Saturday, October 25th 2025: 10:00 to 12:30pm EST: Beauty and the Beast
Saturday, November 8th 2025: 10:00 to 12:30pm EST: Donkey Skin
Saturday, November 22nd 2025: 10:00 to 12:30pm EST: The Courageous Girl
Three seminars, all in person at Arts and Letters Club, Toronto
In the fairy tales Beauty and the Beast, Donkey Skin, and The Courageous Girl the father’s actions have important consequences for his daughter's destiny.
Saturday, October 25th 2025: Beauty and the Beast
In Beauty and the Beast, the father gets lost in the forest. He suddenly sees a seemingly uninhabited mansion and enters, but it is the castle of the Beast. Wanting to please Belle, his daughter, the father plucks a rose. This rose is the dearest thing the Beast has in the world. In exchange for the father's freedom, the Beast demands that Belle come and live with him.
Saturday, November 8th 2025: Donkey Skin
Saturday, November 22nd 2025: The Courageous Girl
In The Courageous Girl, a tale from Tadzhikistan, the father is sick and getting blind. His daughter goes off on a perilous journey in search of medicine that will help him regain his health, see again and value the feminine.
Each seminar is devoted to the analysis of a tale and its different adaptations in cinema, literature and pictorial art.
Number of participants: up to 20.
Arts and Letters Club. TV and DVD equipment
Dates: Saturdays, October 25th, November 8th and November 22nd, 10:00 am to 12:30pm.