Well that’s me jist aboot recovered from Spectra Festival 2025!
Lindsey Storyteller and I had a wonderful time telling 32 stories over 4 nights to around 1500 people!
Thanks so much to everyone who came for a story – we hope we’ll see you all again next year! 
Well Spectra Festival 2024 is fast becoming a distant memory!
4 days of storytelling
16 hours of storytelling
Well over 1000 audience members (final numbers still to come in)
32 stories
5 bags of Irn Bru Jellybabies
2 annoying fairies
Numerous repeat visitors
And a wonderful, wonderful experience for Lindsey and I too!
Thankyou so much to the Spectra Festival team for having us along again – we loved our new location of the Cowdray Hall, our campfire and Granny’s Blankets! Thankyou to the Showsec security who did a marvellous job in all weathers, welcoming the crowds in. Thankyou of course to my storytelling partner in crime Lindsey Gibb who has joined me for her 3rd year as Guest Storyteller!
And Thankyou to all the listeners who made it all worthwhile every night!
Here are some photos 😀
(Thanks to Alice, Lynne and Adele for the kind permission to share their photos!)
Don’t forget Spectra Festival is next week!
Spectra is Aberdeen’s Festival of Lights and this year is returning for its 10th anniversary of the first Spectra in 2014.
Lindsey Storyteller and myself will be telling tales in the Cowdray Hall between 6 and 10pm each night – some inspired by the various artworks across the city. Come hear a tale of a stubborn princess wooed by the lords of the local industries – she’d rather ignore them and hang out wi the seagulls instead!
(Now I’m getting carried away and considering Greggsy Granite, Shuggie Shipbuilder, Farquar Fash and … I don’t know. The temptation to have a golfing tycoon is huge. HUGE!)
Fizzy and Fuzzy the Fairies will be back (oh no) with a new story of their own – all about the giant beastie that rolls the sun across the sky!
It’s just over a month until Spectra Festival 2024!
I’m delighted to announce that the wonderful Lindsey Gibb will be joining me again for more tales, fun and Irn Bru Jellybabies!
We’ve been looking at the exhibits Spectra have announced and are seeing what they inspire! 
The theme this year is “Connections” and one of the art works I’m most excited to see is “Spin Me A Yarn” by Studio Vertigo which ties into a wonderful folk tale.
Fizzy and Fuzzy will undoubtedly be getting a story to themselves (as well as their own supply of sweeties)
Pauline Cordiner - Scottish Storyteller 