Crab dinners, music and art are offered this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival begins today and runs through Sunday.
The festival this year will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, with the First Fed Crab Central Tent in the Red Lion Hotel parking lot at 221 N. Lincoln St., vendors on City Pier, The Claw Bistro in The Gateway at Lincoln and Front streets and tours of the Active on Marine Drive.
A full crab dinner is $40 and a half-crab $25 with a discount for active military. Tickets can be purchased online at https://crabfest.yapsody.com/event/index/752529/2023-crab fest-meal-port-angeles.
The Active, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter homeported in Astoria, Ore., will be housed at the Port of Port Angeles marine terminal for tours on Saturday and Sunday. The tours are free, but space is limited and participants must register online in advance at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewMBRIK8OWaDUvTSIw1LezsP_wzA4CMdIVsZ5FFb8kjjSfHQ/viewform. For a full schedule of events at CrabFest, see https://www.crabfestival.org.
• Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., is collaborating with the CrabFest this year in presenting The Ruth Moody Band at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Sammy Miller & The Congregation at 5:30 p.m. in the Donna Morris Theater and at 8:30 p.m. in the Sunset Bar & Lounge.
To buy tickets, see www.fieldhallevents.org/crabfest.
• The Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Skulpture Race is Saturday and Sunday.
Highlights will be the two-day race that begins with the water portion on Saturday, and an altered street, sand and mud kourse on Sunday and the Koronation Kostume Ball at 8 p.m. Saturday. Preceding the festival will be an Early K-Bird hospitality party at the Old Whiskey Mill at 1038 Water St., from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Spellings with “ks” instead of “cs” are intentional.)
This year’s Kinetic race and parade theme is “Kinetic Komedy in the PNW!”
For a detailed map of the route, go to: https://www.ptkineticrace.org/great-port-townsend-bay-kinetic-kourse.
Each skulpture and pilot must pay a registration fee of $20.23 with each additional team member charged $20.23.
T-shirt sponsors are: Key City Fish, Pourhouse, Astound, Port Townsend Brewing Company, Velocity Coffee House, The Keg and I, Uptown Pub, Old Whiskey Mill, Henery’s Hardware, Williwaw Bike Shop and DL Logo.
For more information, see https://www.ptkineticrace.org.
• “To The Moon” will be presented by the Port Angeles Community Players at the Playhouse at 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd. at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Saturday and Tuesday with a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday during its opening weekend.
The 90-minute, one-act play by Beth Kander raises awareness of domestic violence. It will continue Oct. 13-15.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students. Tuesday performances are $8 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at www. pacommunityplayers.org or at the box office on the day of the performance.
• First Friday Art Walk will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight in Sequim.
First Friday Art Walk Sequim is a free, self-guided tour of local art venues in Sequim from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. the first Friday of every month. Visit SequimArtWalk.com to download and print a own map, find special events, links and how to be part of art.
Each First Friday Art Walk has a color theme. This Friday the theme is orange.
For more information, see SequimArtWalk.com.
• The 18th annual North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival is set this weekend during First Friday Art Walk.
It includes the juried fiber arts exhibition “Spinning Sewn Stories — Promulgate, Piece, & Ply” at Sequim Museum & Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave.
From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today, many fiber artists and fiber arts advocates will demonstrate their artistry. The festival continues from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday with a reception from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to meet the artists.
• Contra dance at 7:30 tonight is in conjunction with Sequim’s First Friday Art Walk.
Juanita Ramsey-Jevne, the founder of Black Diamond Contra Dance, will call the dance in Upper Room Hall, 138 W. Washington St., Sequim.
Music will be provided by Joey Gish and the Wriggling Fish featuring Gish on fiddle, David Rivers on acoustic guitar and Will Jevne on fiddle, bouzouki, banjo and guitar.
A beginner’s dance lesson will be offered at 7 p.m. The dance starts at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is by donation; mask wear is optional.
• Jim Nyby will perform from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Martin Sosa will perform from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in Spirits Bar and Grill at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• The Sweater Weather Band will perform from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at the New Moon Cafe, 130 S. Lincoln St., Port Angeles. No cover charge; 21+ venue.
• Jill & Kevin Country will perform from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday in Spirits Bar and Grill at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Write-Hike retreat on Fort Flagler will be led by Carrie Bancroft at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The group will meet at East Beach, past Battery Wansboro, 253 Wansboro Road.
Bancroft, a guide and writing coach, will help participants transform fears and writing blocks into creative, joyful flow while immersed in the natural world.
For more information or to register for the presentation, visit www. eventbrite.com and search for “Write-Hike.”
The program is sponsored by the Friends of Fort Flagler.
• Solar Eclipse STEAM stations will be hosted by the North Olympic Library System for elementary students from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The free program is at the Forks Library, 171 S. Forks Ave.
Attendees will learn about eclipses and space science and take home a pair of eclipse glasses in preparation for the solar eclipse that will cross North America on Oct. 14.
For more information, call 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org/eclipse.
• Rock and Tools Swap hosted by the Port Townsend Rock Club is set from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St.
Admission to the swap is free; proceeds from the event support the club’s scholarship program.
For more information, visit www.porttownsend rockclub.org.
• Future of Oceans series will present Jason Hodin discussing “Bringing up baby stars: Captive breeding of the endangered sunflower star for research and restoration” at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Hodin will speak at the chapel on Fort Worden, on Fort Worden Way near W Street.
The free lecture is part of the center’s Future of Oceans series.
Hodin, a senior research scientist at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs, will talk about seastar wasting disease and the lab’s successful initial efforts to cultivate and restore seastar populations.
For more information and Zoom meeting links, visit www.ptmsc.org.
