The Sequim Lavender Festival and several plays and classes highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The Sequim Lavender Festival returns to Carrie Blake Community Park, 202 N. Blake Ave., for its 28th year.
There will be 145 vendors along the Albert Haller Playfields with more than 120 artisans, farms and food vendors from Washington.
Vendors will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The free festival is put on by the nonprofit group the Sequim Lavender Growers Association (SLGA), which also will bring back Lavenderstock with live music all three days and a street dance with Black Diamond Junction at 7 p.m. Saturday on the James Center for Performing Arts stage.
Other events scheduled for the weekend include:
— Victor’s Lavender Farm, 3743 Old Olympic Highway, will offer free barn dances with The Backwood Hucksters on Friday and Sound Advice on Saturday, both starting at 7 p.m.
— Olympic Theatre Arts will host the last weekend of “Lavender Dreams,” a lavender melodrama at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, with tickets available at olympic theatrearts.org.
— The Sequim Farmers & Artisans Market will be open at the Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
— The Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Show will display club members’ quilts and offer demonstrations, vendors, a raffle quilt and more from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave., with a $5 suggested donation.
For more about Sequim lavender farms, visit sequim lavenderweekend.com.
• The Port Angeles Community Players’ production of “The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It” will continue with shows at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Tuesdays and matinees at 2 p.m. Sundays through July 28 on the main stage at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $18 per person, $9 for students at www.pacommunityplayers.org or at the box office 30 minutes before each performance.
The play, written by Don Nigro, is about a theater company’s struggles to bring Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” to the stage.
• “Jesus Christ Superstar” presented by Ghostlight Productions will continue its run with shows at 7 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Thursdays with matinees at 2 p.m. Sundays through July 27 in the auditorium at Sequim High School, 601 N. Sequim Ave.
Tickets are $14 to $20 per person and are available at www.ghostlightwa.org, by calling the box office at 360-207-0130 or at the door.
The 1970 rock opera, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, tells the story of the final weeks of Jesus Christ’s life, as seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot.
The cast and crew, all community members, include Anna Pederson, director/choreographer; John Lorentzen, music director; Jeremy Pederson as Jesus; Mark Lorentzen as Judas; and Shahida Shahrir Mellon as Mary Magdalene.
• Bill Evans will present a dance concert at 7 p.m. Sunday in JFK Hall at Fort Worden, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.
Admission to the performance is pay what you can.
The performance showcases eight choreographers, including Evans, and will include excerpts from “City of Dreams” performed by Lauren Ehnebuske, Ashley A. Friend, Don Halquist, Anna Hansen, Camille Hildebrandt, Rae Kala and Stephanie Sanders.
• “Ha Ha Da Vinci,” featuring Phina Pipia, will be on stage at 8 p.m. Fridays, Saturday and Mondays through July 29 at the Chameleon Theater, 800 W. Park Ave., Port Townsend.
Tickets to the one-woman show are $30 per person at https://hahadavinci.brown papertickets.com.
The story features the adventure of a young grad student who has been transported back to Renaissance times by a time machine created by Leonardo da Vinci and his collaborator, magician and mathematician Luca Pacioli.
• The Fat Chance Band will kick off the Summer Concert series at 7 p.m. Saturday at Olympic Cellars Winery, 255410 U.S. Highway 101, Port Angeles.
Tickets are $20 per person, $70 for a season pass to all four concerts, and can be purchased at www.olympiccellars.com/summer-concert-series.
The Fat Chance Band plays hits from the 1960s and ’70s by groups like The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Byrds, Beach Boys, Carole King, America, Buffalo Springfield, The Mamas and the Papas, The Doors, The Monkees, The Association, Jackson Browne, Carly Simon, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, CSNY and Joni Mitchell as well as their own original compositions.
Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Feiro Marine Science Center.
• “Passing Traditions: An Evening With The Weeds and Cary Novotny” is set for 7 p.m. Saturday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim.
Admission is by a $30 freewill offering. Children younger than 18 are admitted free.
Father-son duo John and Tyler Weed, along with Cary Novotny, will perform Celtic fiddle tunes, old-time mountain music and American songs.
• Ben Holmes, with Bob Boulding, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the studio at Rainshadow Recording, Building 315 on Fort Worden, 315 Artillery Hill Drive, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.ticketstorm.com/e/29960/t or $25 at the door.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and admission to the live recording session cannot be guaranteed after 7:30 p.m.
Holmes will be joined by Bob Boulding, his former bandmate from the Young Dubliners, on guitar and mandolin.
• Mia Torres will perform from 5 to 7 tonight at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Flora Sullivan will perform from 6 to 8 tonight at The Hub, 117 N. Lincoln St., Port Angeles. Tickets are $15 per person at www.thehub.art or at the door.
• The Two Horsemen will perform from 7 to 10 tonight at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 S. Del Guzzi Drive, Port Angeles. $10 seat charge.
• Scott Pemberton O’ Theory will perform at the Brewfest Benefit for Edensaw Community Cancer Foundation from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Port Townsend Brewing Co., 330 10th St., Port Townsend. 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
• A “Barbie” watch party is set for 6 tonight in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
Attendees can enjoy pizza, popcorn and beverages while they watch the 2023 fantasy comedy.
For more information, visit www.nols.org.
• The Strait Turners, a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners, will host Turn-a-Thon from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Wild Birds Unlimited, 275953 U.S. Highway 101, Gardiner.
Club members will demonstrate wood-turning techniques on multiple lathes throughout the day.
Community members will have the opportunity to try operating a wood lathe.
Turned wood items and a variety of local and exotic hardwoods will be available for purchase.
For more information, call Brian Johnson at 828-989-3350.
• Teresa Schmid will present the free class, “Let’s Zumba,” at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Raymond Carver room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
Schmid, a certified Zumba instructor, will teach dance fitness moves to the rhythms of salsa, merengue, cumbia and other music genres.
Attendees should wear comfortable clothing, not jeans, and bring a small towel, water and wear shoes with a smooth sole that move easily on carpet.
For more information, visit www.nols.org.
• The Clallam County Extension of Washington State University will present a free composting workshop at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
Attendees will learn how to turn yard and kitchen waste into a rich soil amendment.
The free three-hour workshop is oriented toward both beginners and those who already compost but are looking for more information.
For more information, visit www.nols.org.
• The Social Justice Film and Discussion series will host a free screening of “God & Country” at 1 p.m. Sunday at Port Angeles First United Methodist Church, 110 E. Seventh St., Port Angeles.
The 2024 documentary explores the implications of Christian Nationalism and its effects on our constitutional republic and on Christianity.
For more information, call the church at 360-452-8971.
