At 7pm Central Time on February 17, a link to join the Facebook Live session will be available at https://www.facebook.com/events/245872990505795.

Miscellaneous Productions presents a special event with world-renowned Fairy Tale expert, Jack Zipes.

With the goal of (as he describes it) “unburying and reinvigorating dead fairy tales and their creators,” internationally recognized expert on folklore and fairy tales Jack Zipes will discuss his recent work exploring important tales from the first half of the twentieth century, and his founding of his own publishing house, Little Mole and Honey Bear to bring back in print works from the 1920s-50s that have been neglected in favour of flashier commercial products, breathing life into older fairy tales that deliver message important to our times.

In discussing these works Zipes hopes to introduce children and youth, and their adult supporters to what young people may be missing by not being taught about certain periods of history, such as the early rise of fascism at the beginning of the twentieth century, especially in light of the chaos in the US with the murder of George Floyd and rise of white supremacist domestic terrorism.

The lecture, filmed at the sumptuous Victorian Upson Room at the Walter Library at the University of Minneapolis in late October of 2020, directed by Elaine Carol in collaboration with a professional crew.

The filmed lecture will be followed by a LIVE Q&A with Jack Zipes himself.