The Monash Fairy Tale Salon 29 June. Call for papers, readings and performances. 2014

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.

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:

http://www.faeriebard.com/afts/

https://www.facebook.com/austfairytales

austfairytales@gmail.com

Clare Coburn: Talk and Workshop 16 17 May 2014

Dear lovers of creativity

I'm always happy when we turn back the clocks and see the first colour in deciduous trees. Are sunset and sunrise really brighter or am I just noticing them more? Nature embraces transformation so easily--I'm envious, and keen to nourish my own creativity. 

Right now, I'm occupied with a wonderful new project which I hope will lead to a publication of some kind, I'll let you know as it progresses. In the meantime, I have a talk and workshop coming up at the Jung Society on 16 and 17 May where I'll be exploring the themes of change, imagination and creativity in very practical ways.

Both the talk and the workshop will be suitable for people who have absolutely no experience of telling stories and will also offer something if you already use story, creativity and imagination in your work or life. 

For registration and pricing contact Clare: clare@fabled.com.au

And now you'll have to click on the link if you're interested in the Jung Society and more information.

Also, come along for some stories at ladders to the moon, 303 High Street, Northcote from 7.30pm 13 April where I will join  other storytellers to tell tales in the traditional style. For just $10 you can enjoy another evening full of stories of wish, wonder and change.

Enjoy!

Warmly

Clare

International friendships bearing fruit: Tasmania will have a Wassailing Festival 9 July 2014

(pic: Christine and Martin helping to net the apple tree in Jackie Kerin's back yard Feb 2014)

Martin Jefferd is a UK storyteller based in Bristol. With family in Victoria, Martin and Christine have become regular summer visitors. Martin sought out the Vic tellers several years ago and has attended our AGMs and story swaps.

Martin comes from apple country. The first story he shared with us referenced a Wassailing celebration, where the orchards are honoured and cider is poured into the earth to awake the cider apple trees and to scare away evil spirits ensuring a good harvest of fruit in the Autumn. This festival is still popular in the West Country, England.

It’s a long story but in a nutshell, Martin also has connections to Willie Smith’s Organic Cider Brewery in the Huon Valley in Tasmania and it’s the crew at Willie Smiths, who are planning to put the spotlight on the Huon Valley through a celebration focused on the humble apple.

The festival will be based at the Apple Shed and surrounding properties.

There will be a Winter feast featuring local produce, storytelling​​​​​, folk music​, bonfire​​​​s, Morris dancing, a Wassailing celebration and culminates with the Jack in the Green (a human tree) falling over at the end of the night.

The Tassie Tellers have been learning apple stories and Martin and several Vic tellers have contributed to the collection. If you know a good one – send it to the Tasmanians!

Dark MOFO finishes on July 5 and the inaugural Huon Valley event, on Saturday, July 19, will be the Huon Encore to Dark MOFO.

Willie Smiths Organic Cider HERE

Dark MOFO HERE

Storytelling Australia Tasmania HERE

For more details please contact Sam Reid  sam@williesmiths.com.au 

World Storytelling Day celebrations:Calgary, Canada. 2014

This video shows a little of one of over 100 events around the world leading up to World Storytelling Day. This year, Storytelling Australia (Vic) held their inaugural event, hosted by Teena Hartnett and so inspired by the day, we are already dreaming of something for next year . Here's how they celebrated in Calgary, Canada.

TALES Dragons - World Storytelling Day 2014 from Karen Gummo on Vimeo.

Ladders to the Moon 13 April 2014

Fire up your imaginations storylovers, we're gonna create some worlds together. Our Tellers are preparing a new batch of folktales, myths and wondertales for your soul's delight. Bring a loved one or two and share that special tingle and sigh that only comes from the story box of delights...



$10 at the door

Sunday April 13 


7:30 pm


Bar 303, 303 High St Northcote

(Next month Ladders will be May 11)