With spring underway, entertainment across the North Olympic Peninsula has blossomed.
Among the offerings is the three-day virtual Home & Kitchen Tour, the 25th annual event hosted by the AAUW/UWF of Jefferson County, which begins today.
It will be viewable by folks across the country, said Leslie Roubal of the Association of University Women/University Women’s Foundation. The weekend costs $30 per guest. Registration is at AAUWPT.org.
The Virtual Tour shows homes that otherwise are inaccessible to the public. The tour also includes seminars, discussions with the homeowners and information from the designers/builders, Roubal said.
Also running three days this weekend is “REDD,” which continues at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St., Port Townsend. Tickets are available at www.keycitypublictheatre.org.
• The Bunker, a free art space for teens, will begin today from 3:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. at the Northwind Art School, Building 306, at Fort Worden State Park.
Middle school and high school students need a parental permission form available online at the Bunker page, reachable by visiting https://northwindart.org and clicking on Courses and then Youth.
The Bunker will be open a couple of Fridays a month throughout spring and summer; after this Friday, the next three are set for May 5, May 26 and June 9.
• Studio360 Dance Company is hosting a 30-minute narrated ballet with music from “Peter and the Wolf” and local dancers ages 12 to 17 at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
Admission is a suggested donation of $10 by cash or check. Proceeds will go to Womanfest (https://www.womanfest.org), a 40-year-old Port Angeles-based charitable organization.
• Soprano soloist Mary DiRoberts will perform at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 7 p.m. tonight.
The concert, hosted by the church, at 301 E Lopez in Port Angeles, is free and open to the public, although donations are welcome. All donations will go to support the Holy Trinity concert series.
DiRoberts will be accompanied by Noah Smith, a local keyboardist and composer.
• Nathaniel Talbot Trio will perform at The Palindrome at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
The Palindrome is at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road in Port Townsend. Tickets are $20 each online at https://www.ticketstorm.com/e/27662/t/ or $25 at the door.
For this Port Townsend show, Talbot will be joined by bassist Keegan Harshman and Mickey Grimm on drums.
• Buzz Rogowski 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.
• Gerry Sherman will perform from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in the Spirits Bar and Grill at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.
• Lance Irven will perform from 9 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday in the Bourbon Bar at 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 U.S. Highway 101, Sequim. No cover charge.
• Annual Flea market at the Sequim Prairie Grange will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The market is at the Macleay Hall, 290 Macleay Road, with tables both inside and out. Lunch will be available for purchase.
• Birding hike led by Beverly McNeil will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. The monthly hikes at Fort Flagler State Park, 10541 Flagler Road, recur on the fourth Saturday of each month. The hikes are subject to cancellation due to bad weather. McNeil is a photographer and Admiralty Audubon Society trip leader.
Attendees should wear sturdy footwear, dress for changeable weather and bring their own water and binoculars.
Samples of McNeil’s photographs can be viewed at www.porttownsend gallery.com.
Attendees should register by emailing McNeil at bevy birds53@gmail.com with the subject “Birdwatching Walk.”
• Art demo: Wirewrapping will be presented by Kathy Schreiner from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
“The Art of Wire Wrap,” a free demonstration, will be at the Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St.
Schreiner is a jeweler who specializes in cutting and polishing cabochons, wire wrapping and metalsmithing.
For more information, call Schreiner at 360-460-0827 or email kmsjes@olypen.com.
• Work to Learn Party by the Sequim Botanical Garden Society is set for 1 p.m. Saturday.
In the Terrace Garden at Carrie Blake Community Park, 202 N. Blake Ave., John Hassel will demonstrate how to plant dahlia tubers and Mary Crook will lead a tour of the daffodils, narcissus, hyacinths and tulips in the garden. The presentation is free and open to the public.
For more information, call Dona Brock at 360-460-8865, email brockdl88@gmail.com or www.sequimbotanical garden.org.
• Artists talk at the Jefferson Museum of Art and History, 540 Water St., will be by Port Townsend-based artists David Eisenhour, Joan Jonland and Stephen Yates at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The speakers currently have exhibits at the museum. Jonland and Yates both contributed to “Landscapes: Real & Imagined,” which will be on display through Aug. 6, and Eisenhour’s exhibit “Under Water Street” runs through July 30.
The suggested donation for the program is $10.
Attendance is limited to 30 people, so pre-registration at https://jchsmuseum.simpletix.com is required.
For more information, visit www.jchsmuseum.org.
• Kids Fishing Day will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Carrie Blake Water Reclamation Pond and Demonstration Park on Blake Avenue. It is open to youths 14 and younger and hosted by the North Olympic Peninsula Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers.
• Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), Chapter 430, will offer a free breakfast for any interested in flying at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Sequim Valley Airport, 468 Dorothy Hunt Lane. For more information, call 360-808-6767.
• 2023 Run the Peninsula racing series will leave from Railroad Bridge Park at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The cost of the 5K/10K is $40 per person.
Railroad Bridge Park is at 1943 W. Hendrickson Road.
• Harry Goldstrom will exhibit “Symphony of the Landscape — A Thirty Year Retrospective” from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free to the photography exhibition in the Bayside Gallery at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock.
• Sketch and Stroll, hosted by Fort Worden Hospitality and Art Toolkit, will be at Fort Worden from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday. Participants should meet at the Commons, 210 Battery Way.
Art Toolkit founder Maria Coryell-Martin will demonstrate some sketching tips and techniques before heading out to sketch.
Sketchers are invited to meet up afterwards in the Reveille Cafe to share their creations.
Registration at www.tinyurl.com/sketchand stroll is required.
• The Olympic Peninsula chapter of the Northwest Spinning and Fiber Arts Association will meet from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Raymond Carver room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
The chapter invites fiber artists of all skill levels and crafting styles as well as those that want to find out more about fiber arts to attend.
The meeting will feature hands-on demonstrations of weaving, felting and spinning.
For more information, call MarySue French at 360-504-2233 or email marysue@cabledfiber.com.
• Book reading: Judith-Kate Friedman will read from “The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche” by the late Daniel Deardorff at 4 p.m. Sunday. The reading from this new third edition of the book will be at Dandelion Botanical Company, 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way.
Friedman — award-winning composer, vocalist, Steward of the Mythsinger Legacy Project and Deardorff’s life partner from 2006 until his death in 2019 — also will sing original songs related to the book’s themes.
Discussion and a book signing will follow.
For more information, visit www.mythsingerlegacy.org/the-other-within.
