NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, April 29.
FORKS — The Forks High School Drama Club will present the comedy “Exposed!” during four presentations this weekend at the Forks High School Commons’ Stage, 261 Spartan Ave.
The first showing is at 7 tonight, with two performances at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and a fourth production at 2 p.m. Sunday.
General admission is $5 with proceeds benefitting the Forks High School Drama Club.
Presented as an investigative TV show, “Exposed!” is a collection of eight 10-minute scenes exploring alternative story lines behind well-known fairy tales or literature characters, organizers said.
What if Rumpelstiltskin wasn’t a bad guy, if Charles Dickens was a frustrated stand-up comic or if Dr. Jekyll turned into Miss Hyde?
These alternate endings are portrayed by high-school students in a multi-scene, one-act performance.
Book readings set
David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle, co-authors of The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health, will participate in readings and discussions of their book Saturday at two separate locations.
The first reading will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Nash’s Farm Store, located at 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way in Sequim.
The second reading will begin at 5 p.m. at the Port Townsend Public Library, located at 1220 Lawrence St. in Port Townsend.
Both events are free and open to the public.
The book explores the relationship between humans and microbes and the potential for using the microscopic beings to revolutionize agriculture and medicine from garden to gut.
When the duo decided to create a garden, dead dirt threatened their dream.
As a cure, they feed their soil a steady diet of organic matter. The results impressed them.
In short order, the much-maligned microbes transformed their bleak yard into a flourishing Eden.
Beneath their feet, beneficial microbes and plant roots continuously exchanged a vast array of essential compounds.
The authors soon learned that this miniaturized commerce is central to botanical life’s master strategy for defense and health.
They were abruptly plunged further into investigating microbes when Biklé was diagnosed with cancer.
The Hidden Half of Nature reveals how to transform agriculture and medicine — by merging the mind of an ecologist with the care of a gardener and the skill of a doctor.
Concert set for PT
PORT TOWNSEND — Room to Move Yoga, 1008 Lawrence St., will host a concert featuring Abakis, Ings and YVES at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Abakis is a band from Port Townsend, while both Ings and YVES are from Seattle.
Entry is by the suggested donation of $5 to $20, although no one will be turned away for inability to pay, organizers said.
This will be “an evening of music off the record and under the radar,” said Aba Kiser, of Abakis.
“Think of it like a sock-hop for the ages.
“This show will be open to the public with sliding scale admission in our hope that as many people as possible will be exposed to this beautiful, profound, powerfully gentle music that will be playing in your head for weeks to come.”
For more information, call 360-385-2866.
