BEYOND tHRICE nINE lANDS

tales & songs for solstice eve

December 20 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM

St. Columba’s, Inverness California

On winter solstice eve, a night that once honored ancestral mothers and grandmothers (once known as Modranicht in Old English, which means something like “the Night of the Mothers”) I will be telling two old fairytales that sing of white-feathered bird women who have gone beyond the thrice nine kingdoms because they have been forgotten, stories of true love, impossible journeys, wild forests very much like the steep ridges of Inverness, and joyous rebirths. They are stories to light a fire in you as we step together into deep winter, stories to enchant and to awaken, and to call forth your own solstice season dreams.

Bring your blankets and sheepskins for a warm and nourishing evening of tales told the old way, and music woven through. There will be warm tea and cake offered during a brief intermission, and I may even sing a song or two before the night is done!

Tickets are $30.00 and can be purchased here

About the location: St. Columba’s is a beautiful wooden chapel, contemplative center and retreat house built in the early 1900’s in Inverness, California on the Point Reyes Peninsula. They have held a limited number of rooms (at a very reasonable cost) available for those who would like to stay the night after the event. After booking your ticket, you can send an inquiry to annahaight@stcolumbasinverness.org and tell her you are a guest for Sylvia Linsteadt’s storytelling evening, and book the room with her.