Festival of the Sea 2026!!

Only 3 sleeps until I’ll be running three events at St Mary’s Chapel, St Nicholas Kirk as part of Aberdeen’s #FestivalOfTheSea !

What? Three storytelling events as part of Aberdeen’s Festival of the Sea
Where? Saturday 18 July, St Mary’s Chapel, St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen
Who for? Families during the day, adults in the evening

If you’re looking for something to do with the bairns this Saturday, 18th July, there’s still a couple of places left for my shadow puppet workshop “Silhouettes of the Sea” – for crafty bairns aged 8+ that like making things! 1 to 2.30pm. Tickets are £5 plus booking fee and their accompanying grown up(s) go free

Event here – https://www.facebook.com/events/1682655862730235

Tickets here – https://www.tickettailor.com/events/paulinecordinerascottishstoryteller/2178847 Then from 3 to 4pm I’ll be telling my favourite tales of the sea – a family storytelling session, “Salty Stores and Tales of the Tides.”

I WILL be seeing just low long it takes for a blue whale to dive from a cloud and belly flop into the sea… come time me

Event here – https://www.facebook.com/events/984280087849698

Tickets are £3 per child and £5 per adult and can be found here – Tickets  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/paulinecordinerascottishstoryteller/2178939

And finally from 7pm to 8.30pm, are you ready for some ghostie stories from Aberdeen and the North East? Horrible tales from our haunted past and a puckle o traditional supernatural ballads?

Then join me and Sheena Blackhall for some “Secrets, Stories and Songs” – there will likely be a fair bit o Doric and Scots, but we’ll check jist afore we start and will always translate as we go along!

Event here – https://www.facebook.com/events/1031088443209914

Tickets are £15 plus booking fee and can be found here – https://www.tickettailor.com/events/paulinecordinerascottishstoryteller/2179003

Any questions, just comment below or ping me a message!

Festival of the Sea 2026 – only 5 sleeps away!

Only 5 sleeps until I’ll be running three events at St Mary’s Chapel, St Nicholas Kirk as part of Aberdeen’s #FestivalOfTheSea 

If you’re looking for something to do with the bairns this Saturday, 18th July, there’s still a couple of places left for my shadow puppet workshop “Silhouettes of the Sea” – for crafty bairns aged 8+ that like making things! 1 to 2.30pm. Tickets are £5 plus booking fee and their accompanying grown up(s) go free 
Event here – https://www.facebook.com/events/1682655862730235
Tickets here – https://www.tickettailor.com/events/paulinecordinerascottishstoryteller/2178847

Then from 3 to 4pm I’ll be telling my favourite tales of the sea – a family storytelling session, “Salty Stores and Tales of the Tides.”
I WILL be seeing just low long it takes for a blue whale to dive from a cloud and belly flop into the sea… come time me!
Event here – https://www.facebook.com/events/883658644686297
Tickets are £3 per child and £5 per adult and can be found here –https://www.tickettailor.com/events/paulinecordinerascottishstoryteller/2178939

And finally from 7pm to 8.30pm, are you ready for some ghostie stories from Aberdeen and the North East? Horrible tales from our haunted past and a puckle o traditional supernatural ballads?
Then join me and Sheena Blackhall for some “Secrets, Stories and Songs” – there will likely be a fair bit o Doric and Scots, but we’ll check jist afore we start and will always translate as we go along!
Event here – https://www.facebook.com/events/2013209819634175
Tickets are £15 plus booking fee and can be found here – https://www.tickettailor.https://www.tickettailor.com/events/paulinecordinerascottishstoryteller/2179003

Stonehaven Folk Festival 2026

And just like that… Stonehaven Folk Festival was over!
I have had a wonderful time 🙂
Storytelling at Stonehaven Tolbooth Museum
Bairns Scots Song Workshop
Family Storytelling
Adults Only Storytelling
Sunday Story Craft Workshop
and…
Petanque!
Seafood platter at the Ship!
AQUACEILIDH… and…

I’m going to blow my own trumpet here…. well my own comb n paper. Can announce that I am the 2026 WORLD PAPER N COMB CHAMPION!!

Thanks Festival and Tolbooth for having me along. A wonderful weekend! ❤

Stonehaven Folk Festival 2026!

Also this weekend I’m going to be telling stories and running workshops at Stonehaven Folk Festival!

Friday 10th 7 to 8pm I’ll be telling Tales The Tide Brought In at the Stonehaven Tolbooth Museum

Saturday 11th I’ve got the bairns singing workshop and storytelling session (see below!)

And on the evening of Saturday 11th I’ll be telling tales for adults from 9 to 10pm before Susie’s singing session. Please note this will be at the Legion on Barclay Street and not the 65 Club as previous year.

Finally on Sunday 12th I have a workshop “Flotsam Fables and Driftwood Ditties” – this is fully booked, but if it’s successful I’m sure we can run it again in future years. 🙂

Wild About Aden 2026

Nae lang noo!

Wild About Aden returns on Thursday with hunners o free activities for abdy! Storytelling in the Aberdeenshire Farming Museum being one of them! 🙂

Come hear tales from North East farms and wild places! 11am to 1pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm.

If you’re driving to Aden Country Park, there will be plenty of parking – bring £5 cash which will allow you to park for the whole day! 🙂

Festival of the Sea 2026!

Woohoo! I’m delighted to announce that there will be three storytelling events on Saturday 18th July 2026 at St Mary’s Chapel, St Nicholas Kirk as part of Aberdeen’s #FestivalOfTheSea2026 @AberdeenCC

The first event from 1 to 2.30pm, is a shadow puppet workshop, “Silhouettes of the Sea” aimed at children aged 8 upwards and their grown ups(s). Workshop attendees will learn the basics of creating shadow puppets with a nautical theme connecting to Aberdeen’s maritime past and stories – fish, whales, fishermen and fishwives, even our 17th century privateer! Tickets are £5 per child (plus booking fee) – accompanying adult is free.

Tickets here – https://www.tickettailor.com/…/paulinecordinera…/2178847

Then from 3 to 4pm, join us for “Salty Stories and Tales from the Tides” – A 1 hour family storytelling session with Aberdeen Storyteller Pauline Cordiner. Suitable for age 4 to 104!

Tickets are £3 for children and £5 for adults (plus booking fee)

Tickets here – https://www.tickettailor.com/…/paulinecordinera…/2178939

And finally, from 7 to 8.30pm, Sheena Blackhall and Pauline Cordiner will be telling Local ghost stories and singing traditional north east ballads from Aberdeen and the North East’s haunted and horrible past, age 18+

Tickets are £15 (plus booking fee).

Tickets here – https://www.tickettailor.com/…/paulinecordinera…/2179003

Check out this years Festival of the Sea – https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/…/festival-of-the-sea…/

Arduthie Primary Hoolie in the Schoolie!

Weel, I’ve had a fantastic time working on this project with Arduthie Primary School in Stonehaven!

The pupils:

– Created 6 rhymes!
– learned about the plague, crime and punishment, how to play the comb n paper, all about a very important fossil, heard the tale of a ghost and a fishwife and admired the sculptures in the bay
– Created 6 songs!
– Illustrated the songs and some of the rhymes
– Performed our new songs in a concert
– Learned and sang “Jeannie Jenkins” at the concert (P1-3)

And since then, Ewan McVicar and I have been hard at work creating a booklet which arrives today – plenty for the pupils, the schools, the folks at Hands Up For Trads Wee Grants Scheme, The Tolbooth and The Stonehaven Folk Festival!

… and I have been busy creating videos of each song. Aye, I’ll be plaisterin them aa ower the socials in the next few days!

All the songs, rhymes and illustrations are now up on my web site at https://paulinecordiner.co.uk/hoolie-in-the-schoolie-2026/

Hae a look and let me know what you think! 🙂