PORT TOWNSEND — PT Playfest, the annual two-week theater festival at the Key City Playhouse and Pope Marine Building, is about to begin with a sneak preview slated for 6 p.m. Thursday.
Six local playwrights have won entry to the festival’s One-Act Play Competition, so Key City Public Theatre and the Port Townsend Arts Commission will present awards and stage short excerpts from their plays at the Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St.
The public is invited to Thursday’s preview, where admission will be free and light refreshments served in the lobby.
The winning playwrights — Deborah Daline, Doug Given, D.D. Wigley, Christopher Clow, Sandy Diamond and Susan Solley, all of Port Townsend — will then have their one-acts presented during PT Playfest, which will run from March 5-15 in downtown Port Townsend.
And the one-acts are just one part of the event.
Theater lovers also will be able to see workshop productions of two developing full-length plays by AP Andrews of New York City and Sylvie Baldwin of Seattle and, if they’re interested in playwriting themselves, attend the arts commission’s annual free workshop.
Leading the workshop this year is visiting playwright Doris Baizley, a founding member of California’s LA Theatre Works and the author of plays including “Mrs. California,” “Guns” and “Shiloh Rules.”
To find out more about PT Playfest, visit www.keycitypublictheatre.org or phone Key City Public Theatre’s offices at 360-379-0195.
Jazz trio performs
PORT TOWNSEND — The Key City Jazz Trio, a Port Townsend band specializing in tunes such as “Route 66,” “St. Louis Blues,” “Dark Eyes” and even some choice Beatles songs, will make its Candlelight Concert debut at Trinity United Methodist Church this Thursday night.
Doors of the church, 609 Taylor St., will open at 6:30 p.m.
Admission is a suggested $10 donation for adults, while children are invited to come free.
Refreshments will be served after the concert.
“American popular songs and the blues of the last century is our muse,” said Key City Jazz Trio pianist Michael Le Donna, “and we amuse ourselves by playing them differently every time, accounting for the ‘jazz’ in our group’s name.”
Along with bassist Gary Fredrick and drummer Jim Goldberg, Le Donna promises plenty of audience participation during Thursday’s concert.
The group will take requests via its 300-title songbook, which will be handed out at the door — and do its own requests too, of favorites such as “Sweet Georgia Brown,” “Black and Blue” and the aforementioned Beatles numbers.
A “Down by the Riverside” sing-along might happen if the crowd is up for it.
The group’s CD, “The Key City Jazz Trio Live at the Ajax,” will be available at the concert for $12 — and for those who want to hear the trio again.
For more about this and other events in the Candlelight Concert series, which benefits local charities and Trinity’s music and historic Victorian restoration programs, phone 360-774-1644.
AAUW meeting
PORT TOWNSEND — Professional, para-professional and business communities will describe their jobs to eighth-grade students during two upcoming Career Days sponsored by the Port Townsend branch of the American Association of University Women.
The first will be Thursday at Chimacum Middle School. Students from Chimacum, Quilcene and Brinnon are expected to attend.
The second session, for Port Townsend students, will be March 5 at Blue Heron Middle School.
A combined total of 25 speakers from East Jefferson County and Seattle will speak and answer questions.
Among them will be veterinarians, lawyers, police officers, physical therapists, research scientists, construction foremen, engineers, craftspeople and business owners.
AAUW Port Townsend and its affiliate, the University Women’s Foundation of East Jefferson County, have hosted Career Days for 20 years.
The groups also support college scholarships for women, summer tech camp for girls and elementary school programs in phonics, literacy and math.
MAC program information set Thursday
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles School District Multi-Age Community teachers will hold the program’s annual public information meeting in the Franklin Elementary School library, 2505 S. Washington St., from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
The program, commonly known as the MAC program, is based at Franklin, but enrollment is open to all Port Angeles students, first through fifth grades, via a placement request process.
Teachers will discuss the history of the program, philosophy of multi-age education, enrichment clusters and placement procedures for the 2015-16 school year.
Request forms and informational brochures will be available at this meeting and in the office at Franklin Elementary.
For more information, contact Claire Rausch by emailing crausch@portangelesschools.org or phoning 360-565-1840 after 3:15 p.m.
Ecosystem recovery
BLYN — The next quarterly meeting of the Strait of Juan de Fuca Ecosystem Recovery Network is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday.
The meeting is in the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe’s Red Cedar Hall, located within the community center on Old Blyn Highway.
The network is one of the Puget Sound Partnership’s Local Integrating Organizations that is working to implement the Action Agenda — a “leadership and coordinating document meant to focus the region around a shared agenda” — for Puget Sound protection and recovery.
Agenda items for the meeting include speakers on the Port Angeles landfill bluff stabilization project and Warmhouse Beach dump superfund site.
The network organizations also will discuss educational, planning, funding and other issues and opportunities that would help implement a wide variety of priority actions within the Strait Action Area.
The public is encouraged to attend.
For more information, contact John Cambalik at StraitSoundEnvironmental@wavecable.com.
Home dedication
FORKS — A Habitat for Humanity home dedication will take place at 421 Maloney Lane at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The public is welcome to attend.
This is Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County’s 24th home, which is going to the Weaver family.
There will be a key/dedication ceremony, plus a tour of the new home.
