SEi Renaissance Workshop
Love, Being Tempered & Much Ado for Something...
Summer Workshop for college & high school students
Join us for a summer workshop designed to hone the essential qualities and dispositions of a Renaissance leader! This unique program will strengthen capacities of good judgment and effective communication, while also fortifying your foundations in wisdom, virtue, and a living Western Tradition!
See schedule below.
Until then!
Mr Presberg
Change slander to remorse. That is some good.
But not for that dream I on this strange course,
But on this travail look for greater birth...
Come, lady, die to live. This wedding day
Perhaps is but prolonged. Have patience and endure.
~ Friar, Much Ado About Nothing
SEi Renaissance Workshop
Wednesday, Jun 15, 2016, 09:30 AM
1707 Milford Street, Houston, TX, United States
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
A Plan
Schedule: Wednesday/ Thursday
9:15 Arrive, Morning memo and Proverbial Wisdom
9:30 Quick Dip in Scripture
Quick “deep” dive into Scripture, with a focus on the person and teaching ways of Christ and on a few other persons that have shaped human history
9:50 Of Virtue & Vice: Wed: Temperance #1/ Thur: Love #1
Fresh studies of those vital habits and dispositions necessary to being human (or not) ~ explored in a way that is interesting and practical…
10:45 break
10:55 Of Virtue & Vice: Wed: Temperance #2/ Thur: Love #2
11:45 Lunch & Games
(bring a bagged lunch)
1:00 Shakespeare at Play: Wed/ Thur: Much Ado, parts 1 & 2
(in-depth discussion follows each reading)
3:00 Speech & Rhetoric Practicum
(each participant will be encouraged/expected to memorize a speech, scene or soliloquy)
3:30 Finis**
Friday: 3 p.m. ~ 9 p.m., will feature games, final discussions of topics, and a festive sit-down dinner (optional) with performances.
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Cost:
- $325
- $15 for optional Festive Dinner
Attire & Things:
- collared shirt for regular days; sport coat and pants for dinner
- bring a pen and journal
- bring a bagged lunch for Wed and Thursday
- have a towel and swim trunks handy for the possibility of a dip in the pool
- contact Mr Presberg with inquiries regarding scholarships
**For those interested, ask about an essay and writing component to the workshop.
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed so long against marriage...When I said i would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married...
Samuel & Erasmus institute
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
~ Erasmus
Email: jpresberg@samuelerasmus.org
Website: www.samuelerasmus.org
Phone: 832.693.2889