SEQUIM — “A Night at the Oscars,” a fundraising dinner and live screening of the Academy Awards, is coming to the Sequim Elks Club on Sunday, Feb. 26.
Reservations must be made by Monday for the party, which will start at 3:30 p.m. — along with the pre-Academy Award show festivities — at the club at 143 Port Williams Road.
Tickets also are on sale now for the fourth annual Hollywood Nights in Port Angeles, set at 4 p.m. on Oscar Night at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St.
Both events will be held in conjunction with the 2012 Academy Awards.
Sequim evening
“A Night at the Oscars” in Sequim is a Readers Theatre Plus-sponsored benefit for the Sequim-Shiso Sister City Association.
The group helps fund Sequim students’ travel to Shiso, Japan, every October and cares for the Friendship Garden at the entrance to Carrie Blake Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.
This event is more than dinner with a live video feed of the television show.
The afternoon and evening will also feature the first-ever Dewey Awards, presented to local actors, directors, playwrights and productions of the past year.
The awards, named for Port Angeles-based musical maestro Dewey Ehling, include honors for the best lead and supporting actors and actresses, best ensemble in a local theatrical production, best locally written play, best production, best musical and best director.
Port Angeles evening
The Port Angeles event will feature a live telecast of the Oscars on a large, 40-foot screen, several contests, live and silent auctions and dinner.
It will honor Dr. Roger Oakes, a Port Angeles physician for 37 years until his retirement in August 2011.
It also will feature Gardiner resident Lynda Day George, a former star of the “Mission Impossible” television series and numerous other TV shows and movies; and Craig and Gabe Rygaard of Port Angeles, who are stars of the History Channel’s “Ax Men” television series.
Proceeds from Hollywood Nights, which will be presented by Sequim Health and Rehabilitation, will benefit Olympic Medical Center and many of its departments, including obstetrics, the emergency room, cardiac services, laboratory and radiology, said Bruce Skinner, executive director of the OMC Foundation.
Tickets to Sequim’s “A Night at the Oscars” are $35 each, including dinner, and can be reserved by phoning Readers Theatre Plus at 360-797-3337.
Ballots for the Dewey Awards are available by emailing caroler1@juno.com and must be returned via that same email address by Monday, Feb. 20.
For the Port Angeles event, reserved table seating is available for $60 per person.
Tickets are available at Necessities and Temptations gift shop at Laurel Street and Railroad Avenue and at the OMC Foundation office at 928 E. Caroline St.
Additional details can be obtained by phoning the foundation office at 360-417-7144.
