The Sequim Irrigation Festival float will be rolled-out for the first time, a rock and gem show is planned in Port Angeles and snowskaters will compete at Hurricane Ridge while kitemakers converge on Fort Worden this weekend.
Those are just a few of the events planned today, Saturday and Sunday on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Information about activities relating to the visual and lively arts can be found in Peninsula Spotlight, the Peninsula Daily News’ weekly entertainment guide, in today’s PDN.
Other major weekend events are spotlighted on this page, on “Things To Do,” and — by area — below:
SEQUIM
Irrigation Fest kickoff
SEQUIM — The 116th Sequim Irrigation Festival kickoff dinner is Saturday.
The dinner will be at 5 p.m. at Club Seven Lounge at 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101, Blyn.
The dinner is sold out. No tickets will be sold at the door.
The float for the festival,which will be May 6-15, will be unveiled.
Festival dignitaries and royalty will be introduced. The dinner will be the first chance to view this year’s festival lapel pin and to bid on numbered festival pins and other merchandise.
The theme for the 2011 festival, which runs May 6-15, is “One Hundred and Sweet Sixteen.”
For more information about the festival, visit www.irrigationfestival.com.
Computer search
SEQUIM — Thomas Pitre will present a computer workshop “Advanced Search: Resources, Uses, Tips and Strategies” at the Center for Infinite Reflections, 144 Tripp Road, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
This three-hour presentation includes the evaluation of resources, search techniques, sources, tools and tips. It is designed for educators, trainers, writers and researchers.
The class fee is $19.95.
Those who want to attend are asked to send an email with the subject line “Google” to thomaspitre@gmail.com.
Avon color class
SEQUIM — Sylvia Oster will conduct an Avon color class at Prairie Springs Assisted Living, 630 W. Prairie St., from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Oster will provide makeovers using Avon cosmetics.
The event is open to the public.
For more information, phone Oster at 360-457-6644.
Information event
SEQUIM — The board members of Mujeres de Maiz Opportunity Foundation will discuss their work in Chiapas, Mexico, at the Sequim Library today.
The free presentation will be at 3 p.m. at the library at 630 N. Sequim Ave.
The nonprofit organization works with women in a seamstress cooperative to help provide access to education.
For more information, phone Judith Pasco at 360-683-8979.
Mission trip sale
SEQUIM — The Teen Group of Calvary Chapel Sequim will host a garage sale today and Saturday.
The sale will be at the chapel at 91 S. Boyce Road from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days.
Proceeds from the sale will go toward the group’s April mission trip to Mezquital, Mexico.
A coffee bar with made-to-order lattes and Italian sodas will be available.
For more information, phone Christine Springer at 360-582-7170 or email figanodie@gmail.com.
MAC entries collected
SEQUIM — Artists may drop off entries for the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley’s sustainability-themed April art show this weekend at the MAC Exhibit Center, 175 W. Cedar St., Sequim.
Entries will be accepted from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday and from 9 a.m. to noon Monday.
Entry fees are $5 for up to three pieces for MAC members and $10 for up to three pieces for nonmembers.
Entry forms for this open show are available at the MAC Exhibit Center and at www.macsequim.org.
The MAC encourages artists working in all media to share their artistic visions and interpretations of environmental, economic and/or social sustainability by entering “The Art of Sustainability: Considerate Creativity Taking Personal Responsibility for the Future,” its featured art exhibit for April.
The show, which explores how one might engage in the world through renewable and nonimpacting means that integrate natural systems and resources with human needs, will run Tuesday through April 30.
Artists should direct art-related inquiries to MAC Art Exhibit Committee member Renne Brock-Richmond at alanrenne@olypen.com or 360-460-3023.
Cork creations class
SEQUIM — A free cork creations class, where corks are made into bulletin boards, wreaths and frames, will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
The class will be held at Around Again, 765 W. Washington St.
Materials will be supplied, but participants can bring their own corks and frames.
Phone 360-683-7862 for a reservation.
PORT ANGELES
Rock and gem show
PORT ANGELES — The city of Port Angeles Recreation Division will host its first Rock, Gem and Jewelry Show this weekend.
The show will be at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.
More than 35 venders will sell rough and polished rocks, slabs, carvings, lapidary tools, beads, fused glass, faceted gemstones, facet rough, crystals, fossils, minerals, beach glass, shells, jewelry, wire wrapping, woodworking and cabochons.
Free rocks will be given to children while supplies last, and there will be a raffle for a 1.50-carat faceted blue Montana sapphire for $1 a ticket, with all proceeds going to the city’s youth recreation programs.
North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center Culinary Arts Program students will provide food.
For more information, phone 360-417-4550 or email ckochane@cityofpa.us.
Strapless Weekend
HURRICANE RIDGE — Strapless Weekend, also known as the Snowskate Olympics, is Saturday and Sunday.
Snowskating combines elements of snowboarding with those of skateboarding. Boards resemble skateboards but have snowboards attached to the bottom rather than wheels — with no bindings.
Several competitions are planned in the “Olympic Snowskate Arena” at Hurricane Ridge, 17 miles south of Port Angeles.
The North By Northwest Masters of Snowskating Freeride will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, with the Snowskate Park Jam set for 1 p.m. the same day in Terrain Park.
Saturday night music will be by the T-Bagging Bandits at The Coo Coo Nest, 1017 E. Front St., Port Angeles.
The Snowskate Powder Downhill is at 10 a.m. Sunday, and the Almost Legendary Snowskate Baked Slalom is at 1 p.m.
Events are open to the public.
Free demonstrations will be offered for those who want to give the sport a try.
The entry fee is $20 for both days, $15 for one. Lift ticket prices are $22 for rope tows and $27 for all lifts.
The Olympic National Park charges $15 dollars per car.
Owl event at library
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Library will host a free showing of “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” tonight.
The screening of the movie based on Kathryn Lasky’s popular children’s series, The Guardians of Ga’Hoole, will be at 6:30 p.m. at the library at 2210 S. Peabody St.
In the series, Soren, a barn owl, discovers a great evil in the owl kingdom that he must work to vanquish.
The movie is rated PG.
National Park Wildlife Biologist Scott Gremel will introduce the movie with a short discussion about owls that can be found on the North Olympic Peninsula.
The program is sponsored by the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.
For more information, phone 360-417-8502 or email youth@nols.org.
‘Bound for Freedom’
PORT ANGELES — Five Acres School will present its 13th annual all-school play, “Bound for Freedom,” at the Peninsula College Little Theatre, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., at 7 tonight.
The free presentation carries the audience back to 1850s America to take a look at the culture and history of that crucial time as the nation’s divisions pulled it toward the Civil War.
Written and directed by Five Acres co-owner and staff member Juanita Ramsey-Jevne, the play is appropriate for all ages.
Forty-five student actors and musicians in period costumes will present a story of escape from slavery that also explores women’s rights and the Trail of Tears and includes 15 songs and dances from the era.
The performance is presented in three acts with one intermission.
Hawk Walk slated
PORT ANGELES — Hamilton Elementary School will host “Hawk Walk” — a free fitness activity open to Port Angeles families and community members — from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
“We’re calling it the ‘Hawk Walk’ because we will be walking from our school out to Ediz Hook and back,” Hamilton Principal Loren Engel said.
“The walk has three turnaround points, making it doable for families of all ages.”
Walkers can choose turnarounds at the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill park for a one-mile walk, at the Kayak Park for a three-mile hike or at the gate of the Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles at the end of Ediz Hook for a trek of five miles.
All routes will begin and end at Hamilton Elementary.
“We will have healthy treats at the start/finish line and volunteers to help families cross key intersections,” Engel said.
“All you need to do is lace up your shoes and join us on the morning of the 26th.”
All children should be accompanied by an adult.
To help as a volunteer, phone Engel at 360-565-1679.
Dine and donate to YMCA
PORT ANGELES — The Bushwhacker Restaurant plans to donate 10 percent of Sunday dinner proceeds to the Olympic Peninsula YMCA’s Power of Community Campaign.
The restaurant at 1527 E. First St. will donate 10 percent of all proceeds made between 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., said owner Bob Grattan.
“The Y is such an integral part of our community, supporting them is easy,” he said in a statement.
The Olympic Peninsula YMCA raises about $161,000 annually for assistance for families and children who could not otherwise participate, said Kyle Cronk, the YMCA’s chief executive officer.
Eagles moving sale
PORT ANGELES — Everything must go during a moving sale at the Port Angeles Eagles Lodge, 110 S. Penn St., on Saturday.
Tables, chairs, other furniture and other items will be offered at the sale.
The sale begins at 9 a.m. and will go until the final items sell.
For more information, phone 360-452-3344.
Feel the Spirit concert
PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers, Abby Mae and the Homeschool Boys, and the Northwest Women’s Chorale will perform at the Feel the Spirit Spring Concert at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The concert will be held at the Port Angeles High School auditorium, 304 E. Park Ave.
Tickets are $15, $12 and $8 and are available at www.nwperformingarts.com.
For more information, email cg_aviator@wavecable.com.
EAST JEFFERSON COUNTY
Kitemakers conference
PORT TOWNSEND — Kitemakers will converge on the Fort Worden State Park conference center for a weekend of classes and kite-flying beginning today.
The conference will extend through Sunday.
Preregistration was required for the conference, which will include a full slate of classes.
First Shots
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Sportsmen’s Association will offer a free First Shots seminar Saturday.
The program, offered in partnership with the National Shooting Sports Foundation, will be offered to the first 30 people who register for the daylong class at the JSCA Shooting Range, 112 Gun Club Road, off Jacob Miller Road.
The introductory class will teach about the safe recreational use of shotguns, rifles and handguns.
Donations will be accepted for the reimbursement of lunch, which is provided by the Youth Safety Hunter Education Program.
Preregistration is required and limited to 30 people.
Phone Levi Ross at 360-390-8018 or email levi@armspro.com.
Stroll among trolls
GARDINER — The Olympic Peninsula Explorers Volkssport Club will hold a Gardiner Troll Stroll amongst the buildings and fence posts of Troll Haven on Saturday.
The five- or 10-kilometer walk will begin at Wild Birds Unlimited, 275953 U.S. Highway 101.
Walkers should park away from the storefront and the espresso stand.
A carpool will leave from the Sequim QFC parking lot at 8:30 a.m.
For more information, phone Frances Johnson at 360-385-5861.
WEST END
Bluegrass band
FORKS — Crescent Blue, a bluegrass band, will play at Cafe Paix/A Work in Progress on Saturday.
The band will play from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the cafe at 71 N. Forks Ave.
Survival techniques
FORKS — Wilderness survival techniques will be presented at the Forks Community Center on Saturday.
Outdoorsmen Bill White and Duane Miles will speak about, “What Would You Do If . . .” from 10 a.m. to noon at the center at 91 Maple Ave.
The talk is sponsored by Forks Aglow Community Lighthouse.
Marathon Bingo
FORKS — The Forks High School Spartan football team is hosting a Marathon Bingo fundraiser Saturday.
The event will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Forks Elks Lodge, 941 Merchants Road.
Funds raised will go toward helping the team go to football camp in Oregon at Winfield College this summer. The cost is 25 cents a game.
