Holiday dance set at Elks lodge
Stardust Big Band with vocalist Tess Teel performs from 6-8:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road. Cost is $12 for guests and $10 for Elks with identification. For more information, visit bigbandstardust.com.
McNulty to read in PT
Author Tim McNulty of Sequim will read from his book “Cloud Studies and Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at The Friends Meeting House, 1841 Sheridan Avenue in Port Townsend. Andrew Schelling will also read from his new book “Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers. ” For more information, visit emptybowl.org/events.
Elks offer Holiday Bazaar
The Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, will host a Holiday Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7.
Organizers said they will have several new vendors as well as favorites from past years. For more information, call 360-683-2763.
Pacific Mist brings in book signing
Pacific Mist Books, 122 W. Washington St., hosts a book signing from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, with author and retired professor Robert Schmidt for his new book “The Last Kingdom Standing” and how Jesus brings hope even in the worst of circumstances.
Pop-Up Paper Art offered at NOLS
Tweens in grades 4 through 7 are invited to the Pop-Up Paper Art program from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at the Sequim Library’s temporary location, 609 W. Washington St. Participants can create their own three-dimensional art or follow a template, with supplies and snacks provided for a fun, creative afternoon.
For more information, visit NOLS.org/events, call 360-683-1161, or email youth@nols.org. This program is generously supported in part by the Friends of Sequim Library.
Holy Trinity offers organ concert
Internationally acclaimed organist Janette Fishell will play a free program of organ music for the Margaret Graebner Series of pipe organ concerts starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave., in Port Angeles.
Fishell is a professor of organ at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, where she teaches Applied Organ and Organ Pedagogy. Her students have distinguished careers as performers, educators, and church musicians throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. She frequently plays concert tours in Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia and regularly teaches at international summer schools in the US and England.
Admission donations will fund facilities at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. For more information, call 360-452-2323 or visit www.go2trinity.org.
Guild hosts Holiday Bazaar
The Christmas Cottage Holiday Bazaar, hosted by Sequim Guild of Seattle Children’s Hospital, will take place from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Dec. 13-14, at 81 Timothy Lane in Sequim.
Sip a hot drink, munch a fresh-baked scone and take home delicious Christmas treats from the adjacent Bakery Café, then shop home-made holiday choices and handcrafted Christmas items made by Guild members in the Sequim Guild’s unique “Christmas Cottage.” If you missed the Guild’s 18th Annual Holiday Bazaar, or if you loved the choices there and are looking for more, here’s another opportunity to support research and uncompensated care at Children’s Hospital.
PA Players offer variety show audition
The Port Angeles Community Players will host tryouts for an annual variety show at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd. in Port Angeles.
Performers can try out up to three acts with a maximum time limit of three to four minutes. Adult humor is encouraged but may be edited for content. A Steampunk theme is encouraged but not required.
Rehearsals will begin the first week of January and will be two times per week until the week of the performance, when additional rehearsals will be required.
Cast members will be responsible for their own props and costumes and will receive two free tickets to the show for a friend or family member. Shows are scheduled for the Jan. 24-25.
For more information, call Rebecca Gilbert at 970-946-0663 or visit pacommunityplayers.org.
NOLS hosts book discussion groups
The North Olympic Library System will host three book discussion group meetings monthly. Registration is not required.
Paperback copies of the titles will be available to pick up any time after the current month’s discussions at the Port Angeles Main Library or the Sequim Library’s temporary location on a first-come, first-served basis.
Copies in other formats, such as large print, book on CD or eBook also may be available to borrow through the NOLS catalog.
The December schedule includes:
“The Sun is a Compass” by Caroline Van Hemert. On Zoom at 4 p.m. Dec. 11. Paperback copies are available at the Port Angeles and Sequim libraries.
“Written in Bone” by Sue Black. In person at 3 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Sequim Library’s temporary location, 609 W. Washington St. Paperback copies are available at the Sequim Library’s temporary location.
“Calypso” by David Sedaris. Due to the holidays, the group will meet at 6 p.m. Dec. 18 in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St. Paperback copies are available at the Port Angeles Main Library.
Book discussion groups are supported by a donation made in memory of Sally Albiso, the Port Angeles Friends of the Library and the Friends of Sequim Library. For more information visit nols.org, call 360-417-8500 or email discover@nols.org.
PA Players’ seek actors
Auditions for the Port Angeles Community Players’ winter play, “Enchanted April,” will be conducted from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Dec. 11 and from 3-5 p.m. Dec. 14 on the playhouse main stage at 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The show performance dates are from Feb. 21-March 9.
Three men ranging in age from mid-20s to 50-plus and five women in their mid-20s to 60-plus are needed to cast the show. Actors only need to attend one audition session.
Rehearsals will start as early as Dec. 30. Rehearsals will generally be three or four times per week, but in the early weeks, not everyone will be required to attend every rehearsal.
The play, written by by Matthew Barber, is based on the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. Feeling lost in the shadows of marriage and forgotten in the rush of 1920s post-war society, two London housewives pool their savings to rent a villa in Italy for a ladies-only holiday away, reluctantly recruiting a pair of difficult upper-class women to share the cost and the experience. Together under the Mediterranean sun, the four women clash — and then begin to bond and bloom — until men once again upset the balance.
Director Janice Parks said all the characters have experienced a loss of some kind and are working through what that means and how they continue with the rest of their lives.
Parks requests that potential cast members avoid watching the movie version of “Enchanted April” in order to look at the script from a fresh perspective.
Perusal copies of the script are available at the Sequim and Port Angeles public libraries. If an actor wishes to audition but cannot make the scheduled audition dates, contact PACP board member Ken Winters at kenpacp@gmail.com.
Studio Bob to host Nosferatu Screening
Studio Bob will host a screening of the original 1922 Nosferatu film on Dec. 13th. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. at 118 1/2 E. Front St., Port Angeles. A costume contest with prizes will follow at 7 p.m.
Participants will celebrate the original film in preparation for remake which will premier Dec. 25.
To commemorate the remake, graphic novel creator Narwhal, Per Berg of Sequim, will have the reissue of his comic for sale. His work, inspired by the original Nosferatu film, will be available alongside several other horror-themed books and free mini-comics.
The 1922 Nosferatu film took inspiration from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Most of the copies of the original film were destroyed due to allegations of copyright infringement. The version screening at Studio Bob will feature a new soundtrack by Blankenberge, the Russian Shoegaze band.
Tickets, available at the door, are $5 for the screening or $25 for the screening and a limited-edition copy of the Nosferatu graphic novel. For more information, call 360-775-2160 or visit www.studiobob.art.
NOLS hosts children’s art session
Children ages 5 and younger can enjoy hands-on play with art materials during the Little Hands Art program offered at Sequim Library Temporary Location, 609 W. Washington St., from 9-9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17.
The free event provides materials such as paint, playdough and glue to encourage sensory learning through exploration, curiosity, creativity and tactile engagement. Caregivers and children should dress in clothes that can get artfully messy.
For more information, visit nols.org/little-hands-art, call 360-417-8500, or email youth@nols.org. This program is generously funded in part by local Friends of the Library groups.
Authors to speak at Blue Whole
The Olympic Peninsula Authors (OPA) will feature their storytellers on Wednesday, Dec. 11th from 2-3 p.m. at the Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St.
This event features a lineup of authors who will explore the intersection of fact and fiction in storytelling.“The subjects will be as diverse as the readers themselves,” said the event organizer Linda Myers.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information about the gallery, visit bluewholegallery.com.
City calls for Sunshine Fest craft vendors
The city of Sequim is accepting applications from craft vendors to participate in the Sunshine Market at the 2025 Sequim Sunshine Festival.
The market will be from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 8 inside the Guy Cole Event Center at Carrie Blake Community Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.
Booth space will be available for $75 per space. Applications are due by Dec. 20 and must be submitted at https://form.jotform.com/243084409645056.
All applications will be juried by the Sequim Sunshine Festival Committee. Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid-January. If the application is accepted, payment for booth space is required by Feb. 14.
For more information about the festival or vendor requirements, visit https://www.visitsunnysequim.com or contact Parks and Events Specialist Carrie Kann at ckann@sequimwa.gov.
Image courtesy Pacific Mist Books/ Roger Schmidt signs his book “The Last Kingdom Standing” at Pacific Mist Books from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7.
Photo courtesy NOLS/ Children ages 5 and under can enjoy the free Little Hands Art program at the Sequim Library Temporary Location, 609 W. Washington St., from 9-9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17.
Photo courtesy NOLS/ Tweens can create paper art from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at the Sequim Library’s temporary location, 609 W. Washington St.
