Writers group set to meet July 15
The Olympic Peninsula Christian Writers Group meets at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 15, on Zoom.
Carol Lichten will lead the group in a discussion on the rules about showing and not telling. Group members consider the first chapter of a recent book release and evaluate the showing and telling on the page.
The zoom link is tinyurl.com/yy9b7w48; no password is needed.
The group meets the third Thursday of the month. Newcomers are always welcome.
Grange dinner-dance to feature Buck Ellard
Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, will host a dinner and dance from 5-8 p.m. Sunday, July 18, featuring the Buck Ellard Band. Dinner starts at 5 p.m. and music starts at 5:30 p.m.
Cost is $15. Dinner includes a main dish, salads, desserts and coffee, tea or water.
Music Where You Park series continues at airport
Kalan Wolfe and The Shift brings a mixture of folk, rock and reggae with a selection of original tunes at the next Music Where You Park series event, set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 20, at the Sequim Valley Airport, 468 Dorothy Hunt Lane.
To participate in some free drawings, cars must be in place by 6:30 p.m.
Those who are unable to be at Sequim Valley Airport can tune into KSQM 91.5 FM at 6 p.m. to hear Wolfe’s pre-recorded interview featuring his music.
Each Tuesday evening through July 27, KSQM spotlights a different musician in an announced location at various locations of the Olympic Peninsula. Free drawings for prizes will awarded and winners announced over the air. Guests are invited to stroll the grounds of most locations and listen to tunes; food and beverages will be available, or bring a picnic supper.
For more about the series and/or KSQM, call 360-681-0000 or email to office@ksqmfm.com.
Renaissance Faire volunteers needed for Olympic Theatre Arts
Volunteer auxiliary/atmosphere actors needed for Olympic Theatre Arts’ first outdoor Renaissance Faire, set for Aug. 21-22. The organization is seeking beefeaters, wenches, pagers and game players, among other positions. Casting is being done now.
The faire is also in need of face painters and card players. Games will be from the Renaissance era and will be taught beforehand. No acting experience is necessary, but “a keen interest in having frolicking fun is a must,” organizers say.
For more information, email to office@olympictheatrearts.org or call OTA at 360-683-7326.
Concerts in the Barn returns with live performances
Concerts in the Barn is returning artists to the stage for its fifth season of chamber music concerts in its iconic barn in Quilcene, beginning Saturday, July 17, and continuing through Aug. 29.
This year, all concerts will take place in the barn, on the farm, in accordance with current Jefferson County and Washington state COVID-19 guidelines. Concerts start at 2 p.m. All guest artists who perform in the barn and all volunteers have been fully vaccinated.
All concerts are free to the public; however, to ensure COVID guidelines are maintained, all concertgoers must reserve their place in the barn or on the lawn in advance through Brown Paper Tickets. (At concertsinthebarn.org, select “Free Tickets Required” to access tickets.)
The season begins with a festival favorite, the Carpe Diem String Quartet. Several members of the Quartet are familiar to audiences from performances in the barn over the past 20 years. Ben Lulich, principal clarinetist for the Seattle Symphony, will join the quartet opening weekend to perform clarinet quintets by Mozart and Brahms.
See ConcertsInTheBarn.org for the full season lineup.
For more about the series, email to concertsinthebarn@gmail.com or call 360-732-0732.
PAFAC to kick off ‘Civic Minds and Creative Heart’
The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center opens its new program Civic Minds and Creative Hearts with a presentation from 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 29, at the center, 1203 E Lauridsen Blvd.
The program, PAFAC representatives say, was designed to “bring community members and civic leaders into conversation with local professionals to highlight how creativity, innovation, and art informs their daily work.”
The July 29 event will PAFAC’s exhibition “Conservation From Here” to a close. The presentation features artist Joseph Rossano, and attendees will learn about the research partnership between the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, other peninsula tribes, and Panthera, a global organization devoted exclusively to the conservation of the world’s forty wild cat species and their ecosystems. Kim Sager-Fradkin, a wildlife biologist for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Dr. Mark Elbroch of the Panthera Project will present on the Olympic Cougar Project, a collaborative effort to support and enhance wildlife connectivity between the Olympic Mountain Range and the southern Cascadia on the mainland across the Interstate-5 corridor.
Tickets are $10 for center members, $12 for non-members. Tickets can be purchased online at pafac.org or purchased at the door as space allows.
OPAA sets sale
The Olympic Peninsula Art Association hosts it annual Art Supplies and Books Fundraising Sale from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, July 24, in the parking lot at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave.
Sale items include paint, sketch books, canvas, frames, art books and more.
In addition, there will be members’ booths featuring greeting cards and matted prints, beads, findings, metal charms, foreign coins, retro jewelry, display forms, fabric and quilting notions, and more.
All proceeds benefit OPAA’s student scholarship program and other peninsula nonprofit groups that the association supports.
