A Port Angeles Symphony performance, other music shows and a repair event will take place on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
• The Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra will feature Traci Winters Tyson, its principal cellist, during a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles.
Tyson will play David Popper’s “Hungarian Rhapsody” and Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei.”
Tickets are $15 to $40 per person at www.portangelessymphony.org or from Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., Port Angeles.
Conductor Jonathan Pasternak will present a pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets also are available for the orchestra’s final dress rehearsal at 10 a.m. Saturday for $10 per person.
• Olympic Peaks Burlesque will present “Total Eclipse of the Heart” at 10 p.m. Saturday at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $25 for general admission at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/olympic-peaks-burlesque/total-eclipse-of-the-heart-presented-by-olympic-peaks-burlesque-55427454.
Temera T’Tease, of Portland, Ore., will emcee the show, which will feature performances by RiRi SynCyr and Obscura Foxx, both from Portland, Aleksandra Mistress of Fusion of Poulsbo, Bettina May of Las Vegas and Penny Featherbottom from the Olympic Peninsula.
For more information, visit www.studiobob.art.
• Edward Murray and Jerry Robinson Bank will perform at 4:30 this afternoon at the Fairmount Restaurant, 1127 Highway 101, Port Angeles.
No cover charge.
• Sarah Shea, with Ed Donahue, Ed Shissak and Steve Kirk, will perform at 6 tonight in the Salish Winds Restaurant at the Elwha River Casino, 613 Stratton Road, Port Angeles.
No cover charge.
• The Oxford House Chapter 20 will present “Recovery Night with Sam Miller at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
Tickets to the comedy show are $25 at the door.
• Georgianna Seko will present “Using the DAR Databases for Genealogy” at 9:30 a.m. Saturday during a hybrid meeting of the Clallam County Genealogical Society in the society’s Resource Center, 403 E. Eighth St., Port Angeles.
The public is invited to attend the free presentations. The Zoom link is available by calling the society at 360-417-5000.
The research center is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and from noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays.
For more information, visit www.clallamcogs.org.
• Stewart Furini will demonstrate his techniques for embellishing wood turnings with an airbrush at 10 a.m. Saturday during a meeting of the Strait Turners woodturners club at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road, Sequim.
Turners of all levels, and those who wish to learn about the hobby, are welcome to attend.
For more information, email Lisa Brice, the club’s membership director, at lisakbrice@gmail.com.
• Carrie Morlag will discuss orchard mason bees at 11 a.m. Saturday at Wild Birds Unlimited, 275953 U.S. Highway 101, Gardiner.
A $5 donation will benefit Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue.
Morlag, the owner Knox Cellars Mason Bees, will stay for a Q&A session after her presentation.
For more information, visit https://gardiner.wbu.com.
• Jeff Tepper will present “Diamond: A Multifaceted Gem” at 4 p.m. Saturday during a meeting of the Quimper Geological Society at First Baptist Church, 1202 Lawrence St., Port Townsend.
Tepper will discuss how and where diamonds form, how we search for them, and explain what they tell us about our planet’s deep interior.
For more information, visit www.quimpergeology.org.
• Paul Yancey will present “Animals of Extreme Habitats in the Deep Sea” at 3 p.m. Sunday in the chapel on Fort Worden on Fort Worden Way near W Street.
The free presentation is part of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Future of Oceans series.
The lecture will highlight the physiological adaptations of deep-sea life and the growing threats to these fragile ecosystems from human activities such as pollution and mining.
For more information, visit www.ptmsc.org.
• Kurt Hoelting and Tele Aadsen will be featured during a free poetry reading at the Port Townsend Friends Meetinghouse, 1841 Sheridan St., Port Townsend.
Hoelting will read from his recently released book, “Apprentice to the Wild,” and Aadsen will read from “What Water Holds.”
The readings will be followed by a conversation between the authors and a book signing.
For more information, visit www.emptybowl.org.
• The Port Townsend Marine Science Center will host a free repair event from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., Port Townsend.
Volunteers will donate their time to help repair small appliances, electronics, textiles, clothes, bicycles and other household items. Limit of two items per person.
Future repair sessions are planned for the Brinnon Community Center, the Cotton Building in Port Townsend, the Quilcene Community Center and the Jefferson County Public Library.
For more information, visit www.ptmsc.org/jeffco-repair.
• Clay Antieau will present “The Importance of Being Evergreen” at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., Port Townsend.
Tickets are $15 per person at https://2025yardandgarden.eventbrite.com.
Antieau is a horticulturist, botanist, environmental scientist and educator who has served at several levels in Washington Native Plant Society and as a research associate at the University of Washington’s Burke Herbarium.
The presentation, which will be followed by a Q&A session with Antieau, will complete the Jefferson County Master Gardener Foundation’s 2025 Yard and Garden Lecture Series.
Master gardener plant clinicians also will be on hand to answer gardening questions.
For more information, visit www.jcmgf.org.
