A home and kitchen tour, stage and music performances and a barn dance are set for this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The 27th Home and Kitchen Tour, hosted by the Port Townsend branch of the American Association of University Women, will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on Marrowstone Island.
The annual self-guided tour, which will feature eight private homes, will begin with check-in at the Nordland Garden Club, 320 Garden Club Road, Nordland.
Tickets are $35 per person at www.aauwpt.org or $40 at check-in.
Proceeds from ticket sales support scholarships for women and girls and educational grants to school districts in Jefferson County.
The featured homes represent a range of architecture from modern to craftsman, modified manufactured to prairie style. Visitors will see a “wine cabin,” a beach glass backsplash, an accessory dwelling unit’s kitchen, DIY finishes and nautical interior touches.
• “Wrong Turn at Lungfish” will be staged at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays through May 11 at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Tickets are $20 per person, $15 for students at www.olympictheatrearts.org or by calling the box office at 360-683-7326 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
The play by Garry Marshall and Lowell Ganz features Peter, a blind and bitter former college professor, and Anita, a streetwise young woman who volunteers to read to him in the hospital.
The comedy, directed by Marissa Meek, explores the clash of worlds and wit that takes the two from animosity and fear to friendship and understanding.
• The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra will present a chamber concert at 2 p.m. Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church, 1120 Walker St., Port Townsend.
Admission is free although donations will be accepted.
Performers include Marina Rosenquist, violin; Sara Mary Hall, violin; Tamara Rotz, violin and flute; Sung-Ling Hsu, viola and piano; Pamela Roberts, cello; Joel Wallgren, clarinet; Michael Carroll, piano; and Helen Lauritzen, piano.
The program includes Sonata for Cello and Piano in A major, FWV 8, Allegretto poco mosso by Cesar Franck; Quartet No. 2 in D major for Strings, Allegro moderato by Alexander Borodin; La Calle 92 Duet for Viola and Cello by Astor Piazzolla; Trio in D Major, Hob. XV:16 for Flute, Cello and Piano by Joseph Haydn; String Trio In D minor — Allegretto by Volkmar Andreae; Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano by Claude Debussy; and Piano Trio in B flat Major Op. 65 — Tranquillo by Arthur Foote.
There will be a short reception after the concert.
For more information, visit www.ptsymphony.org/chamber-music-series.
• “She Sings,” the 2025 spring concert by the Northwest Women’s Chorale, will be performed at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church, 925 Sequim Ave., Sequim.
The chorale will present a second performance at 7 p.m. Monday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 Lopez St., Port Angeles.
There is a suggested donation of $20 at the door.
Joy A Lingerfelt will direct the chorale in a mixed program of American composers accompanied on three titles by Michael Helwick, a local double bassist.
The concert will open with “Alleluia” by Randall Thompson followed by two pieces by Rosephanye Powell: “As the Deer Pants for Water” and “Still I Rise.”
The program also will include an a capella version of “Nothin’ Gonna Stumble My Feet” and Caldwell and Ivory’s “Ain’t No Grave.”
There will be two pieces by Amy Bernon, “She Sings,” which was selected as the name for the concert, and “Life is Not a Garden.”
Following the traditional sing-along, this one with a nod to Broadway, the concert will close with “And Ain’t I a Woman!” a musical version of the famous speech of Sojourner Truth, and the traditional spiritual “Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down.”
For more information, call MarySue French at 360-477-3528, email marysue@cabledfiber.com or visit www.nwwomens chorale.org.
• The West by Northwest Mural Festival will run from noon to 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday at The Hub, 117 N. Lincoln St., Port Angeles.
The inaugural festival will feature Seattle’s Drew Mortenson, Port Townsend’s Burl Norville and Port Angeles’ Todd Fischer, Baillieu Lewis and Brady Black painting live.
Individuals may drop by to watch the muralists paint or listen to discussions with local art classes on how to make murals.
The completed murals will be placed on downtown walls over the summer for a minimum of five years.
The free festival is sponsored by the Port Angeles Waterfront District.
• The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra will feature Seattle-based guitarist Mark Wilson during a free concert at 2 p.m. Sunday in the auditorium at Chimacum High School, 91 West Valley Road, Chimacum.
The public also is invited to an open dress rehearsal at 7 tonight.
Tigran Arakelyan will conduct Mark Hilliard Wilson performing Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Guitar Concerto.
The program also will include works by John Williams from “Harry Potter and the Goblin of Fire,” the Star Wars film, “The Force Awakens,” and “Jurassic Park.”
It also will include music from “Superman Returns” by Williams and John Ottman.
More information, visit www.ptsymphony.org.
• “Carmelita” continues with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and a matinee performance at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Key City Public Theatre, 419 Washington St., Port Townsend.
Tickets are $15 to $49 at www.keycitypublic theatre.org/carmelita or 360-385-5278.
• Five Acre School will host its 15th Barn Dance from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, Sequim.
Tickets are $25 per person and will only be available at the door; youths 12 and younger will be admitted free.
The dance will open with a Kids Zone from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., offering creative opportunities with Play-Doh, kinetic sand, paper crown-making and coloring, a fishing station, temporary tattoos and a DIY photo booth as well as outdoor lawn games like a giant Connect Four and cornhole.
Music will include Gristle, a new groove rock band, at 3 p.m.; Sweater Weather String Band performing for the Family Dance led by Five Acre School’s Rosie Sharp at 5 p.m. and a second set featuring its blend of old-time, honky-tonk, Celtic and indie rock influences at 5:45 p.m., and Mars Garden, which will include local performers Kim Trennery and Jason Mogi of Deadwood Revival, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Parent Service Organization will host a bake sale of homemade treats and free drip coffee from Rainshadow Coffee Roasting Company.
Food will be available from local vendors Pacific Pantry, Goat & The Radish and Da Kindz Island Grill, while local beer, wine and hard ciders will be available at the beer garden.
The dance will include a silent auction and a $5 raffle.
For more information, email 5acrepso@gmail.com or visit www.5acrepso.org/barndance.
• The Barbra Lica Quintet will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.
Tickets are $38 per person at www.portludlow performingarts.com.
Lica writes and performs original music, which also includes elements of folk, rhythm and blues, indie pop and existential synth.
The all-Canadian jazz quintet has performed at New York’s Birdland, Toronto’s Koerner Hall as well as at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, the Tokyo International Jazz Festival, the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival and the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival.
• The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host a reception to celebrate the opening of “Hidden World” from 5 to 7 tonight at the Esther Webster Gallery, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The immersive exhibit features preserved insect specimens arrayed in intricate patterns across the walls.
Artist Jennifer Angus is a professor of textile design at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis.
Angus, who primarily teaches dyeing and printing on cloth, is known for her compositions of hundreds of insects in arrangements reminiscent of textiles or wallpaper.
The public is invited to the reception by donation.
“Hidden World: Jennifer Angus” will be on display from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sunday in the Esther Webster Gallery through July 6.
• David Michael and Michael Mandrell will present “Celebrate Spring” at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Unity Center of Port Townsend, 3918 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend.
Tickets are $25 per person at www.unitypt.org or by calling 360-385-6519; admission is $30 at the door.
The show will feature original music that blends the warm tones of Celtic harp with the steel guitar.
Michael, a Port Townsend-based Celtic harpist, has released more than 25 albums ranging from world music to ambient relaxation music.
A steel guitarist based in Taos, N.M., Mandrell’s fingerstyle guitar playing employs tinges of folk, jazz, ethnic and Celtic overtones.
The duo met in the early 1990s while Mandrell was touring the Pacific Northwest and have collaborated off and on for 30 years.
For more information, call 360-301-4451 or email harp@olympus.net.
• The “Each Student Wearable Art Show” will present two performances on Saturday, one at 1:30 p.m. and a second at 3 p.m., in the auditorium at Port Townsend High School, 1500 Van Ness St., Port Townsend.
The annual show raises funds for PT Artscape.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.keycity publictheatre.org/wearable and at the door. Youths 18 and younger are admitted free.
• Bread and Gravy will present “A History of Time: Through Music” at 7 tonight in the Donna Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $30 to $45 per person at www.fieldhall events.org/tickets.
• “Rally in the Alley” will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., or until the dumpsters are full, on Saturday in Sequim.
Dumpsters will be located near the pickleball courts in Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake St., and at the city’s shop at Third Avenue and Hemlock Street.
Volunteers will be on hand to assist city residents with discarding unwanted items at no cost.
No tires, appliances, liquid paint, gas, fuel or oil will be accepted.
The rally is sponsored jointly by the city of Sequim, Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County and Olympic Disposal.
For more information, call Colleen Robinson, Habitat’s executive director, at 360-775-3742 or email colleen@habitatclallam.org.
• The Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will sketch at Tyler Plaza in downtown Port Townsend at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The sketchers will meet at the intersection of Tyler and Water streets.
Sketching opportunities include the Victorian buildings, people, Port Townsend Bay and the whale skeleton at Union Wharf.
The group will reconvene in the plaza 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 urbansketchersport townsend.wordpress.com.
• The Friends of Fort Townsend will conduct its annual meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Friends’ Barn at Fort Townsend State Park, 1370 Old Fort Townsend Road.
Rosalee Walz, the chair of Chemakum Tribal Services, will present “Still Here: Old Fort Townsend Then and Now.”
The free gathering is open to all.
For more information, email friends.ftsp@gmail.com.
• Pet Helpers Port Townsend will conduct a jewelry sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in a gallery at 2212 Sheridan St., Port Townsend.
The sale will feature a variety of donated jewelry, including 14-karat gold, sterling silver, gemstones and lots of costume jewelry.
No early birds or late comers.
For more information, call 530-521-5496, email dturtle23@gmail.com or visit www.pethelpersport townsend.org.
• The North Olympic Library System will host a free community plant swap from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
Attendees can bring houseplants, seeds and clean pots to trade or give away. No vegetable starts or outdoor gardening supplies.
All unswapped items must be removed by the original owners.
For more information, call the library at 360-417-8500, email discovery@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• The Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association will host a jam session from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The jam session will be at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, Chimacum.
Performers with other acoustic instruments, such as guitars, banjos, basses, dobros, mandolins, autoharps, ukuleles and dulcimers are welcome to attend.
The jam session is free, although donations to support the district’s scholarship program are welcome.
• A Día del Niño celebration is set for noon Saturday at the Forks Branch Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., Forks
Attendees can enjoy games, prizes and Mexican treats.
A second observance, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, is planned for the temporary location of the Sequim Branch Library, 609 W. Washington St., Sequim.
For more information, call the Forks Library at 360-374-6402, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org/nino.
• Former students of Forks and Beaver schools are welcome to attend the All-Class Reunion at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Elks Lodge, 941 Merchant Road.
Photos are scheduled for 6 p.m. and dinner is set for 6:30 p.m.
The reunion costs $35 per person.
Students who left before graduation or who have never attended a reunion will need to have their names added to the guest list.
For more information, call 360-640-2132.
