Music, art and roller derby slated this weekend

Music performances, art walks and a roller derby highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

• The Community Chorus of Port Townsend and East Jefferson County will present “O! What a Beautiful City” at several venues on the Peninsula this weekend.

Performances are set for 7 p.m. tonight at First Presbyterian Church, 1111 Franklin St., Port Townsend; at 2 p.m. Saturday at Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave., Sequim; and at 3 p.m. Sunday at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 45 Redeemer Way, Chimacum.

Tickets are $15 per person at www.brownpapertickets.com or at the door.

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The concerts will feature the works of Los Angeles-based composer, arranger and pianist Shawn Kirchner, who will appear as a special guest during the program.

The program, which will be produced in collaboration with Sequim’s Peninsula Singers and members of Port Townsend-based choirs the Summertime Singers and the RainShadow Chorale, is part of the chorus’ 50th anniversary celebration.

For more information, visit www.ptchorus.org.

• Edie Carey will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Rainshadow Recording Studio at Fort Worden State Park, 315 Artillery Hill Drive, Port Townsend.

Tickets are $20 per person at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadowrecording or $25 at the door.

The Colorado-based singer-songwriter has been performing alongside such artists as Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile and Shawn Colvin at festivals and other venues across the United States, Canada and Europe since 1999.

Carey has appeared at some of the country’s most prestigious folk festivals, including Telluride Bluegrass, Rocky Mountain Folks, Newport Folk, 30A Songwriters and Cayamo.

She co-wrote with Chely Wright “You Are The River” and “Can’t Remember Summer” with Shawn Mullins.

She received the Best Children’s Album award at the 2015 Independent Music Awards for “‘Til The Morning: Lullabies and Songs of Comfort,” a project with Sarah Sample, and was a featured vocalist on Joanie Leeds’ Grammy-winning ensemble album “All the Ladies” in 2020.

Carey has released seven solo albums, including 2022’s “The Veil,” and released a second album of lullabies with Sarah Sample, “Lantern In The Dark: Songs of Comfort and Lullabies,” in October.

• The First Friday Art Walk will celebrate with a pink-themed event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at various venues in downtown Sequim.

Maps for the self-guided tour are available at www.sequimartwalk.com.

Special events in April include:

The return of Birdfest. Participants can find and match the ceramic bird sculptures created by Sequim High School ceramics students to the business where they are hidden. Game cards will be available at all participating locations, including the Sequim Visitor Information Center.

Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., will host a reception for featured artists Jeannine Chappell and Jolene Sanborn from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Chappell and Sanborn will exhibit their work in a show entitled “Styles,” which will be on display at the gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays throughout April.

For more information, visit www.bluewholegallery.com.

The Karen Kuznek-Reese Gallery in the Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St., will open a Hanami display from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The display, created by volunteers from the Sequim Shiso Sister City Association, will celebrate the beauty of Hanami, the Japanese tradition of appreciating cherry blossoms in full bloom.

The gallery also will display the sixth High Schools of the Olympic Peninsula Art Exhibit from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays through April 18.

• Sequim Museum & Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave., will feature Dick Hancock in the Judith McInnes Tozzer Art Gallery. Hancock is a professional wildlife photographer whose work has been published by outdoor and travel magazines and featured in calendars, brochures, books and book covers.

The A. Milligan Art Studio and Gallery, 520 N. Sequim Ave., will present “The Pacific Northwest Impressions Exhibit.” The exhibit will feature the works of artists Michelle Lindblom and Linda Tilley.

Lindblom creates acrylic paintings and monotypes and Tilley creates representational pieces, primarily in oils and often painted en plein air.

Olympic Peninsula YMCA, 610 N. Fifth Ave., will host an exhibit of paintings, photographs and 3-dimensional art created by YMCA members and staff, including Luke Kisena, Rebecca Murphy, Mike McCollum, Susan Drake and Roger Ulm.

For more information, including adding a venue or an artist to the list, call Renne Emiko Brock at 360-460-3023 or email renneemiko@gmail.com.

• First Saturday Art Walk will feature Gallery-9, the Museum of Art + History, the Port Townsend Gallery and Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Port Townsend.

The Museum of Art + History, 540 Water St., will host two new exhibits during First Saturday Art Walk.

The exhibits will be Meg Kaczyk’s “Notes from Next to the Bed: A Caregiving Love Story in Words and Pictures” and Timothy O’Connell’s “(I was Far Away But Now I’m Here.)”

The exhibits will be on display from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays throughout April.

For more information, visit www.jchsmuseum.org/museum.

Gallery-9, 1012 Water St., will feature the wood turnings of Jon Geisbush and the driftwood carvings of Melissa Moller from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Geisbush’s wood turnings and Moller’s carvings will be on exhibit at Gallery-9 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays throughout April.

For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.

The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host a reception for Sue Stanton and Phil Carrico, April’s featured artists, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Carrico creates prints using a progressive process by removing more of the block and applying darker colors to the piece.

Stanton creates artwork by wrapping rocks. She also draws detailed pen and watercolor pieces and 3-dimensional wooden art.

Stanton’s wrapped rock art and Carrico’s prints will be on exhibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at the Port Townsend Gallery.

For more information, call the gallery at 360-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsendgallery.com.

The Jeanette Best Gallery, 710 Water St., will open “A Closer Look” during the Art Walk.

The exhibit highlights works by Port Townsend-based artists Elissa Greisz and Maxwell Yakush.

“A Closer Look” will be on display from noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays until May 19.

For more information, visit www.northwindart.org.

• “An Evening with Deadwood Revival” is set for 7 p.m. Saturday at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles, with tickets ranging from $25 to $35 at www.fieldhallevents.org.

The band, which is composed of Kim Trenerry and Jason Mogi, will perform a full set of Deadwood Revival originals and a few choice interpretations of old-time classics.

The show also will include live on-stage painting by artist Jeff Tocher and will feature Trenerry and Mogi’s newest musical project.

• David Moskowitz, a wildlife tracker, will speak during the North Olympic Land Trust’s conservation breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.

Moskowitz’s presentation will be followed by complimentary pastries and beverages. Donations to the land trust will be accepted.

Attendees should RSVP by calling 360-417-1815. For more information, visit www.northolympiclandtrust.org.

• The Salish Sea Early Music Festival’s present “European Tour: 1690-1790,” scheduled for at 2 p.m. Sunday, has been canceled.

The cancellation is due to uncertainty regarding Olena Zhukova’s visa, according to a press release from the festival.

For more information, visit www.salishseafestival.org/porttownsend.

• Chez Jazz will perform from 5 to 8 tonight at the Riverhouse Bistro, 120 Bell St., Sequim. No cover charge.

• Port Scandalous Roller Derby will host Dockyard Roller Derby at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir St., Sequim.

Tickets are $12 per person at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6465183 or $15 at the door.

• Nellie Bridge will be inaugurated as the new Clallam County Poet Laureate during Poetry Fest at 6:30 tonight.

The poetry reading will be at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.

The program will kick off with a final reading by outgoing poet laureate Jaiden Dokken followed by a reading by Bridge.

The fest also will include readings by Esther Saniigauq Kugzruk, June VanDenBurg and Lucian Parker as well as beginner-friendly poetry activities.

For more information, visit www.nols.org.

• Sharle Osborne will present “Weaving With Bark” at 10 a.m. Saturday during a meeting of the North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033 N. Barr Road, Port Angeles.

The public is welcome to attend the free meeting.

For more information, email n.o.shuttleand spindleguild@gmail.com or visit www.nossg.org.

• The Food Bank Growers Spring Plant Sale will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona Ave., Port Townsend.

The sale features vegetable starts, herbs, flowers and related items.

This year’s sale also will host the Jefferson County Master Gardeners’ plant clinic and the Washington State University County Extension’s seed library.

For more information, visit www.foodbank growers.org.

• SilverKite Community Arts will present “Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers in Watercolor Pencils” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday on Zoom.

The free online, intergenerational program, sponsored by the North Olympic Library System, is appropriate for all ages.

Participants can use their own materials and follow along live on Zoom or later with a recording of the presentation.

Future programs in the monthly series include “Color Blending with Pastels” on May 17 and “Sip and Paint Acrylics: Peonies” on June 7.

Links to supply lists and registration are posted at www.nols.org.

A recording of the program will be posted at www.silverkite.org/nols; use the password NOLS2023.

• The Dungeness Bonsai Society will meet from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in Rainshadow Hall at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 1943 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.

Al Brooks, a local potter, will show his pottery, and Chris Berg will discuss the use of hemlock in bonsai.

The public is welcome to attend the free meeting.

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