Drop-in dance classes, a flag retirement ceremony, concerts and stage performances highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• “Gather and Dance,” hosted by former dancers from the Port Angeles Dance Center, will feature free drop-in classes on Saturday in memory of Mary Marcial at Port Angeles City Ballet, 124 E. Front St., and at the Port Angeles Masonic Temple, 622 S. Lincoln St.
Marcial was the founder of the Port Angeles Dance Center, where she taught for 26 years.
Marcial taught ballet, jazz and modern dance until the dance center closed in 2017.
She died on June 7, 2024, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
There also will be a memorial ceremony to share stories and memories at 5:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, and it will be followed at 6:30 p.m. by a reception featuring The Tuff Puffins.
The schedule of free classes is posted at https://gatheranddance.eventbrite.com.
Teaching artists include Catalina Gonzalez, Adriana Marcial, Jordan Macintosh-Hougham, Anna Pederson, Sarah Schermer, Keely Whitmore, Jonna Winger and Jessie A. Young.
For more information, call Adriana Marcial at 360-460-2111 or email adimarcial@gmail.com.
• The American Legion’s Jack Grennan Post 62 will host a Flag Day celebration at 2 p.m. Saturday at 107 E. Prairie St., Sequim.
The ceremony will feature a military-style flag retirement led by Nancy Zimmerman, the Post 62 commander.
Zimmermann, who also is a member of the Michael Trebert Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, teaches the meaning of the flag and proper flag etiquette in classrooms from Forks to Sequim.
Following the ceremony, guests are invited to enjoy refreshments provided by the Michael Trebert DAR chapter.
• The Wild Rose Chorale will present “You’ll Be in My Heart” at 7 tonight and 3 p.m. Sunday at Grace Lutheran Church, 1120 Walker St., Port Townsend.
Tickets at the door are a suggested donation of $20.
The a cappella concert will include popular music from across the decades, folk tunes, Broadway hits, jazz and ultra-contemporary compositions.
The chorale, under the direction of Leslie Lewis, will perform “You’ll Be in My Heart” by Phil Collins, Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” from the Barbie movie and “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Freddy Mercury.
Tenor Rolf Vegdahl will play guitar to accompany Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.”
The program also will include songs from Duke Ellington, the Beatles, some Broadway tunes and Rob Dietz’s newly composed “Softest Rains,” which was published in 2024.
For more information, call 360-643-3345, email wild rosechorale@gmail.com or visit www.wildrosechorale.org.
• “Nunsense” will finish its run with performances at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Sunday at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Tickets are $18 to $25 per person at www.olympic theatrearts.org or at the box office from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.
“Nunsense,” written by Dan Goggin, is a musical farce about a fundraiser by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to help bury 52 nuns who were accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God).
• The Ludlow Village Players will end its production of “Nunsense II: The Second Coming” with performances at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.
Tickets are $25 per person at www.ludlowvillage players.org or $27 at the door.
The play is set six weeks after the original and is centered around a “Thank You” show for all people who supported the nuns in their attempt to raise the money to bury their recently departed sisters, which was the plot of the original.
The production features the original cast, all in their same roles: Gwen Adams as the high-flying Mother Superior, Sister Mary Regina, Vicki Valley, as the straight-talking Sister Mary Hubert, Kate Marshall as the street-smart Sister Robert Anne, Christine Pence Usher as the memory-challenged Sister Amnesia, Madison Maxwell as the twirling, toe-pointing Sister Mary Leo and Catherine Benson as the melody-loving Sister Mary Melody.
The musical comedy’s book, music and lyrics were written by Dan Goggin and features songs like “Winning Is Just the Beginning,” “I Got Pizzazz” and “What Would Elvis Do?”
• The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host its Summertide Solstice Art Festival from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Webster’s Woods, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The free family-friendly outdoor festival celebrating the longest day of the year will include live music, lawn games, nature art stations, poetry readings and local food and drink vendors.
During annual festival, the center will reveal the new installations in Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park.
This year’s exhibit, “Function in the Forest,” features four new works by Steve Belz, Jennifer Kapnek, Karen Sixkiller and Heather Dawn-Sparks and Islando Sparks.
Poetry in the Park, a collaboration with the Olympic Peninsula Authors that is in its fifth year, will debut 18 new original poems during the festival.
The festival will begin with readings of the new poems by their authors at 12:30 p.m. in the gallery courtyard. Visitors will be able to meet with the poets and enjoy a self-guided poetry walk.
The poems will remain on display in Webster’S Woods throughout the upcoming year.
There will be a variety of live music in the meadow, starting with singer-songwriter Casey Fall at 1:15 p.m., followed by Tin Sandwich at 2:30 p.m. and Deadwood Revival at 3:45 p.m.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair and listen to the performances in the meadow.
Attendees will be able to get creative at hands-on art stations and make solstice flower crowns as well as explore “Hidden World: Jennifer Angus” in the main gallery.
Food and drinks will be available for purchase from local vendors Pacific Pantry, Angeles Brewing, High Country Mini Doughnuts and Dragon’s Brew Coffee Company.
For more information, visit www.pafac.org.
• The Second Saturday Art Walk will feature the Harbor Art Gallery, Studio Bob, Anime Kat and the Laura Cooksey Gallery from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Port Angeles.
— Anime Kat, 114 W. First St., will host Matt Gomez and Eli Owens, the Hammering Heathens.
Gomez and Owens, a pair of local artists and metalsmiths, will exhibit a collection of hand-forged, fixed-blade knives, laser-etched ceramic tile art, custom leatherwork and other original creations. They will be available to meet visitors, share their creative process, offer work for sale and discuss options for custom commissions.
— Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., will host a reception for the opening of “The Square Show” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The exhibit will feature works by members of the Olympic Peninsula Art Association on the theme of Square.
Guy Cole and Friends will provide live music during the reception.
“The Square Show” will be on exhibit through July 5.
— Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., will showcase the wood art of Ted Lund from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Lund transforms salvaged wood into functional art pieces, revealing the natural beauty hidden within the material.
Lund’s woodworking is rooted in sustainability and purpose. Most of his wood is sourced from windfalls, scraps and logs discarded from firewood piles or landscaping projects.
“No trees were harmed for my work,” Lund says. “It’s all about giving new life to what might otherwise be forgotten.”
He finishes each piece with pharmaceutical-grade mineral oil and beeswax, making them safe and non-toxic.
“The colors, the grain, the figure — those are all gifts from the wood itself,” Lund said. “I just help bring them forward.”
Lund is the gallery’s featured artist for June. His work will be on display from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
— The Laura Cooksey Gallery, 201 W. Front St., will open its new exhibit “Human/Nature” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The exhibit, which includes painting, photography, fiber art, sculpture and mixed media pieces, explores the emotional connection between people and the natural world.
Visitors will be able to meet some of the featured artists, including Kira Mardikes, Gianna Andrews, Stephen Yates, Tininha Silva, Pat Reichner and Elissa Griesz.
“Human/Nature” was curated by Georgia Ray Johnson and Steve Raider-Ginsburg and includes work from a diverse group of Pacific Northwest artists.
The Laura Cooksey Gallery at Field Arts & Events Hall is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.
For more information, visit www.fieldhallevents.org/gallery.
• The Brass Screw Consortium will host its annual Steampunk Festival in downtown Port Townsend today through Sunday.
Venues include the Cotton Building, the Pope Marine Building and the American Legion hall.
The festival is billed as a chronologically discontiguous adventure during which pirates, aetherists, outcasts and bodgers clash in whimsical games of skill and wit.
Featured events will include tonight’s Den of Iniquities with variety acts, burlesque, bands and an absinthe tent, the Bodgers’ Grande Exhibition, the Boat Bar, fashion show, tea dueling, the Bazaar of the Bizarre vendor pavilion, a treasure hunt and the Hootenanny grand finale.
For more information, email info@brass-screw.org or visit www.brass-screw.org.
• Sara Shea and Chez Jazz will perform from 5 to 6:30 tonight at Vintage, 725 Water St., Port Townsend.
No cover charge.
• The Dungeness Bonsai Society will host its 47th spring bonsai show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in Rainshadow Hall at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 1943 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.
For more information, visit https://dungeness bonsai.wordpress.com.
• The Clallam County Master Gardeners will host the Second Saturday Garden Walk at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles.
The master gardeners will share tips on what you could be planting now as well as ways to avoid pest and disease problems in tomato patches and fruit and vegetable gardens.
For more information, call the Washington State University Extension at 360-565-2679 or visit https://extension.wsu.edu/clallam/mg.
• The Friends of the Sequim Library will conduct a book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The sale will be in the Friends’ storefront location at Rock Plaza, 10175 Old Olympic Highway.
The sale also will feature a $1 bag sale in the annex area beginning at noon.
• The North Olympic Library System will host a jigsaw puzzle contest at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
Teams of up to four members will have until noon to complete a 500-piece puzzle.
The team completing their puzzle the quickest will win; if no team has completed the puzzle by noon, the team with the fewest remaining pieces will be named winner.
The contest is open to adults, teens and children 10 or older.
Contestants may come as a team or meet up to form a team at the contest.
For more information, call the library at 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• Peninsula Dream Machines will host the fourth Hot Rods and Hot Dogs Car Show from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the old Fairview School, which is across the street from Fairview Grange, 161 Lake Farm Road.
This year’s show will benefit Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County. Food or cash donations for the Port Angeles and Sequim food banks also will be accepted.
Vehicle entrants may show up with their classic cars, trucks or motorcycles at 10 a.m.
The Father’s Day event will feature music, drawings, vehicles to view and free hot dogs while they last.
For more information, call 360-461-9008 or email pmorris301@gmail.com.
• The Jefferson County Master Gardeners will conduct an “Ask a Master Gardener” plant clinic from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the Humphrey Room at the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., Port Hadlock.
Master gardeners will be available to answer questions on selecting the right plants for the environment, composting, insect infestations and unknown pathogens damaging plants.
Attendees may bring a sample of an afflicted plant or bring plant or insect specimens for identification.
Samples of plant problems should include both the healthy and affected tissue; the cut end of the stem should be wrapped with a moist paper towel, and the cut plants should be kept in a cool and dark location to prevent wilting.
For plant identification, include photos or samples of the leaves, branches and stems of the plant, a portion of the fruiting or flowering structure and a representative portion of the stem or bark.
Identification is more likely when more structures of the plant can be examined.
For insect identification, bring an intact specimen in a small container soon after capture; keep it stored in a cool, dark place.
For more information, email Bridget Gregg at bridget.gregg@wsu.edu.
• Elizabeth Monica will call for the last contra dance of the 2024-2025 season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Black Diamond Community Hall, 1942 Black Diamond Road, Port Angeles.
The dance will be preceded at 5:30 p.m. by an end-of-season potluck.
Music will be provided by the Contra Band.
A free lesson will be taught at 7 p.m. to those who have paid admission.
Requested donation is $10 to $20 per person. Youths younger than 18 are half price.
