Joanna will tell Turn Around When Possible & Other Tales. From fairies to ghosts to historical women, Storyteller Joanna Demarest will take you on an adventure as she spins tales old and new.  Joanna delights, enchants, touches, inspires, and motivates her audiences as she takes them on journeys to fascinating places, helping them to understand what has gone before, and seeing what the future may hold.

Joanna has been telling stories to children and adults for over 30 years.  It all started when after reading every book on her daughter’s bookshelf, multiple times, her daughter wanted something new, so Joanna started creating fresh stories of her own.  This passion for sharing her stories has been fueled by her nineteen moves within the US and overseas as well as her seven years traveling the country living full-time in her RV home on wheels.  Joanna specializes in Liar’s Tales, Historical Character Interpretation, Traditional, Nature, and Southern Tales, Ghost Stories, Storytelling Workshops, and her own unique Ladybug Stories^©.  

Joanna is the Northwest Folklife Festival’s Storytelling Community Coordinator, an at-large member of  the Seattle Storytelling Guild, a member of the National Storytelling Network, & NSN’s Special Interest Group – YES! The Youth, Educators and Storytellers Alliance.

Details

Location: Raymond Carver Room, Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles, WA 98362

Date: Wed. Sept. 3, 2025.

Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Cost: Free

Open Mic

The featured teller will be preceded by open mic storytelling. Audience members are welcome to share a story of up to 10 minutes length. Anyone interested in telling a story is strongly encouraged to develop it and practice it at the monthly Story Work session on Zoom — find more information on our Facebook page. Guidelines for storytellers can be found by clicking here.