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About Marion

Based in Cambridge, Marion and her amazing story mat are familiar visitors to museums, schools and libraries around the region. She has toured her shows for grownups to clubs and festivals around the country and internationally. She tells stories for children of all ages, and specialises in multi-sensory storytelling for the very young and for people with learning difficulties, working with the charity Bag Books.

She is a long time member of the local group Cambridge Storytellers, and is currently involved in organising the East Anglian Storytelling Festival.

She has told stories at festivals including Cambridge and Ely Folk Festivals, The Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival, and the Cambridgeshire Talking Together Festival of Stories, and the magnificent Crankie festival in Aberystwyth 2024.  

 


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What People say:

“Are those stories real?”

“Your pockets are full of surprises!”

“You tell better stories than my nanna.”

“I want to go on listening to stories for EVER.”

Training includes:

  • ‘Walking the Wildwoods’ with Shonaleigh Cumbers, School of Storytelling, 2016-present
  • Intensive storytelling course with Michael Harvey, Bleddfa Arts Centre, 2015
  • Advanced Storytelling Course with Ben Haggarty, February 2007 and March 2009
  • MEd degree, Critical Perspectives on Children's Literature, Faculty of Education, Cambridge, 2005-8