Tag: Storytelling

Girvan Traditional Folk Festival 2026!

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Somehow it’s been 15 years since I’ve telt tales at Girvan Traditional Folk Festival (time disnae half fly!) – but this year I’m delighted to say I’m going back for another visit! Yaaay, cannae wait!

On Saturday 2nd May I’ll be telling some Folkie Stories for Wee Fowk an their Grownups at Girvan Library from 11am – drop in for a tale or two! ( https://girvanfolkfestival.org.uk/family-events/ )

On Saturday afternoon at 2.30pm, I’ll be doing a couple of songs (hopefully wi ma amazing pal TBC) at the Bobby Rob Memorial Concert in the Catholic Hall https://girvanfolkfestival.org.uk/concerts/

And on Sunday afternoon 1.30 – 3.30pm (thanks for the lie in folks! 😉 ), I’m joining the fab fowk fae CRAG Community Arts to tell the tale o Coultart the Cottar and the Devil, written by David Powell – we’ll then be making shadow puppets to tell the tale! This event will be held in the Wee School Art Space and links in to the shoreside fireshow at night! Children must be accompanied by an adult.

See https://girvanfolkfestival.org.uk/family-events/ for the workshop and https://girvanfolkfestival.org.uk/concerts/#seilach for the fireshow!

(Now ye can see fit wiy I cannae wait?)

Puppet Workshop at Whitehills

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A wee photo fae last wik’s Bring A Puppet To Life workshop at Whitehills Playing Field !
The bairns (and their grown ups!) worked with the puppets learning to make them talk, move and most importantly… come to life!

We then had some stories and songs before a Scots Variety Concert in the village hall in the evening.

Thanks to the organisers for having us along!

Storytelling sessions, workshops and a concert at Whitehills! Saturday 11th April

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Coming up on Saturday 11th April! I’m going to be running a Hand Puppet Workshop, Family Storytelling Session and a Family Scots Song Workshop – all at the Blackpots Pavilion in Whitehills!

The Hand Puppet workshop runs from 11am to 12pm – Learn to bring a hand puppet to life – Bring your own puppet or borrow one of Pauline’s many characters for the workshop. For bairns aged 5 and up and their grown ups. Unaccompanied grown ups are of course welcome an aa! 😉 £5

The family storytelling session runs from 1 to 2pm and costs £3. Come hear some tales of legendary leviathans,

boastful bosuns and mysterious mermaids! Suitable

for age 2 to 102! Any auller than that an I’m sure you hae a tale or two to tell 😉

The family Scots Song workshop will run 3 to 4pm and costs £3. Sing yer hairts oot at this fun Scots song workshop for wee ones and their grown ups – again, unaccompanied grownups are aye welcome! 🙂

The pavillion pop up cafe will be open – hot dogs and drinks from £1.

I’m also chuffed tae be takkin part in the Scots Variety Concert in the Whitehills Village Hall at 7pm. I’ll be in fine company wi Doug Hay, Moira Stewart, the Portsoy Pipe Band, local highland dancers, Mike Blackburn, Aaron Clark and Graham Legge! 🙂

Book via Whitehills Playing Field on Facebook

or by calling Doug Hay on 07979 360238

Promise Groups – Winter Term at Peterhead Central Primary School

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Here’s the my second post about this winter term’s #PromiseGroups

As well as Boddam Primary School, I was visiting Peterhead Central Primary School!

The pupils:

– listened to stories of all kinds

– learned to use hand puppets and watched a couple of Jim Henson videos to see how the professionals do it (The Rainbow Connection by Kermit The Frog was a firm favourite!)

– gave hand puppets characters and voices

– created their own story and decided that instead of a film, they would do a story board!

– worked really hard drawing scenes for the story board

– help me tell the story on Wednesday to the P6 class and showed off the storyboard to the class.

– grew in confidence with stories and with me – knowing that you don’t need to be good at WRITING stories to create them and have fun! 🙂

The story wasn’t intended to be a film, but I put this quick video together so I could show off how hard working they’ve all been. Well done you lot!

@we_care_aberdeenshire

Stories at Banchory Academy

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A wee photo from Friday this time!
Here’s mi – posing in the super library at Banchory Academy Library

I was in for a full day telling three sets of my favourite stories – some spooky, some with a twist at the end, some that needed solving – to the S2 pupils.

Each group were a fantastic audience and kept me highly amused! Particularly chuffed with the enthusiastic pupils who told me about ghosties their great granny saw, about folkloric characters to look up for more tales and to those who sat on the edge of their seats. It was a real pleasure to visit!

CHARLIE THE ELF – A SHADOW PUPPET ADVENTURE!

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Oh I’m soooo behind with my socials!

But I just HAVE to share this super image of the shadow puppets the absolute STARS at Aye Aye Club made on Monday night.

These were all from the story of Charlie the Elf who left Ireland behind and travelled across the ocean on the Good Ship Big Leaf – safely cooried up in a cabbage! (and didn’t make it to the gold rush… but got to South America by mistake and became rich mining Uranium!)

Fantastic shadow puppets and we had fun making them move using my wee shadow theatre set-up! (a light, a frame, some clips and a photographic screen that actually went back into its back afterwards)

All part of my two visits from the #sisfstoryripple25

And be sure to visit Aye Aye Club’s page and vote for your favourite joke! This was their good deed for the ripple and they smashed it once again! 😀

Shadow Puppets at the GREC Language Cafe!

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I had great fun yesterday at Language Cafe!I had great fun yesterday at the GREC (Grampian Regional Equality Council) Language Cafe!
Two weeks ago we made up a new story and this week we made shadow puppets to go with itTwo weeks ago we made up a new story and this week we made shadow puppets to go with it