Marion Leeper
@marionleeper.bsky.social
Storyteller, storymaker, olive-lover, maker of weird events and marmalade, happiest hanging out with small children and their families, deeply stuck in Cambridge mud. More about what I do on https://www.marionleeperstoryteller.co.uk/
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Words from the heart, and exactly what I needed to read right now. If you're a #storyteller or other artist, you might want to read them too. Art in spite of hard times, art because of hard times. Thanks Laura.
An essay about art and storytelling in a time of performative cruelty. Free for everyone on my patreon.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Words from the heart, and exactly what I needed to read right now. If you're a #storyteller or other artist, you might want to read them too. Art in spite of hard times, art because of hard times. Thanks Laura.
The Happy Man's Shirt
May 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The Happy Man's Shirt
Gearing up for the East Anglian Storytelling Festival and remembering favourite images from last year from illustrator Tonka Uzu eastanglianstorytellingfestival.co.uk/index.html
May 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Gearing up for the East Anglian Storytelling Festival and remembering favourite images from last year from illustrator Tonka Uzu eastanglianstorytellingfestival.co.uk/index.html
early bird tickets finish on 1st April
March 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
early bird tickets finish on 1st April
Some reasons to love the East Anglian Storytelling Festival: the best ever #storytellers: #Arthurian enchantresses, #folk horror, bats, cuckoos and other wild things; #music #dance #ancientbuildings: #dragons #wildcamping a warm welcom#https://eastanglianstorytellingfestival.co.uk/index.html
March 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Some reasons to love the East Anglian Storytelling Festival: the best ever #storytellers: #Arthurian enchantresses, #folk horror, bats, cuckoos and other wild things; #music #dance #ancientbuildings: #dragons #wildcamping a warm welcom#https://eastanglianstorytellingfestival.co.uk/index.html
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I've created a starter pack for #oralstorytelling. Please tell me who I've missed so I can add them. Let's grow the pack together so it won't take us hours of trawling to find each other ❤️ go.bsky.app/8PFSncD #performancestorytelling #traditionalstorytelling
January 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I've created a starter pack for #oralstorytelling. Please tell me who I've missed so I can add them. Let's grow the pack together so it won't take us hours of trawling to find each other ❤️ go.bsky.app/8PFSncD #performancestorytelling #traditionalstorytelling
oops no, you had most of those, but I think you've missed @dragonflytales.bsky.social and @tomjuniper.bsky.social. Both great people with a story.
March 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
oops no, you had most of those, but I think you've missed @dragonflytales.bsky.social and @tomjuniper.bsky.social. Both great people with a story.
This is a great list, thank you, I've found some great storytellers I'd missed! Here's a few I think you've missed! Csenge Zalka, @fabulatrix.bsky.social Sarah Hurley @sara-hurley.bsky.social Sarah Brady bsky.app/profile/sara...
Esther kornalijnslijper @eskornalijn.bsky.social
Esther kornalijnslijper @eskornalijn.bsky.social
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March 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is a great list, thank you, I've found some great storytellers I'd missed! Here's a few I think you've missed! Csenge Zalka, @fabulatrix.bsky.social Sarah Hurley @sara-hurley.bsky.social Sarah Brady bsky.app/profile/sara...
Esther kornalijnslijper @eskornalijn.bsky.social
Esther kornalijnslijper @eskornalijn.bsky.social
The magnolia tree round the corner from me has been in flower all week - it always reminds me it's time to get spring #stories out. This year mine are Calvino's #folktale The Baby Snake, and the story of magpie's nest from Joseph Jacobs. What are other storytellers' #springfavourites?
March 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The magnolia tree round the corner from me has been in flower all week - it always reminds me it's time to get spring #stories out. This year mine are Calvino's #folktale The Baby Snake, and the story of magpie's nest from Joseph Jacobs. What are other storytellers' #springfavourites?
dream on.... in Cambridge the cycle lanes tend to give out at no notice when the traffic gets tricky.
March 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
dream on.... in Cambridge the cycle lanes tend to give out at no notice when the traffic gets tricky.
One of my favourite stories comes from the Marshall Islands: The Canoe Race. Full of questions about the ocean and the people who live on and by it.
March 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
One of my favourite stories comes from the Marshall Islands: The Canoe Race. Full of questions about the ocean and the people who live on and by it.
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🎉 GOOD NEWS! 🎉
The Marshall Islands and South Korea have now passed the Global Ocean Treaty into law 🐳
A total TWENTY ONE countries have now made the Global Ocean Treaty official - so where is the UK?!
The Marshall Islands and South Korea have now passed the Global Ocean Treaty into law 🐳
A total TWENTY ONE countries have now made the Global Ocean Treaty official - so where is the UK?!
March 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🎉 GOOD NEWS! 🎉
The Marshall Islands and South Korea have now passed the Global Ocean Treaty into law 🐳
A total TWENTY ONE countries have now made the Global Ocean Treaty official - so where is the UK?!
The Marshall Islands and South Korea have now passed the Global Ocean Treaty into law 🐳
A total TWENTY ONE countries have now made the Global Ocean Treaty official - so where is the UK?!
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This is so so sad. Palestinian Director of 'No Other Land' Attacked by Settler Mob, Arrested by Soldiers, Israeli Co-director Says www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Palestinian director of 'No Other Land' attacked by settler mob, arrested by soldiers
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March 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is so so sad. Palestinian Director of 'No Other Land' Attacked by Settler Mob, Arrested by Soldiers, Israeli Co-director Says www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: eggs and waffles, big cup of Folgers, then open the old text message app to read about the administration's secret plans to bomb Yemen. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.
March 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: eggs and waffles, big cup of Folgers, then open the old text message app to read about the administration's secret plans to bomb Yemen. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.
I think that little girl is still right there inside you!
March 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I think that little girl is still right there inside you!
I don't get that much chance to give my grandkids advice. They lecture me on what to do. They are slightly disappointed with me because I haven't got rid of Trump yet.
March 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I don't get that much chance to give my grandkids advice. They lecture me on what to do. They are slightly disappointed with me because I haven't got rid of Trump yet.
I visited the community centre there recently. At first it looked a bit grim, right next to a fence with diggers the other side. Then I talked to the people running the centre and working for the developers and changed my mind: really inspiring to see them building community in the old barracks.
March 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I visited the community centre there recently. At first it looked a bit grim, right next to a fence with diggers the other side. Then I talked to the people running the centre and working for the developers and changed my mind: really inspiring to see them building community in the old barracks.
20 years ago, a show from the Crick Crack Club completely changed how I thought about telling stories. Last night I saw it again at @cambridgejunction.bsky.social , and hey,Three Snake Leaves did that whole thing all over again, only better crickcrackclub.com/whats-on/
Crick Crack Club - What's On
Find out what's on in our wild haven of fairytale, myth and epic!
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March 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
20 years ago, a show from the Crick Crack Club completely changed how I thought about telling stories. Last night I saw it again at @cambridgejunction.bsky.social , and hey,Three Snake Leaves did that whole thing all over again, only better crickcrackclub.com/whats-on/
Happy International Women's Day. This is my great-grandmother, Annie Clark, who took her young family from Capetown all the way to Italy so that she could go to art school, and later set up a nursing station in the Boer war.
March 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Happy International Women's Day. This is my great-grandmother, Annie Clark, who took her young family from Capetown all the way to Italy so that she could go to art school, and later set up a nursing station in the Boer war.
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🚨Tesla’s stock price just crashed. Couldn’t happen to a nicer nazi xxx
March 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨Tesla’s stock price just crashed. Couldn’t happen to a nicer nazi xxx
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👀 Popping up at London bus stops
March 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
👀 Popping up at London bus stops
A great way to spend #WorldBookDay - launching a brand new sensory story at wonderful Samuel Pepys Special School. There was noise, mud, exceptionally sticky playdough... and some lively dancing!
March 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A great way to spend #WorldBookDay - launching a brand new sensory story at wonderful Samuel Pepys Special School. There was noise, mud, exceptionally sticky playdough... and some lively dancing!
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🚨 BREAKING: The government has just committed to NOT issuing new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea.
This is a HUGE WIN for the climate 💚
This is a HUGE WIN for the climate 💚
March 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The government has just committed to NOT issuing new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea.
This is a HUGE WIN for the climate 💚
This is a HUGE WIN for the climate 💚
...also in the UK...
February 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
...also in the UK...
I told stories underneath this beautiful but heart-breaking picture.
February 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I told stories underneath this beautiful but heart-breaking picture.