The Port Townsend Film Festival, community theater productions and the Quilcene Fair and Parade will highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The 25th Port Townsend Film Festival will bring more than 60 films to the Peninsula this weekend.
Attendees can choose from a number of film genres, whether they’re interested in feature or short films, narrative or documentary.
For tickets and schedule details, visit www.ptfilm.org.
A number of ticketing options are available, including full weekend passes, those including three or six tickets, or individual screenings.
Persons with limited resources can contact organizers at info@ptfilm.org to request a free six-pass. Free passes are mostly funded by money made from the patron tier pass sales.
Among the festival’s many special guests will be Catherine Hardwicke, best known for directing “Twilight.”
The festival will screen her film “Thirteen” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the American Legion, 209 Monroe St.
• The Ludlow Village Players will finish their production of “Murdered to Death” with performances at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.
Tickets are $19 per person at www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/140294.
The play, written by Peter Gordon and directed by Kate Marshall, is set in a 1930s country manor, where a cast of eccentric characters try to solve the murder of the manor’s owner.
The plot thickens with the arrival Inspector Pratt, who stumbles through the investigation with a level of incompetence that only adds to the fun.
For more information, visit www.ludlowvillageplayers.org.
• “The Importance of Being Earnest” will open with shows at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and matinees at 2 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 29 in the Gathering Hall at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Tickets are $20 per person, $15 for students at www.olympictheatrearts.org or by calling the box office at 360-683-7326 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.
The comedy, written by Oscar Wilde, is the story of two bachelors who create alter egos, both named Earnest, to escape their tiresome Victorian lives.
The men struggle throughout the play to keep up with their own stories in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure.
• “Sparks of Connection: In Celebration of Fem Fabrication,” will have an opening reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday in the Esther Webster Gallery at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The exhibition highlights female artists who wield their creativity through welding and fabrication to inspire greater diversity within the trade.
Heather Dawn Sparks, the exhibit’s featured artist, works with metal blended with intricate paper cut-out designs.
Sparks will be joined by regional metal artists Nora Hughes, Sulai Lopez, Christine Mackenzie, Hailey Robinson and Karen Sixkiller.
“Sparks of Connection: In Celebration of Fem Fabrication” will be on display in the Esther Webster Gallery from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays through Nov. 3.
For more information, visit www.pafac.org.
• Sequim Community Church will kick off its fall Friday Night Live season at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the church’s Fellowship Center, 950 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim.
The free community gathering will begin with a potluck meal; attendees are encouraged to bring a dish to serve eight people.
The meal will be followed by Black Diamond Junction performing classic hits from the 1970s through 1990s.
Attendees are requested to RSVP at www.sequim communitychurch.org/fridaysocial.
• 2024 Quilcene Fair & Parade will start at 10 a.m. Saturday with food, vendors and a car show at the Quilcene School, 294715 U.S. Highway 101, Quilcene.
The parade, which will start at 11 a.m., is free to enter for any family-friendly organization and will include clubs, farms, animals, cars and businesses. Registration begins at 9 a.m.
Registration for the car show, now in its 20th year, is $20 and will open at 8 a.m. Saturday.
Trophies will be awarded for Best in Show, Best Hot Rod, Best Rat Rod and Best Vintage/Antique.
There also will be a trophy and $100 prize for the winner of the Burn Out Contest, which will start at 11:45 a.m. behind the football field.
There will be a community photo in the street after the parade, as well as raffles, a kids carnival with prizes, Strait Up Foam Fun, the QuilScenery Photo Contest and community crafts and contests.
New this year will be RC World. All ages can bring their radio-controlled vehicle to run for free.
The Buck Ellard Band will perform from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
For more information, email quilcenefair@gmail.com or visit www. quilcenefair.org.
• Streamfest Forever, hosted by the Port Angeles Garden Club and the Clallam County Conservation District, is set from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Pebble Beach Park at the intersection of Front and Oak streets in Port Angeles.
Attendees can learn ways to join efforts to protect, restore and preserve streams and natural resources throughout the North Olympic Peninsula.
The family-friendly festival will feature food, a wine garden, music and environmental exhibits.
Exhibitors include Western Washington University’s College of the Environment, Feiro Marine Life Center, Friends of Ennis Creek, state Department of Natural Resources, Peninsula Trail Coalition and Streamkeepers.
For more information, visit www.portangeles gardenclub.org.
• There will be a reception for the closing of the exhibit “Design(ed) by Nature” from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at The Hub, 117 N. Lincoln St. in Port Angeles.
The reception will include drinks from Wonderland Wine, food from Upper Valley Charcuterie and live music by Hermit Mabon.
Admission is $10 per person, $8 for kids and seniors.
For more information, call the hub at 360-670-4173, email info@thehub.art or visit www.thehub.art.
• Iona Fyfe will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $20 online at www.rainshadowtickets.com or $25 at the door.
Fyfe, a folksinger from Aberdeenshire, sings in the traditions of the North East of Scotland. She performs both folk and pop songs in the Scots language.
She released her debut album, “Away From My Window,” in 2018 and the follow-up, “Dark Turn of Mind,” in 2019.
• Johnny Glatzer will perform from 5 to 7 tonight in Spirits Bar and Grill at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Hildaland will perform traditional Appalachian and Scottish music at 7 tonight at Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., Port Townsend. Admission is $20.
• Reckless Dove will perform from 7 to 9 tonight at The Hub, 117 N. Lincoln St., Port Angeles. Admission is $10 per person, $8 for kids and seniors.
• Dawn and Steve Martin will perform from 7 to 10 tonight at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 S. Del Guzzi Drive, Port Angeles. No cover charge.
• Martin Sosa will perform from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in Spirits Bar and Grill at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Joe Finn, Dina Trageser, Tedy Dimitrova, David Bilides and Michael Lawson will perform for a Balkan dance at 7 p.m. Saturday at Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., Port Townsend. Admission is $10 to $20.
• Owl 360 will host a free screening of “A New High” at 5 p.m. Friday at The Nest, 1119 Lawrence St., Port Townsend.
The film screening and discussion will be preceded by a training session on the use of Narcan by staff from Jefferson County Public Health.
The 2015 documentary explores a program at a Seattle homeless shelter that took addicts climbing on Mount Rainier to give them hope.
For more information, call Sonia Frojen at 234-303-0759, email soniaf@jefferson youthproject.org or visit www.owl360.org.
• Kitsap Bank will continue its “From Shred to Fed” fundraiser series from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
The Port Angeles branch, 716 E. Front St., Port Angeles, will accept monetary donations for the Port Angeles Food Bank.
Members of the public may bring up to 75 pounds of documents per vehicle for shredding along with a cash or check donation.
For more information, visit www.kitsapbank.com.
• Brian Johnson and David Sellman will demonstrate how to turn a variety of Christmas ornaments at 10 a.m. Saturday during a meeting of the Strait Turners woodturners club at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road, Gardiner.
Turners of all levels and those who wish to learn about the hobby are welcome.
For more information, email Lisa Brice, the club’s membership director, at lisakbrice@gmail.com.
• Master gardeners Jan Danford, Tom Del Hotal, Audreen Williams and Laurel Moulton will present “Reflections on the Garden: Q&A” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road in Sequim.
The panel, part of the Digging Deeper gardening series, will share reflections on the gardening season, discuss what went well in their own gardens this year and what did not.
They also will answer questions about ornamental plants, fruit and vegetable crops, lawns, beneficial insects, pests and diseases based on science and local gardening experience.
In addition to the Q&A, other master gardeners will be on hand from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to answer gardening questions.
For more information, call the county extension at 360-565-2679 or visit www.extension.wsu.edu/clallam.
• Rob Sorensen will discuss his new novel “Storm King’s Graveyard” from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Lake Crescent Lodge, 416 Lake Crescent Road in Olympic National Park.
Sorensen, a local author, also wrote “Arrow in Paradise.”
Copies of the book are available for purchase at the Lake Crescent Lodge Gift Shop as well as in Port Angeles at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., and at Swain’s General Store, 602 E. First St.
• A pancake breakfast is planned for 7:30 a.m. to noon Sunday at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, Sequim.
The menu includes ham, eggs, coffee, orange juice and all-you-can-eat pancakes.
The meal costs $8 per person, $4 for children 12 or younger; additional eggs or ham slices are available for 50 cents each.
• Square dance lessons for beginners will be at 4:30 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 29 at the Shipley Center, 921 E. Hammond St., Sequim.
The lessons are taught by the Strait Wheelers Square Dance Club.
The first lesson is free; subsequent lessons are $6 each.
For more information, call 360-670-5547.
