Monthly art walks, stage productions and a Maritime Festival highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The East Park Avenue Players Drama Club at Port Angeles High School will present “Queens” at 7 tonight and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the school’s Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $10 per person, $8 for seniors and students, and free for children 6 and younger.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. to exhibit ekphrastic artwork created by students in Bonnie Clark’s art class, inspired by the settings and themes of the play.
The one-act play, which was written by Kristen Doherty and directed by Kelly Lovall, imagines what might happen if King Henry VIII of England had to review, relive and repent his wrongs.
Doherty used original source documents, poems, songs and other citations to tell the story.
The ensemble of court gossips serve as a chorus to give the audience an historical account of his indiscretions and their consequences, and each queen makes an appearance to reenact the moments that led to her ill-fated end.
Cast members include freshman Elsie Kilmer, sophomores Layla Corpuz and Madison Egnew, juniors Sophie Schies, Sally Kasten, Allyson Jackson, Allyson Jackson, Zoey Howe and Felix Bubb, and seniors Jayden Luabena and Madison McIntyre.
Crew members include Zaniyah Walker, stage manager; Ella Ebalo, choreographer; McHenry Miller, sound designer; and Peter Schiess, light designer.
• The First Friday Art Walk will celebrate with a white-themed event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at various venues in downtown Sequim tonight.
Maps for the self-guided tour are available at www.sequimartwalk.com.
Special events in June include:
• The Karen Kuznek-Reese Gallery, in the Sequim Civic Center, 152 West Cedar St., will open the juried exhibit, “Over The Rainbow,” from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The reception will include light refreshments and musical entertainment by the Olympic Brass Quintet.
This exhibit, which features 13 pieces created by 11 local artists, will be on display through Aug. 18.
• The Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., will host a reception to celebrate its 28th anniversary from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The gallery is exhibiting “28 on the Strait,” a collection of works fashioned from the local area, throughout June.
For more information, visit www.bluewhole gallery.com.
• The A. Milligan Art Studio and Gallery, 520 N. Sequim Ave., will present the Pacific Northwest Impressions Exhibit featuring the works of Len Zeoli, Michelle Lindblom and Linda Tilley.
Zeoli is a sculptor who works in wood. Lindblom creates acrylic paintings and monotypes. Tilley paints with oil.
Visitors also can look into Milligan’s personal studio to see the pastels she has in progress.
• Sequim Museum and Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave, will feature “Land, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Clay” in its Judith McInnes Tozzer Art Gallery.
The exhibit showcases Beth Garrison’s functional pottery in white stoneware.
Garrison creates both wheel-thrown and slab-built pottery that she decorates with colored slips and underglazes, using techniques such as carving, incising and inlaying.
• The River House Bakery and Cafe, 120 W. Bell St., will display the nature and landscape photography of Kelli Ward of KW Photography along with music by Deadwood Revival.
For more information, including adding a venue or an artist to the list, call Renne Emiko Brock at 360-460-3023 or email renneemiko@gmail.com.
• The Port of Port Angeles will host its Maritime Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the east parking lot at the Port Angeles Boathaven, 800 W. Boathaven Drive, Port Angeles.
Prior to the opening of the festival, a Flounder Derby will kick off at dawn. Awards will be presented at 5 p.m. Saturday. The Port Angeles Yacht Club will conduct a boat parade along the Port Angeles Waterfront starting at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Contestants in the Flounder Derby must preregister at www.maritimefestival.org.
Other festival highlights will include:
• U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue demonstrations at noon Saturday and Sunday.
• Fishing simulator by Batson Enterprises on Saturday only.
• Waterfront tours with port commissioners on Saturday only.
• Youth activities and maritime-themed games.
• Educational booths with representatives from local maritime businesses, schools and training programs.
• Live music featuring the Port Angeles High School jazz band at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Black Diamond Junction at 4 p.m. Saturday, Gristle at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, and Whiskey and Brine at 3 p.m. Sunday.
• Food trucks from Frugals Burgers, Pizza Hut, Dragon’s Brew Coffee and Joey’s Ice Cream.
For more information, visit www.maritimefestival.org.
• “Nunsense” will continue its run with performances at 7 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and matinee performances at 2 p.m. Sundays through June 15 at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
The theatre will host a Champagne reception after the opening night performance.
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 Albert Lee Band will perform for Rainshadow Concerts at 7:30 tonight in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $40 per person at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadow recording or $50 at the door.
Lee, a British-born country rock artist, has won two Best Country Instrumental Performance Grammies for Earl Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” in 2001 and for Brad Paisley’s “Cluster Pluck” in 2008.
Lee also has released 10 solo and band albums under his own name.
Port Townsend-based bluesman John “Greyhound” Maxwell will open the show with his slide guitar and mandolin.
• The Ludlow Village Players will open its production of “Nunsense II: The Second Coming” with performances at 6:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and matinees at 2 p.m. Sundays through June 15 at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.
Tickets are $25 per person at www.ludlow villageplayers.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 the 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 Sequim City Band will present “Let’s Dance” at 3 p.m. Sunday at the James Center for the Performing Arts in Carrie Blake Park.
The concert will be directed by Tyler Benedict, with narration by David Herbelin.
Werner Figar will lead a pre-concert dance session at 2 p.m. with Bria Rocha from Sequim Ballroom.
The program represents a musical journey through the dance music of the 20th century.
Local jazz vocalist Sarah Shea will join the band on George and Ira Gershwin’s “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust” and “Fly Me to the Moon” by Bart Howard.
The concert will open with “In the Mood” by Joe Garland, the swing hit made famous by the Glenn Miller Band.
The medley “Swing’s the Thing,” arranged by Warren Barker, includes “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” by Duke Ellington along with “Night Train” and “I’ve Heard That Song Before.”
Also on the program is “Georgia on My Mind” by Hoagy Carmichael and Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Waltz No. 2.”
Fans of Latin music will enjoy “La Fiera Asturiana,” a paso doble by Michele Fernández, and “Tango de Salon” by Leonard Ingrande.
The band will perform another Ellington song, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing),” before finishing with a medley honoring clarinet virtuoso Benny Goodman.
The medley includes “Let’s Dance,” “Stompin’ at the Savoy” and “Sing, Sing, Sing,” three songs that helped define the golden age of big band music.
For more information, visit www.sequimcityband.org.
• Wayne Horvitz and Briggan Krauss will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Quilcene Lantern, 7360 Center Road, Quilcene.
Tickets are $15 per person at www.quilcenelantern.com/events or $20 at the door.
Horvitz, the recipient of the 2019 American Prize in Orchestral Composition, is a composer and pianist who has performed throughout Europe, Japan and North America. He has created new work for The Kitchen, BAM, Seattle Symphony, Berlin Jazz, Nocco, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Centrum and ACT.
Krauss is a saxophonist who has been a key player in New York City’s downtown and creative music scene for more than 25 years.
The Lantern is located in a 90-year-old barn equipped with a wine and beer bar and heated by a wood stove and propane furnace.
Lodging and camping are available on site, including space for RVs and trailers.
• The RainShadow Chorale will present “American Folk,” its spring concert, at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 1111 Franklin St., Port Townsend.
Tickets are available at the door for a suggested donation of $20 for adults or $10 for students.
The concert will be conducted by Laurie de Leonne, the chorale’s artistic director, and Lisa Lanza will accompany on the piano.
The program will showcase American folk traditions: spirituals, protest songs, lullabies, ballads and front-porch tunes.
For more information, email rainshadowchorale@gmail.com or visit www.rainshadowchorale.org.
• The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will present “Folk Songs from Three Centuries: Renaissance Psalms, Scottish Baroque and Folk” at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.
Admission is by a suggested donation of $20 to $30 per person. Youths 18 and younger will be admitted free.
Oleg Timofeyev, a Chicago-based guitarist, will play a renaissance lute, an English guitar and a seven-string guitar.
Jeffrey Cohan, the festival’s artistic director, will play a renaissance flute, a baroque flute and an eight-keyed flute.
The program will begin with 17th century variations of Psalms from the 16th century “Geneva Psalter” by flutist Jacob Van Eyck and lutenist Nicolas Vallet.
The musicians will change instruments, picking up the English guitar and the one-keyed Baroque flute, to perform selections from James Oswald’s “Airs for the Seasons.”
The program will conclude with variations on popular tunes by Englishman Charles Nicholson, American Joseph Kennedy, Austrian Anton Diabelli and other contemporaries of Beethoven, performed on an Eastern European 7-string guitar made in Russia in 1820 and an eight-keyed flute made in London the same year.
For more information, visit see www.salishsea festival.org/porttownsend.
• The Alano Club, Gallery-9 and the Port Townsend Gallery will be among the venues to participate in the monthly Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Port Townsend.
• The Alano Club, 1102 Water St., unit B, will exhibit the work of Randy Arnest from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Arnett, a former Port Townsend-area resident who died in November at 80, created modern abstract art.
The 25 pieces on display will be for sale through a silent auction to benefit the club. The exhibit and auction will run through June 22.
The Alano Club is a nonprofit that provides a venue for various 12-step recovery groups to meet.
• The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host a reception for Susan Hazard and Rebekah Cadorette from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Cadorette, a Port Townsend fiber artist known for her handwoven garments and linens, will exhibit the Japanese folk art of temari during Saturday’s Art Walk and throughout the month.
Temari began in Japan as children’s toys but has evolved into highly-valued art. They are constructed by wadding up pieces of cloth into a ball, which is then wrapped with strips of fabric. Over time, the exterior stitching became more detailed, and the balls began to display elaborate embroidery.
Traditionally, temari were constructed from recycled materials such as pieces of old kimonos. Cadorette adheres to that and uses loom leftovers for her temari.
Hazard, recently returned from travels in Ireland and Italy, will exhibit paintings featuring a contemporary interpretation of florals.
Hazard works in oils, using the palette knife technique, and in acrylics with mixed media.
The art of Cadorette and Hazard will be on exhibit from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily throughout June.
For more information, call 360-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsendgallery.com.
• Gallery-9, 1012 Water St., Port Townsend, will feature the handmade jewelry of Michael S. Kenney and Ann Arscott’s paintings during June.
Kenney, one of the founding members of Gallery-9, creates jewelry that highlight the beauty of natural stones, many of which have been found locally.
Kenney finds the stones, cuts them himself and creates precious metal settings to showcase each stone.
This month he is only exhibiting gemstones that he found on the Olympic Peninsula.
Arscott is exhibiting a collection of Asian-inspired paintings, including Sumi-E painting, an art form that uses black ink washes. The style strives to express the essence of forms rather than their realistic appearance.
She also works in oils, pastels, water colors, ink and pencil on canvas, silk and various types of paper.
Kenney’s jewelry and Arscott’s painting will be on exhibit from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays during June at Gallery-9.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
• David Epley will present “Doktor Kaboom: Under Pressure!” at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
Recommended donations of $25 for adults and $15 for youths will benefit Field Hall’s Peninsula Performs! program.
Seats may be reserved at www.fieldhallevents.org/tickets.
Epley, in the guise of Doktor Kaboom, will present an original, interactive science comedy show that is appropriate for audiences of all ages.
Kaboom’s September 2024 show, “Look Out, Science is Coming!” played to a full house at Field Hall.
The Peninsula Performs! program brings local teaching artists directly to the classroom, providing arts education curriculum at no cost to schools or students.
• Andy Koch’s Badd Dog Blues Society will provide music for dancing from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Elks Lodge #2642, 143 Port Williams Road, Sequim.
Admission is $12 per person, $10 for Elks members.
• Ken Wiersema will present “Birds Out of their Nest” at 10 a.m. Saturday in Rainshadow Hall at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 1943 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.
Wiersema will discuss the roles parent birds play in protecting, feeding and leading their offspring.
The presentation is part of the Backyard Birding series sponsored by the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society.
Admission is by $5 donation; proceeds support the society’s education and bird conservation programs.
For more information, visit www.olympic peninsulaaudubon.org.
• Margery Whites will present “Gardening for Newcomers to the North Olympic Peninsula” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road, Sequim.
Whites’ presentation, part of the Digging Deeper gardening series, is oriented toward gardeners who are new to the challenges of gardening on the North Olympic Peninsula.
She will discuss choosing plants appropriate for different microclimates, basic landscape planning, solving problems related to wet winters and dry summers, and the tools and resources that are available.
In addition to Whites’ presentation, other master gardeners will be on hand from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to answer gardening questions.
For more information, call the county extension at 360-565-2679 or visit www.extension.wsu.edu/clallam.
• SilverKite Community Arts will present “Sip and Paint Acrylics: Peonies” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
The free online, intergenerational program is sponsored by the North Olympic Library System.
Participants can use their own materials and follow along live on Zoom or later with a recording of the presentation.
The class is appropriate for all ages.
Links to supply lists and registration are posted at www.nols.org.
A recording of the program will be posted at www.silverkite.org/nols; use the password NOLS2023.
• The U.S. Lighthouse Society at Point Wilson will host “Celebration of the Light” from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Point Wilson Lighthouse, 200 Battery Way E., Port Townsend.
The society is celebrating the restoration and relighting of the original 1894 Fresnel lens.
The festivities will include live music by Cold Comfort, Marco Marco and Afterlife Gift Shop, raffles and games, guided tours of the light station and educational displays.
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
• Patricia Hagen will discuss her exhibit “Into the Woods” at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Jeanette Best Gallery, 701 Water St., Port Townsend.
The solo art exhibit features more than 40 paintings and ceramic works depicting the natural world and our relationship to it.
“Into the Woods” will be on display from noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays through July 7.
For more information, visit www.northwindart.org.
