Two orchestra performances, additional music entertainment and an electronics recycling event highlight weekend events on the Peninsula.
• The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series will perform a free concert at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 45 Redeemer Way in Chimacum.
There are no tickets and no reservations; donations will be accepted at the door.
The concert will feature Joel Wallgren, clarinet; Michael Carroll, piano; Marina Rosenquist, violin; Marcy Stewart, viola; Pamela Roberts, cello; Sung-Ling Hsu, piano; Jeanie Oneppo, soprano; Vincent Oneppo, clarinet; and Lisa Lanza, piano.
The program will include:
• Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Opus 128, movements. 3 and 4, by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
• Piano Quartet in C minor, Opus 13, Andante, by Richard Strauss.
• Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, K. 304, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Élégie, Opus 24 for Cello and Piano, by Gabriel Fauré.
• Zwei Gesänge, Opus 91 for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano, by Johannes Brahms.
• “By Strauss” for Soprano and Piano, by George Gershwin.
There will be a short reception following the performance.
For more information, visit www.ptsymphony.org.
• “The Importance of Being Earnest” will finish its run with shows at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday 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.
• The Port Angeles Community Players will open its production of “Almost, Maine” with performances at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Tuesdays and matinee performances at 2 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 13.
The play is onstage 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 60s.
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.
• “World Chant/Kirtan Evening with Gina Salā” is set for 7 tonight at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend.
Salā also will conduct the “Profound Sound: Shakti Mantra, Sound Yoga and Raga Workshop” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday; the workshop also will be at the fellowship.
Tickets for Friday’s offering are $27 per person online or $33 at the door; tickets for Saturday’s workshop are $50 per person online or $60 at the door; tickets for both are $75.
For online ticket sales, visit www.ginasala.com/calendar.
Salā, a global vocalist and former lead vocalist with Cirque du Soleil, and her band will offer an evening of world music and chant which is designed to uplift and unite.
At Saturday’s workshop, Salā will guide participants in an experience of the yoga of sound, bhakti chant, sound tantra along with warmups, raga, refined mantra for a clear mind and healing songs.
No particular abilities or belief systems are required for workshop participants.
• Poetry on the Salish Sea will present its final reading for the 2024 season at 3 p.m. Sunday at Wilderbee Farm and Meadery, 223 Cook Ave. Extension, Port Townsend.
This month’s readers include Rick Barot, Melissa Kwasny and Jacqueline Allen Trimble.
Barot, who was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, currently lives in Tacoma, where he directs The Rainier Writing Workshop.
Barot’s collection, “Want,” won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize.
He is the author of “The Galleons” and “The Darker Fall” and will publish a new collection, “Moving the Bones,” this year.
Kwasny, a former Montana Poet Laureate, is the author of seven collections of poems, including “The Cloud Path” and “Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today.”
A portion of her collection, “Pictograph,” received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.
Kwasny also is the author of “Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision” and has edited multiple anthologies, including Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800–1950 and, with M.L. Smoker, “I Go to the Ruined Place.”
Trimble is a professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Ala.
Trimble is the author of “How to Survive the Apocalypse” and her collection, “American Happiness,” won the Balcones Poetry Prize.
The free readings will be conducted outdoors. Attendees are encouraged to dress accordingly and to bring low-backed chairs or blankets for seating.
Small-batch, handcrafted mead and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.
For more information, visit www.poetrysalishsea.com.
• Big Sky City Lights will perform at Port Ludlow Performing Arts’ Champagne Season Opener at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.
Tickets are $35 per person at www.portludlow performingarts.com. Season tickets also are available.
The indie duo is composed of Montana-based Nick Spear and New York City-based Susan O’Dea.
The pair met while working with Alpine Theater Company in Montana. Then, during the COVID-19 pandemic, they began singing cover songs together on a virtual platform.
O’Dea would sit in her bathtub, as it was the quietest place in her apartment, and record her vocal tracks, and Spear would record his vocal tracks in his home studio in Montana. Then they would edit the tracks together.
Big Sky City Lights will release an extended-play album, “A Mountain to Go,” in October.
• The Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra will present “Family Pops” at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles.
The public also is invited to attend the orchestra’s final dress rehearsal at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Tickets are $20 to $25 per person for the evening show. Tickets for the morning rehearsal are $10 each. Children 18 and younger will be admitted free when accompanied by a paying adult.
Tickets are on sale at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., Port Angeles, or online at www.portangeles symphony.org.
The program includes “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Walter Damrosch and John Philip Sousa, arranged by John Stafford Smith; “Festive Overture” by Shostakovich; the march from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” by John Williams; “All I Ask of You” from Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber; “A Colorful Symphony” from The Phantom Tollbooth by Robert Xavier Rodriguez; the theme from “Mission: Impossible” by Lalo Schifrin and arranged by Calvin Custer; “Mars” and “Jupiter” from The Planets by Gustav Holst; “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land by Aaron Copland; “America the Beautiful” by Samuel Ward; and John Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever March.”
The full symphony will perform five more concerts during this season as well as three chamber concerts.
• Mia Torres will perform from 5 to 7 tonight at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Bread and Gravy will perform from 7 to 10 tonight at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 S. Del Guzzi Road, Port Angeles. There will be a $10 minimum charge.
• The Tony Petrillo Trio will perform from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 S. Del Guzzi Road, Port Angeles. There will be a $10 minimum charge.
• Peter Spencer and the Maxwell Street All-Stars will perform from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at The Roosevelt, 115 E. Railroad Ave., Port Angeles. No cover charge.
• The Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday on the porch of the barn at Wilderbee Farm and Meadery, 223 Cook Ave. Extension, Port Townsend.
Sketching opportunities include the flower garden, pumpkin patch, heritage sheep, chickens, lavender, the barn and trees.
After sketching around the farm, the group will reconvene at noon in front of the barn to share their work and take a photo.
The event is open to all skill levels.
For more information, visit www.urbansketchers porttownsend.wordpress.com.
• Olympic Kiwanis Club and SBK Recycling will conduct an electronics recycling event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot at Civic Field, 307 S. Race St., Port Angeles.
According to organizers, the first event in March was so successful, collecting 21,250 pounds of electronic equipment, that SBK will bring two trucks this weekend.
The following items will be accepted for recycling: computers, laptops, servers, printers, LCD monitors, LCD TVs, printer ink and toner, networking items, server racks, hard drives, circuit boards, wire, UPS battery backups, computer accessories, cable boxes, video game consoles, home electronics, MP3 players, cell phones, iPads and other tablets, video games, stereo equipment and miscellaneous electronics.
Organizers cannot accept appliances, tube TVs or monitors, projection TVs, batteries or exercise equipment.
Donated devices will either be fixed and resold by SBK Recycling or disassembled for parts.
It’s recommended that personal data be wiped from the machines, if possible.
Proceeds from the collection will support Kiwanis programs for foster families, Camp Beausite NW for individuals with disabilities, the Kids Fishing Derby at Lincoln Park, working with teens through the Key Club and the re-build the Dream Playground.
For more information, call Chuck Standley at 360-809-0731.
• Feiro Marine Life Center will participate in “Our World: Worldwide Day of Play” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Feiro Marine Life Center at the Port Angeles City Pier, 315 N. Lincoln St.
The event, sponsored by Nickelodeon and the Association of Children’s Museums, offers free admission to the center for children younger than 18 and will include open Lego builds and art activities in Feiro’s classroom along with outdoor games, a scavenger hunt and beach art.
For more information, visit www.childrens museums.org/dayofplay.
• The Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association will host a jam session from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, Chimacum.
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.
• Mary Crook and Gail Ditmore will show how to create fresh bouquets during a Work to Learn party at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Terrace Garden in Carrie Blake Community Park, 202 N. Blake Ave., Sequim.
Participants will make arrangements from the society’s dahlia and roses.
The presentation is free and open to the public; attendees should bring a vase and clippers.
For more information, call Dona Brock at 360-460-8865 or email brockdl88@gmail.com.
