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.
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
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
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?
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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.
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...
What a great place to start a week of family storytelling events with #TalkingTogetherInCambridgeshire #FestivalOfStories
February 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
What a great place to start a week of family storytelling events with #TalkingTogetherInCambridgeshire #FestivalOfStories
What is the right thing to do when dragons invade your website? #dragontamers #storytelling #festival eastanglianstorytellingfestival.co.uk/index.html
East Anglian Storytelling Festival 30th May - 1st June 2025
An enchanting weekend filled with captivating tales, live performances, and family-friendly activities!
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February 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What is the right thing to do when dragons invade your website? #dragontamers #storytelling #festival eastanglianstorytellingfestival.co.uk/index.html
The Cambridge Corn Exchange: had its foundation stone laid by a Mayor called John Death; gave a tea party for 1000 people; Johnny Cash played there; and they've asked me to tell stories there next Monday. A dream job or what?
Corn Exchange Community open day. www.cornex.co.uk/news/communi...
Corn Exchange Community open day. www.cornex.co.uk/news/communi...
February 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Cambridge Corn Exchange: had its foundation stone laid by a Mayor called John Death; gave a tea party for 1000 people; Johnny Cash played there; and they've asked me to tell stories there next Monday. A dream job or what?
Corn Exchange Community open day. www.cornex.co.uk/news/communi...
Corn Exchange Community open day. www.cornex.co.uk/news/communi...
Ely Cathedral all dressed up for a Valentine's Date. A girl can have fun at any age.
February 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ely Cathedral all dressed up for a Valentine's Date. A girl can have fun at any age.
#MKGallery is the place that makes Milton Keynes less of a national joke. This time they've gutted the contents of #VanessaBell's house at #Charleston and displayed it like a forensic analysis of an artist's life in the bare spaces of the gallery.
February 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#MKGallery is the place that makes Milton Keynes less of a national joke. This time they've gutted the contents of #VanessaBell's house at #Charleston and displayed it like a forensic analysis of an artist's life in the bare spaces of the gallery.
Camcrag has been supporting refugees in Cambridge for 10 years now. I'm proud to be supporting them with a story session - stories about helping, giving, and finding a safe place to be - at their winter fair and fundraising sleepout this weekend. camcrag.org.uk/sleepouts/ #storytelling #refugees
Sleepouts
Sleepouts Since 2018 we have organised five sponsored sleepouts where volunteers spend a night sleeping outdoors in winter to raise money for refugees in Europe and homeless people in the Cambridge…
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February 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Camcrag has been supporting refugees in Cambridge for 10 years now. I'm proud to be supporting them with a story session - stories about helping, giving, and finding a safe place to be - at their winter fair and fundraising sleepout this weekend. camcrag.org.uk/sleepouts/ #storytelling #refugees
Wildlife photographer of the year: www.discoverwildlife.com/photography/...
February 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Wildlife photographer of the year: www.discoverwildlife.com/photography/...
It's grandchildren day and on our garden table we have a magic potion of love and living forever. Apparently.
February 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
It's grandchildren day and on our garden table we have a magic potion of love and living forever. Apparently.
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Come and join >30,000 women chemists and male allies from ~70 countries for the #IUPAC #GWB breakfast on February 11, a unique day celebrating achievement and connections. Watch the global map grow at www.iupac.org/gwb
February 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Come and join >30,000 women chemists and male allies from ~70 countries for the #IUPAC #GWB breakfast on February 11, a unique day celebrating achievement and connections. Watch the global map grow at www.iupac.org/gwb
I'm telling stories somewhere a bit iconic over half term. I have to say, it's an absolute pleasure being 'managed by students'. www.cornex.co.uk/news/communi...
Cambridge Corn Exchange 150th Anniversary Community Open Day - Cambridge Corn Exchange
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February 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I'm telling stories somewhere a bit iconic over half term. I have to say, it's an absolute pleasure being 'managed by students'. www.cornex.co.uk/news/communi...