PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Library will celebrate the long-awaited U.S. publication of Beginners, the collection of Raymond Carver stories as originally written, this Friday evening.
Admission is free to the 7 p.m. event at the library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Port Angeles poet Tess Gallagher, Carver’s widow and the executor of his literary estate, will speak about Beginners, the ensemble of 17 short stories released this week by Vintage Books.
“Pie,” one of the works, will be given a dramatic reading by local actors Kathleen Balducci and John Merton Marrs, who knew Carver during his time in Port Angeles.
Carver, who came to live with Gallagher here in 1979, died of cancer in August of 1988 at age 50. He is buried at Ocean View Cemetery in Port Angeles.
Since Carver was a lover of pie, Marrs’ wife, Marie Marrs, plans on baking and handing out small pies to those in attendance Friday.
Look for more about the Beginners event in Friday’s Peninsula Daily News.
Auditions Monday
PORT ANGELES — Auditions for “The Game’s Afoot or Holmes for Christmas” are slated for 7 p.m. this Monday, Sept. 21, at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Kathleen Balducci will direct this comic mystery, so she’s looking for five women and three men in their 20s to 50s “or so,” she said, adding that would-be performers can check out the “Game’s Afoot” script at two local libraries.
Copies of the play by Ken Ludwig await at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., and the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
In this story, a famous actor known for portraying Sherlock Holmes calls upon his on-stage skills to solve a murder that happens, during a weekend of revelry, in his own home.
“The Game’s Afoot” is the Port Angeles Community Players’ holiday production, and will take the playhouse stage from Nov. 20 through Dec. 6.
Balducci welcomes phone calls about the production at 360-457-0500.
Sequim Art meeting set for Sept. 24
SEQUIM — The next general meeting for Olympic Peninsula Art Association (formerly Sequim Arts) will be held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Parish Hall, 525 N. Fifth Ave., from 9:30 a.m. to noon, Thursday, Sept. 24.
The meeting starts with refreshments at 9:30 a.m., with business and announcements at 10 a.m.
September’s art presentation begins at 10:45 am.
The public is welcome.
Janie Brackney is the special presenter.
Brackney has been referred to as a “breakout” artist who has worked in all sorts of mediums.
She is a self-taught and started out oil painting.
“I love learning new things both from videos and the many artists that I rub shoulders with here on the Olympic Peninsula,” Brackney said in a news release.
More of Brackney’s work can be seen at the Landing Artists Studio on the lower floor of the Landing Mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave.