A film festival, stage productions and live music highlight events on the Peninsula this weekend.
• The fourth All-In Film Festival will explore courage and resilience tonight and Saturday in Maier Hall on Peninsula College’s Port Angeles campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The festival also will stream on Zoom. Links and the festival schedule are posted at www.clallam mosaic.org/all-in-film-fest.
The free festival, an annual collaborative project between Clallam Mosaic, Peninsula College’s Magic of Cinema, Studium Generale and Access Services, is joined this year by the Clallam Resilience Project.
• 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.
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 teenage boys in the Wynoochee Valley in Grays Harbor County.
Tornow was killed in a gun battle during spring 1913 after a two-year manhunt.
The libretto explores the themes of love, loss, survival and wildness.
Key City Public Theatre’s 2024-25 main stage season also includes David A. Natale’s “Bake to Alaska” Dec. 5-29; Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” Feb. 20 through March 16; and Ana Maria Campoy’s “Carmelita” April 14 through May 11.
• A stage production of “Night of the Living Dead” opens with shows at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 27 at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
The adaptation of the classic horror film has been rewritten and set to the present day, giving some elements a whole new meaning.
Tickets are $20 each, $15 for students, at www.olympictheatrearts.org or at the box office.
The 1968 film is credited with creating the current image of the modern zombie, and the stage production is designed to make the audience joyfully uncomfortable.
• “From the Ashes 6,” a fundraising revue, is set for 8 p.m. Saturday at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles.
The annual show will raise awareness about domestic violence and funds for Healthy Families of Clallam County.
The show features a variety of performances including live music, dance, spoken word and performance art from Peninsula performers including Richard Stephens, Craig Logue, Zoe Omega, Sevi Star, Owl Chrysalis Medicine, The River’s Mouth, Kyle Ellis, Transcend, Shula Ahzar and the Improv Without A Net Troupe.
Tickets are $20 at www.studiobob.art or at the door.
• “Mummenschanz: 50 Years” will be on stage at 7 p.m. Friday in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St. in Port Angeles.
Tickets are $45 to $75 per person at www.fieldhallevents.org.
The Swiss performance troupe’s current tour celebrates 50 years of mask- and prop-oriented, non-verbal performances worldwide.
Attendees will see such characters as the Clay Masks and the Toilet Paper Faces as well as appearances by the air-filled Giants and the Pipe Creature.
The troupe has performed on Broadway, on Sesame Street and was a guest during the first season of The Muppet Show.
• The Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival returns for its fourth year Saturday at Webster’s Woods, adjacent to the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The family-friendly festival includes pumpkin carving workshops and a pumpkin contest, mini-crankie workshops and a crankie show as well as spooky stories read by staff from the Port Angeles Main Library in the center’s courtyard and an opportunity to view the center’s current exhibit, “Sparks of Connection,” in the main gallery.
The Crankie Factory will use the storytelling art form of crankies at 7:15 p.m. on the main stage in the meadow.
They will share a story about Littlefoot, a juvenile Bigfoot, who would rather step dance than fish or forage for berries.
Another story, Black Cat’s Jig, is about a cat who has a catnip-induced dream.
Participants are encouraged to bring chairs, blankets and sweaters to stay comfy during the show.
The evening’s events are free although a $5 donation to support programs at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is appreciated.
• The Jefferson County Historical Society will host an online Q&A session with Caroline Collins at 4 p.m. Saturday.
The talk costs $12. A recording of the session will be available to all who register.
Collins is the curator of the society’s new exhibit, “Take Me to the Water: Histories of the Black Pacific.”
The exhibit highlights the many Black whalers, commercial mariners, fishers, explorers, soldiers and sailors who traveled along the Pacific Coast from the 16th century to the mid-20th century.
Collins, an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at UC San Diego, is a co-founder of Black Like Water, an interdisciplinary research collective at UCSD that highlights Black relationships to the natural world.
For more information or to register for the Zoom link, visit www.jchs museum.org.
• Tony Furtado will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend.
Furtado, a singer-songwriter who also plays banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele, will be joined by Simon Chrisman on hammered dulcimer and bass and Tristan Claridge on assorted strings.
Tickets are $25 online at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadow recording or $30 at the door.
• Tenderpile will perform yacht jazz from 5 to 7 tonight at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Marc Ensey will perform from 7 to 10 p.m. tonight at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 Del Guzzi Drive, Port Angeles. $10 cover charge.
• Jack Dwyer 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.
• The Friends of the Port Townsend Library will host a book and media sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., Port Townsend.
The sale will feature fiction and non-fiction books, CDs and DVDs.
Adult books are $2 and children’s books are $1; from 1 p.m. until closing, a bag of books will be $5.
New this month, customers can get a fourth book, of the same price, with the purchase of three books.
High-quality face masks are recommended indoors.
For more information, visit www.friendsofpt library.org.
• Rudy Lopez will demonstrate turning a deco-rimmed bowl via Zoom from his workshop in Florida at 10 a.m. Saturday during a meeting of the Strait Turners woodturners club at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road, Sequim.
Turners of all levels and those who wish to learn about the hobby are welcome.
For more information, email Lisa Brice, the club’s membership director, at lisakbrice@gmail.com.
• The Sons of Norway Olympic Lodge will conduct a bake sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The sale will be at the Port Angeles Farmers Market at the Gateway Transit Center, 122 E. Front St.
The sale will feature lefse, blueberry galettes and kringle, a yeasted coffee cake.
• The Kul Kah Han native demonstration garden will host a native plant sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at H.J. Carroll Park, 9884 Rhody Drive, Chimacum.
The sale features native perennial plants, shrubs and trees all grown in the garden’s Chimacum nursery.
Proceeds will support the demonstration garden and nursery.
For more information, email kkhnativeplants@gmail.com or visit www.nativeplantgarden.org.
• Rob Sorensen will discuss his new novel, “Storm King’s Graveyard,” from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Lake Crescent Lodge, 416 Lake Crescent Road in Olympic National Park.
Sorensen, a local author, also wrote “Arrow in Paradise.”
Copies of the book are available for purchase at the Lake Crescent Lodge Gift Shop as well as in Port Angeles at Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., and at Swain’s General Store, 602 E. First St.
• Cherie Priest will sign copies of her new horror novel, “The Drowning House,” from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Nordland General Store, 7180 Flagler Road, Nordland.
The Seattle-based author has written more than 25 novels as well as a number of short stories. Her new novel is set on Marrowstone Island.
Priest’s work spans several genres including science fiction, urban fantasy, horror, young adult fiction, mystery and fantasy.
