Australian Fairy Tale Society
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Australian Fairy Tale Society explores the term 'fairy tale' broadly as a living entity that is not exclusively European nor limited to children and encourages you to read our definition of what is a fairy tale. We aim to encourage academics, writers, artists, performers, and enthusiasts from around the country to network and share all things fairy tales through a national website,..
Australian Fairy Tale Society
3M ago
It’s ONE MONTH to go until our jampacked conference in Newport on August 3rd and 4th. There’s still plenty of time to register your in-person or online attendance! That’s right, if you can’t make it in person you can still join in with most of the online via Zoom. We are thrilled to announce that ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
3M ago
The great and glorious news is that we have a new president, Alyssa Curtayne, who will steer our community safely into the future. Most of our members know Alyssa as an oral storyteller, researcher and leader: Alyssa comes to us fresh from her time at Emerson College, UK, honing her storytelling skills, with her Creative ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
4M ago
Greetings, fairytalers! Melbourne is currently in the midst of creating the amazing Once and Future Tales conference on August 3-4. Register here! We love getting together in person to share ideas, and enjoy each others’ company and because we are a national Society with a sprinkling of international members, some of you will be travelling considerable distance ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
5M ago
Registrations have opened for our 2024 conference – register here for what is going to be a jam-packed two-day conference on August 3 & 4 in Newport. And what better way to kick off the announcements of this year’s presenters – and the conference as a whole – than with our Keynote Speaker… Michael Earp! Michael Earp ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
6M ago
If you haven’t seen the Fairytales exhibition at GOMA yet, it’s time to venture into the woods and go down that rabbit hole. You won’t regret it. The exhibition has something for everyone — whether you like art or history, film or multimedia, there will be something to delight you. My favourite piece was Cinderella’s ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
9M ago
You are invited to The Australian Fairy Tale Society their first-ever storytelling concert – Stories of Light and Love! Come along on February 22nd, 2024 at 7:30 AEDT on Zoom to celebrate 10 years of the AFTS. Hear stories of welcome firelight and new dawns. Tales of what happens when there’s no light in the deep ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
9M ago
Do gay fairy tales exist? How about bisexual fairy tales? Trans fairy tales? Asexual fairy tales? If you did a survey of the most well-known fairy tales you’d answer no. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. My name is Em Chandler (she/they), I’m currently the Vice-President of the AFTS, and I adore the odd ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
10M ago
The Australian Fairy Tale Society has launched many projects, events, and products, but the bones of what we do lie within the five fairy tales we explore in depth each year. In the last ten years (due to a few twinned investigations) we have actually looked at closer to sixty stories. For a long time ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
1y ago
Once Upon a Time… (in June 2013 to be exact) I posted on my FaceBook page about a workshop I had just delivered at the English Teachers Association conference in Brisbane about adapting fairy tales into Australian stories, and Reilly McCarron, (also an Accredited Storyteller with the NSW Storytelling Guild) wrote back so enthusiastically that ..read more
Australian Fairy Tale Society
1y ago
The Australian Fairy Tale Society is thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2023 AFTS Award for outstanding contributions to the field of fairy tales in Australia is Shirley Way. Shirley Way has contributed immensely to the fairy tale community in so many ways over so many years – as former eZine editor, initiator ..read more