Some photos from yesterday’s session at the Aden Allotments with the Buchan Development Partnership.
There were two sessions – an earlier one for families round the fires as it grew dark, and then a second adults-only session in the dark where the stories had a much more sinister tone!
As I’m going to be out tonight telling stories, I’m going to miss all the guisers coming round the doors! So I won’t get to do my usual doorstep storytelling or hand out sweeties 
Instead I have recorded a wee story and have put it up on youtube at https://youtu.be/4DMNC-5eD1c
Have a wonderful Halloween, quines and loons of Garthdee! 
Oh aye, here’s mi during aene o yesterday’s sessions for Topcats or Little Miracles wi mi pal Cauld Johnnie!
We’re baith fair tricket at being invited tae tell stories by Musica Workshops ! 
A change of outfit for storytelling at a corporate event last night. (Having been a bit witchy and a bit devilish at another two sessions earlier in the day! x
This morning I was at Aden Country Park speaking to Euan from BBC Radio Scotland‘s Out for the Weekend. Aye there was talk of spooky stories and… can anyone smell neeps!?
Here’s a link to “Scary Fairy Stories” – a 2 hour storytelling event on Friday evening (6 to 8pm) as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival!
“Join storyteller Pauline Cordiner to find out why Fairies are amongst the scariest creatures in Scotland! Irritating imps, plagues of pixies, killer kelpies, tragic tarrans, hot-headed heroines and much more. There will also be a Scary Fairy Lantern Competition judged on the night. So get yourself all dressed up and sit in the candle-light for an evening of Halloween tales for all the family!
As we go deeper into the evening, the stories will get scarier. Pauline will begin with stories best for the wee ones before we all decide the best Scary Fairy Lantern – after which Pauline will give us scarier stories best suited for older children and adults
“Free online event | Contact: sandragdavison@gmail.com
It’s now the Hallowe’en week and I’m all set for 13 Spooky Storytelling Sessions over the next 7 days!
It’s all about monsters tonight as I’m telling online for Musica Workshops and Little Miracles!
Aberdeen’s Way WORD Festival’s film maker Anais Fourrier got together with 4 local storytelling quines – Jackie Ross, Grace Banks, Sheena Blackhall and myself – to create four films under the banner “Storytelling and Place”
Here’s my video, all about Boddam, where my faither’s folks came from. (Here Be Sea Monsters!)
It’s been another fun day with @MusicaWorkshops! That means football playing kangaroos, evil factory owners with twirly moustaches, monkeys with Scottish accents, wartime music hall mega stars, sea shanty singing superheroes and of course… a goat on a boat. A productive day!
It’s never too early to start planning for Hallowe’en!
I’m particularly looking forward to a couple of events coming up as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival
On the 26th October I’ll be joining Grace Banks, Sheena Blackhall, Diana Peers and Jackie Ross for some Spooky an Sinister Tales fae the North East!
And on the 29th October I’ll be doing some Scary Fairy stories for children and families from the Mearns. find out why Fairies are amongst the scariest creatures in Scotland! Irritating imps, plagues of pixies, killer kelpies, tragic tarrans, hot-headed heroines and much more!
#SISFImagine, #Storytelling, #Fairies, #ScaryFairies, #Halloween
Pauline Cordiner - Scottish Storyteller 