Online Talk: Fairy Tales, Papua New Guinea, an Idiosyncratic Approach

Date 10 March 2026 19:00 - 20:30

Location Online talk

Speaker Viktor Wynd

Viktor Wynd will discuss his idiosyncratic approach to performing and understanding fairy tales, his obsession with Papua New Guinea, the world’s second largest island, home to over 800 different peoples - each with their own rich cultural traditions - a country he has  visited for a month or so every year  for past decade.  The lecture will end with a performance of a  few of his favourite tales collected on the Sepik and in The Trobriand Islands featuring the moon, menstruation, man eating pigs, giant octopus and the spirit world.

Tickets £6.00 (£4.00 for Folklore Society members with the Promo Code log in to https://folklore-society.com/members-only to get the Promo Code) from https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fairy-tales-papua-new-guinea-an-idiosyncratic-approach-tickets-1983269282813.  

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Viktor Wynd has been telling tales all his life, he  is the author of Dark Fairy Tales, a collection of some of his favourite stories collected around the world, published by Prestel in autumn 2026, the proprietor of London’s eponymous ‘Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History’ and ‘Gone With The Wynd’ a boutique travel agency specialising in Papua New Guinea and The Congo.

Image credit: Viktor Wynd