VICTORINOX FAMILY PROJECT

The House of Fairy Tales are starting an exciting long term collaboration this year with a company with many shared values.

We are promoting the Victorinox Family Project 2010 which is a brilliant initiative designed to get families actively involved in creative and constructive ventures.

For more information about this click here.

CAMP BESTIVAL

30th July to 1st August

This is going to be a really big event for the House of Fairy Tales. With 15,000 under 18 year olds and only 14,000 adults we will be in our element. We are bringing over 120 artists and creatives to a field in Dorset for a major incarnation of our Travelling Art Circus. As well as a performance from Young Bond's Charlie Higson we are expecting other personalities from main festival to come and play with us. Thanks to Rob da Bank and his team for giving us this great opportunity to test our magic on a record breaking number of young people.

THAMES FESTIVAL

10th to 12th September

The Fairy Tales team have been working hard on a fantastic project for the Mayor's Thames Festival which will come to fruition on the Festival Weekend. This project is a fusion of Art, Science, Engineering, Gardening and Sustainable Technology with some Bike power thrown in for good measure. It is celebrating water as the simplest, purest and most vital energy source of our planet.

Thanks to the Festival's support we have been working with over 100 schools in practically every borough of London. over 3,200 children have participated in the first stage of this project and we have had over 2,000 ideas sheets sent back to us. You can get to see the fantastic ideas that the children have come up with on our special website where you will see the idea's streams that they have been following.

PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL

23rd to 25th July

We are back again at the place where the project was born. In 2006 as a tribute to Jago Eliot, The House of Fairy Tales created a magical tent in the Rhododendron gardens. With children's workshops, puppetry, storytelling and performance the concept was formed. The next year we returned to create a bigger village of tents in the hedged gardens. This year we are returning with a much more literary theme and a great line-up of storytellers including Rachel Rose Reid and Charlie Dark. Our Museum of Lost Stories in our converted horsewagon Pegasus will be premiered at Port this year. The very talented young 'Ice Cold Idiots' will be back with us by popular demand. We will also be launching our Kenwood DeLonghi sponsored food yurt 'Giants Kitchen' here which is a fabulous project with workshops and performances inspired by food.

LATITUDE

15th to 18th July

Building on the success of our teenage camp in the woods we are going to be extending our line-up of teenage bands and performers including the very talented Sonic Sideshow, Teenbop and launching our Rax Toolkit project here which is a collaboration between HoFT and an innovative new text book for teenage active citizens.

VINTAGE AT GOODWOOD

13th to 15th August

Invited by Wayne Hemingway and his talented team of retro-fashionistas, The House of Fairy TAles are going to be bringing a taster of our travelling art circus to this unique style festival. We are sponsored by Kenwood De Longi for this event which will coincide with 60 year anniversary of the classic Kenwood Chef.

GLASTONBURY 2010

23rd to 27th June

This year we are launching our HoFT Exploricator which will become a living wall of fanzines and information. this will become Glastonbury festival from a child's perspective. This project is being built on over the summer to become a dazzling display of audience generated content which will have its own section on our website. As well as the Exploricator and the living wall we will have improvised storytelling with Robin & Partridge, puppetry from the little Theatre of Dolls, Chopin's Salon featuring Vinyl Factory and many more fantastic workshops.

APPLECART CANCELLED

We regret to announce the cancelation of Applecart where we were going to be producing our final Buttons event. This was for reasons beyond anyone's control and we hope to continue the fantastic and original ideas behind this event into 2011. Huge thanks to all our artists who put such great energy into this project.

PORTFOLIO TRAIL COMPETITION

16th November 2009 till 16th November 2010
We will be publishing all the best answers and the winner will get a House of Fairy Tales ArtBox.

Click here to participate!

IN THE SUMMER OF 2010 OUR TRAVELLING ART CIRCUS WILL HIT THE ROAD:

The House of Fairy Tales champions the role of creative play in art and was established in 2007 by writer Deborah Curtis and artist Gavin Turk. It is a non-profit arts collective which draws on an extensive team of artists, performers, writers, educationalists, designers, scientists, musicians, film-makers, dreamers and philosophers, who see the projects they create for The House of Fairy Tales as an extension of their art practice. Based in London, it is a nationally and internationally active organization, which uses the vast narrative scope of fairy tales to provide creative, innovative and transformative learning experiences for young people of all ages and their families.

This year we are producing 2 major installations, the first at Camp Bestival which is the UK's leading family festival with over 15,000 children's and teenage tickets distributed this year and then at the Thames Festival, which is london's leading arts festival with over 1,000,000 visitors. At Camp Bestival we will have over 25 different elements with us and 120 artists. At the Thames Festival we will have worked with over 3,200 school children preparing content for the event through a 3 stage collaboration involving over 22 creative teams all before we put up our first structure.

From June we will also be returning to Glastonbury, Port Eliot and Latitude. We will also be putting in an appearance at Vintage at Goodwood. We will also be producing major exhibitions in Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall and Salisbury Arts Centre where we will be working collaboratively with local Museums as well as local artists.

In 2009 the Circus travelled to 7 different venues: Candlelit Matinée at the Shunt Vaults 30 artists and performers - 700 visitors, Tate Modern 240 artists and performers - 50,000 visitors, Glastonbury Festival 30 artists and performers - 5,000 visitors, Latitude Festival 50 artists and performers - 4,000 visitors, Port Eliot Festival 70 artists and performers - 3,000 visitors,National Trust Clumber Park 60 artists and performers - 6,000 visitors, The New Art Gallery Walsall 70 artists and performers 5,000 visitors.

We are looking for enthusiastic people from all over the UK to help us to spread the word for The House of Fairy Tales. These are some of our needs:

• Artists, performers, musicians, knitters, makers, sayers, soothsayer, doers.
• People nationwide who can help us to circulate news about our up and coming events.
• Volunteers to be trusty stewards or magical helping hands at events. email us here: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• For information about our fundraising needs, buying art and our Patronage scheme please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .