Art walks, a stage production and a symphony performance highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
The 57th Monday Musicale concert will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 301 E. Lopez Ave., Port Angeles.
Todd Ortloff, who won a Monday Musicale scholarship in 1987, will emcee and also perform with Amanda Bacon.
Tickets are $15 per person at Pacific Mist Book Store, 121 W. Washington St., Sequim, and at Port Books and News, 104 E. First St., Port Angeles, or $20 at the door.
Other performers in the annual fundraising concert include cellist Marlene Moore and pianist Don Mischel; Kristin Quigley Brye, a classical pianist and adjunct professor of music at Peninsula College; and 1978 scholarship winner Jimmy Hoffman with his sons, Eric and Corey.
Monday Musicale has awarded more that $190,000 in music scholarships to 200 students since 1968.
• The Seafarer’s Festival, hosted by Dano Quinn, is set for 6 p.m. Saturday at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock.
The annual festival of dinner and stories is free. Donations at the door will benefit Bayside Housing and Services.
Presenters include Katelinn Shaw, Quinn, Gary Keister, Wayne Chimenti and Matt Moeller; music will be provided from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. by Mike and Val James.
Quinn, the evening’s host, spent 20 years sailing on tall ships before settling in the Salish Sea.
Shaw, the captain of The Adventuress, has circumnavigated the globe and been to Antarctica in a square rigger.
Keister, from Anacortes, sailed with his grandfather fishing the waters of Puget Sound and Alaska on the F/V Veribus.
Chimenti, who has sailed for more than 40 years on tall ships as a captain, rigger and sailmaker, runs the Community Boat Project, teaching boat building and seamanship to high schoolers.
Moeller, a sailor, singer and songwriter, is retired and lives in Lacey.
Attendees can reserve seat at https://seafarersfestival2024.eventbrite.com.
• “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” a Ghostlight production, will have shows at 7 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and a matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Saturdays through Nov. 9.
The production will be onstage in the auditorium at Sequim High School, 601 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Tickets range from $10 to $20 per person at www.ghostlightwa.org.
The musical, written by Stephen Sondheim, tells the story of Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London to get revenge on the judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife.
• Andre Feriante will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.studiobob.art or $24 at the door.
Feriante has performed flamenco fusion in Port Angeles for more than 20 years at such venues as the Fine Arts Center, the Juan de Fuca Festival and the Lost Mountain Guitar Festival.
He will be joined by tenor Steve Thoreson and Chicago bluesman Eric Fredrich to form the Troupe de Ville trio.
The trio also will be joined by special guest Paul Cesar, a Brazilian cellist.
• RainShadow Chorale will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “All Night Vigil” at 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 1111 Franklin St., Port Townsend.
Tickets are available at the door for $20 per person, $10 for students.
Rachmaninoff wrote this piece in 1915 in the first months of World War I just prior to the Russian Revolution.
The hourlong work is unaccompanied and the texts of the 15 parts of the ritual are in Old Church Slavonic, a language spoken only in Orthodox Church services, and the vocal demands are extreme, especially for low basses.
The concerts will begin with three more contemporary pieces in English, which are written in the tradition of looking back at Russian culture.
For more information, visit www.rainshadow chorale.org.
• First Friday Art Walk will celebrate autumn with an brown-themed art walk from 5 to 8 tonight at various venues in downtown Sequim.
Maps for the self-guided tour are available at www.sequimartwalk.com.
Special events in November include:
— Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., will host a reception for Melissa Doyel and Julie Hembree.
Doyel and Hembree will exhibit “Thankful for Nature’s Treasures” during November.
Doyel, who paints in both watercolor and acrylic, paints images of subjects that capture her attention and her emotion.
Hembree collects sea glass, shells or anything else that she might incorporate into her repurposed art while wandering the local beaches with her dog Rex.
“Thankful for Nature’s Treasures” will be featured in the windows of Blue Whole Gallery throughout November.
— The A. Milligan Art Studio and Gallery, 520 N. Sequim Ave, will feature new artwork in the main gallery’s “Duet” exhibit by Suzan Noyes and gallery owner Anne Milligan.
“Duet” features pastel, a versatile medium that can be used as a drawing tool or like a paint brush; wet or dry, and in combination with watercolor, ink or acrylic paint.
The two artists bring differing approaches to pastel art, and the exhibit showcases their unique styles and hand.
— Sequim Museum and Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave., will host a reception for the artists on exhibit in the 19th North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival’s “Sublime Marvel – Splendor, Enterprise, & Awe.”
Artists displaying work in the exhibit include Lora Armstrong, Aaron Asselin, Renne Emiko Brock, Jordan Carter, Caroline Evergreen, Liisa Fagerlund, Mary Lou Giacomelli, Lynn Gilles, Jennifer Harris, Estelle Jackson, Connie McGuire, Robin Nelson, Sew ‘n Sews, Marla Varner, Prabha Werner and Jean Wyatt.
— Pacific Mist Books, 122 W. Washington St., will host Melanie Richardson Dundy, the author of a new children’s picture book, “Does Santa Have A Dog?”
For more information, including adding a venue or an artist to the listing, call Renne Emiko Brock at 360-460-3023 or email renneemiko@gmail.com.
• Franziska Pietsch will step onto the stage for two performances Saturday, a 10 a.m. public rehearsal and a 7:30 p.m. concert, both at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave.
Port Angeles Symphony conductor and artistic director Jonathan Pasternack, who is celebrating his 10th anniversary season, will give a short pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m.
Pietsch, who will make her first trip to Washington state, will be surrounded by the orchestra in this first full symphony series concert of the 2024-2025 season.
Information, along with details about specially priced season ticket packages, can be found at www.portangelessymphony.org or by calling the symphony office, 360-457-5579.
Individual concert tickets may be purchased online, at Port Book & News in Port Angeles or at the door.
In the second half of the concert comes Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, with its many moods and colors — another kind of journey, Pietsch said.
Pasternack also looks forward to the full season of symphony and chamber orchestra concerts, with soloists including cellist Gregorio Nieto on Dec. 14, Port Angeles-bred violinist Erin Hennessey on Jan. 17 and 18, well-known local cellist Traci Tyson Feb. 15, violin virtuosa Rachel Lee Priday on March 22, and de Solaun’s return May 3.
Season packages are available, with savings of up to 35 percent over single ticket prices.
• The inaugural Functional Art of Quimper show will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Cotton Building, 607 Water St. in Port Townsend.
The show will feature the work of local artisans John McCormack, Gunter Reimnitz and Darin Clark.
Reimnitz, a metalsmith who was born on Kodiak Island, Alaska, grew up fishing for salmon on his family’s 42-foot fishing boat.
His steel sculptures often feature wildlife.
McCormack is a woodworker who brings his sense of humor and whimsy into his furniture design.
Clark is a woodworker at Rain Shadow Woodworks.
• First Saturday Art Walk will feature receptions at Gallery-9 and the Port Townsend Gallery from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Port Townsend.
— Gallery-9, 1012 Water St., will feature the oil paintings and cloisonné jewelry of Linda Lundell and the ceramic art of Mike Middlestead during Saturday’s art walk.
Lundell’s art conveys the essence of nature. Her paintings capture the living abundance of a rain forest or the transparent quality of water.
Her technique is an impressionistic style of realistic oil painting. A piece looks real from a distance, but up close, one gets lost in abstract dabs of color.
Her cloisonné jewelry are crafted heirloom that create replicas of hummingbirds, irises and other symbols of nature.
Middlestead, a 25-year Coast Guard veteran, is a ceramic artist who finds inspiration is the outdoors and in people connecting with art. He makes functional ware, such as bowls, mugs or oil decanters; artistic pieces, such as vases; and sculptures.
Lundell’s oil paintings and cloisonné jewelry and Middlestead’s ceramics will be on display from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays throughout November.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
— The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host an opening reception for “Woodn’t’ It Be Lovely,” an exhibit by Sue Stanton and Phil Carrico, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Stanton and Carrico, the gallery’s featured artists for November, will exhibit throughout the month.
Both artists use wood to create their work, but in radically different ways.
Stanton, who has worked with many different media, uses wood to create her three-dimensional art.
Carrico, on the other hand, uses wood to create reduction prints.
His reduction block prints start with a sketch of his idea and a selection of the colors for the final print.
He then carves a block of wood, removing wood from the areas he wants to show as white on the final print.
After using the block to apply the lightest color to up to 12 prints, Carrico removes more wood from where he wants the lightest color to show through and applies the next lightest color.
The process is repeated, sometimes for as many as 15 colors over several months.
In the process, the block is destroyed and no more prints can be made.
“Woodn’t’ It Be Lovely” will be on exhibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at the Port Townsend Gallery.
For more information, call the gallery at 360-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsend gallery.com.
For more information or a list of other participating venues, visit www.pt creativedistrict.org/artwalk.
• Sarah Shea and Chez Jazz will perform from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St., Sequim. No cover charge.
• The Tess Teel Trio will perform from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 S. Del Guzzi Drive, Port Angeles. No cover charge.
• The Holiday Bazaar will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Shipley Center, 921 Hammond St. in Sequim.
The annual bazaar will feature crafts, gifts and a bake sale.
Leo’s Café, in the center, will be open for lunch on both days.
• Aaron Whitefoot, a member of the Yakama tribe, will present “Hunting, Fishing and Native Sovereignty” on Friday and Saturday.
The Humanities Washington presentation will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the Sekiu Community Center, 42 Rice St., Sekiu, and at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Forks Branch Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., Forks.
Whitefoot will discuss the history and lingering tensions from the Treaty of 1855.
Whitefoot graduated from the Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan., and taught hunting, fishing, tying nets, and cutting and processing elk as a tradition bearer in the Heritage Arts Apprenticeship Program from the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions.
For more information, call 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• “20s and 30s Meetup: BINGlow,” a free bingo session hosted by the North Olympic Library System, will be from 6 to 7 tonight at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Adults in their 20s and 30s are invited to play bingo under ultraviolet lights.
BINGlow features bingo cards, chip and prizes that glow in the dark. Prizes include local gift cards, glow-in-the-dark swag and a special grand prize.
For more information, call the library at 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• The 20th Holiday Fair will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., Port Townsend.
The fair will feature three buildings of vendors, photos with Santa, a raffle and a bake sale.
The annual fair raises funds for the Jefferson County Fair.
For more information, call 360-385-1013 or email fair.director@jeffcofairgrounds.org.
• A crossword puzzle contest sponsored by the North Olympic Library System will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Locally Known Cowork, 112 W. Washington St., Sequim.
Contestants may work alone or in teams of two to complete three crossword puzzles.
All teams will have the same three puzzles to work, one easy and two medium difficulty.
The contest is open to adults and youths 12 and older.
Puzzles will be scored based on the official American Crossword Puzzle Tournament rules, with points awarded for correct words, fully complete and correct puzzles, and bonus points based on solution time.
Results will be announced on the library’s Facebook page on Tuesday.
More contests are planned for Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles, and Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Forks Branch Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., Forks.
For more information, call the library at 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• The 43rd Flea Market and Bazaar will be from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., Port Angeles.
The market will feature more than 40 tables and two couches.
Proceeds will benefit the center.
For more information, call 360-457-7004.
• Chapter JC of the P.E.O. will host its 15th Holiday Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Sequim Community Church, 950 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim.
The bazaar will feature crafts, gifts, books, home-baked goods, handmade and hand-painted jewelry, hand-stitched gifts, canned goods, small gift baskets and an assortment of games and puzzles.
Raffle tickets will be on sale for $1. Raffle prizes include at least one quilt and raffle baskets; drawings will begin at 1:50 p.m. Winners do not need to be present.
Proceeds will benefit scholarships, grants and loans for women.
• Ann Evanow will address a meeting of the North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The guild meets at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033 N. Barr Road, on the first Saturday of each month.
Evanow will discuss indigenous weaving.
The guild will discuss its upcoming sale during the second half of the meeting.
For more information, email n.o.shuttleand spindleguild@gmail.com or visit www.nossg.org.
• Cranksgiving, a bicycle food drive, is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday.
Registration will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Port Angeles Farmers Market in the Gateway Transit Center.
Cranksgiving is part bike ride, part food drive and part scavenger hunt.
The food drive will benefit the Port Angeles Food Bank.
For more information, email Matthew Moore at info.pa.cranks@gmail.com or visit www.cranksgiving.org.
A similar event in support of the Sequim Food Bank is planned for Nov. 23 in Sequim.
