Fundraisers for the Port Angeles Food Bank and the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, plus the opening of two community theater productions highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The third Empty Bowls fundraiser is set for 5 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Food Bank, 632 N. Oakridge Drive, Port Angeles.
The annual fundraiser, which features gourmet soups prepared by chef Neil Dexter, will raise funds to support the food bank’s Friday Food Bag program.
Tickets are $50 per person and are available at www.portangelesfoodbank.org/empty-bowls or at the door.
Tickets include a full dinner with three or four choices of soup, salad, bread and dessert as well as a bowl to take home.
During the 2023-2024 school year, the Friday Food Bag program sent food home from school with 700 students every weekend.
The food bags, which are assembled by volunteers and driven to schools by food bank staff, are projected to cost the food bank $180,000 during the upcoming school year.
Last year more than 60 percent of Port Angeles school families were low-income, according to the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The Friday Food Bags are the only source of food for many students over the weekends when they are not receiving school meals, according to the Port Angeles Food Bank.
For more information, email info@portangeles foodbank.org.
• “The Importance of Being Earnest” opens with shows at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and matinees at 2 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 29 in the Gathering Hall at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Tickets are $20 per person, $15 for students at www.olympictheatrearts.org or by calling the box office at 360-683-7326 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.
The comedy, written by Oscar Wilde, is a story of two bachelors who create alter egos, both named Earnest, to escape their tiresome Victorian lives.
The men struggle throughout the play to keep up with their own stories in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure.
• The Ludlow Village Players will stage their production of “Murdered to Death” with performances at 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and matinee performances at 2 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 22 at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.
Tickets are $19 per person at www.brown papertickets.com/profile/140294.
The play, written by Peter Gordon and directed by Kate Marshall, is set in a 1930s country manor where a cast of eccentric characters try to solve the murder of the manor’s owner.
The plot thickens with the arrival Inspector Pratt, who stumbles through the investigation with a level of incompetence that only adds to the fun.
For more information, visit www.ludlowvillage players.org.
• The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host “An Elevated Evening” at 6 p.m. Friday at the Esther Webster Gallery, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $30 per person at https://pafac.kindful.com/e/fundraiser 2024 or $35 at the door.
The fundraiser includes a silent art auction, a cocktail party and live music by guitarists Ryan Hoffman and Jessica Logan and multi-instrumentalist Matt Sircely.
Proceeds will support the center’s free programs, which are designed to connect people with the arts.
Drinks will be available for purchase along with catered light bites by The Goat and The Radish.
• The ninth Forever Twilight in Forks Festival will continue through Sunday at various locations in Forks.
The annual festival celebrates the Twilight Saga book and film series.
The festival will include appearances by Gil Birmingham, Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Erik Odom, all of whom appeared in the films.
There also will be an appearance by Wendy Chuck, a costume designer for the films.
The full schedule of events is posted at www.forkswa.com/twilight/festival.
Tickets for the festival are sold out.
• The Second Saturday Art Walk will be conducted at various locations Saturday in Port Angeles.
Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., will feature the work of Jodi Riverstone throughout the month of September. Riverstone is a self-taught artist who has worked in different mediums of art expression and has focused on acrylic depictions over the past several years, with an emphasis on local scenery and nature imagery.
Visitors will be able to meet Riverstone during the art walk on Saturday.
One of a Kind Art Gallery, 115 E. Railroad Ave., will feature artist Gianna Andrews and guitarist Joe D’Entrone from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., will host the sixth annual Fiber Arts Show during September. The opening reception will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
There will be live music from Guy James and Friends, and food and refreshments will be available for purchase at the Loom Bar.
The fiber arts show will be presented in partnership with Cabled Fiber and Yarn.
• The Sequim City Band will present “Instrumental Animations” at 3 p.m. Sunday at the James Center for the Performing Arts, 506 N. Blake Ave., Sequim.
The concert wind ensemble will present a theme that will explore the world of animated films and cartoons.
• Evan Boyd and Others will host a jam session from 7 to 10 tonight at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 S. Del Guzzi Drive, Port Angeles. No cover charge.
• Gerry Sherman 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.
• Queens and Aces will perform for dancing from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at Marvin G. Shields Memorial American Legion Post 26, 209 Monroe St., Port Townsend. Admission is by $10 suggestion.
• DJ Jean Bettanny will play music for a variety dance from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday in Brigid’s Loft, 280 Quincy St., Port Townsend. Bettanny will provide a free West Coast Swing lesson beginning at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per person.
• The Port Townsend Community Dance is set for 7:15 p.m. Saturday at the Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., Port Townsend. Admission is $10 per person, $20 per family. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
• Crescent Grange will host its fall harvest market from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the grange hall, 50724 state Highway 112.
The sale features locally sourced produce, baked goods, crafts, knife sharpening and other vendors inside and out.
Food will be served in the kitchen, including pie by the slice, biscuits and gravy, egg salad sandwiches, clam chowder, chili and hot dogs.
• Claudia Breland will present “Ancestry Pro Tools: Not Just for Professionals” at 9:45 a.m. Saturday.
Breland will address a meeting of the Clallam County Genealogical Society at the society’s research center, 403 E. Eighth St., Port Angeles.
The presentation will also stream on Zoom.
To request the meeting link, call the center at 360-417-5000 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday or email clallamresearcher@gmail.com.
For more information, visit www.clallamcogs.org.
• Clallam County Master Gardeners Jan Bartron, Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton and Audreen Williams will lead the Second Saturday Garden Walk from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles.
This month’s walk, the last for 2024, will focus on late summer and fall tomato care, aspects of saving seeds and the use of cover crops in a vegetable garden.
For more information, call the Washington State University Extension at 360-565-2679 or visit https://extension.wsu.edu/clallam/mg.
• East Jefferson Fire Rescue will conduct Fire Extinguisher Exchange Day is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Henery Hardware, 901 Ness Corner Road, Port Hadlock.
Participants can learn to use a fire extinguisher, refill rechargeable fire extinguishers, dispose of old fire extinguishers and purchase new fire extinguishers.
This event will be held in partnership with Henery Hardware and Tarboo Fire Protection.
• The Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association will host a jam session from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 Fifth Ave., Sequim.
The final hour of the jam session is dedicated to a performance of old-time music.
Performers with other acoustic instruments, such as guitars, banjos, basses, dobros, mandolins, autoharps, ukuleles and dulcimers, are welcome to attend.
The jam session is free, although donations to support the district’s scholarship program are welcome.
• The Friends of the Sequim Library will conduct a teachers appreciation book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Friends’ storefront location at Rock Plaza, 10175 Old Olympic Highway, Sequim.
The sale features books and games of interest to teachers as well as books on hiking, the Pacific Northwest, self-help, architecture, music biographies and courses on DVD.
The sale also includes a $1 bag sale in the annex area beginning at noon.
The Friends will provide $20 coupons for teachers, whether public, private, parochial or home, at this month’s sale.
The Friends recently announced that its August book sale raised $2,053.95 to support programs at the Sequim Branch Library.
• The Salish Sea Makers Market is open from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday in the Hay Barn and Patio at Finn River Farm and Cidery, 124 Center Road, Chimacum.
The market will feature farmers and makers who work with materials that they grow, acquire from local farms or forage.
• Joanna Camp will present “Growing Succulents” at 12:15 p.m. Saturday in the Humphrey Room at the Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., Port Hadlock.
Camp, a Jefferson County master gardener, will discuss the art of succulent care, propagation and design.
Camp’s lecture will be followed at 1 p.m. by the Jefferson County Master Gardeners’ monthly “Ask a Master Gardener!” plant clinic.
For more information, visit www.jclibrary.info.
• Kathy Darrow will present “Gardening With Native Plants” at 1 p.m. Saturday in the salmon shelter at H.J. Carroll Park, 9884 Rhody Drive, Chmacum.
Darrow’s presentation is part of the Growing Knowledge in the Garden series, a free, bi-monthly event sponsored by the Kul Kah Han Native Plant Garden.
Darrow, from the Jefferson County Master Gardener Foundation, also is a member of the Olympic chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society.
For more information, email kkhnativeplants@gmail.com or visit www.nativeplantgarden.org.
• Elisabeth Monica will call at a contra dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Black Diamond Community Hall, 1942 Black Diamond Road, Port Angeles.
Music will be provided by Laurie Andres, Olga and Joe Michaels.
The dance, which will begin the season at Black Diamond, will be preceded by a potluck dinner at 5:30 p.m.
A free lesson will be offered at 7 p.m. to those who have paid admission.
• K.C. Wiggins will sign copies of her new book, “One Balloon,” from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
The book is centered around the story of Wiggins’ aunt, who, along with five Sunday school students, were the only Americans killed by enemy action in the continental United States during WWII.
