NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Feb. 5.
BLYN — The Atlanta Rhythm Section will perform live tonight at the 7 Cedars Casino.
The band is known for top 10 hits such as “So Into You,” and “Imaginary Lover,” as well as top 40 hits including “Doraville,” “I’m Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight,” “Do It Or Die” and “Spooky.”
The American southern rock band formed in 1971.
Current band members are founding member Dean Daughtry on keyboard, along with vocalist Rodney Justo, guitarists David Anderson and Steve Stone, bassist Justin Senker, and drummer Jim Keeling.
Doors open at 7 p.m. at Club Seven inside the casino at 270756 U.S. Highway 101, in Blyn.
The show begins at 8 p.m.
General admission is $25.
For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/ARS-PDN.
Americas conquest
PORT TOWNSEND — The film, “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code,” will be screened Monday at Quimber Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2334 San Juan Ave.
Written by Steven Newcomb, narrated by Buffy Sainte-Marie and filmed by Sheldon Wolfchild of the Dakota tribe, the film focuses on little-known facts concerning Christopher Columbus’s landfall in North America, and the subsequent conquest of the New World.
The film will be shown at 7 p.m.
Entry is by the encouraged donation of $10, although no one will be turned away for inability to pay.
Before the screening, singer/songwriter Dana Lyons will perform live.
Lyons and his songs are known worldwide, and he’s now touring with his ninth CD, “The Great Salish Sea.”
A long-time environmental and social justice activist, Lyons has toured raising awareness for indigenous causes around the world.
Lyons currently is working with the Lummi Indian Nation to stop oil drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, as well as with the Cree Indian Nation to stop the Hydro-Quebec mega dams on Cree territory.
For more information, call 360-379-0609.
Studio open house
PORT ANGELES — Local photographer Ernst Ulrich Schafer invites the public to attend an open house Saturday at his new studio at 118 1/2 E. Front St.
The open house — free to the public — will be held at Schafer’s studio, Fine Art Photography by Ernst, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Schafer said he moved into the new studio Jan. 1 after spending the past 13 years on Laurel Street.
Bring a paper bag along for some fun paper-bag portraits, and have fun designing your own.
There also is a chance to win a black and white portrait session with Schafer.
For more information, call 360-808-6058.
Cat’s Meow
SEQUIM — The Cat’s Meow — a band specializing in swing, waltz, Latin and other vintage music for dancing — will arrive at the Fifth Avenue Retirement Center, 500 Hendrickson Road, for a tea dance this Sunday afternoon.
The band invites the public — dancers and listeners — to enjoy the music from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is $5 for this event, now held every first Sunday of the month at The Fifth Avenue.
The Cat’s Meow, featuring Joey Lazzaro on trumpet, John Zuerner on saxophone, Trevor Hanson on guitar, Jim Rosand on keyboards and Jack Smith on drums, plays songs from the 1900s forward, from “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and “Satin Doll” to “Proud Mary” and “Sugar Blues.”
For more details about Sequim’s first-Sunday tea dance, phone 360-683-3345.
The groups also performs from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. every Tuesday at the Port Angeles Senior & Community Center, 328 E. Seventh St.
Admission is $5 there, too, except for first-timers, who get in free.
For information about these weekly dances at the Port Angeles center, phone 360-457-7004.
Reading series
PORT TOWNSEND — Tim McNulty and Saul Weisberg will be the featured poets during this week’s edition of the Northwest Reading Series.
The reading will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.
Suggested donation for the readings is $3 to $5, with all proceeds benefitting the Northwind Arts Center, a nonprofit organization.
For more information, phone Bill Mawhinney at 360-302-1159.
McNulty is a poet, essayist and nature writer.
He is the author of three poetry collections: Ascendance, In Blue Mountain Dusk and Pawtracks.
He has received the Washington State Book Award and the National Outdoor Book Award.
Weisberg co-founded the North Cascades Institute in 1986, a conservation nonprofit with a mission to conserve and restore Northwest environments through education.
