What a wonderful day it has been at Aden Fantasy Festival! The weather may have been dreich, but the crowds were in high spirits anyway – dressed in all manner of amazing costumes!
I had some lovely audiences for my Viking tales and the grown ups that came back at the end of the festival to tell me how much they (and their younger ones!) enjoyed the stories fair warmed my hairt! (Although it took a wee while for my tootsies to warm up!)
Here’s a photo of my venue for the day – heroically pumped out first thing by one of Fantasy Scotland’s best along with my Wee Imp who took on the task!
The locations for all the events can be found in their latest post below. (Can you just imagine how excited I am about being in with Alpacas!? Need to go find an alpaca story!)
Do come in for a tale if you’re at Wild About Aden – more information in their original post below
(Original Post) List of activities at Wild About Aden on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Please note: there will be a parking charge of £5 per car. Cash will be required. The parking charge enables Buchan Development Partnership to hold events in the park.
Activities will include:
Activities marked with (£) will have a small charge to take part all other activities are free.
For Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, I’d just like to thank all the storytellers, ballad singers and good friends of traiveller, gypsy roma, new age and showman heritage who have shared their wonderful stories and culture with this toonser over the years. Thankyou!
Wee Imp is having her P7 trip to Cromdale so I have used the 3 nights peace to stravaig! Last night i had a lang overdue catch up with friends which resulted in an impromptu visit to Burntisland Primary 😃 Now I’m off to the Scottish Fisheries Museum for some research!
Weel fit a grand trip we hid tae Portsoy fur the Haal this wikend!
Sheena and I had a great weekend at the Portsoy Haal this weekend – heading off on Friday afternoon (with Wee Imp and the caravan in tow!)
After the concert our first session was the late night storytelling at the Town Hall – a grand 2 hours with folk sharing their tales from 11pm to 1am. Wee Imp enjoyed the late night walk back to the camp site!
Our storytelling workshop on Saturday morning went down a treat too – we had 16 enthusiastic attendees who heard stories and learned about how some famous authors got into a bit of trouble by putting their neighbours in their novels! Abdy then had a go at creating life stories from photographs and came scarily close to the truth in some cases!
Wee Imp and I went off with oor pal Tattie to hear some of the ballads sung at the Greig Duncan Collection competition – after which I was brave enough to have a swim in the North Sea (but there’s nae photies o that!)
A few sangs, many midgie bites and a fire on the beach on Saturday evening made sure I had a good nights sleep ready for our last storytelling session at the Town Hall bar at Sunday lunchtime. Then it was already time to go home – wi a few songs and ballads sung all the way home in the car. (Wee Imp had her headphones on by this point, preferring Eurovision over ballads!)
Thanks to Portsoy Haal for having us both along, fit a gran time wi hid! And thanks to everyone who came along to share their stories, songs, poems. And thanks to Sheena for having me laughing so much!
Come along to Airyhall Library tomorrow for some Froggy Fun as part of #bookbugweek 2024! Meet a puddock that likes to sing hello to his friends and enjoy some other songs, rhymes and stories!
Airyhall Library, 18 May 2024 – 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM – book using the link below or just come along on the day
“As part of Bookbug Week 2024, Bookbug says “Hello!” to local storyteller Pauline Cordiner for a special storytime at Airyhall Library.
Suitable for children aged 3-7. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.”
On Tuesday I visited not one, but two amazing schools!!
Groups of pupils from Stracathro and Edzell primaries heard stories and each group took part in a different workshop exploring story creation, character development and life stories!
That really does sound like a fairy tale, doesn’t it? OK… stories of magic fishes aside, it actually happened this week!
On Saturday I was in Peterhead dressed as a fish wife for my Peterhead Tours and yesterday I was promoted to a Queen for Fantasy Scotland at their Easter In Wonderland event! The queen in question was The Red Queen who Alice encounters amongst other chess pieces during her adventure Through The Looking Glass.
Just as the Red Queen gave Alice advice on how to become a queen, I told stories of ordinary people and their experiences with royalty – and had some wonderful subjects in my audience! Thanks to everyone who joined me for a story and thanks to Fantasy Scotland CIC for having me along!
(Subject to new additions!)
Pauline Cordiner - Scottish Storyteller 