PALOA Musical Theater
The Port Angeles Light Opera Association’s musical theater will have its second annual Dinner Theater Musical Revue on Saturday, Jan. 23, at the Naval Elks Lodge in downtown Port Angeles when members present "Songs From Shows We’ll Probably Never Do."
Doors open at 6 p.m. with a no-host bar; an Italian dinner will be served at 6:30 and the show will start at 7 p.m.
This year’s revue will feature PALOA vocalists Amanda Bacon, Ron Graham and Penny Pemberton and local singers Sarah Shea and Theresa Pierce performing music from "Phantom of the Opera," "Kismet," "Gigi," "Funny Girl," "Show Boat," "Grease," "Porgy and Bess" and "Sunset Boulevard."
Tickets cost $45 per person, $80 a couple, $300 for a table of eight at at Northwest Fudge and Confections, 108 W. First St., Port Angeles; by calling 452-8299; or by visiting www.paloa.org.
Friends annual meeting
Friends of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will hold its annual meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, at the center, 1203 Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles. Open to Friends members and their guests, the gathering celebrates the year just completed and offers an opportunity to meet with fellow supporters and to introduce new friends to the center.
Order of the day is electing board members to fill expiring terms. PAFAC director Jake Seniuk will present a slide presentation of the year in review – in the gallery, in Webster’s Woods Art Park, and behind the scenes.
Port Gamble S’Klallam
artist at college
Port Gamble S’Klallam painter Jeffrey Veregge will talk about his work at Peninsula College’s Studium Generale program at 12:35 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in the college’s Little Theater, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The presentation will be followed by a 2 p.m. reception for Veregge in the Peninsula College Longhouse. His work is featured in the Longhouse Art Gallery, which is open from noon-3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Veregge, who describes his work as Picasso Salish, is a graduate of the Art Institute of Seattle. One of his paintings, "Steer Clear," was purchased by the Portland Indian Health Board for its anti_smoking campaign and is featured in the latest Twilight movie, "New Moon."
Marine Center
starts science series
Sam Brenkman, chief fisheries biologist for Olympic National Park, speaks on "Some Tools Being Used to Characterize Fish Populations in ONP Watersheds" at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at the Feiro Marine Life Center on the Port Angeles Waterfront Pier at the foot of Lincoln Street.
The biologists’ tools include radiotelemetry, ear bone chemistry, genetics and snorkeling.
A $5 donation is suggested. To assure adequate seating/set-up, call 417-6254 for reservations or more information.
Hurricane Katrina
comes to college
Peninsula College’s Magic of Cinema Film Series will open its 2010 winter quarter offerings with the award-winning documentary "Trouble the Water." The film will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, in the college’s Little Theater, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
Admission is $5 or $1 with a P.C. student I.D.
"It’s going to be a day to remember," 24-year-old Kimberly Rivers Roberts declared as she turned her new video camera on herself and her New Orleans Ninth Ward neighbors. Unable to leave the city and equipped with just a few supplies and her camera, Roberts and her husband, Scott, taped Hurricane Katrina as water breached the nearby levee and floodwater filled their home and community.
For more information on the series, visit the college Web site at www.pencol.edu.
