Booking and details
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Dates Saturday, June 22, 2024, 11am - 9pm
Venue Folger Shakespeare Library
Join us to celebrate the Folger’s grand reopening with special performances, prizes, and more.
- Explore new exhibition galleries and chat with our gallery guides about the Folger’s collection.
- Take a look around our beautiful historic Reading Room.
- Play jumbo lawn games.
- Book a timed-entry pass and be entered to win hourly prizes.
- Chow down with local food trucks.
- Browse our new gift shop.
- Catch a performance of Folger Theatre’s Metamorphoses at 8 pm, with tickets starting at $20.
- Two words: Air. Conditioning.
Featuring performances by:
- DJ Nick tha 1da | 11am
- Crush Funk Brass Band | noon – 12:30pm
- Panamanian folkloric dance by Patria y Saloma | 12:45pm – 1:15pm
- The Flamenco Workshop: Songs, Dances, and Music | 1:30pm – 2:15pm
- Go-Go band Be’la Dona | 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
- Plus, watch artist and scenic designer Matthew J. Keenan paint the event live from 11am – 4pm
Kids and Families
Pick up a magnifying glass and follow clues through our exhibition halls with our Decoder Trail. Decode messages, solve riddles, and create a poem to receive a special badge. Kids ages 3 – 5 can try our Discovery Trail!
Exhibitions
Shakespeare Exhibition
Our Shakespeare Exhibition
See the Folger First Folios, learn more about Shakespeare and his plays, and explore the complexities of his cultural legacy.
Opening Fri, Jun 21, 2024
Out of the Vault: Into the Heart of the Folger
Out of the Vault
Encounter remarkable books and manuscripts that connect with the multifaceted work of the Folger in this ongoing exhibition.
Opening Fri, Jun 21, 2024
Imprints in Time
Imprints in Time
This special exhibition at the Folger features rare books from the collection of Stuart and Mimi Rose that present literary, cultural, and historical high points.
Fri, Jun 21, 2024 – Sun, Jan 5, 2025
Into the Vault: Books of the 1620s
Into the Vault: Books of the 1620s
See books from the Folger collection that were printed in European cities in the decade from which the Shakespeare First Folio emerged.
Opening Fri, Jun 21, 2024
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
Book tickets to Folger Theatre’s acclaimed production of Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of Ovid’s classic poem, directed by Psalmayene 24.