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Connection With Wonder

@londondreamtime.bsky.social

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(Aka “London Dreamtime”) Vanessa Woolf, Professional Storyteller🌞🌚events/ tickets/booking all in this link: Connectionwithwonder.com/calendar

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Nov 16

Greetings blueskyers,
I’m Vanessa, a professional storyteller; academic projects, schools, parks, programme festivals, work with companies etc.

For joy, I lead folks into weird corners of London & tell them stories connected to the landscape.

For more joy I train new storytellers!

Pic by Polis Loizou of me and my partner George who are telling the story of the Highgate vampire in a spooky looking autumn park while adult audience sits around

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 21h

Fireside Folklore Storytelling in the woods with a soup dinner!

...and it's next week!

connectionwithwonder.com/events/story...

audience members sitting around the fire listening to a story

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 21h

I'll be telling stories in a 500 year old library with thousands of books and a quite remarkable secret.

Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 2d

I can't wait!

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Book now for a family storytelling session with the absolutely amazing @londondreamtime.bsky.social based on the history of the wonderful RCP library, 27 Oct. Designed for ages 5 – 11 but all welcome!

RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for #half-term fun!
⭐27 Oct 'Tales from the doctors library' with storyteller Vanessa Woolf @londondreamtime.bsky.social
⭐28/29/30 Oct 'Patterns, pages & prints' creative family crafts.
⭐31 Oct 'Perilous patterns & ghoulish prints' - #Halloween family crafts!

history.rcp.ac.uk/events

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 2d

its october i am out of my coffin and abroad #storytelling

me in a wooly hat with a sign behind which says "Meet here for storytelling"

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 2d

I can't wait!

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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

All our events have been inspired by RCP exhibition ‘A body of knowledge’. As part of your visit pick up a children's worksheet to explore 500 years of book collecting at the @rcphysicians.bsky.social!

#BodyOfKnowledge

Exhibition graphic showing tall snippets from a range of books and the exhibition title and dates: 'A body of knowledge' 10 September 2025 - 23 July 2026

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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 6d

Dead Mans Fingers Moss

green twisted fairy fingers emerging from a brick wall

Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 6d

www.londondreamtime.com/calendar

Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 6d

New mail-out will have soup, books, vampires & a unique opportunity. To get it just go to my calendar page (link in comment ⬇️)

This pic of me and Cunning Folk was styled by Zanna of The Ragged School.

Vanessa and george dressed in tattered but elegant gothic clothing posing against a white wall.

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 6d

I can't wait to be part of this exhibition!
Storytelling for families this half term, all details here:
www.connectionwithwonder.com/calendar

RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 28d

Exhibition, ‘A body of knowledge’ is open!
10 Sept 2025 - 23 July 2026.

history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Discover the surprising treasures of the RCP Heritage Library & explore how 500 years of book-collecting have built a wondrous, enduring library.

@rcphysicians.bsky.social #BodyofKnowledge

An image of a book with multicoloured pages open on display.

Image of the exhibition in the Gallery at the RCP with information panels, paintings and glass cases full of books displayed.

Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 6d

all I can promise is my mail outs are short and nice.
This month I plan to include soup, vampires and foxes www.connectionwithwonder.com/calendar to sign up

A pic of me storytelling for an adult audience in a wood. Text says art community stories.

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 6d

Tagging @rcpmuseum.bsky.social

Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 6d

The wonderful Magneto Electric Machine which can cure toothache & haemorrhoids.

Found at the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social today when researching my half term storytelling.
(Just wondering how I can work it into the story, I’m sure I’ll think of something!)

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 15d

I’m storytelling for the #RoyalCollegeofPhysicians this half term and I went along for a visit. This damaged book dates from before the Great Fire. It looks as if it was chewed by a rat but the damage is really the result of shrapnel from the blitz in ww2

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 15d

This Sunday in Hackney- theme “shape shifting“
With Giles Abbott, Vilheimina Helberg Moberg, Aaron Oliver, Baden Prince Jr and Diana Redgrave
www.londondreamtime.com/calendar

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · 15d

The city is thinking

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Aug 26

greetings earthlings, my new mailout is ready to send; it will be sweet and elegant.

You can get it by signing up on my calendar page www.connectionwithwonder.com/calendar

me in front of a 400 year old chestnut in greenwich

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Jul 18

Albino fox cub twins in next doors garden, here’s one of them

Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Jul 9

Free ticket here:
(Pic above shows Diana Redgrave enchanting our audience last year)
www.connectionwithwonder.com/calendar

Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Jul 9

THIS SATURDAY in #Waterloo SE1
Relax in our beautiful garden, be transported into a world of myth legend & folklore. With storytellers Mary Honeybone, Reem Maghribi, Leanne Bevan, @merlfluin.bsky.social, Vilheimina Helberg Moberg, Debbie Chazen, Kate Portal& Fran Mackenzie!
#Free.
Link in comment⬇️

The garden at St John Waterloo with adult audience of listeners and a storyteller

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Jun 21

look at @dragonflytales.bsky.social storytelling!!

Emily Dragonfly @dragonflytales.bsky.social · Jun 21

It has been FANTASTIC storytelling in schools for National Literacy Trust this term for their Young Readers Programme. ❤️
#storytelling #stories #youngreaders #nationalliteracytrust #storytellinginschools #schools @literacy-trust.bsky.social

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Jun 21

Welcome to a sunny day in Barnes for @barneskidslitfest.bsky.social That’s Not My

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Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hehe!!

Connection With Wonder @londondreamtime.bsky.social · Jun 18

Join me for some fish and chips round at ours #peckham #london

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