Sign up will begin Monday, February 1, for GHC’s 31st annual trip to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery Alabama, set for the weekend of April 30-May 1. As usual, the trip is open to GHC employees and students and their guests.
This year’s trip will feature “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Shakespeare and the comedy/drama “Driving Miss Daisy” by Atlanta native Alfred Uhry. These will both be performed by the ASF professional acting company. This year’s side trip will be a tour of the Civil Rights Memorial Center located adjacent to the National Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
The trip fee is listed according to how many will share a hotel room, and it includes not only lodging and breakfast at Holiday Inn Express but transportation by chartered tour bus, the tickets to the two plays, admission to the Civil Rights Memorial Center, supper Saturday at Golden Corral, a boxed lunch on the theater grounds Sunday, and a packet of information about the plays and places to be visited. This year’s trip fee is $105 per person for four per room, $115 per person for three per room, and $135 per person for two per room (two beds in each room).
One of the nice things about this trip sponsored by Student Life and the Humanities Division is that it gives employees and students from all the college’s locations a chance to share a really great experience.
Sign-up will be in the Office of Student Life at all GHC locations. At $50 deposit is required at sign-up with the balance due March 23. Technically, sign-up runs through March 1, but the trip is often full before then. The deposit is refundable until March 1, and the balance is refundable until March 23.
Student Life is arranging to have the trip flyer posted online at http://www.highlands.edu/site/asf . (For your convenience, trip sign-up forms and travel waivers will also be posted at that site.) You may print out the sign-up form and waivers and bring then with you when you come to sign-up for the trip, but paper copies of the forms should also be available from Student Life at all campuses.
The performances by ASF’s professional acting company are consistently superb, and the beauty of the 300-acre landscaped park that houses the theater building is almost worth the trip by itself. So think about spending a spring weekend in Montgomery with other GHCers.