Tag: Aberdeen Storyteller

Ghosts of Garthdee!

Leave a comment

On Monday 30th October join Sheena Blackhall and Pauline Cordiner for two special Halloween storytelling events!

Kaimhill school are fundraising for the P7s trip to Cromdale next year. With the price per child greatly increased and a massive 66 P7s this year, the amount they need to raise is huge – so we’re running 2 extra special storytelling events. Hotdogs and other treats will be available on the night from 7pm to raise more funds. Any additional donations on the night would be very much appreciated!

Kaimhill’s Spooky Stories – Family Storytelling
At 6pm, families are invited to join local storytellers Sheena and myself for Kaimhill’s Spooky Stories.
Tales of Scary Skeletons, Witchy Wifies, Irritating Imps and Ghastly Ghosties! Suitable for all ages
🧙‍♀️👻💀🎃😈🧙‍♂️

The bairns are welcome to bring a blanket to coorie up in and everyone can wear fancy dress or bring a neepie/pumpkin lantern.
To book your family ticket please visit https://forms.gle/cwcs7atEfLeeguvL6
£5 per family group

Tickets can also be purchased in cash on the night

The Ghosts of Garthdee – Adult Storytelling
From 7.30 to 8.30pm, Sheena and Pauline will tell ghost stories from Garthdee and nearby Deeside – some tales of hauntings, gory stories and traditional local legends!

Spirits locked in a love triangle, an exorcism on the estate, a local councillors dodgy deals exposed, a roaming monk, a haunted gymnasium, and the murderous cat that killed its master!

Tickets cost £5 per adult. Stories will be suitable for over 16s only and children will not be admitted – there is an earlier event for family groups.

To book your ticket for The Ghosts of Garthdee please visit https://forms.gle/FiYktVYihUS5rh337
Tickets can also be purchased in cash on the night.

A poster for the events designed by P7 pupils at Kaimhill:

Stonehaven Folk Festival!

Leave a comment
Pauline, her daughter, and Fuzzy and Fizzy - two fairy puppets - sit in a Rickshaw in the sunshine smiling at the camera

Finally it’s here! It’s the Stonehaven Folk Festival !!

While I’m looking forward to the songs and the tunes and the World Paper and Comb Championship… I’m also really looking forward to … Telling Stories!

All my storytelling sessions are either FREE or COST ONLY £1 this year and 3 of them are FAMILY FRIENDLY!

Tonight – along the boardwalk, join me (and probably those nuisance fairies in the photo!) for STORIES ON THE RICKSHAW with The Stoney Rickshaw ! We’ll be leaving the Men’s shed about 7pm and making our way along the board walk, stopping somewhere there if there’s an audience for a wee tale. Then follow us to the harbour for some more stories, finishes 8pm.

Tomorrow – Saturday 8th July 10.30am – 11.30am. Join us for SINGING FOR KIDS – a workshop aimed at kids of all ages and their grown ups – Held at the Community Education Centre on Bath Street. Only £1 per person!

Following that at 11.30am – 12.30pm, there will be STORYTELLING FOR KIDS and their grown ups – a family storytelling session of monsters, heroes and probably farts.

And for the grown ups, I’ll be doing some ADULTS ONLY STORYTELLING at the 65 Club from 9 to 10pm on Saturday – Likely some spooky and bawdy tales just before Susie’s Singing Session!

Of course there are many many other amazing concerts, workshops and sessions going on throughout the festival, many of which have no charge – have a look at their web page for more details!

https://www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk/33rd-stonehaven-folk-festival/

Stonehaven Folk Festival – this weekend!

Leave a comment

Here’s the full listing of what’s on this coming weekend at the Stonehaven Folk Festival! (PDF version can be found here if you’re struggling to read the image below – https://www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk/…/Whats-On…

Come to some storytelling sessions!

I’ll be on the The Stoney Rickshaw with Charlie Rickshaw and probably Fizzy the Fairy in tow from 7 to 8pm along the board walk and doon at the harbour – free! 😃

I’ll be running the Singing for Kids Workshop at the community centre, 10.30 to 11.30 on Saturday morning – only £1 per participant!

And that session will be followed by Stories For Kids – also only £1 per participant 😃

And 9 to 10pm I’ll be doing bawdy and scary tales for Adults in the 65 club – this event is also FREE! (and for adults only)

Do come along and jine in! 😃

A table showing the different workshops and sessions at this year's Stonehaven Folk Festival.

Home from Glastonbury!

Leave a comment

Well that’s been an exhausting but fantastic trip away to #GlastonburyFestival where I was just one of the fantastic storytellers telling tales in the #kidzfield and #greenfutures Field!

Loads of photos to come once I’ve got the umpteen loads of washing done 😉

In the meantime here’s a wee post about what’s coming up, and a photo of the Kidz Field opening from Duck In A Dress !

In about half an hour I’m heading off to North East Sensory Services to tell some local tales!

Tomorrow I have my last visit to Turriff Academy as part of my Scottish Book Trust #liveliterature residency! 🙁

On Thursday evening I’ll be helping some local Rainbows with their Storytelling Badge

And Friday, Saturday and Sunday is the Stonehaven Folk Festival! Another post on that to come 😃

Come along for a story!

A photo of Pauline surrounded by colourful entertainers at the opening of the Kidz Field at this year's Glastonbury Festival. She is holding Fairy Puppet, Fizzy the Fairy who is greeting everyone coming in.

STORY CREATION WORKSHOPS AT GILCOMSTOUN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Leave a comment

Here are some photos from my story creation project with Gilcomstoun Primary School. Primaries 1 – 7 and I created 6 stories about their learner dispositions – Bravery, Collaboration, Creativity, Determination, Motivation and Independence. What a wonderfully creative bunch!!

Class after class I was impressed by the pupils energy, creativeness and fun 😁

Their stories included – a brave cook, a mystical bracelet, a kraken on top of Marischal College, neolithic farming, a poisonous platypus, and of course an alien toddler saving the day!

The pupils will be drawing the (super) heroes from their stories and I can’t wait to see them. Thanks all at Gilcomstoun Primary for such a wonderful story creation experience! 😃

If your school has learner characteristics/dispositions and you’d like your pupils to work with a storyteller to create some stories – please contact me. Details in the “contacts” page

(Images are from the Gilcomstoun Primary Twitter Page.)

What’s going on?

Leave a comment

I have been a very silent Storyteller on the socials this last wee while!

But silence doesn’t mean I’ve been sleeping. (Definitely not. I’ve been told by the small that I tell stories in my sleep)

Instead I’ve been busy closing out/working on a few projects – such as the fantastic story creation sessions at Gilcomstoun Primary School, my #liveliterature residency at Turriff Academy … and of course preparing for the Summer’s festivals!

I’ve got 3 big new stories (not just wee stories, big stories) for my sessions at the Green Futures Field and Kidz Field at Glastonbury and already I’m looking at new stories for Halloween.

Busy busy indeed! 😃

Turriff Academy Live Literature Residency – Bothy Ballads

Leave a comment

We’ve had some brilliant work from the S2 Students at Turriff Academy of late!

I asked them to write a “Bothy Ballad” based on their own lives. You can read them at our blog for the Turriff Academy #LiveLiterature Residency here – https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/as/turriffacademyliveliterature/

My friend Natalie Chalmers, a bothy ballad singer, was up at the weekend and had a read over what we’ve had from the pupils so far. She recorded a wee message for the pupils which you can view here – 🙂

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPaulineCordinerAScottishStoryteller%2Fvideos%2F712468793949187%2F&show_text=false&width=560&t=0

Scottish Book Trust

A Story and a Craft at HANDSS

Leave a comment

My Wee Imp and I joined our friends at HANDSS yesterday evening for a story and a craft!

I told the tale of an Armenian woman (a total hero who is a teacher and a weaver) who refuses to marry a prince unless he “gets a real job” – he becomes a weaver and that ends up saving his life. The story was followed up by a wee bit of simple weaving.

Here are some photos courtesy of HANDSS.