois, New Mexico, and Arizona

This Marlon Brando costume is on display with the First Folio exhibition at Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, IL.

From a Hot Pepper Shakespeare contest to a Romeo and Juliet masquerade ball, the party doesn’t stop. These First Folio host sites are living it up, celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare across the United States. Here’s a round-up of where you can find our traveling exhibition, First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, this month:

• The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (Feb 2-28)
• Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (Feb 1-28
• Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (Feb 1-28)
• Lake County Discovery Museum, Wauconda, IL (Feb 3-28)
• New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM (Feb 5-28)
• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (Feb 15 – Mar 15)

Highlights from Florida

Florida International University created a virtual reality experience of Shakespeare’s London.

Enter the New I-CAVE to Experience Shakespeare's London! https://t.co/5ipZ9Ksxft #FolioFIU #SHX400 #FirstFolio @FolgerLibrary @fiu

— FIU Architecture (@fiuarchitecture) February 3, 2016

The university also hosted a Hot Pepper Shakespeare contest. Participants had to read aloud a Shakespeare passage after eating hot peppers.

https://twitter.com/FIULibraries/status/694522514580619264

Highlights from Vermont

https://twitter.com/Middlebury/status/695296436611604481

https://twitter.com/Middlebury/status/694913814442147840

Highlights from Kansas

"It's magical," says #KState prof. Don Hedrick. @KSNTNews video about #FirstFolio visit: https://t.co/8JNvfepM44 pic.twitter.com/pZMlqvYpbg

— K-State Research (@KStateResearch) February 5, 2016

Romeo and Juliet masquerade @kstateshxp400 pic.twitter.com/xlFvd55RqI

— Lori Goetsch (@kstatelib_dean) February 14, 2016

Highlights from Illinois

Shakespeare's First Folio is now at the @LakeCoMuseum! Watch Congressman Robert Dold speak about the exhibit. pic.twitter.com/x9kCk72fGa

— Lake County Forest Preserves (@LCFPD) February 3, 2016

https://twitter.com/TeichPostcard/status/697142115466395648

 Highlights from New Mexico

The Shakespeares (@JerryFerraccio and Deb Dennard) at NM Museum of Art #SHX400 pic.twitter.com/sA8Bhw1KxX

— S. F. Shakes (@SantaFeShakes) February 15, 2016

#firstfolio getting ready to start the teacher workshop! pic.twitter.com/1mcVJmjKI2

— S. F. Shakes (@SantaFeShakes) January 23, 2016

Highlights from Arizona

If Shakespeare's characters used social media. Now go see the #FirstFolio opened to Hamlet at the @AZStateMuseum! pic.twitter.com/E7de9xX4no

— University of Arizona Libraries (@uazlibraries) February 15, 2016

First story in our #Shakespeare series celebrating the @AZStateMuseum's First Folio exhibit https://t.co/WxM9esdoJI pic.twitter.com/RIzcmrPorP

— University of Arizona Research (@uazresearch) February 8, 2016

Find out where the First Folio will be in March, and share the excitement on social media with #SHX400 and #FirstFolio.

Have you gone to see the First Folio yet? Share your Shakespeare story by recording a short video and posting to social media using #MySHX400.