Strange Brewfest, a symphony performance and the First Saturday Art Walk highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The 19th Strange Brewfest, hosted by the Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race, is set from 5 p.m. to midnight Friday and from 1 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the American Legion’s Marvin G. Shields Memorial Post 26, 209 Monroe St., Port Townsend.
Tickets are $30 for a day pass, $50 for both days, and include a souvenir tasting glass and five tasting tokens. They are available at www.strangebrewfestpt.com/tickets.
A $25 weekend pass without the glass or tokens is available for designated drivers.
The festival features Port Townsend breweries Social Fabric Brewing, Eaglemount Cidery, Port Townsend Brewery and Propolis Brewing, Port Angeles breweries Barhop Brewing and Mighty Pine Brewing and 15 other regional breweries.
New this year, Patrick Forrestal, a glassblower from Port Townsend Glassworks, will demonstrate his craft live during the festival.
Friday’s music schedule includes ELK at 5 p.m. and Twig Flicker at 8 p.m.
Mars Garden will kick off the music at 1 p.m. Saturday, followed by The Shift at 3:30 p.m. and the Cosmiphonics at 6 p.m. LoWire will close out the festival starting at 9 p.m.
For more information, including a full list of breweries, visit www.strangebrewfestpt.com.
• Carrie Jennings will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $18 at www.studiobob.art or $20 at the door.
Seattle-based musician Hayden Lindsey will open the show.
Jennings, who has played with Mama Magnolia, Wes Watkins and the 1990s cover band Sideboob, recently relocated to Seattle to pursue a solo career.
• The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra will host a performance in its chamber music series at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Port Ludlow Community Church, 9534 Oak Bay Road, Port Ludlow.
The free concert will feature Vincent Oneppo, clarinet; Tamara Rotz, flute; Anne Krabill, oboe; Pamela Roberts, cello; Laurel Sprigg, soprano; Michael Carroll, piano; Sung-Ling Hsu, piano; and Lisa Lanza, piano.
Donations will be accepted at the door to benefit Olive Crest: Strong Families, Strong Children. Olive Crest is dedicated to preventing child abuse by strengthening, equipping and restoring children and families in crisis.
The program will include “Slavonic Dances for Four Hands,” Op. 72, No. 2 and Op. 46, No. 8 by Antonin Dvorak; Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011, “Prelude” by J.S. Bach; “Neapolitan Tarantella for Clarinet and Piano” by Alfred Pasquala Zambarano; Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, “Sentimentale” by Claude Bolling; “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by Ben Moore; “Jardin Antiquo”by Carlos Guastavino; “Io son l’umile ancella” from Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea; Oboe Sonata, DM, Op. 166 by Camille Saint-Saens; and Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114, mov. 3 and 4 by Johannes Brahms.
Audience members are invited to a short reception after the concert.
For more information, visit www.ptsymphony.org/chamber-music-series.
• First Saturday Art Walk is planned from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at various venues in downtown Port Townsend.
— Gallery-9, 1012 Water St., will feature the mythical art of Katy Morse from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The exhibit features one of her early works, “Katryna of the Salish Sea,” a painting in acrylic on canvas.
Morse also will debut a multidimensional painting, “Medicine Shield of 4 Muses,” this month.
Each of the four Muses has a power animal by their side, and they embody the elements of earth, water, fire and air.
Morse’s paintings will be on exhibit at Gallery-9 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays throughout February.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
— The Jeanette Best Gallery, 701 Water St., will host a reception for the opening of “Being with Kelp” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The exhibit features large-scale paintings by painter and printmaker Shawna Marie Franklin.
Franklin of Orcas Island draws inspiration from her experiences in long-distance kayaking.
“Being with Kelp” will be on display from noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays through March 31.
For more information, visit www.northwindart.org.
• Saltfire Theatre will continue its production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” with performances at 7 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 9 at the JFK Building on Fort Worden.
Advance tickets are $25 per person at www.saltfire theatre.org/tickets.
The production is directed by Genevieve Barlow and features the work of 34 local artists as cast, crew and design team.
Some matinee performances may also be announced at a later date.
• Sarah Shea and Chez Jazz will perform from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at WindRose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St., Sequim. $5 cover charge.
• Duende Libre will perform at noon Sunday in the Sunset Lounge at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles. The group will present a free jazz workshop at 11 a.m. in the Donna M. Morris Theater before the concert.
• Ann and Mike Nolan will present “The Michinoku Trail, Japan” at 7 p.m. Friday at the Port Angeles Senior and Community Center, 328 E. Seventh St., Port Angeles.
The Nolans will discuss Japan’s newest, and longest, Pacific Coast trail system.
The presentation will complete the 2025 Adventure Travel series sponsored by the Peninsula Trails Coalition.
Admission is by a $10 donation.
For more information, email info@olympic discoverytrail.org or visit www.olympic discoverytrail.org.
• David Allen will present “A Wild Idea: Native Plants for Pollinators, Birds and Wildlife” at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., Port Townsend.
The presentation is part of the Jefferson County Master Gardener Foundation’s 2025 Yard and Garden Lecture Series.
Tickets are $15 per person at https://2025yardandgarden.eventbrite.com.
Allen owns Shore Road Nursery in Port Angeles and has worked in restoration and plant propagation, including the Elwha River restoration project in Olympic National Park, for more than 35 years.
The 90-minute lecture will be followed by a Q&A session with Allen.
Master gardener plant clinicians also will be on hand to answer gardening questions.
For more information, visit www.jcmgf.org.
• Mikie Morris will present “Cutting Patterns Apart and Reweaving” at 10 a.m. Saturday during a meeting of the North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033 N. Barr Road, Port Angeles.
The public is invited to the free meeting.
For more information, email n.o.shuttleand spindleguild@gmail.com or visit www.nossg.org.
• The Sequim Branch Library will host “Circuitry with the Civil Air Patrol” at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the gym at Olympic Peninsula Library, 400 N. Second Ave., Sequim.
Members of the Civil Air Patrol’s Dungeness Composite Squadron will guide students through experiments in electric circuitry during the free STEM workshop.
Space is limited. Participants must register at www.nols.org/events.
For more information, call 360-417-8500 or email discover@nols.org.
• The Clallam County Democrats will host a public forum to discuss youth in government at 4 p.m. Saturday in the party’s headquarters, 124A W. First St., Port Angeles.
State Rep. Adam Bernbaum will speak about his journey to the state Legislature and talk about ways for young people to get involved in local government.
For more information, call 360-452-0500 or email clallamcountydemocrats@gmail.com.
• The Dungeness Bonsai Society will meet from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in Rainshadow Hall at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 1943 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.
The public is invited to learn the methods and techniques of bonsai, sources for tools and supplies and to make friends who share their enthusiasm for these little trees.
