Celebrating the Winter Solstice: An Hour of Mystic Readings & Recitations

Join us in the Readings Gallery for an evening of storytelling, music, and poetry-readings in celebration of the winter solstice!

Featured Authors & Performers:

A.M. Linden (Margaret Jahn) – Author of the five-part series The Druid Chronicles

Gail Noble-Sanderson – Author of The Lavender House in Meuse, The Book of Rules, and A Cup of Revenge

Taya Sanderson Kesslau – Poet and author of Seven Year Silence.

Linda Conroy – Musician and author of the poetry collections Ordinary Signs and Familiar Sky

Mark Lindenbaum – Musician and member of the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra

Event Highlights:

Introductions by Gail Noble-Sanderson, kicking off the winter solstice celebrations!

Live Renaissance-style recorder duets performed by Linda Conroy and Mark Lindenbaum.

Readings of original poetry and prose by Taya Sanderson Kesslau and Linda Conroy exploring themes of nature, human complexity, and spiritual journey.

A live reading from The Valley (Book Two) by A.M. Linden, and a live reading of The Quarry (Book Four) read by Mark Lindenbaum.

More About the Authors & Performers:

Mark Lindenbaum is a longtime local chamber musician and jazz artist, retired physician, and principal tubist with the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra. He is returning to playing the recorder for this program after a 45 year hiatus!

Linda Conroy is a retired social worker and widely-published poet whose writing explores nature and the human spirit. She is the author of Ordinary Signs and Familiar Sky. When not writing or editing she enjoys playing music on various instruments, including the recorder.

Taya Sanderson Kesslau is a poet, Reiki Master, and believer in the power of kindness and beauty (and poetry and cookies!). Her poetry appears in several literary journals, and she is the author of Seven Year Silence. She lives in Bellingham, WA with her sweet husband and their many 4-legged creatures.

Gail Noble-Sanderson is a longtime Pacific Northwest resident and former Speech-Language Pathologist. She turned her passion for storytelling into a second career as a novelist, writing the Lavender Meuse Trilogy and is currently writing a cozy mystery series set in Wales, with her latest release, A Cup of Revenge.

A.M. Linden (Margaret Jahn) is a historical fiction author known for her Druid Chronicles series. She is also a retired nurse practitioner who has worked in a variety of acute care and community health settings, including the Whatcom County Health Department Program for Children with Special Health Care Needs. She is active in the local community and serves on the board of The Arc of Whatcom County.

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