Makah Days, a history center fundraiser and the Salish Sea Butoh Festival highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• Makah Days, the Makah Tribe’s annual celebration, is set for this weekend in Neah Bay.
The celebration commemorates thousands of years of the Makah culture and the tribe’s anniversary of becoming U.S. citizens.
Tribal members will reunite with members who have since moved away and join with neighboring tribes from Washington state as well as First Nations members from Canada’s Vancouver Island.
The celebration will kick off at 1 p.m. today with a Quilts of Valor presentation at the Makah Community Gym, 1394 Bayview Ave., Neah Bay.
Other featured activities include youth field games, a talent show with the royalty coronation, fireworks, the grand parade, traditional salmon bakes, the 3-mile, all-uphill Bahokus Peak Challenge, a daily street fair, war canoe racing and a Slahal tournament.
For a complete schedule of activities, visit www.makah.com/attractions/makah-days.
• The North Olympic History Center will host “History at the Hub” from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at The Hub, 117 N. Lincoln St., Port Angeles.
The fundraiser will include a make-your-own block print station, live music by High Mileage, light refreshments and drinks.
There also will be a silent auction featuring vintage collectibles and clothing, artwork, jewelry and experiences.
Proceeds will benefit the history center.
• The Port Townsend Summer Band will present “Around the World in 80 Days” at 1 p.m. Sunday at Pope Marine Plaza, 621 Water St., Port Townsend.
“We are excited to present several selections that traverse different musical styles and geographic regions,” said Marge Rosen, the band’s conductor.
Audience members are encouraged to bring a lawn chair and a picnic basket to the free, family-friendly concert.
The 40-piece, all-volunteer band features woodwinds, brass and percussion. Its members range in age from teens on up and have a variety of playing experience, from students to amateurs to professionals.
For more information, visit www.ptsummerband.org.
• The fifth Salish Sea Butoh Festival will culminate with main stage performances at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday in the USO Hall at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.
There also will be special performances by Prehistoric Body Theater at 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $25 per person www.givebutter.com/salishseabutoh2025.
The main stage performances cap off a week of workshops and lectures about Butoh dancing, an avant-garde dance theater that originated in Tokyo shortly after the end of World War II.
Performers on the main stage include Japanese artists Saga Kobayashi, Seisaku and Yuri Nagaoka and Kae Ishimoto.
Also featured will be Yumi Umiumare from Australia, Espartaco Martinez and Eugenia Vargas from Mexico, and Melvin Coppalle from France.
For more information, email Ivan Espinosa at salishseabutohfestival@gmail.com or visit www.salishseabutoh.com.
• “Seven Monkeys,” the inaugural exhibit at the Seven Monkeys Gallery, 51 Herbert St., Quilcene, will be open from 5 to 7 tonight.
The exhibit features woodworking by Bill Schult and Phillip Meristem, wood scupture and Raku pottery by Will Fernandez Raku, wood-turning by Paul Kaiser, acrylic paintings by Andrew Sheldon, watercolors by Christine Witte and Amelia Kaiser, pastels by Tricia McWhorten, paper collages by Anne Ricker, photography by Jeff Childs and Michael Mooney, basketweaving by Nancy Aikman, and fiber art by Karen Bright and Daniel deWolff.
The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.
For more information, visit https://www.seven monkeysgallery.com.
• The Raw Art Collective will host the 20th Port Townsend Artist Studio Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The free self-guided tour will showcase more than 60 artists working in 45 studios across northeast Jefferson County.
Tour participants will be able to step into the working studios of local photographers, painters, jewelers, woodworkers, metalsmiths and mixed media artists.
Maps and artist information are available at www.ptstudiotour.art, and printed maps will be available at artist studios during the tour.
• The Olympic Music Festival will continue its summer season with concerts at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $20 to $60 per person at www.olympicmusicfestival.org/2025-concerts.
All vehicles must display a Discover Pass in parking areas on Fort Worden. Passes may be purchased on site.
This weekend, concertgoers will see the Olympic Music Festival’s fellows mentored by Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet; Jessica Lee, violin; Matthew Zalkind, cello; and Julio Elizalde piano.
The festival’s fellows are Ria Honda, violin; Jeremy Klein, viola; K.J. McDonald, violin; Annie Hyung, cello; and Andrew Chen, piano.
The concert on Saturday, “Beethoven the Visionary,” will feature Beethoven’s String Quartet in F major, Op. 135; Brahms’ Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114; and Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D. 898.
Sunday’s program, “Revolutionary Titans,” will include Stravinsky’s Suite from L’Histoire du Soldat for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano; Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68; Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano, Op. 34; and Ravel’s Piano Trio.
For more information, visit www.olympicmusic festival.org.
• Tess Gallagher will read from “Surrounded by Weasels” during a book launch party for the new collection of short stories at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The collection is the result of a decades-long collaboration between Gallagher and her late partner, Josie Gray, an Irish painter and storyteller.
“Surrounded by Weasels” follows the couple’s 2007 book, “Barnacle Soup.”
The stories, gathered between 1994 and 2006, were spoken before the hearth at Abbey Cottage in Ballindoon, Ireland, and at Sky and Ridge Houses in Washington.
Interspersed throughout the collection are original Josie Gray paintings, created in both Ireland and America.
• The Port Angeles Friends of the Library will host a Bag of Books sale from 10:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today and from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
Bags will be provided, and customers will be able to purchase as many books they can fit into the bag for $5.
Customers also may bring their Friends of the Library canvas tote bag and fill it for $3.
The Friends of Library’s book bags also will be available. Customers may buy a bag for $8 and fill it for free.
Proceeds will benefit special programs hosted by the North Olympic Library System.
For more information, visit www.friendsofthe librarypa.org.
