Lesley can craft and create a performance for any curriculum area or community event. Promote literacy for children Teachers & Presenters – “We never missed the early morning performance of Lesley Dowding.  She brought alive the work of our famous authors such as K. Mansfield, Patricia Grace and the world famous Tolkein.  The theatre was transformed to a different place & we were spellbound, no one moved, the atmosphere was electric.  The images will remain, the voice, the movement.  The Doll’s House light, the cold of Bilbos’s Mountain, fantastic."

Lesley is a literacy consultant and facilitator, providing workshops for teachers and students -

• Link the Thinking
• Performer at Community Tales / Historical
• Lesley uses tales people tell her and crafts them into live performance.
• Storyteller at the Pioneer Village, Stratford, Taranaki
• Performer at Puke Ariki – Resident Storyteller
• Conference Performer and Presenter
• NZRA New Zealand Reading Association
• Quote Mansfield to Middle Earth – Te Papa, Wellington

Latest News

September/October 2008

Lesley is currently on a United Kingdom tour, visiting Oxford, Warwick and in Ireland she will be presenting a Paper entitled "Building Best Practice" at the Irish Reading Conference. Lesley returns from the UK on October 17.

Early in September Lesley was also involved with the Duffy Books Children's Festival held at Puke Ariki.

New Book Out Now

Lesley Dowding, in collaboration with artist Margaret Scott, has a new book out entitled "Midnight at the Lighthouse"

Order now from the Books page.