Events
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.
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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
Part of Karen Kay’s Faery Events: Avalon Faery weekend in Glastonbury, UK
There will be TWO DEBUT UK performances with RAPALJE
For the first time one of Holland’s finest musical exports ‘RAPALJE’ will be performing in the heart of Avalon. Celtic folk band Rapalje are to play on Friday 25th October at the Glastonbury Assembly Rooms, plus GOBLIN MARKET: With Elizabeth-Jane Baldry & Maxine Fone ‘Goblin Market’ is a performance for spoken voice and golden harp of Christina Rossetti’s celebrated and disturbing narrative poem – a unique combination in British literature of the grotesque, the fairytale, the erotic and the moral. A night of faery culture.
Their second gig will be at the infamous Avalon Faery Ball on Saturday 26th October at Glastonbury town Hall, this time they will be playing with their UK friends, The Dolmen! So that will be TWO amazing headline acts on the same night! A night of real faery delight!!!
Tickets for Friday 25th October cost £15.
Tickets for Saturday 26th October cost £25
Or get a special discount and buy tickets for both nights for £35 from www.thefaeshop.com
Sign up for the free newsletter at www.faeryevents.com for further details
Both events are sponsored by FAE Magazine
FAE Magazine would like to share some very happy and joyous news, and give a very warm faery welcome to new faery baby, Sebastian Froud! and huge congratulations to Mother Sarah and father Toby Froud, and of course the very proud Grandparents Brian and Wendy Froud, and Sarah’s parents too.
As reported on Facebook today by close friend of the Froud’s, Terri Windling-Gayton:
“There’s a brand new Froud amongst us! Hooray! Welcome to our beautiful, maddening, inspiring and amazing world, Sebastian Froud. And congratulations to parents Sarah and Toby, to grandparents Wendy and Brian, and to his other grandparents and relatives too. He is certainly a baby surrounded by deep magic and love. (The picture here, by the way, was painted by Brian, before Toby was born.)” – Terri Windling-Gayton via Facebook.
Fairies will flutter into Bury St Edmunds this Christmastime to attempt to break a world record for charity.
Bid4Bury, the town centre improvement organisation, is inviting everyone who comes into town for late-night shopping on Thursday, December 13, to take part in the challenge to achieve a gathering of the largest number of people dressed as a fairy.
The event will support Breakthrough Breast Cancer and will also help raise awareness of the town.
for more details CLICK HERE
Sleeping Beauty is a timeless fairytale about a young girl cursed to sleep for 100 years. The story was first turned into a ballet in 1890.
This haunting new production of the ballet classic sees award-winning choreographer Matthew Bourne return to the music of Tchaikovsky to complete a trio of masterworks, which started with Nutcracker! and Swan Lake.
In this latest re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty, the story begins at heroine Aurora’s christening at a time when fairies and vampires fed the gothic imagination before fast-forwarding 100 years.
From 4 December 2012 to 26 January 2013
at Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN
Visit: www.sadlerswells.com
On Saturday 2nd June 2012 a Fairy World Record attempt will take place at Strawberry Fair on Midsummer common, Cambridge, UK
Strawberry Fair launches its attempt to enter the Book of World Records, by aiming to smash the current world record for the largest gathering of fairies in one place. The Kids Area at the Fair will include a large fairy costume making marquee and a children’s parade will join the adult fairies on the central Village Green at 3.30pm for the record attempt. The Fair invites adults and children to portray fairies in any way they wish, as long as they include wands, wings and a tutu in their outfit. Fairy kits will be on sale at the Fair. A new Fairy Queen & King and a Fairy Princess & Prince will be crowned, based on their costumes, after the count-up.
So, what are you waiting for? Get your wings and wands and join in the fairy fun at Strawberry Fair and maybe you could be a part of Fairy history at this years Strawberry Fair. visit our Fairy Diary to see more Faery Events, Fairs and Festivals taking place in 2012…
