The Second Saturday Art Walk, a jigsaw puzzle contest and tree plantings highlight weekend events on the Peninsula.
• The Port Angeles Arts Council will begin its 2025 Second Saturday Art Walk season from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at various venues in downtown Port Angeles.
The council is planning for monthly Art Walks featuring local artists in various downtown businesses through September.
Special events this month include:
• Cabled Fiber and Yarn, 125 W. First St., will host “Beyond Quilting, Crochet and Knitting” from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The exhibit will provide hands-on demonstrations of weaving without a loom, cardboard weaving, felting, embroidery, using a knitting loom, embellishments, locker hooking and punch needlework.
“We’re excited to share the wealth of possibilities in textile-based artwork, decorative fiber works and sculptural fiber creations,” said MarySue French, co-owner of Cabled Fiber. “In fact, we’d love for the public bring their own art form and demonstrate with us.”
Attendees will see a variety of new and traditional techniques and tools.
For more information, call 360-504-2233, email info@cabledfiber.com or visit www.cabledfiber.com.
• The Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., will host a reception for Nancy McFaul from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
McFaul, a local painter, will display her new series, “It’s a Checkerboard World,” in the gallery’s Featured Work room.
In the series, McFaul cuts apart old canvases then weaves them together to create new abstract paintings.
McFaul studied design in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., before moving to Seattle, where she ran a specialty bakery at Pike Place Market.
While living in Seattle, McFaul continued to study art by taking drawing and painting classes at Gage Academy of Art.
Jodi Riverstone, a fellow artist, praised McFaul’s work, describing it as “vibrant and uncontrived, with an immediacy that draws the viewer in. Her pieces evoke memories, stir the heart and ignite the imagination, inviting personal interpretation and metaphor. Her work is luscious, sometimes gritty, but always real.”
McFaul’s artwork can be viewed from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays at Harbor Art Gallery throughout January.
• Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., will host a reception for the opening of its 26th Bring Your Own Art Show from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The annual show, which features artwork submitted by local artists and community members, will be on exhibit through Feb. 1.
During the reception, Tin Sandwich will perform live music.
For more information, call the studio at 360-775-2160 or visit www.studio bob.art.
The Art Walk includes a passport system. Visitors can collect stickers from participating businesses and submit their passports into a drawing for a prize from a local business.
This month’s prize is two tickets to an event, chosen by the winner, at Studio Bob.
Other local businesses participating in Art Walk include One of a Kind Gallery, All In Arts Gallery, the Naval Elks Lodge, PN Wonderland Wine, The Hub, J Ryan Salon, Odyssey Books, Anime Kat, The Great Northern Coffee Bar, Field Arts & Events Hall, Moss and Kindred Home Collective.
For more information, visit www.portangeles artscouncil.org.
• Carla Main and Friends will perform from 4:30 to 6:30 tonight at Vintage, 725 Water St., Port Townsend. No cover charge.
• Jean and Tom will play music for a variety dance from 7:15 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday in Brigid’s Loft, 280 Quincy St., Port Townsend.
Admission is $10 per person and includes a free West Coast Swing lesson beginning at 6:30 p.m.
• Teen Night will host a craft night for teens from 6 to 7:30 tonight at the temporary location of the Sequim Branch Library, 609 W. Washington St., Sequim.
The after-hours event is for teens only.
Teens can draw, journal, make friendship bracelets, craft diamond paintings or bring their own crafts to work on.
Free crafting supplies and pizza will be provided. Attendees should wear clothes that can get a little messy.
For more information, visit www.nols.org.
• Rob DeCou will present “Exploring the Copper Canyons of Mexico: Home of the Rarámuri” at 7 tonight.
DeCou’s presentation will kick off the 2025 Adventure Travel series at the Port Angeles Senior and Community Center, 328 E. Seventh St.
Future presentations include “In Search of Sea Wolves: Kayaking in the Great Bear Rainforest” by Dave Shreffler and Ann Soule, “Hiking El Camino de Santiago” by John Teichert and “The Michinoku Trail, Japan” by Ann and Mike Nolan.
Admission is by a $10 donation.
For more information, email info@olympic discoverytrail.org or visit www.olympicdiscovery trail.org.
• The North Olympic Library System will host a jigsaw puzzle contest at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
Teams of up to four members will have until noon to complete a 500-piece puzzle.
The team completing their puzzle the quickest will win; if no team has completed the puzzle by noon, the team with the fewest remaining pieces will be named winner.
The contest is open to adults, teens and children 10 or older.
Contestants may come as a team or meet up to form a team at the contest.
For more information, call the library at 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• The Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association will host a jam session from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday 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.
• The North Olympic Salmon Coalition and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe are seeking volunteers to help plant native trees from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The plantings will be placed along a new side channel of the Dungeness River to help improve water quality and salmon habitat.
The organizers will provide tools and gloves, although participants are welcome to bring their own.
Volunteers should bring warm, waterproof clothes and boots, water and a lunch; snacks and hot drinks will be provided.
Volunteers should RSVP at www.nosc.org/events.
For more information, call 360-504-5611 or email outreach@nosc.org.
• The Friends of the Sequim Library will conduct a book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at its storefront location at Rock Plaza, 10175 Old Olympic Highway, Sequim.
The sale features some first edition books and science fiction anthologies.
The sale also features a $1 bag sale in the annex area beginning at noon.
• The Women’s Ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will host a free Fraud Prevention Program at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 30 Sanford Lane in Sequim.
Attendees will learn ways to avoid phishing expeditions, scams and identity theft.
Presenters will include representatives from the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office, the Sequim Police Department and the Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
For more information, call 360-683-7373 or visit https://sequimwa. adventistchurch.org.
