Through Mirrors, Webs, & Woods
A Month of Folk & Fairy Tales at PRS
This September, PRS celebrates the many wonders of fairytales and folk stories through a series of illustrated presentations, film screenings, and workshops!
As summer turns to fall and the long, bright days begin to darken, join PRS as we venture into another woodland in which things are not always as they seem. Along the way, we will spend time in enchanted castles beastly and beautiful; listen to West African stories told upon strings and the alluring songs of sirens; get a taste for ravenous trickster appetites and fearsome fairy tale kitchens; cast wishes with jinn and angels (or bargains with demon and death); recast notions of enchantment and madness in the animal-led Surrealist imagination; refresh psychological interpretations of heroines and witches; and encounter supernatural yokai beings of many forms. By turns exquisite and grotesque, wicked and wise, accursed and liberatory, what these global tales hold in common is their existence in worlds inherently magical and full of extraordinary transformations.
As summer turns to fall and the long, bright days begin to darken, join PRS as we venture into another woodland in which things are not always as they seem. Along the way, we will spend time in enchanted castles beastly and beautiful; listen to West African stories told upon strings and the alluring songs of sirens; get a taste for ravenous trickster appetites and fearsome fairy tale kitchens; cast wishes with jinn and angels (or bargains with demon and death); recast notions of enchantment and madness in the animal-led Surrealist imagination; refresh psychological interpretations of heroines and witches; and encounter supernatural yokai beings of many forms. By turns exquisite and grotesque, wicked and wise, accursed and liberatory, what these global tales hold in common is their existence in worlds inherently magical and full of extraordinary transformations.
EVENTS IN THIS SERIES
September 2nd - Cinemyth Presents: Give Me Back My Beast! A Lecture Celebrating 80 years of Jean Cocteau’s Beauty & the Beast (1946) with Chloë Cassen - In Person in the PRS Auditorium & Online
September 5th - Entertaining Tales of Transcendence for our Times featuring Djeliba Baba the Storyteller - Storytelling in the PRS Library
September 5th - Tarot Storytelling: Create Personalized Folk Tales through Narrative Tarot Reading with Melinda Lee Holmes - Workshop in the PRS Lecture Room
September 9th - Songbirds: On the Oracular Practice of Sounding the Siren with Christopher Marmolejo - Illustrated Lecture in the PRS Auditorium
September 10th - Faust and His Books of Magic with William Kiesel - Magic of Books Lecture in the PRS Library
September 11th - OLIVIA & THE CLOUDS (2024), Los Angeles Premiere! co-presented by El Cine - A 7th House Screening in the PRS Auditorium
September 13th - Hell’s Kitchen: Fairy Tales and the Domestic Uncanny with Mikita Brottman, PhD and Melissa Daum, LMFT-D - An Online Talk
September 16th - Cinemyth Presents: Jinn, Angel, Demon: The Spirit of the Wish in Fairy Tale and Film with Maryam Sayyad, PhD - An Online & In Person Presentation in the PRS Auditorium
September 16th - Esoteric Game Night presents "Riddles in the Dark" - A Monthly Gathering in the PRS Bookstore
September 18th - The Alchemy of Madness: Fairy Tale Archetypes, Feminine Transformation, and Surrealist Vision in Leonora Carrington's Down Below with dama
September 19th - Jim Henson's THE STORYTELLER — Three Classic Tales on the Big Screen! - A Free Screening in the PRS Auditorium
September 27th - Melinda & James Read the Room: Group Tarot Readings - Folklore and Fairy Edition - In Person Readings in the PRS Lecture Room
September 27th - Karel Zeman's A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (1974) - U.S. Restoration Premiere Screening
September 30th - Yōkai: An Introduction to the Supernatural Beings of Japan with Meher McArthur - An Online & In Person Talk in the PRS Auditorium
October 3rd & 4th - The Art of Fairy Tales Weekend, Presented By Morbid Anatomy - A Day-Long Symposium + After Party at PRS
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