Faery Events 2012

Until February 12th: Visions for Film + Faerie: The Art of Brian, Wendy and Toby Froud
New York, USA

January
6/7th: White and Wicked Fairy Balls
Denver, Colorado, USA

28/29th: Festival of Enchantment
South Africa

February
10/11/12th: FaerieCon WEST
Seattle, USA

March
3rd: The Goblin King’s Masquerade Ball
London, UK

10/11th: Spring Avalon Faery Fayre
Glastonbury, UK

10th: Spring Avalon Faery Ball
Glastonbury, UK

17/18th: Florida Faerie Festival
Bonita Springs, FL. USA

April
7th: Pendle Faery Craft Fayre & Ball
Clitheroe, Lancashire. UK

14th: Spring Fairy Festival
Auburn, WA. USA

14/15th: Printemps des Légendes
Ardennes, France

21/22nd: Fairy Arts Festival
Belguim

21/22nd: Elf Fantasy Fair
Haarzuilens, Netherlands

May
4/5/6th: Spoutwood Fairie Festival
Glen Rock, PA. USA

11/12/13th: Maryland Faerie Festival
Darlington, MA. USA

31st/1/2/3rd June: Imaginales
Epinal, France

June
1/2/3rd: Magical Faerie Festival
West Sussex, UK

2nd: Summers Past Fairy Festival
Flinn Springs, CA. USA

3/4th: Fairyland Trust Fairy Fair
Norfolk, UK

15/16/17th: 3 Wishes Faery Fest
Torpoint, Cornwall. UK

15/16/17th: Faerie Escape Atlanta
Altanta, GA. USA

22/23/24th: Enchanted Ground
Guelph, ON. Canada

22/23/24th: Fairy & Humans Relations Congress
North Cascades ,WA. USA

23rd: Midsummer Night’s Eve Festival
Atlanta, GA. USA

29/30th, July 1st: NY Faerie Festival
Ouaquaga, NY. USA

July
14th: Cumbria Fairy Day
Carlisle, Cumbria. UK

14/15th: Fantasyval
Netherlands

27/28/29th: Faerieworlds
Eugene, OR. USA

27/28/29th: Elemental Gathering
Northallerton, Yorkshire. UK

28th: Woodland Enchantment
Three Lakes, WI. USA

August
3/4/5th: Castlefest
Holland

4/5th: World of Faeries Festival
South Elgin, IL. USA

September
8/9th: Rosemary House Fairy Festival
Mechanicsburg, PA. USA

October
27/28th: Samhain Avalon Faery Fayre
Glastonbury, UK

27th: Samhain Avalon Faery Ball
Glastonbury, UK

November
9/10/11th: FaerieCon EAST
Baltimore, MD. USA

Under the Woods Faeries

Underwood Photography is a portrait studio based in Essex, MA. An encounter with a faery ring 8 years ago led to the founding of an annual Faery Festival, held at the studio every June. This event now welcomes over 500 little faeries and is having to move to larger premises to accommodate everyone. Jacqueline’s award winning faery portraits are available as a 2012 calendar published by Avalanche.

The Eco Faeries

Based in Australia the Eco Faeries are a vibrant group of eco-activists intent on bringing faeries back to nature, nature back to the suburbs and suburbia back to community. Through conscious community events, environmental education and creative entertainment they aim to inspire people towards a greener, healthier and positive action based lifestyle. Founded by Faerie Cara, performer, author, and TV presenter, the Eco Faeries encourage everyone to get involved in bringing magic and green living to every day life.

Happy Birthday Fairyland Trust!

The Fairyland Trust is celebrating their 10th anniversary this month. If you are not already familiar with their work, they are a splendid little charity organisation who promote ‘conservation for the little people’. They aim to create natural fairylands for everyone to enjoy and bring children back into touch with nature by holding workshops and fairy fairs.
Their next event is the Fairy Fair at Holt Hall in Norfolk, UK on May 29th & 30th. For more details and to buy tickets please visit the Fairyland Trust website.

Spoutwood Fairie Festival Celebrates 20 Years!

Two decades ago the owners of Spoutwood Farm, Rob and Lucy Wood, organised a small May Day celebration for 100 friends. Previously just a one day festival the event now takes place over 3 days to accommodate the vast number of revellers who come from all over the world to celebrate the Faerie folk and natural world.
The weekend of April 29 – May 1 2011 marks the 20th Anniversary of the May Day Fairie Festival at Spoutwood Farm in Glen Rock PA. Join 15,000+ patrons at the longest running,largest attended Fairie event in the world!

New Venue for 3 Wishes Faery Fest

Our favourite faery gathering 3 Wishes Faery Fest is moving to a beautiful new venue for 2011. Mount Edgecumbe Counry Park in Cornwall is a stunning 800 acre estate including ancient woodland, a fairy folly, secret coves and deer park, set in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The festival will be centered around the Cedar Lawn which features a beautiful crystal and shell mermaids throne overlooking the site. It’s the perfect place to frolic in the Midsummer sunshine this 17th-19th June.
The lineup has also started to be announced – bands this year include 3 Daft Monkeys, The Dolmen, Daughters of Gaia, Freyia, Aero, Spriggan Mist, Elfin Spiral, Beneath The Oak, Malachite, Taking the Piskies, Elizabeth-Jane Baldry, Ziazan and more to be confirmed.
If you haven’t been before watch the video below to give you a magical glimpse of last year’s event.

Faerie Festivities 2011

Planning to fly away with the faeries this year? You can see a comprehensive listing of events for 2011 on our new Events page with interactive calender. Just scroll through the months to see what is on, then click on the event for more details.
More events will be added throughout the year as details become available.

And if you are in the UK or planning a visit, do consider attending one of Karen Kay’s Faery Events. They are our absolute favourite faery gatherings!

Glen Rock Fae Documentary

Film maker Kevin Spahr is hard at work creating a documentary, Glen Rock Fae, which tells the story of the annual Spoutwood Fairie Festival. The first trailer is up online and you can follow the creative process on their blog. The hope is to have the film released in time for Spoutwood’s 20th anniversary festival in 2011.

3 Wishes Faery Fest 2010

Not long now until the faery clans gather in Celtic Cornwall for this summer’s 3 Wishes Faery Fest. It is our favourite faerie event of the year, and 2010′s show looks set to be absolutely enchanting. Performing this year are Woodland, Priscilla Hernandez, Brocc, Maple Bee, The Dolmen, and many more. Guest artists include Linda Ravenscroft, Myrea Pettit, Marc Potts, Kelly Martinez, Julia Jeffrey and Tamara Newman. There are also wandering performers, the excellent faerie market, fashion show, workshops, and this year there will be a special sunrise ritual on Monday 21st June to celebrate Midsummer.

Chris Down Exhibition in Dorset, UK

Chris Down will be having an exhibition of his fantasy art at the Moontree Gallery in Boscombe from 29th May until 24th June 2010. There will be a wide variety of framed pictures, originals, limited edition prints and open edition prints. Chris’ work comprises painted, pencil, pen and ink and has appeared in over 40 books. Among those are his Celtic and Fantasy titles in the Crafters Design Library series which have been published in English, American, French, German, Russian and Chinese editions gaining his work an international audience. Launch day for the exhibition is Saturday 29th May and Chris will be there all day from 10am until 5.30pm.