I’ve been involved with The Grampian Association of Storytellers – GAS since 2003, so I’m chuffed to be doing their Fireside Chat on Wednesday 18th March 
I’ll be talking about the Annie Shirer project I did in 6 North East schools 
Here’s a link to the Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/1625439261988715/
Hope to see you there!
I’m all set for tomorrow’s GREC Language Cafe! A story about being suspicious of people and working with the Cafetistas on their stories of Hope
Hiya folks!
I should TOTALLY be doing other things, but ended up making a wee video of photos showing how Sledge The Demon Came To Be 
Longer than I intended at 6 mins, but I do go on 
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WRwKRN47Rt0?si=85OZISaAi54XRQII
Hahah, I couldn’t find a ShmuFM logo the right size for this post! So latest celebrity, Sledge, is posing for the image for this latest update 
I’m excited to be going on SHMU FM’s Culture Show later on today with Rhianna at 3pm.
You can listen to SHMU FM any time live online here – https://shmu.org.uk/fm/Listen
Lindsey and I are recovering from another fantastic 4 nights storytelling at Spectra Festival !
It was great to see you all and we hope you enjoyed our stories!
Now that’s he’s got some down time, Sledge is learning more about the human world… including his latest obsession. Footwear.
A wee photie of Sheena and masel taen afore the Cookney Burns Suppr on Setterdey!
Here’s the my second post about this winter term’s #PromiseGroups
As well as Boddam Primary School, I was visiting Peterhead Central Primary School!
The pupils:
– listened to stories of all kinds
– learned to use hand puppets and watched a couple of Jim Henson videos to see how the professionals do it (The Rainbow Connection by Kermit The Frog was a firm favourite!)
– gave hand puppets characters and voices
– created their own story and decided that instead of a film, they would do a story board!
– worked really hard drawing scenes for the story board
– help me tell the story on Wednesday to the P6 class and showed off the storyboard to the class.
– grew in confidence with stories and with me – knowing that you don’t need to be good at WRITING stories to create them and have fun!
The story wasn’t intended to be a film, but I put this quick video together so I could show off how hard working they’ve all been. Well done you lot!
@we_care_aberdeenshire
Here’s the first of two posts cheering on my #PromiseGroups this winter term!
The first of which was Boddam Primary School where the pupils:
listened to stories of all kinds
– created their own stories using story dice, story cards and other story games
– learned to use hand puppets
– gave hand puppets characters and voices
– created their own story
– helped me with words and characters sounds etc and helped me create a script
– narrated and voiced the script for our film
– acted out scenes with the puppets
all of which made a fantastic film of the story which is called “The Animals Kingdom”
You’re only getting the ending here … and what a way to end a fairy tale! 🙂
#WeCareAberdeenshire
A wee photo from Friday this time!
Here’s mi – posing in the super library at Banchory Academy Library
I was in for a full day telling three sets of my favourite stories – some spooky, some with a twist at the end, some that needed solving – to the S2 pupils.
Each group were a fantastic audience and kept me highly amused! Particularly chuffed with the enthusiastic pupils who told me about ghosties their great granny saw, about folkloric characters to look up for more tales and to those who sat on the edge of their seats. It was a real pleasure to visit!
Hahah – there’s a reason I look like a dafty in this photo! I had my fairy wings and halo on to sing a song to the residents of Overton Care Home. Sheena played guitar and sang, we told stories and reminisced about the residents memories of Christmas when they were wee! This visit was organised by @doricbooks and we had such a grand time visiting – as we always do!!
Pauline Cordiner - Scottish Storyteller 