Pre-Halloween activities, other entertainment set this weekend

Events leading to Monday’s Halloween Day are planned this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula, as well as other entertainment.

Halloween

• Haunted Histories and Mysteries of Port Townsend will offer events all over town today and Saturday.

The festival explores historic Port Townsend’s haunted past in downtown Port Townsend, Manresa Castle and Fort Worden State Park.

Ticket/event information is available at ptmainstreet.org. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.com (search Haunted Histories and Mysteries of Port Townsend). Prices range from $20 to $75.

The event information center will be at The Cotton Building in downtown Port Townsend on both days at 11 a.m.

• Salsa Night Latin Dance Party is planned at Studio Bob from 7:30 to 10:30 tonight.

Tickets for this special Halloween edition of salsa night will be available for $10 per person at the door of Studio Bob, at 118½ E. Front St., for ages 18 and up.

The party will start with 30 minutes of crash-course intro to Latin at 7:30 p.m., and then the lights come down, and music goes up.

DJ David Bonobo of Port Townsend will play his specialty of pan African and Latin funk grooves.

For more information, see www.studiobob.art.

• Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will sketch in Laurel Grove Cemetery at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The group will meet inside the gate on Discovery Road between 22nd and 25th streets. The historic cemetery has monuments, mature trees and shrubs, wildlife and scenic views.

The group will reconvene at the gate at noon to share their work and take a photo.

The event is free and open to sketchers of all skill levels.

Horror Pop-Culture and Movies Trivia Night will be hosted by the North Olympic Library System at the Port Angeles Public Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., at 6:30 p.m. today.

For more information or to register for the free event, visit www.nols.org.

Paint & Pour: Paint Your Own Jack ’o’ Lantern will be offered at 1 of a Kind Art Gallery in the Port Angeles Wharf, 115 E. Railroad Ave., at 5 p.m. Saturday.

• Rain of Terror: Haunted Hangar at 5144 Quillayute Road in Forks is open tonight and Saturday from 7 p.m. to midnight and from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Halloween on Monday.

Admission is $10 per person.

• “Night of the Living Dead” is performed at 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave.

Tickets are $20, with students charged $15 at olympictheatrearts.org or by calling the box office at 360-683-7326 between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

• Pumpkin carving is set at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Pumpkin carving, decorated trunks and candy are planned in a walk-through behind the grange hall in the outdoor kitchen area.

• The last Chimacum Farmers Market of the season will be on Sunday, when the closing will be marked with a special Halloween celebration.

Jefferson County Farmers Markets will host the conclusion of the 14th year of the market’s operation with pumpkin painting, trick-or-treating with vendors, piglets from Egg and I Pork and live music by Bobby Winstead and Jack Dwyer from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot and on the grass at Chimacum Corner Farmstand, 9122 Rhody Drive.

Other activities

• “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” will be performed at 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday at the Sequim High School auditorium, 533 N. Sequim Ave.

Tickets are available at the door: $10 for adults and teens, $8 for children 12 and younger. Cash or check is appreciated. Attendees are also asked to bring non-expired canned goods to donate at the play (cans of tuna in particular).

All proceeds above the cost of the production is going to the Sequim Food Bank.

• Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter will perform in Sequim at 6 tonight and in Coyle at 3 p.m. Saturday.

The Sequim performance will be at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., in Sequim. Cost is a suggested donation of $20 to $25; wine and cheese plates are $10.

The Coyle performance will be at Laurel B. Johnson Community Center at 923 Hazel Point Road. Admission will be by donation only. Complementary cookies and coffee will be served at intermission.

• Vanishing Prairie band will perform at the Port Angeles Eagles, 2843 E. Myrtle St., from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday.

The club will conduct a Halloween costume contest.

The cover charge will be $10 per person, $8 for members.

• Backwoods Hucksters band will perform “mountain blues” at 8 tonight at Sirens Pub, 823 Water St., Port Townsend. No cover charge.

• “Digging and Dividing Dahlias” will be presented at 10 a.m. Saturday by John Hassel and Lee Bowen at a Sequim Botanical Garden Society Work to Learn party at the Terrace Garden in Carrie Blake Community Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.

Participants will help to dig up, clean, divide and label the garden’s dahlia tubers for winter storage.

For more information, call Dona Brock at 360-460-8865 or email brockdl88@gmail.com.

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