Playing With Fire:
Lesbian Fairy Tale Hour
Saturday, october 4th, 7-9pm
"Playing With Fire: Lesbian Fairy Tale Hour"
Saturday, Oct 4, 7-9 PM at Dyke+ ArtHaus
Folklorist, songwriter and performer Kay Turner sits down in the big chair to read and discuss various lesbian and feminist implications in fairy tales found in the famous Grimms' Brothers collection.
We’ll read some stories you know and a bunch you should know! Kay will likely break out into song at some point! Cozy up to the fireside and start your Samhain/Halloween season with us. Audience participation is welcome, of course!
Saturday, October 4th, 7-9pm
Five stairs leading up to the Haus
Masks are mandatory and provided
BYO snacks, some provided
Free, though donations to the ArtHaus are appreciated.
Kay Turner is an artist and scholar working across disciplines including performance, writing, music, and folklore. Her books include What a Witch: Before and After, with Zini Lardieri (2021); Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms, with Pauline Greenhill (2012) and Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars (1999). Since 2012 Turner's performance art works and writing have revolved around an exploration of the witch figure in folklore and history. She taught for 20 years in the Performance Studies Department at NYU.
Turner has also led and written songs for numerous lesbian-forward rock bands including “Girls in the Nose,” “The Oral Tradition,” “Otherwise: Queer Scholarship into Song,” and her current band “Kay Turn Her and the Pages,” which is now streaming a few songs from their forthcoming album, World Wide Witch, due in early 2026. Turner lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Austin, TX.