Time & Location
Jun 29, 2025, 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Berkeley Yacht Club, 1 Seawall Dr, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
Guests
About the event
Join us for a special evening at the beautiful Berkeley Yacht Club, kindly hosted by Ludmila Kissaleva-Eggleton.
We'll enjoy a film on the life and legacy of Michelangelo Buonarroti, followed by a brief talk and Q&A with Renaissance expert Myrial Holbrook (Newnham, 2019) and art lecturer Sean Forester (Gonville & Caius, 2000).
Sean Forester (Gonville & Caius, 2000) is an artist, lecturer, and cultural travel guide. Sean studied at Cambridge University and the Florence Academy of Art, and he teaches at Golden Gate Atelier and the London Literary Salon.
Myrial Holbrook (Newnham 2019) is a PhD candidate in English and a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford. She studies Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare and Cervantes, and is currently writing a dissertation on digression. As a Marshall Scholar she completed an MPhil in education (Cambridge) and an MA in creative writing (UEA). She holds a bachelor's degree in comparative literature (Princeton).