As part of the Glen Eira Storytelling
Festival, hosted by Monash Fairy Tale Salon these Symposiums are a coming together of
the academic, literary, oral story teller and musician – in our turn we all had
chance to read, tell, sing, ask questions and generally enjoy the moosh of
ideas that spin on the notion of Fairy Tale. The delight is the palpable joy
the attendees express as ideas fly around the room and creative and
intellectual dots are joined.
Mistress of Ceremonies was Belinda
Calderone and the speakers and presenters in order: Dr Danielle Wood, Jackie
Kerin, Mia Goodwin, Ali Alizadeh, Ann McCormack, Roslyn Quin, Toby Eccles and
Suzanne Sandow.
This year there was a strong theme on the
connection of the European folk tale tradition and how it informed the postcolonial
Australian tale spinners, what happens when a story emigrates, or when the
affection of a genre is transported into a new landscape?
From Storytelling Victoria, Jackie Kerin
and Roslyn Quin performed stories of their own making, Louisa John Krol sang
The Last Centaur (she composed both the lyric and the music) and Suzanne
Sandow, dressed to kill, rounded the symposium off with a superb and hysterical
retelling Tom Tit Tot.
Other tales under examination included The Handless Maid and The Black Thief and Alan Marshall’s Whispering in the Wind.
Top: Roslyn Quin and Belinda Calderone
Centre: Suzanne Sandow
Front L-R: Belida Calderone, Dr Danielle Wood
Centre: Roslyn Quin, Jackie Kerin, Louisa John-Krol Suzann Sandow
Back: Toby Eccles, Anna McCormack
Learn more about Monash Fairy Tale salon HERE
