Saturday, November 7th @ 10:30AM – 1:30PM
Tickets $30 for this segment | $70 for full festival pass
Click here to see full festival schedule and featured storyteller bios

10:30 – 11:30a: Concurrent Workshops, Sunset Lounge
• “Storytellers Talk Too Much” with Colin Irwin

A workshop designed to enhance your storytelling performance skills with alternative use of language, voice, music and other simple techniques intended to bring a new level of interest and intensity to your practice. Irish storyteller, singer-songwriter, author Colin Urwin who will guide participants through some fun exercises and discussions and share a few tried and tested methods that he regularly incorporates into his dynamic and engaging performances.

• “Vividness, Verve and Vigor: Playing with Words” with Ingrid Nixon

Vivid language, plus verve and vigor in delivery makes for engaging, memorable stories. In this active workshop we’ll explore creative, compelling ways to use language to enliven the tales you tell. Bring a story you are working on and leave with practical ideas you can readily put into play.

11:45 – 1:45p: Break for lunch
Attendees encouraged to pre-order a boxed lunch through the Sunset Lounge at checkout. 

12:15 – 1:30p: Open Mic, Sunset Lounge
Tellers can sign up to tell any kind of story, 8-minute time limit.
 

27TH ANNUAL FOREST STORYTELLING FESTIVAL | NOVEMBER 5 – 7, 2026
For more information about the Forest Storytelling Festival, please visit: fieldhallevents.org/forest-storytelling-festival

Click here for an all-inclusive festival pass.

Welcome to the Annual Forest Storytelling Festival in Port Angeles, WA! World class storytellers will make you laugh uproariously and will tug at your heartstrings. Everyone — from preteens, grandparents and everybody in between — will find stories of love, comedy and inspiration.
Our storytellers will invite you into the lives of people, fictional and real. These are characters who are, on the inside, just like you. They’re also people from many cultures, coming alive in the voices of tellers from all over the globe.

Enjoy inspiring workshops, entertaining live performances with expert storytellers, networking opportunities, and open “story slam” opportunities for you to share your tales. A full weekend of stories inside the beautiful Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles, Washington.
The Story People of Clallam County is a guild that promotes the art of storytelling. We all have stories to share… come share them with us!