SPARC

SPARC's flagship program, Shakespeare in the Vineyard, (formerly known as Livermore Shakespeare Festival) brings over 5,500 attendees to Livermore Wine Country each summer for live productions. Since 2015, our teaching artists have led an in-school literacy program using Shakespeare's plays, called So Wise So Young, in every 2nd grade classroom in the Livermore school district. SPARC produces a two-week summer camp for students in grades 3-8, provides programs at local high schools and colleges, and adult education classes at libraries... In 2013, SPARC started producing holiday readings at Swirl on the Square, with professional actors reading Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales and in 2014 Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory. The Swirl Holiday Readings are now an annual event. In 2019, a new Valentine's Day tradition was begun at Swirl, with a three-actor, semi-staged reading of a shortened version of Romeo and Juliet. Another annual event is the long-standing presentation of..

Also known as: SPARC Theater

Primary location: Livermore United States