pic: Reilly McCarron performing at the inaugural Salon.
The Monash Fairy Tale Salon in Melbourne are running a fairy tale event in Melbourne on June 29th and are currently calling for papers, readings and performances.
The Monash Fairy Tale Salon in Melbourne are running a fairy tale event in Melbourne on June 29th and are currently calling for papers, readings and performances.
This will be the Monash group's third
annual fairy tale event and looks set to be a wonderful day.
Australian Fairy Tale Day - Call for Participation
As part of the Glen Eira Storytelling
Festival, the Monash Fairy Tale Salon will be hosting a day exploring fairy
tale migrations, with a special focus on Australian tales. Fairy tales cross
oceans and continents. How do people carry their tales with them? How are tales
transformed by migration? In particular, how have fairy tales come here to
Australia and how is our own fairy tale tradition based on migration?
This Melbourne event explores many of the
ideas that will be raised at the Australian Fairy Tale Society conference to
take place on June 9 in Sydney.
The day is open to academic papers as well
as fairy tale readings and performances. For the bold at heart, come dressed as
your favourite fairy tale character and be in the running to win a prize! This
event is open to anyone who has a love of fairy tales, and will take place at
the Theatrette, Glen Eira Town Hall, on Sunday June 29.
We are looking for interested participants
who would like to present original work and/or papers on fairy tales. Preference
will be given to material dealing with or inspired by Australian themes, but
other material will certainly be considered.
Areas of interest:
o Scholarly analysis of
fairy tale (incl. literary studies, translation studies, film & TV, drama
studies, gender studies)
o Live performance of
fairy tale (incl. new & established fairy tales)
o Fairy tale readings
(incl. new & established fairy tales)
Please send a 100-200 word summary or
abstract to arts-fairytale@monash.edu by
May 10.
Monash Fairy Tale Salon website: http://fairytalesalon.wordpress.com
The Australian Fairy Tale Society can be
found at:
