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Folklore

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

Ticket sales for the premiere of Peerifool are now available online from the Fairytale Films website.

The film is a fabulous feminist tale collected in the nineteenth century up in the wild Orkney Islands.  The creators say, “This could be the first time EVER in the history of cinema that Scottish porridge fairies have been portrayed on the big screen”.

Elizabeth Jane Baldry says, “Our fabulous, darling, talented volunteers include an Oscar winner and a BAFTA winner working alongside all the kids and mums and dads and grandparents harnessing the collective creativity of a Dartmoor village. The warmth and generosity is utterly heart warming. So many people care about what we are doing here in the Chagford Filmmaking Group. Thank you to all of you who took part in the adventure”.

Buy your tickets here: http://www.fairytalefilms.co.uk/buy_tickets.html

Love & Serendipity, the Psychic & Wellbeing Expo in Australia is to welcome Lucy Cavendish & Michele Lee Phelan

There will be 2 days of stalls, lectures, alternative therapies, psychic readings, and live entertainment to be held at the Community and Wellbeing Centre
297 Mann St, Gosford, Australia. For more details on this event visit: www.loveandserendipity.com.au. The website are artist Michele-Lee Phelan can be found here: www.artoftheempath.com and the website of Lucy Cavendish can be seen here: www.lucycavendish.com

The House of Fairy Tales is to present an exhibition of more than 100 artworks at the Millenium Gallery, in St Ives, Cornwall.

The exhibition will explore folklore and mythology by leading artists. The exhibition opens on March 6th with a performance from American artist and musician William Fontaine

Visit the following websites for further info: www.houseoffairytales.org www.millenniumgallery.co.uk and www.thisiscornwall.co.uk

Planning permission has been refused for Fairy Bridge gift shop and tea rooms on the Isle of Man.

The owner of Fairy Bridge, Sonya Bowness, has been refused planning permission for a gift shop and tearooms. When FAE Magazine first featured this story Sonya told us, “It’s traditional for people who pass by the bridge say hello to the ‘Little People’. Read the full story here: www.iomtoday.co.im

Writers and scholars from across the world can now explore the importance of fairy tales in literature and culture thanks to a new project based in Sussex.

Professor Bill Gray, an English lecturer at the University of Chichester, is the brainchild behind the new Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, which launches next week.
The centre seeks to explore, discuss and celebrate the folklore, fairy tales and fantastic imagination from across the world that has led to best selling fantasy works by writers as diverse as JRR Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, JK Rowling, Philip Pullman and CS Lewis.
The launch of the centre will be marked by a lecture on (9/02/10) given by Dr Diane Purkins, of Keble College, Oxford, who has published extensively on fairies and witches. Further talks are taking place this year, information from  www.sussexfolktalecentre.org

Story sent to FAE Magazine by Hayley Rust

A talk on Traditional Fairy Lore is to take place as part of ‘Territory, Fantasy and the Second Sight Performance Storytelling: Maps and Dreams’ at the Barbican in London on 18 February at 7.30pm

Ronald Hutton: Traditional Fairy Lore

Fairies have become some of the most familiar figures in British literature
and art, from the work of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope to Victorian
children’s stories. This talk, by the fabulously entertaining arch-historian Ronald Hutton, is concerned with the folklore that inspired this interest and with the ‘real’ fairies of Britain and Ireland. It sets out to answer two questions: what were (or are) these beings like, and what has been the value and purpose of telling tales about them?

Hugh Lupton:True Thomas

A cycle of British fairy tales which includes Hugh Lupton’s praise poem based on an incident in the life of his Welsh, Victorian, great great grandfather, the philanthropist, preacher, teetotaller, radical printer, businessman and champion of the Welsh language – Thomas Gee. It is ‘a story that has always been told in whispers…’

This event is part of: Territory, Fantasy and the Second Sight
Performance Storytelling: Maps and Dreams
18 February 2010 / 19:30
VENUE: Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS
Event website: http://www.barbican.org.uk

Wednesday 11th March 2009
Celebrate the full moon with the Faeries. Feel the wonder of the connection with the Faerie Kingdom as you learn more and develop your own personal relationship with the Fey. A workshop aimed at those people who already feel connected to Elphame and want to learn more. Visit www.gaeacourses.co.uk/faeries.html

ISBN 978-0-7869-5140-6

Step inside the secret world of faeries

You can’t get there on purpose. You won’t find it on any map. And you can’t take the same road there twice. But the world of faeries is very real — from the underground workshop where brownies craft toys to the enchanted forests where pixies play stickyball. You may never want to go home again! Visit www.wizards.com for more info. ww2.wizards.com