PORT ANGELES — An evening of music by DJ Shmeejay, power yoga and ecstatic dance is on tap at Poser Yoga, 128 E. Front St., this Saturday.
Admission will be $15 for the whole night, or $5 for the dance only. The event will unfold like this: power yoga with DJ’d music from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.; then a 15-minute break and finally ecstatic dance with more music from DJ Shmeejay from 8:30 till 10 p.m.
This is Poser Yoga’s first night of ecstatic dance, which is simply free-form motion with no partner nor experience necessary.
Saturday’s yoga-dance jam is alcohol- and drug-free.
For information, see PoserStudios.com or phone 360-393-0977.
Plays, workshops
PORT TOWNSEND — PT Playfest, Key City Public Theatre’s annual two-week theater festival, will bring one-act plays by local playwrights, workshop productions and LA Theatre Works cofounder Doris Baizley to town March 5-15.
The venues are the Key City Playhouse and Pope Marine Building downtown, and abundant information awaits at keycitypublictheatre.org.
First comes Locals Weekend, from Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, when the one-acts written by Port Townsend’s Deborah Daline, Doug Given, D.D. Wigley, Christopher Clow, Sandy Diamond and Susan Solley will be presented.
The following week, from March 12-15, brings Festival Weekend, when a packed schedule of plays will fill both venues.
Two noted playwrights are coming to spend a week in residence for the festival: AP Andrews and Sylvie Baldwin, who will be workshopping their full-length plays in progress: Andrews’ “Optimism, Or,” and Baldwin’s “skinny crazy small.”
Baizley, for her part, is the featured guest playwright this year, with her full-length play “Neel Beaux” to be directed by Key City Public Theatre Artistic Director Denise Winter.
Baizley will also teach a free playwriting workshop from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 14, and a fee-based playwriting intensive from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, March 15.
To register for one or both of these workshops, e-mail boxoffice@keycitypublictheatre.org or phone 360-385-5278.
Festival passes range in price from $35 for all performances to $95 for all shows plus Baizley’s intensive, while single tickets are also available at 360-385-5278 or www.ptplayfest.org.
Juan de Fuca Fest
PORT ANGELES — Tickets are on sale now for the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, the cavalcade of some 40 acts and 80 performances over Memorial Day weekend in and around downtown Port Angeles.
The festival, from May 22-25, will take place for one more year at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., and at nearby venues including the Elks Naval Lodge at First and Lincoln streets and the Chamber Stage adjacent to the Vern Burton.
The Masonic Lodge, a dance-oriented hall at Seventh and Lincoln streets, is a new venue, as are the Festival After Hours clubs, the Metta Room and the Kokopelli Grill at the Front and Lincoln street intersection.
2015’s lineup includes Playing for Change, the band of musicians from around the world; bluesmen Curtis Salgado and David Jacobs-Strain; Leroy Bell and His Only Friends; jazz songstress Halie Loren; the Redwood Tango Ensemble; It’s a Beautiful Day of “White Bird” fame and Achilles Wheel, a California festival band known for its Grateful Dead music.
Local performers include Joy in Mudville, PufnStuff and magician Joey Pipia, along with the Juan de Fuca Festival Street Fair. And new this year, 2 p.m. parades on Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, with the March Fourth band, a 20-player ensemble of horns, drums, dancers and stilt walkers.
Four-day passes are $55 if purchased in advance; at the door on festival weekend, they will be $70 for the whole thing or $20 to $30 for day tickets.
For details on every aspect of the event, see jffa.org, and for tickets stop by Port Book and News in Port Angeles or the Joyful Noise Music Center in Sequim.
