Activities blooming on North Olympic Peninsula

A home show, Sunshine Festival, music and dance are planned this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula.

• “The Dresser” continues this weekend and next weekend at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse at 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd. The play runs tonight, Saturday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $9 for students. Tuesday performances are $9 at the door and can be purchased at pacommunityplayers.org. Masks are recommended at all performances but will be required at Sunday’s performance.

• The Jefferson County Home Show will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Blue Heron Middle School, 3939 San Juan Ave. The show is sponsored by the Jefferson County Home Builders Association, www.jchba.net. In 2022, the group hosted more than 600 people for the last masked event in Jefferson County, organizers said.

• The Empire Trio, Port Angeles High School choirs and the Port Angeles Symphony will perform at 7 p.m. tonight at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave. The Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts is presenting the show. Tickets are available at JFFA.org, Port Book and News in downtown Port Angeles and at the door, while information awaits at 360-457-5411.

“Hooray for Hollywood” is the theme of the night.

Sequim Sunshine Festival will offer drones, an interactive light experience, a fun run and other activities today and Saturday. For more information, see the story in Thursday’s print edition or online at https://www.peninsula dailynews.com/news/sequim -sunshine-festival-celebrates-blue-hole.

• First Friday Art Walk in Sequim will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight. For more information, see SequimArtWalk.com.

Contra dance, in conjunction with the First Friday Art Walk, will be at 7:30 p.m. today in the Upper Room Hall at 138 W. Washington St. in Sequim. A beginner’s dance lesson will be offered at 7 p.m. Laura Mé Smith will call the dance. Music will be provided by Joey Gish and the Wriggling Fish featuring Gish on fiddle and David Rivers on guitar.

Admission is by donation; mask wear is optional.

• “COLOR!” a free art exhibit featuring Aleta Anderson and Jean Wyatt, will be on display from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Bayside Gallery at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock.

• The 8th Port Townsend Record Show will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

The free show will be in the American Legion’s Marvin G. Shields Memorial Post, 209 Monroe St. The annual show features more than 30 vendors selling vinyl, CDs, tapes, music collectibles and memorabilia.

Early bird admission at 8 a.m. is available for $10.

For more information, visit www.ptrecordshow.com.

The North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild will meet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The guild meets at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033 N. Barr Road. For more information, email n.o.shuttleandspindleguild@gmail.com.

Yard and garden lecture series will feature Candice Gohn, Lexi Koch and Sharrai Morgan-Faulkner presenting “Growing, Harvesting, and Arranging Amazing Local Flowers” from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. The presentation is part of the 25th Yard and Garden online lecture series sponsored by the Jefferson County Master Gardener Foundation. The lectures will be presented online Saturdays through March 25.

Tickets are $12 each and can be purchased online at 2023YardAndGarden.event brite.com. For more information, visit www.jcmgf.org.

• Pancake breakfast is planned from 7:30 a.m. to noon Sunday at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road. The menu includes ham, eggs, coffee, orange juice and all-you-can-eat pancakes. The meal costs $7 per person, $4 for children 12 or younger.

“Green Alternatives to Burial and Cremation” will be presented by the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Climate Action Team at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The free public forum is part of a monthly series in the fellowship hall, 1033 N. Barr Road.

For more information, email Emily Beals at ejbn@aol.com.

Sunday’s forum will explore environmentally sustainable alternatives to cremation and burial.

The presentation is expected to last 30- to 45-minutes and will include time for questions.

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