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Flocks of faeries are due to invade Penzance for a weekend of frolics and fun!

As it’s the August Bank Holiday weekend and there will be lots of children around, we are doing free workshops at St Johns Hall with Felicity Fairy and Muddlehead pixie, plus face painting, and workshops for adults too!

The weekend kick starts with the infamous Faery Ball to be held at the Acorn Arts Centre iin Parade Street, Penzance on Friday 27th August from 8pm until midnight. There will be celtic folk, rock music with the Dolmen, and delicate fairy harp music from Regan who is coming to the ball all the way from the USA. There will be a faery fashion show where audience members can show off their outfits and dancing all night long. Tickets to the Faery Ball are £15 and are available from the Acorn Box office.

On 28th and 29th August there will be the annual Faery. Angel & Healing Fayre to be held at St Johns Hall, with lots of stalls, arts, crafts, healing, readings including fairy and angel readings, there will also be books, crystals and much more! entry to the fayre is £2.50 for adults, and children under 12 are free, over 12’s are £1, and concessions are available too.

For more information on both events visit

www.mysticfayre.co.uk

or call 01736 330201

This summer, beginning in July, some of the finest artists dabbling in the realms of Faerie and the fantastic shall gather together in Brittany and England to show their work at the European INTEREG IV “Shared Legends Project”. These twenty-six English and French artists represent some of the best known and most beloved artists working today, including Alan Lee, Brian and Wendy Froud, Linda Ravenscroft, Terri Windling, Virginie Ropars, David Thiérrée, and Olivier Ledroit. The exhibitions shall take place at Comper Castle, Rennes, and Exeter.
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FAERY FEST NEWS FLASH!!!

Brian Froud and his wife Wendy Froud will be signing copies of their new ‘Heart of Faerie Oracle’ at 3 Wishes Faery Fest THIS SATURDAY 19th June on the FAE Magazine stand! Tickets are available on the gate visit www.3wishesfaeryfest.co.uk

The 3 wishes Faery Fest runs from 18th to 21st June and takes place at Colliord Lake Park, Bodmin Moor, cornwall, UK.

3 Wishes Faery Fest celebrates all that is related to faerie in the UK. It is the UK’s only outdoor camping and music festival dedicated to the faerie realms and is sponsored by FAE Magazine (Faeries and Enchantment)

Faery Magic by Lucy Cavendish and Serene Conneeley

Faeries have long captured the imagination, inspiring people to weave mystical stories, create beautiful art and protect and hold nature as sacred. The very idea of them lifts the spirits, opens the heart and the mind, reminds us of the secret longings of our soul, and fills us with happiness, spontaneity and childlike wonder.

Including fun faery  interviews with: Jessica Galbreth,  Doreen Virtue, Cassandra Eason, Selina Fenech, Lady Amaranth,  Karen Kay,  Izzy Ivy,  Juliet Marillier, Cara Walker,  Wendy Rule and Amelia Sayers

The Book of Faery Magic is a must for anyone wanting to grow closer to nature and to their own wild self. Rich in tradition, history, research and faery lore, it is filled with whimsical accounts of interaction with the fae, grounded guidance on working with them, and beautiful ideas for reconnection with the magical realms. From the faeries we can rediscover who we really are, and awaken our natural abilities to create wonderful, enchanted lives that are full of meaning and purpose, fun and delight.

Whether you believe that faeries are truth or fantasy, The Book of Faery Magic is your portal to a state of being where fun, light-hearted and healing energy will help you fulfil all your dreams, transform your life and improve your relationship with the earth, your self and others. Within these magical pages you will:

* Work with the faeries for health and happiness.
* Be granted the Seven Magical Gifts of Faery.
* Meet different faeries from around the world.
* Learn the legends, lore and history of the Little People.
* Visit the planet’s most sacred faery sites.
* Discover the magical properties of faery flowers, herbs and trees.
* Plant your own enchanted garden and brew intoxicating potions.
* Host a magical tea party and bake faery treats.
* Become an eco faery and help make the world a better place.
* Hear from famous faery artists, writers, healers and singers.
* Find out what kind of faery you are, and much much more…

The Book of Faery Magic
by Lucy Cavendish and Serene Conneeley
Blessed Bee, $34.95.

SOURCE  www.faerymagic.net

‘Enter Cælia, the Fairy Queen in her night attire’:
Shakespeare and the Fairies

The 2010 British Academy Shakespeare Lecture,
given by Professor Michael Hattaway
6.00pm, Thursday, 22 April 2010
Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

Do you believe in fairies? We all remember the fraught declaration made in Peter Pan (1904): ‘Every time a child says “I don’t believe in fairies,” there’s a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.’ When we turn further back, to the age of Shakespeare, perhaps the beginning of an age of disenchantment, can we ascertain either whether Shakespeare and other writers ‘believed in’ fairies, or what they thought about them? The problem turns out to be unsolvable, but we can examine how both writers of the English Renaissance and Reformations and also modern theatre directors have thought with fairies, used them to explore many aspects of life then and now. Fairy-lore was woven into cultural debates over the proper roles for women, over masculine and feminine sexuality – and fairies served as border-land figures in domestic and rural life. InRomeo and Juliet (Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream the fairies may serve rather to signal mental states and power the machinery of the play than as figures of supernatural agency. We shall also consider the ways in which the textual descriptions of the smallness of fairies can be matched with theatrical images in selected productions.

Visit the event website for further information on this fascinating lecture

Experience fashion, performance and music in this exhibition at Kensington Palace, London

In association with WILDWORKS, featuring Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest, Stephen Jones, Boudicca, Aminaka Wilmont and Echo Morgan

Kensington Palace is being transformed. As the walls of the palace are being shaken by a £12 million renovation project the rubble and the dust is unleashing powerful and secret stories about the lives of Kensington’s princesses.

Opens 26 March 2010

Visit www.hrp.org.uk for full details on this fairy tale exhibition

Brian and Wendy Froud will be signing copies of their latest Oracle set, The Heart of Faerie Oracle.

Friday 26th March at 6PM
Forbidden Planet
179 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC2 H 8J
www.forbiddenplanet.com

If you are unable to make it along to the book signing, then you can still have your Heart of Faerie Oracle signed by Wendy and Brian Froud by pre-ordering online here: ORDER YOUR SIGNED COPY BY THE FROUDS

Rave reviews for Waterboys ‘An Appointment with Mr. Yeats’

Mike Scott  copyright Paul MacManus

One reviewer said, “This spectacular show is an amazing achievement, beautifully crafted and presented, it paid great homage to Yeats, bringing him into the 21st century with a bang! Mike Scott is a genius and with the talent of Steve Wickham and the band he has re-introduced to us to Yeats’ poetry, taking us on a journey to what now seems like previously visited but totally unexplored territory.  I have been at Waterboys concerts over the past 20 years and none has compared with this.  If only I could go back to tomorrow and dp it all again.  Album to follow soon Please!! and keep the intimacy of the setting”. Quoted from the Abbey Theatre website

Original article can be seen in FAE Magazine ISSUE 9 Winter 2009

The Waterboys website can be found here: www.mikescottwaterboys.com

Calling fantasy artists, photographers, writers & enchanted faerie folk!

Would you like to be published in the UK’s most exclusive and treasured magazine? Well now could be your chance! The Faerie door is currently open for submissions. We are not able to publish stories at this time. For terms and conditions of submissions and further information please visit the following link: www.faemagazine.com/contact/submissions