Events
FAE magazine’s 7 Fairy Festivals in the UK. FAE looks at where fairies are celebrated within the UK festival scene.
3 Wishes Fairy Festival 2019
21st to 23rd June 2019
at Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cremyll, Torpoint, Cornwall (Near the Devon/Plymouth border)
3 Wishes Fairy Festival – is the UK’s first fairy festival with outdoor music stages and camping, this years festival celebrates thirteen years of fairy fun since it began in 2007! Time flies when you are having fairy Fun.
On the cards for this year is:
*Real mermaids, see them swim in the Merquarium!
*A Unicorn World Record 2019 Attempt
*Fairy Dog Show
*100+ FREE workshops (included in festival ticket price)
*Fairy School
*Fairy Circus Tent!
Further info from www.fairyfestival.co.uk
Faeryfields Faery Festival
6th & 7th July 2019
Vicarage Farm, Woodmancott Lane, Woodmancott, Winchester SO21 3BL
Please note: This is a daytime festival open from 10.30am until 6pm daily.
Further info from www.faeryology.co.uk
The Legendary Llangollen Faery Festival
10th to 11th August 2019
at Llangollen Pavilion, Abbey Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire
Please note: This is a daytime festival open from 10am until 5pm daily, followed by a Grand Faery ball from 7pm. There is no camping on site. There are camp sites and B&B’s in the local area.
Further info from www.northwalesfaeryfestival.com
Away with the Fairies at Just So Festival
16th to 18th August 2019
at Cricket Ground Entrance, Rode Hall Estate, Scholar Green, Cheshire
Deep within the forest find Away with the Fairies, an enchanting secret fairyland. Spy sprites making mischief up in the trees, meet the Fairy Queen and make woodland crowns and all manner of other fairy craft.
Further info from www.justsofestival.org.uk
Brading Faerie Festival & Wood Fair
15th September 2019
Brading Down, Brading Down Road, Brading, Ryde UK
Refreshments available all day but feel free to bring your own picnic and relax in the delightful setting of Bulleys Pit at Brading Down.
In support of Gift to Nature.
Please note: This is a daytime festival opens from 12 noon until 4pm – one day only.
Further info from Thebradingfaeriefestival
Elf and Faery Festival
27th to 30th September 2019
Greenbank House and Garden, Greenbank Garden Flenders Road, Clarkston G768RB
Please note: This is a daytime festival opens from 11am until 4pm. Tickets are £3 per child plus normal garden admission (members enjoy free admission).
Further info from www.elf-faery-festival
The Faery Lights Ball & Fairy Fayre
Saturday 19th and 20th October 2019
Glastonbury Town Hall, Somerset, UK
Please note: The daytime fairy fayre is FREE ENTRY and opens from 10.30am on Saturday 19th and from 11am on Sunday 20th Octovber. Fairy workshops are optional and cost extra from £5). The evening Faery Lights Ball is a ticketed event and costs £25 (this event usually sells out in advance). Tickets from The FAE Shop
Visit www.faeryevents.com or see the Facebook event page HERE
Faeries, princes and princesses, knights, pixies and pirates, gather round!
The 4th Fairy Festival in Cyprus will be held again at Cyherbia in Avgorou, on APRIL 6th & 7th 2019.
Dress up as your favourite fairytale character and experience a day of adventure and enchantment in the natural surroundings of the botanical park. Games and activities in the Herb gardens, Labyrinth and Enchanted Forest for all the family include: Adventure in the Maze discover the Fairy village, Stilt-walking, Ring Tilting, Maypole dancing, Treasure hunt, Make a Magic Wand, Catch your Dreams, Steampunk Alchemy Show, Best costume competition for kids and adults. Open from 10.00 till 18:00. Event program: Activities: all day Storytelling times: English: 11.30, 14:30 (Greek:12:30, 15.30) Maypole Dancing: 13:30 Everyone can join in! Steampunk Alchemy Show: 14:00 Best costume competition (adults and children): 16:00
Entrance 6 euros p.p. adults and children. Ages 3 and under free. No booking required.Information: tel. 99915443Cyherbia Botanical Park is situated on the Ormidia-Avgorou Road, exit 63 from A3.
VISIT www.cyherbia.com
This winter goblins, fairies and witches are spreading mischief in a new exhibition celebrating the fantastical, mysterious and macabre illustrative world of Arthur Rackham at Standen House and Garden from Saturday 19th January until Sunday 31st March 2019.
Arthur Rackham was one of the leading artists in Britain’s ‘Golden Age of Illustration’. Nicknamed the ‘beloved enchanter’, he is best known for his illustrations of fables and fairytales. Producing over 3,300 individual books his illustrations adorned the pages of loved children’s books such as ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’. These now iconic illustrations are chilling, bewitching and provide a colourful contrast to the dark winter months.
The venue for the Arthur Rackham Exhibition is Standen House and Garden, West Hoathly Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 4NE
Further details on the official National Trust website
FAE magazine’s 6 Summer Fairy Festivals in the UK. FAE looks at how fairies are celebrated within the UK festival scene.
3 Wishes Fairy Festival
15th to 17th June 2018 at Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cremyll, Torpoint, Cornwall (Near the Devon/Plymouth border)
We start with 3 Wishes Fairy Festival – As the UK’s first fairy festival with outdoor music stages and camping, this years festival celebrates the twelfth year since it began! Time flies when you are having fairy Fun.
On the cards for this year is:
*A Unicorn World Record Attempt
*Fairy Dog Show
*100+ FREE workshops (included in festival ticket price)
*Fairy School
*Fairy Circus Tent!
Further info from www.fairyfestival.co.uk
Away with the Fairies at Just So Festival
17th to 19th August 2018 at Cricket Ground Entrance, Rode Hall Estate, Scholar Green, Cheshire
Deep within the forest find Away with the Fairies, an enchanting secret fairyland. Spy sprites making mischief up in the trees, meet the Fairy Queen and make woodland crowns and all manner of other fairy craft.
Further info from www.justsofestival.org.uk
The Legendary Llangollen Faery Festival
11th to 12th August at Llangollen Pavilion, Abbey Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire
Please note: This is a daytime festival open from 10am until 5pm daily, followed by a Grand Faery ball from 7pm. There is no camping on site. There are camp sites and B&B’s in the local area.
Further info from www.northwalesfaeryfestival.com
New Forest Fairy Festival
Sussex Faerie Festival
The Fairyland Trust Fairy Fair
on 26th to 27th May at Primrose Woods, Norfolk
An award winning daytime event over two-dates. Please note this is now held at a new location. Aimed at children and education of the land, lots of activities and crafts etc for the little ones.
Further info from www.creativeorchardevents.com
Cumbrian Fairy Day
20th May at Kirklinton Hall, Carlisle, Cumbria
Set in a mystical location with magic flying everywhere. Visit the Faerie Glen, the dragons and enjoy the gardens. Magical Mel and her team will be offering a range of craft activities to take part in along with much more sparkle. Stalls, workshops, fancy dress, food… plenty of fun for all the family. A daytime only event from 11am until 3pm.
Further info from Cumbrian Fairy Day
It’s fairy fashion heaven at the The Museum at FIT, accredited by the American Alliance of Museums at Seventh Avenue at 27 Street, New York City, NYC, USA. The Fairy Tale Fashion exhibition runs from 15th January through until 16th April 2016.
Kirsty Mitchell, The Storyteller, from the Wonderland series. Photograph © Kirsty Mitchell, kirstymitchellphotography.com
According the the FIT website, Fairy Tale Fashion is a unique and imaginative exhibition that examines fairy tales through the lens of high fashion. In versions of numerous fairy tales by authors such as Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, it is evident that dress is often used to symbolize a character’s transformation, vanity, power, or privilege. The importance of Cinderella’s glass slippers is widely known, for example, yet these shoes represent only a fraction of the many references to clothing in fairy tales.
Here at FAE Magazine – Faeries and enchantment, if you are a regular reader, you ail know that we simply adore faerie fashion, so this unique and exciting exhibition is right up our fairy street! the exhibition is being organised by Colleen Hill, and contains 80 plus items. You’ll find the creations of several high profile designers including, Thom Browne, Dolce and Gabbana, Tom Ford, Giles, Mary Katrantzou, Marchesa, Alexander McQueen, Rick Owens, Prada, Rodarte, and Walter Van Beirendonck, and more.
for further infomraitpon on this magical faerie exhibition see fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/fairy-tale-fashion.php
Wendy Froud, is to receive the lifetime achievement award at the Portland Film Festival this September. Wendy fabricated the infamous ‘Yoda’ in the movie, Star Wars, a character that has truly stood the test of time for his zen-like wisdom and ability to use the ‘force’!
Wendy will be present at a special screening of the Dark Crystal on Wednesday 2nd September as a part of the festival schedule.
EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA!
You can also catch Wendy and husband, Brian Froud at the Avalon Faery weekend on 24th and 25th October at Glastonbury Town Hall. See www.faeryevents.com for details or follow the Facebook event page.
FAE NEWS: Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning looking very happy at the European Press Conference for Disney’s ‘Maleficent’ on May 9, 2014 in London.
Photo by David Dettmann
More enchantment than you can shake a faery wand at!FAE Magazine – Faeries and Enchantment
A new series with Warwick Davis ‘Weekend Escapes’ is starting on 11th April on ITV at 8pm – AND the Willow Appreciation Society peeps are appearing in the first episode!!!
…..The family’s first stop is the middle of an enchanted wood in Launceston where they meet a group of locals dressed up as fairies, pixies, wood elves, merfaes (half mermaid and half fairy) and other woodland creatures. The Willow Appreciation Society meet up regularly in costume to keep the area’s legends and mystical stories alive.
Warwick says: “Cornwall isn’t all about cream teas and scrumpy it’s a county brimming with magic, mystery and plenty of strange surprises if you scratch beneath the surface.”
You’ll find FAE magazine‘s Editor Karen Kay in the woods with Warwick Davis and his family.
The existence of fairies has long been dismissed and resigned to the realm of children’s books and Disney films.
However Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer John Hyatt claims he now has proof the creatures are real and are residing in the Rossendale Valley.
And he is on a mission to get more adults to believe and ‘bring a bit of magic into their lives.’
John Hyatt, Director of Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD) at Manchester Metropolitan University snapped images of what he claims are the tiny winged creatures whilst out photographing the Lancashire landscape over the last two years.
Source: Manchester Evening News
As part of the Frome Festival (SW UK), Students of all local schools, their families, friends and everyone in Frome are invited by The Frome Times, Kumon Frome Study Centre and Absolutely Fabulous Costume Hire to attempt the Guinness World Record for the Greatest Number of People Dressed as Characters from the Wizard of Oz.
The attempt to beat the current record of 446 will take place on Sunday 13th July 2014.
The registration fee is only £1 per participant and all money raised will be used to buy books for participating schools. A free assembly with local author, David Gatward, on the theme of the Wizard of Oz is available for all schools taking part. At these sessions characters from the book will also appear! These will be great events to tie in with World Book day in March 2014. Schools will be provided with flyers and a poster to help promote the event. A number of other events to promote this Guinness World Record attempt will also be running in Frome, including art sessions, reading sessions and the showing of the original film at the Westway Cinema after the record attempt.
Visit www.funtodressup.co.uk for updates and details
