Perhaps the most exciting day of the year for Faerie enthusiasts -- Fairy Day! Founded by artist Jessica Galbreth, it is a great time for sending faerie cards to your friends and family (both electronic and paper), making faerie treats and crafts, or just dancing in faerie rings. Here is a link to the holiday’s official web site: www.fairyday.com It has lots of fantastic suggestions about how to celebrate and includes free e-cards, buttons and banners for your web page, faerie gardening tips, recipes, a faerie meditation and much more! Let’s each do our bit to make Fairy Day at least as popular as Talk Like a Pirate Day! (Where’s Dave Barry when you need him?) Feel free to comment about what you are planning to do or have done to celebrate!
--Joelle Mellon
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
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Sunday, June 21: Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Celts considered this day to be midsummer, so it would surely be a good day to celebrate Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream! It could be fun to invite several friends over, assign parts, and have everyone read it out loud. However, if your friends are shy or just not the thespian type, there are several versions of the play on DVD. Arguably, the most famous version of it came out in 1935, with James Cagney (who is generally remembered for playing gangsters) as Bottom and a very young Mickey Rooney as Puck. If you’re not into old movies, you can go for the more recent (1999) version with Kevin Kline as Bottom, Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, and Rupert Everett as Oberon. Feel free to post any reviews of these movies (or other versions!) in the comments section. If you’re feeling intellectual, you can use this link www.theatrehistory.com/british/fairies_of_midsummer.html to read a truly fascinating essay from the early 1800’s about the faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Happy midsummer, and never forget Puck’s famous words -- “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
--Joelle Mellon
The Celts considered this day to be midsummer, so it would surely be a good day to celebrate Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream! It could be fun to invite several friends over, assign parts, and have everyone read it out loud. However, if your friends are shy or just not the thespian type, there are several versions of the play on DVD. Arguably, the most famous version of it came out in 1935, with James Cagney (who is generally remembered for playing gangsters) as Bottom and a very young Mickey Rooney as Puck. If you’re not into old movies, you can go for the more recent (1999) version with Kevin Kline as Bottom, Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, and Rupert Everett as Oberon. Feel free to post any reviews of these movies (or other versions!) in the comments section. If you’re feeling intellectual, you can use this link www.theatrehistory.com/british/fairies_of_midsummer.html to read a truly fascinating essay from the early 1800’s about the faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Happy midsummer, and never forget Puck’s famous words -- “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
--Joelle Mellon
Our First Entry - Introductions
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Starting a blog is something we've considered for a long time. There is much to share, too much to always fit into the magazine. Posts might not always be faerie related but hopefully of some contribution to the wonder of daily living.
Current contributors to this blog will be from the Faerie Magazine staff members: Yama George, Joelle Mellon and Kim Cross.
So here goes, the start of our blog. Thanks for stopping by!
Starting a blog is something we've considered for a long time. There is much to share, too much to always fit into the magazine. Posts might not always be faerie related but hopefully of some contribution to the wonder of daily living.
Current contributors to this blog will be from the Faerie Magazine staff members: Yama George, Joelle Mellon and Kim Cross.
So here goes, the start of our blog. Thanks for stopping by!
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