Music, food and fun can be found around the Peninsula this weekend. Spooky-themed events are also beginning at area venues. Several educational offerings are also scheduled at community locations.
• Matthew Daline and Jennifer Chung will perform at the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra’s first chamber concerts of the seasons.
The pair will perform at 7 tonight at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave., Port Angeles, and at 7 p.m. Saturday at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 N. Blake Ave., Sequim.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.portangelessymphony.org.
Chung will play piano and Daline will play the violin and viola during this weekend’s recitals.
The program features Mozart’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, K. 303; Price’s “Adoration” for Violin and Piano; Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160: No. 6, “Vallée d’Obermann;” Hovhaness’ “Chahagir” for Solo Viola, Op. 56a; and Brahms’ Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120.
The full symphony will perform with a guest soloist, German violinist Franziska Pietsch, on Nov. 2.
• The Port Angeles Community Players finishes its production of “Almost, Maine” with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd. in Port Angeles.
Tickets are $18 each and $9 for students; unsold tickets to Tuesday night performances will be sold for $9 each at the door. Tickets are available online at www.pacommunityplayers.org or at the box office, 30 minutes before each performance.
The play, written by John Cariani and co-directed by Barbara Frederick and Ken Winters, features a cast of local actors ranging in ages from their teens to their 60’s.
The play, set in a remote, mythical town in northern Maine, takes the form of a series of vignettes each exploring the joys, and challenges, of falling in, and out, of love.
• Key City Public Theatre will continue its production of the musical, “Wild Man of the Wynoochee,” with shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and matinee performances at 1:30 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 27 at the theater , 419 Washington St. in Port Townsend.
The Oct. 13 matinee will feature an American Sign Language interpretive performance.
Tickets range from $5 to $59 per person and are available at keycitypublictheatre.org/wildman.
The show brings the story of John Tornow to the stage.
Tornow, sometimes referred to as the Wild Man of the Pacific Northwest, was accused of killing two teenaged boys in the Wynoochee Valley in Grays Harbor County.
Tornow was killed in a gun battle during the spring of 1913, after a two-year manhunt.
The libretto explores the themes of love, loss, survival and wildness.
• The Port Angeles Farmers Market will temporarily relocate to Pebble Beach, at the west end of Railroad Avenue, this weekend.
The year-round market is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.
The market’s usual venue, the Gateway Transit Center, will host part of the annual Dungesness Crab Festival this weekend.
The market will return to the transit center on Oct. 19.
For more information, email portangelesfarmersmarket@gmail.com or visit www.portangelesfarmersmarket.com.
• The Second Saturday Art Walk is set from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at participating Port Angeles businesses.
Galleries participating in the free monthly self-guided tour include:
• Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., will host a reception for Port Angeles printmaker Nathan Shields from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Shields will be exhibiting a series of nature scenes that he has been working on since the beginning of the year.
Although Shields primarily works with multi-color linocut and woodcut prints, he will have drawings on display as well.
• Cabled Fiber and Yarn, 125 W. First St., will host felting artist Michelle Johnson from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Samples of Johnson’s works will be on display and for sale during the art walk.
Johnson first became interested in fiber art 30 years ago at the Kansas City Art Institute by the brief glimpses of color, texture and patterning she saw each day as she passed the fiber studio.
For more information, call 360-504-2233 or email info@cabledfiber.com.
• Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., will host an opening reception for a new exhibit, “Body Horror,” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The reception features music, spooky movies, food and drink specials at the Loom Bar and a community craft project.
The exhibit includes works by Sarah Tucker, Christopher Allen and Richard Stephens.
For more information, visit www.studiobob.art.
• Dawn and Steve will perfrom from 7 to 10 tonight at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 S. Del Guzzi St., Port Angeles. $10 cover charge.
• Gerry Sherman will perform from 5 pm. to 7 p.m. Saturday in Spirits Bar and Grill in the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• DJ Jean Bettanny will play music for a variety dance from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday in Brigid’s Loft, 280 Quincy St., Port Townsend. Bettanny will provide a free West Coast Swing lesson beginning at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per person.
• The Jesse Lee Trio will perform from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday for Jazz Night at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 S. Del Guzzi St., Port Angeles. $10 cover charge.
• Drew Wilson-McGrath will host Comedy Night with Tyler Boeth and Dianna Potter at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Sunset Lounge at Field Arts and Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles. Tickets are $28 per person.
• Rob Scheps will perform at noon Sunday in the Sunset Lounge at Field Arts and Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles. No cover charge.
• Tony and the Roundabouts will perform at 6:30 p.m. Sunday for the Second Sunday Social Dance at Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., Port Townsend. Admission is by donation.
• The Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association will host a jam session from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 Fifth Ave., Sequim.
The final hour of the jam session is dedicated to a performance of old time music.
Performers with other acoustic instruments, such as guitars, banjos, basses, dobros, mandolins, autoharps, ukuleles and dulcimers are welcome to attend.
The jam session is free, although donations to support the district’s scholarship program are welcome.
• Laura Me Smith will call a contra dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Black Diamond Community Hall, 1942 Black Diamond Road, Port Angeles.
Music will be provided by the Celtic/Canadian Folk band, Na Mara.
Smith will teach a free lesson at 7 p.m. to those who have paid admission.
The requested donation is $10 per person, $5 for youths younger than 18.
• Out Loud Story Slam will present “Grand Slam: Regrettably” storytelling championship at 7 tonight at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.olympictheatrearts.org or $25 at the door
Tellers Star Pittman, Heidi Hansen, Jeri Seamands, Emma Amiad, Sarah Tucker, Doug Woodall and Trisha Haggerty, all winners from previous Story Slams, will share tales on the theme Regrettably.
Nessa Goldman will host and guest judges from the North Olympic Library System, the Clallam Story People and Bremerton-based Story Night will name the Grand Slam Champion and award prizes to the top three tellers.
• Larry Cates will present “An Introduction to Wills and Estates for Family History” at 9:45 a.m. Saturday.
Cates will address a meeting of the Clallam County Genealogical Society on Zoom.
Cates will discuss ways that property is passed between generations, how the accounts of a deceased person are reconciled and how the records can be located and accessed.
The public can join the Zoom session or watch it at the society’s Port Angeles research center, 403 E. Eighth St.
To request the meeting link, call the center at 360-417-5000 or email clallamresearcher@gmail.com.
For more information, visit www.clallamcogs.org.
• Rachel Dunn will present “Landscaping on Septic Drainfields” at 12:15 Saturday in the Humphrey Room at the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave.
Dunn, a Jefferson County master gardener, will share tips on how to cultivate on drainage fields while maintaining the health of the septic system.
Dunn’s lecture will be followed at 1 p.m. by the Jefferson County Master Gardener’s monthly “Ask a Master Gardener!” plant clinic in the Humphrey Room and also by Jadyne Reihner’s seed saving class outside the library in the Hagen Building.
For more information, visit www.jclibrary.info.
• Haunted Walks though Downtown Port Townsend are planned for this Saturday and Oct. 19.
Late afternoon tours have been added at 4 p.m. on both days to accommodate demand.
Tickets are $25 per person at www.ptmainstreet.org/haunted-histories-mysteries-of-port-townsend.
The guided tours, sponsored by the Port Townsend Main Street Program, will highlight the city’s haunted past and present.
• Eileen Meyer will present “The Last Big Fear” from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Meyer will be onstage at the Rainshadow Cafe, 157 W. Cedar St., Sequim.
Meyer will be discussing her lifetime experiences with nonhuman intelligence.
• Imagined Reality will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday on stage at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Tickets are $15 per person at www.olympictheatrearts.org or or at the box office.
Members of Imagined Reality create one-of-a-kind improvisational shows based on suggestions from the audience.
• The Port Townsend Police Department will present its second K9 Demonstration at 1 p.m. Sunday at Blue Heron Middle School, 3939 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend.
Officers will showcase the skills of their canine partners during the free public demonstration.
