A film festival, a book fair and performances on stage highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The Banff Center Mountain Film Festival’s World Tour will screen a selection if short films at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $27 per person each night or $42 for a two-day pass at www.fieldhallevents.org/tickets.
The Banff Festival began in 1976 in Banff, Alberta, as a small gathering of climbers and outdoor enthusiasts and has grown into one of the world’s premier showcases of mountain culture and outdoor adventure.
The festival’s World Tour has shared films with audiences worldwide for more than 30 years.
For more information, visit www.banffcentre.ca/banffmountainfestival/tour.
• Jen Flanagan, a local author, will host a book fair to connect readers with local authors and bookstores from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the lower lobby at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
Attendees will be able meet and talk with 20 local authors and purchase copies of their work.
Participating authors include Alexander Buckingham, Flora Beach Burlingame, Mark Clemens, Flanagan, SharonAnn Hamilton, Heidi Hansen, Patrick Hurley, Jen Kaczmarek, Evan Kidwell, Darcy McGuire, Veronica Mahara, Lisa Mantchev, Stevie Marie, Linda B. Myers, Mike Nolan, Lynne Hancock Pearson, Becca Ryden, Gary Smith, Mary B. Truly and Carol Turner.
Port Book and News of Port Angeles also will have a table at the fair.
• The Port Angeles Community Players will open its 74th season with performances of “The Foreigner” at 7 p.m. Fridays and Tuesdays and matinees at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 12 at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $18 per person, $9 for students at www.pacommunity players.org.
The play was written by Larry Shue and will be directed by Rebecca Senne.
“The Foreigner” is set at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia and follows Englishmen Charlie Baker and Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur on a getaway trip.
Baker, both shy and depressed, tells LeSueur that he cannot speak with strangers and panics when the locals try to chat him up.
LeSueur concocts a story that Baker doesn’t speak English because he’s a foreigner from a far-off land.
Believing that Baker doesn’t understand them, the lodge’s other guests begin talking about their secrets in front of him.
• Scott Cossu will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Rainshadow Recording in Building 315 at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadow recording or $25 at the door.
Cossu, an Olympia-based New Age pianist, composer and recording artist, will be joined by guitarist Giles Arendt.
Cossu has a degree from the school of music at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and studied ethnomusicology at the University of Washington.
Cossu has toured with Michael Hedges, Alex De Grassi and George Winston. He also has performed in Spain, Canada, Costa Rica, England, Chile, Italy and Germany.
Cossu’s most recent album, “Memories of Water and Light,” a trio with cellist Holly Reeves and guitarist Van Manakas, is his second recording on the Heart Dance Records label.
• The Olympic Peninsula Alpaca Rescue will observe the 19th National Alpaca Farm Days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at its farm at 669 N. Lees Creek Road, Port Angeles.
Attendees will learn more about alpacas, the fiber they produce and why the alpaca business is suited for environmentally conscious products.
Other activities include:
• Guided alpaca farm treks.
• Feeding alpacas.
• Demonstrations of spinning, felting, carding and dyeing alpaca fibers.
• Hands-on educational tours.
• Creating felted soap for take-home souvenirs.
• A farm store featuring hand-spun yarn, hand-knitted items and other alpaca products
• A selection of raw fiber from alpacas, llamas and Teeswater and Jacktee sheep.
• Face painting for younger guests.
• A bake sale.
• An ownership Q&A session for those considering the purchase of alpacas.
For more information, call 360-689-2836 or visit www.alpacafarmdays.com.
• The Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will host “Meet the Tricksters: A Crow and Raven Presentation” at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the fellowship hall, 1033 N. Barr Road, Port Angeles.
Wildlife educator Elena Fox will discuss features that differentiate crows from ravens, the intelligence and problem-solving skills of these birds, how they live and how they interact with humans and other animals.
Fox, a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, will present the educational program with Quincy, a common raven, and Benton, an American crow.
• Carla and Friends, including bassist Dirk Anderson and guitarist Jim Oliver, will perform from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Vintage, 725 Water St., Port Townsend.
No cover charge.
• Sound Advice will perform from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, Sequim.
Admission is $12 person, $10 for lodge members.
• Friday Night Movies will show “Dan in Real Life” at 6:30 tonight at the temporary location of the Sequim Branch Library, 609 W. Washington St., Sequim.
The 2007 romantic comedy starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche is rated PG-13.
For more information, call the library at 360-683-1161, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• The Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will sketch at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The group will meet in front of the Oscar Erickson Building at the fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., Port Townsend.
After sketching, the group will reconvene at noon to share their work and take a photo.
The event is free and open to sketchers of all skill levels.
For more information, visit www.urbansketchersporttownsend.wordpress.com.
• Sandra Ristow will present “The Joy of Genealogy Travel” at 10 a.m. Saturday during a hybrid meeting of the Clallam County Genealogical Society at the society’s Resource Center, 403 E. Eighth St., Port Angeles.
Ristow will relate her discovery of both German and Polish ancestors through her travels. She has been to Germany five times and also to Pomerania, Poland, where she has found living relatives.
The public is invited to attend the free presentation. The Zoom link is available by calling the society at 360-417-5000 or emailing askus@clallamcogs.org.
For more information, visit www.clallamcogs.org.
• Nellie Bridge will host the “Yo Soy (I am) and Soy de (I am from) Poetry Workshop” from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Forks Branch Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., Forks.
Bridge, the Clallam County poet laureate, will lead participants through writing activities that celebrate who they are and where they are from during the free workshop.
Supplies also will be available for attendees to write on their own from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., both before and after the workshop.
For more information, visit www.nols.org.
• The Church of BuVu will sponsor the “Bless the Beasts and Children 0.5K Fun Run” at noon Sunday at the Port Townsend Golf Park, 1948 Blaine St., Port Townsend.
The 547-yard course includes treats at the midpoint for those who need sustenance to complete the race.
A $40 donation covers race entry, a drink discount token and treats at the midway point; race entry is free for children and pets.
Stay-at-home tickets also are available for $20.
Proceeds will benefit the Humane Society of Jefferson County, the YMCA’s Building Futures Program, the Applied Education Foundation’s STEAM Robotics Team and Foster Support of Jefferson County’s Kicks for Kids program.
Registration is available at https://guestlist.co/events/802749.
