Fairy Fantastic! Presents: Friends of Dorothy as part of Stonewall 50: A Gender Inclusive Celebration for Families at the Andy Warhol Museum at 11am on Saturday June 29.

Our program, Friends of Dorothy is a special celebratory program of nine short animated and live action films on difference-affirming, gender creative and anti-bullying themes.  Why are all of Alexa’s favorite things, like car-shaped beds, super balls, and soccer called “boy things?” Can a barber shop be a doorway to a dreamland? What’s it like to be the only boy ballerina? How do you know if someone “gets you?” The answers to these and many more questions can be found in Friends of Dorothy. The short films in Friends of Dorothy are moving, hilarious, beautiful and inventive visions of a gender inclusive world that will delight all ages.

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We were invited by the amazing Amanda Elizabeth Apgar to present a curated screening program, Fairy Film Festival: A collection of queer and experimental films for children and adults at Pomona College on February 8^th, 2019.  Many students from Amanda’s “Queering Childhood” class were in attendance as well as members of the Pomona College Gender and Women’s Studies Program, faculty and staff and their kids. The experience was made even more wonderful by the attendance of many dear friends: Erin Cosgrove, Ian Ingram, Carrie Ungerman, Chelsea Keene.  The event was sponsored by: Pomona Gender & Women’s Studies Program; Pomona Department of Media Studies; The Claremont Colleges’ Queer Resource Center; and with the generous support of the Johnson Fund.

We were invited by Ingrid Schaffner, Curator and Liz Park, Associate Curator  to curate a program for the Cinematheque, a program of the 57th Carnegie International.

Our program, Tales of Transformation and Belonging is a collection of eight international short films, on which both kids and adults can fly away. Escape to gorgeous worlds of true friendship, magical metamorphoses, and enchanted lands. A swan befriends a hunchback, a mom is an airplane, and a dumpling goes for a ride on a bus. These visually arresting, funny, and endearing films will warm you right down to your toes.

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Hilary Harp traveled to Newcastle, United Kingdom to participate in the Imagine Queer: Exploring the Radical Potential of Queerness Now Conference at Newcastle University, October 12-13, 2018.  She presented Fairy Fantastic!, including a screening of The Sausage, on the panel Disrupting Archetypes.

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On Saturday, Oct 20, 2018, Suzie Silver presents research conducted with Hilary Harp that expands our catalog of queer folk and fairy tale films and queer and anti-bullying films for youth as part of the Keyword International Symposium at  Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh.

"In this lively symposium, equal parts public forum and celebration, hear the findings of 20 creative research projects for Keyword: International. Launched in January 2018 as a partnership between Kelly Strayhorn Theater and Carnegie Museum of Art, Keyword: International is a collaborative initiative seeking to creatively define Pittsburgh as an international city at this moment in time.

Twenty applicants were awarded microgrants of $1,500 to support their research. The awardees will present their findings for the first time at this symposium."

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