Farmers markets open, the curtain rises on dramatic productions, and communities celebrate in a variety of festivals this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Information about activities related 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 — by area — below:
PORT TOWNSEND/JEFFERSON COUNTY
‘Salish Sea Circle’
PORT TOWNSEND — The dedication of the “Salish Sea Circle” public artwork will be at 1 p.m. Saturday
The 8-foot-tall bronze sculpture by Seattle artist Gerard Tsutakawa will be dedicated at the corner of Madison and Water streets in Pope Marine Park.
The dedication is part of the ongoing celebration of Port Townsend’s new Civic District.
At 2 p.m., a video-portrait shoot is planned in front of the Cotton Building for “This Place Matters,” a video campaign for National Preservation Month by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Also from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., children’s art activities are planned in the Pope Marine Building as part of the Port Townsend Main Street Art Wave program.
The 33rd annual Rhody Arts & Crafts Fair will fill Madison Street on both Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
All activities are free to the public.
KPTZ kickoff party
PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend community radio KPTZ 91.9 FM will go on the air at 8 a.m. Saturday and celebrate that night with a party.
The party will be from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Port Townsend Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St.
The suggested donation for the party, which includes live music, food and a no-host bar, is $25.
The signal from the 190-foot broadcast tower at the north end of Jacob Miller Road will blanket the east and central Strait of Juan de Fuca region — from Sequim to Whidbey Island — with a diverse mix of music and information, program coordinator Larry Stein said.
The first block of programming will feature music from all over the world and a half-hour literary program called the Bookclubber’s Cafe.
The all-volunteer staff will air original programming from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and repeat the shows from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The KPTZ 91.9 FM studio is located in an annex building near Mountain View Commons, 1919 Blaine St., Port Townsend.
Donations also can be made at the station’s website, www.kptz.org.
For more information, visit the website or phone 360-379-6886.
Farmers market open
CHIMACUM — The Chimacum Farmers Market opens for the season Saturday.
The market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday through October at Chimacum Corner.
Along with produce and crafts, the season’s opening market will offer Chicken Bingo. Those who lack chickens can get information about them from poultry breeder and expert Jean Ball.
Ball also will have a few baby chicks and chick supplies for sale.
Fresh local eggs and frozen Spring Rain Farm chicken also will be available for sale.
Some 30 vendors will offer local produce, grass-fed beef, cheese, cider, bagels, chocolates, hand-spun wool, pottery and woodcraft.
The Steve Grandinetti Band will perform.
For more information, contact market director Will O’Donnell at 360-379 9098 or info@jcfmarkets.org, or visit www.chimacumfarmersmarket.org.
Coach to speak
PORT TOWNSEND — Seattle Seahawks assistant offensive line coach Pat Ruel will speak at Port Townsend’s Jefferson County Memorial Athletic Field on Saturday.
Ruel will speak at 1 p.m. at the athletic field in an event organized by the Save Memorial Field Committee.
Norway celebrated
CHIMACUM — Thea Foss Lodge No. 45 of the Daughters of Norway will host a celebration of the Norwegian national holiday Sytennde Mai at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The event will be held at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road.
Elsa Meadows, who grew up in Norway, will share her childhood Sytennde Mai experiences and those attending will bring a picture of their mother for a match-up game.
Sytennde Mai is Norway’s constitution day.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, phone 360-379-1802.
Energy workshop
PORT TOWNSEND — Keynote speaker Andrea Copping will discuss ocean energy at an energy workshop today.
The second monthly Workshop on Local Economic Development in Energy will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.
The free workshop will be in the main conference room at the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St.
Copping, senior program manager for marine and coastal waters at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will speak at 1 p.m.
A workshop from 11 a.m. to noon will feature local development opportunities presented by nearby centralized wind energy development.
Chaired by Bill Wise of Team Jefferson, the workshop will draw on the knowledge of wind energy project of Jennifer States of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
At noon will be a catered lunch of hot soup and bread costing $6.
At 2 p.m. will be a workshop on small hydropower projects.
The Jefferson County Public and Professional Energy Luncheon Program for 2011 is sponsored by Port Townsend Paper Corp., Power Trip Energy Corp. and Sunshine Propane.
To RSVP, email JeffWA@countyenergy.us.
‘Bat Boy’ performed
PORT TOWNSEND — The musical “Bat Boy” will be performed tonight and Saturday.
Showtimes for “Bat Boy” are 7 p.m. each Friday and Saturday through May 21 in the Port Townsend High School auditorium at 1500 Van Ness.
Admission at the door is $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and $3 for Port Townsend School District students with associated student body identification cards.
This is the story of a boy — half human, half bat — discovered in a cave and brought to Hope Falls, a small town in West Virginia.
The Bat Boy is brought first to the village veterinarian (Raven McMillan) and then subjected to the rest of the townsfolk’s efforts to “civilize” him.
A struggle ensues, yet the boy hopes he can someday fit in.
Film screened
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Film Institute will present “Dooman River,” a Chinese film with English subtitles, at the Rose Theatre, 235 Taylor St., at 10 a.m. Saturday.
In the film, 12-year-old Chang-ho lives with his mute older sister and their grandfather in a remote Chinese town separated from North Korea by the Dooman River.
Although plagued by unemployment and other tensions, their village is nonetheless relatively prosperous compared with its counterparts across the river, and the villagers are initially sympathetic toward the North Korean refugees fleeing Kim Jong-il’s totalitarian state.
General admission is $5; students with ID get in free.
For more information, phone 360-379-1333 or visit www.ptfilmfest.com.
SEQUIM
Tour, barn dance
SEQUIM — A farm tour, a locally grown lunch and brunch, and a barn dance are planned as Nash’s Organic Produce opens its doors and gates for “Cultivating the Next Generation of Farmers,” an event presented by PCC Farmland Trust, on Saturday and Sunday.
On a tour Saturday, participants will be transported by bus around the Dungeness Valley to many of the 400 acres Nash’s manages.
Tour tickets are $50 for adults or $20 for children ages 5 to 12, and that includes lunch at the Dungeness Schoolhouse.
Some scholarships are available for farmers.
Participants, and all community members, are invited to Nash’s semi-annual barn dance tonight in the shed near Nash’s Farm Store, 1865 E. Anderson Road.
The potluck will begin at 6 p.m. with the barn dance getting started at 7:30 p.m.
Attendees should bring their own plates, flatware and glasses and a dish to share.
Junkyard Jane, a rockabilly/rhythm and blues band, will provide music for the dance.
Admission is $7 at the door or free for children 16 and younger.
To finish off the weekend, the Alder Wood Bistro of Sequim will serve a “Sunday Brunch With Nash” at 11 a.m. featuring local, organic food and a panel discussion with the farmers and Alder Wood chef Gabriel Schuenemann.
Tickets are $30 for adults or $15 for children ages 5 to 12.
Online ticket sales at www.PCCFarmlandTrust.org will close at 11 a.m. today.
Walk-up registrations are available starting at 10 a.m. the day of the tour.
For details and reservations, visit the website or phone 206-547-9855.
Sequim market opens
SEQUIM — The Open Aire Market, after a preview last weekend, opens for the season Saturday.
The market will open with a bell-ringing at 9 a.m. and continue to 3 p.m. on Cedar Street at Second Avenue in Sequim.
The Sequim Open Aire Market was open Saturday at the corner of Washington Street and Sequim Avenue as a preview during the first weekend of the Sequim Irrigation Festival.
This is the 15th anniversary season for the market, which offers produce, arts and craft, and ready-to-eat breakfasts and lunches.
The market also is open from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays at the corner of Sequim and Washington streets.
‘Too Old for the Chorus’
SEQUIM — The final performances of “Too Old for the Chorus,” a musical revue about midlife, will be today through Sunday.
The curtain rises on the musical at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Olympic Theatre Arts Center, 414 N. Sequim Ave.
Tickets are $19.50, $17.50 for Olympic Theatre Arts members and $11.50 for children.
For reservations, phone the box office at 360-683-7326 or visit www.olympictheatrearts.org.
City band concert
SEQUIM — The Sequim City Band will begin its 2011 outdoor summer season at the Bandstand at the James Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday.
The Sequim High School Wind Ensemble will open the concert at 2 p.m., with the Sequim City Band following at 3 p.m.
The city band will perform everything from “March Slav” by Tchaikovsky to the “Washington Post” by John Phillip Sousa.
Selections from two musicals will be featured: “Oklahoma” by Rodgers and Hammerstein and “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Other tunes will include a new piece, “Tailspin,” composed by Rob Romeyn in 2010 and an older piece, “Glenn Miller in Concert.”
A special march, “Lassus Trombone,” by Henry Fillmore will be played in memory of the recent passing of Reva Bates, longtime Sequim City Band supporter who played trombone in high school.
The Sequim City Band has monthly outdoor concerts from May through September the third Sunday of the month at 3 p.m.
Regular practices are held at the James Center For the Performing Arts from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday evenings.
Membership is open to all musicians upon approval of the director, Sanford Feibus.
For more information, phone 360-683-2546 or visit www.sequimcityband.org.
Boating course offered
SEQUIM — North Olympic Sail and Power Squadron will offer “America’s Boating Course” at Rainbow’s End RV Park, 261831 U.S. Highway 101, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The course is for both sail and power boaters.
Course completion meets requirements for the Washington State Boater Education card.
Cost is $36 per person plus $10 for a second person working out of the same book.
To register or for more information, phone 360-457-1215 or 360-683-1444.
Gardening panel
SEQUIM — A trio of nursery gardening professionals will lead a panel discussion on “Controlling Pests: Plant Health” at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The panel will be at McComb Gardens, 751 McComb Road.
Panel members will include Bill Wroel, certified nursery professional and licensed horticulturist; Neil Burkhardt, certified professional horticulturist, certified arborist and co-owner of McComb Gardens; and Gordon Clark, certified professional horticulturist, certified arborist and owner of Clark Horticultural Inc.
Attendees should bring plant samples and come prepared to ask questions.
Sequim musical
SEQUIM — “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” a musical about jealousy, adversity and forgiveness, will be performed at the Sequim High School Performing Arts Center stage tonight and Saturday as well as next weekend.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through May 21 in the school auditorium at 601 N. Sequim Ave. Some 40 high school and middle school students, plus two children’s choruses with 40 more young voices and a small adult chorus, make up the cast, while a teacher plays the Pharoah.
General admission is $10. Seniors, children and students with Sequim High associated student body cards pay $8.
Outlets include Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St., Sequim; Frick’s at 609 W. Washington St., Sequim; and Port Book & News, 104 E. First St., Port Angeles.
Tickets also are available at the door 45 minutes before each performance.
Salmon barbecue
SEQUIM — The annual Irrigation Festival Salmon Barbecue will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave., from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Meals are $12 for adults, $4 for children younger than 13.
Book group meets
SEQUIM — Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi will be discussed at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Martel’s novel tells the story of 16-year-old Pi, a young man who believes in Hinduism, Islam and Christianity.
Pi is the son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, India.
When his father decides to move the family and their menagerie to Canada, he boards a ship, experiences a harrowing shipwreck and finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker.
Life of Pi brings together many themes including religion, zoology, fear and sheer tenacity.
Copies of the book are available at the Sequim Library and can be requested online through the library catalog at www.nols.org.
Pre-registration for the discussion is not required, and drop-ins are always welcome.
For more information, visit www.nols.org and click on “Events” and “Sequim,” phone Lauren Dahlgren at 360-683-1161 or email Sequim@nols.org.
Lions breakfast
SEQUIM — The Sequim Valley Lions club will hold a pancake breakfast fundraiser at the Islander Pizza and Pasta Shack, 380 E. Washington St., from 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday.
All-you-can-eat pancakes will be served, along with scrambled eggs and ham and orange juice and coffee.
Meals are $5 per person. Children 5 and younger get in free.
For more information, phone 360-457-6056.
Troop pancake breakfast
SEQUIM — Sequim Boy Scout Troop 1492 will hold a pancake breakfast fundraiser at Sequim Community Church, 1000 N. Fifth Ave., from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday.
Cost is a $5 donation to the troop.
Pet adoption
SEQUIM — The Olympic Peninsula Humane Society is offering off-site adoption of animals at Petco, 1205 W. Washington St., on Saturday.
Puppies, kittens, dogs and cats will be available.
For more information, phone 360-457-8206.
PORT ANGELES
Patty Duke sold out
PORT ANGELES — Tickets are sold out for an address by actress Patty Duke tonight.
Duke, a longtime supporter of mental health causes, will deliver the keynote speech at a fundraiser for the Peninsula Community Mental Health Center at 7:30 p.m. at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St.
A VIP reception will be held at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.
Duke will deliver a talk titled “A Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic Depression.”
She wrote of her diagnosis in her 1987 autobiography.
Friday’s event, “Inspiring Hope/Supporting Change,” is an attempt to raise awareness of mental health issues and funds to support the center’s work.
The Peninsula Community Mental Health Center has provided mental health services to Clallam County since 1971.
Cirque de Bohème
PORT ANGELES — “Cirque de Bohème on Beaver Hill” will present vaudeville, burlesque and circus arts at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., at 8 p.m. tonight.
Admission is a suggested donation of $5.
The arts center, which sits on a rise known as Beaver Hill, is finishing its spring Enter Stage Left performance series with Cirque de Bohème, a circus-burlesque troupe homegrown in a Port Angeles warehouse known as the Bohemian Lounge.
To learn more about the center’s offerings, visit www.PAFAC.org or phone 360-457-3532.
The Webster House Gallery, where the “Strait Art 2011: Slivers of Silver” exhibition is on display through this weekend, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, while the Webster’s Woods art park surrounding the gallery is open daily from dawn until dusk.
‘Nude with Violin’
PORT ANGELES — “Nude with Violin,” Noel Coward’s vintage 1950s satire, will be performed at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse tonight through Sunday.
The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. each Friday and Saturday through May 21; performances also are slated for next Tuesday. Matinees this Sunday and Sunday, May 22, will begin at 2 p.m.
The Port Angeles Community Playhouse is at 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Tickets for weekend shows are available in advance at Odyssey Books & Gifts, 114 W. Front St., Port Angeles, for $12, or $6 for students. On Tuesday nights, all seats sell for $6 at the door only.
Free tickets are offered to active servicemen and -women and their spouses
For more information, phone 360-452-6651 or visit www.PACommunityPlayers.com.
Relay For Life benefit
PORT ANGELES — Hypnotist Mariana Matthews will present “That Lady Hypnotist Comedy Show” at the small gym at Roosevelt Elementary, 106 Monroe Road, at 7 p.m. today.
Presale tickets are $10 and $12 at the door.
Proceeds will go to the Port Angeles Relay For Life group.
For tickets, phone Paige Boyer at 253-389-9266 or email paige.boyer@gmail.com.
Only cash or checks will be accepted.
Hypertension eating
PORT ANGELES — Amy Ward, a certified diabetes educator and registered dietitian, will present “Eating Survival Skills for People With Hypertension” today.
The free talk will be from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Ward will cover the basics of diet and hypertension.
The class is sponsored by the Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics free clinic.
For more information, phone 360-457-4431 or email info@vimoclinic.org.
Seed Day event
PORT ANGELES — Angel Crest Gardens, 58424 state Highway 112, will hold its second annual Seed Day celebration from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The event was originally set for April 16 but was rescheduled.
Attendees are welcome to bring new or leftover flower, vegetable and tree seed to trade and share.
Nursery owner Linda Moffitt and her mother, Doris Pimm, will answer questions and demonstrate ways of planting and propagating flowers and vegetables.
They will provide some of their favorite seed varieties to trade and share with visitors and will also have seed and seed gifts to sell.
Gardeners may bring or purchase pots to plant the new seed starts at the event.
Young plants, pots and soil will be for sale.
Both children and adults are welcome.
For more information, email angelcre@olypen.com or phone 360-457-8222.
Garden work party
PORT ANGELES — A community garden work party is planned at the new Fifth Street Community Garden on Fifth Street between Peabody and Chase streets on Saturday.
The work party will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The garden, which offers 100-square-foot rental plots, is being readied for its grand opening Saturday, May 21.
Members of Port Angeles Victory Gardens, a local volunteer group active in promoting community gardening, will be available to answer questions and assist new gardeners to complete plot applications.
For more information visit www.pavictorygardens.org or phone Diane Martin at 360-452-3192.
Donations sought
PORT ANGELES — Donations for a Port Angeles Fine Arts Center rummage sale can be delivered every Saturday through June 4.
The donations for “Rummage for Art” can be taken to the back of the Apria Health Care building at the corner of Chambers and First streets, accessible through the alley, from noon to 1 p.m.
The rummage sale benefiting the arts center will be conducted at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles, on June 11-12.
For special pickups and more information, phone 360-683-0659.
Outdoor film fest
PORT ANGELES — The Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club will host its first annual VideOlympics, a film festival promoting outdoor activities primarily filmed on the Olympic Peninsula, on Saturday.
The judged festival will begin at 7 p.m. at BarN9ne, 229 W. First St.
Tickets are $5 per person.
More than $1,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to the winner.
Submissions will be judged on technical merit, local interest and “stoke factor” — how much it makes a viewer want to get off the couch and get outdoors on the Olympic Peninsula.
“One of the great things about the Olympic Peninsula is the wide range of outdoor activities available within a relatively small area,” said Greg Halberg, event co-organizer.
“We want submissions from a wide variety of sports. There is also no restriction on when the movie was made, so if you have an oldie but goodie we would like to see that also.” Judges for this year’s event are Robert Chrestensen, producer and filmmaker specializing in nature films; Bruce Hattendorf, English literature professor at Peninsula College and judge for Sequim’s Student Film Festival; and Danielle Lawrence, member of the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club, former film studies instructor at Kansai Gaidai University as well as a current judge for Sequim’s Student Film Festival.
Sponsors include Adventures Through Kayaking, BarN9ne, LibTech, North by Northwest and Sound Bikes and Kayaks. For more information, visit www.hurricaneridge.com.
WEST END
Humble Boy performed
FORKS — “Humble Boy,” a play about a modern-day Hamlet named Felix Humble, will be performed tonight and Saturday.
Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. both nights at the Rainforest Art Center, 35 N. Forks Ave.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students. They are available at the door only.
For more details, phone Mike Gurling, publicist for the Rainforest Players, at the Forks Chamber of Commerce at 360-374-2531.
Karaoke
JOYCE — Every Sunday afternoon, the Salt Creek Restaurant & Lounge, 53821 state Highway 112, invites young people to take part in free karaoke with host Eddie Rosa.
Rosa is encouraging kids of all ages to come enjoy music and singing from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. Sundays.
For more details, phone the Salt Creek Restaurant & Lounge at 360-928-9942.
Plant sale
FORKS — The Bogachiel Garden Club plans its annual plant sale and flea market Saturday.
The sale will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Quillayute Valley School District Auto Tech Center on South Forks Avenue.
Perennials, vegetable starts, shrubs and a few trees grown by local gardeners will be offered for sale, as well as art, books, toys and furniture.
Clallam County Master Gardeners will be on hand to help gardeners with their questions.
Sick plants can be brought in for diagnosis and suggestions for treatment.