Once upon a time, long long ago, so long ago that no one’s quite sure if it really happened or not, in a little kingdom, far far away, so far away no one’s quite sure if it’s really there or not,
Lived a beautiful Princess, Suzette Field, and an Ugly Vicious Beast – Silas Wynd. Now one our Lady, the Princess Field, who was more beautiful than the day, was feeling a little bored, and tired of being waited on by her doting daughter, Thje Princess Tilly, and listening to new symphonies composed in her honour by the Master of the Tribune’s Music, Russell Taylor and decided she wanted to have a Ball, a Glorious Ball,, full of the fairy tale creatures and monsters, maidens more beautiful than the day, fairies, and elves and little green things, creatures of the nights and beasts and bats, axe wielding thugs, ogres beneath bridges, birds that sing in rthyme, an hidden poepl, all behind masks of glory.
Whatever The Princess wishes she gets
So with no further ado we take great pleasure in requesting the pleasure of your company at
From The Beast To the Blonde –Hendrick’s Fairy Tale Masked Ball
In collaboration with Marina Warner
Come One Come All In Your Finest Masks, Beauties & Beasts We’ll Welcome You
We’ll Invite You To Dance To Music Played By the Finest Musicians
All The Way From Brazil
The Immortal Cibelle
&
Top Shelf Jazz
Fine Purveyers of Filthy Swing Jazz as it used to be! The notorious four-piece hot swing jazz outfit reprising inter-war jazz numbers with verve, nerve, class & rakish banter.
Tunes Spun by David Piper, Wade Crescent, Dickon Edwards, Penny Metal, & Russell Taylor
Be Welcomed By Viktor Wynd with a bubble or two from his magical Fairy Liquid
Fresh From their Triumph at Tate Modern
The House of Fairy Tales
Present
Tom Gallant & His Shadow Puppet Theatre
YouMeBumBumTrain
Will scare & enchant you
In
The House of the Beast
Jo Wonder & the Psychic Tea Leaves
featuring the duet of Jo Wonder and flautist Charley Proper, a disgruntled gentleman with an extraordinary way of blowing the future down his flute. It is an Intimate tea ceremony and a mystery revolving the around the deconstruction of the horrifying event of two children left alone in a forest. JoWonder while in the bottom of a tea cup will manifest the inner private lives of selected members of the audience
Feasting at
Suzette Field’s Midnight Feast of Yesterday’s Cakes
& Her Famous Cheeseboard
Viktor Wynd’s Cinema of Broken Dreams Presents
Jean Cocteau’s
La Belle et La Bete
Kink Ink Life Drawing Class
Will be providing live Lithe Fairies for you to draw
Dress Code
Beasts & Blonde’s and Fairy Tale Monsters _ Masks Obligatory – clothes Optional
The Hendrick’s Goose at The Farm of The Seven Glens Has Been Laying Golden Eggs, anyone Who Finds One on the Night Will Be Magically Rewarded With a Bottle of Precious Gin, brewed by a Djinn
From The Mystic & Enchanted Glens of The Far Frozen North of This Blessed Country of Ours, From Scotland no Less, Old Mrs.Hendrick’s will Descend to Judge The Attire of The Revellers, Awarding One Bottle of The World’s most unusual Gin to the winners of each of the following categories
The Hendrick’s Prize For the Blondest Beauty
The Hendrick’s Prize for Beastiality
The Hendrick’s Prize for The Handsomest Fairy
The Hendrick’s Prize for the Wickedest Witch
The Hendrick’s Prize For Frog Most Likely To Turn into a Princess if Kissed By Viktor Wynd
The Hendrick’s Prize For Frog Most Likely To Turn into a Princess if Kissed By David Piper
The Hendrick’s Prize For Tinkering With The Bell
The Hendrick’s Prize For Toad Most Likely To Turn into a Prince if Kissed By Suzette Field
The Hendrick’s Prize for Most Enchanted Horse
The
Hendrick’s Prize for The Reddest Shoes
The Hendrick’s Prize for Finest Mask
The Hendrick’s Prize for The Emperors Newest Clothes
Marina Warner will introduce The Ball at 8pm
With a lecture on Fairy Tales
“From The Beast To The Blonde” - A Fairy Tale Masked Ball
In her landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend - from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy tales? Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading temptation to indulge romancing?
Marina Warner interprets the history of old wives’ tales from sibyls and the Queen of Sheba to Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Angela Carter. And with fresh new insights she shows us the real-life themes in the famous stories, which, she suggests, are skilful vehicles for conveying advice, warnings, and hope - to one another as well as to children.
Saturday IVth July in
Enchanted 17th Century Vaults at 47 Chiswell Street, EC1
10pm-4am
early bird tickets now available at £15.0 each or £60 for a Framilly Ticket of 5
or twenty pounds on the door
for The Ball 10pm-4am
or £20 including the introductory lecture by Marina Warner
8pm-4am
at The Vaults, 47 Chiswell Streets, EC1
