FORKS — Peninsula College’s Forks campus will host a public screening of the 30-minute documentary film “House of Learning: The Spirit of the Peninsula College Longhouse” as well as a light meal and a drum circle this Friday.
Admission is free to the movie at 5:30 p.m. at the Forks site, 481 S. Forks Ave., although donations will be accepted.
Next come the meal and the drumming, also open to everyone. Participants can bring their own drums.
Members of the Quileute tribe will lead the drum gathering.
The circle is significant because it has no beginning and no end, and allows the energy from each player to travel and vibrate through the whole, according to a news release.
The “House of Learning” documentary looks at how Peninsula College came to be the first community college to build a Native American longhouse.
In partnership with the North Olympic Peninsula’s six local tribes, the House of Learning was constructed as a place for everyone, Native American or not, to meet.
The event is free because of a Peninsula College Foundation grant, but donations would benefit programming sponsored by the Longhouse, including at the Forks campus.
For more information, contact Peninsula College Forks site coordinator Deborah Scannell at dscannell@pencol.edu or 360-374-3223.