Kirsten Louise Webb has been called “a midwife of story.” Born in Yamhill County, Oregon, she graduated from Yale a long while back; spent several years living entirely outdoors and on the road; and has worn a profusion of professional hats (including that of journalist, actress, editor, puppeteer, Martin Shaw’s tour manager, apothecary proprietor, ritual performance artist, and storyteller—much to the delight of her younger self). She was a co-founder, steward, and resident storyteller of The School of Mythopoetics, and has told tales and offered story-ritual in person throughout the Pacific Northwest and online across the globe. 

Kirsten Louise Webb is of Samí, French Canadian, Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian, and German ancestry, and lives amidst the lands and waters of the Salish Sea. A devotee of the mysteries of intuition, embodiment, and living as the Earth, she spent almost two decades traversing the underworlds of chronic illness, including a couple years living almost entirely outdoors.

Her writing, art, facilitation, and performance work focus on imagination, navigating uncertainty, body as Earth, cultivating the experience of collective as emergent organism, tending ancestral threads, weaving with and feeding the more-than-human realms, the power of story and ritual to illuminate and transform consciousness, and living into experimental and edgewalker ways of being to help evolve what’s possible amidst deep cultural and planetary shifting.

Details

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

Date: Wed. June 4, 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.