​​The Backyard Story Series

The Backyard Story Series at the Historic Leopold House is a night to share and listen to true stories from your neighbors, friends, strangers, professional writers, amateur writers, and people like you.​​

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...August Storytelling Recordings Coming Soon...

​AUGUST'S THEME:
LAND-BASED HEALING


​For August's Backyard Story Night, we invite stories of land-based healing. 

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Tell us about a place that held you through grief, helped you recover, restored your sense of belonging, or brought you back to yourself. Maybe healing came through tending a garden, walking a familiar trail, learning from a landscape, or reconnecting with ancestral lands. We welcome stories about the ways the land teaches, nurtures, and heals us, and the relationships that grow from that care.

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The August Storytelling Night theme is in collaboration with our August Environmental Writing Workshop of the same theme, hosted by poet Jessica Helen Lopez. Learn more here.
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​About the Backyard Story Series
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Picking up from a Nob Hill-based Backyard Story Night that took place from 2015 - 2019, the Leopold House Backyard Story Series invites anyone interested in a connection between humans and Nature to share their stories. Modeled after The Moth, the event features stories that are inspiring, educational, sad, funny, moving, poetic, eerie, or all of the above. 

Stories are five minutes long and read back to back for an hour in the large, shady backyard of the Historic Leopold House. Bring a blanket or chair and come listen or tell a story on a shady lawn in downtown Albuquerque.

Why do we do it?
To deepen our relationship with each other and with the more-than-human world through listening and sharing.

Are you interested in sharing a story?

Learn More Here

WHEN IS IT?

​WHEN:
Sunday, August 30th
6:00 PM - 8:00PM
Arrive at 6:00 PM to mingle and explore the Leopold House. Storytelling starts promptly at 6:30 PM.

WHERE:
The Historic Aldo Leopold House
135 14th St SW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
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COST:
Free!
​Be sure to bring a blanket, chair, or something to sit on.
​Feel free to bring snacks or drinks. All ages are welcome.

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