A film festival, a fungi festival and several music and stage performances highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The fifth All In Film Festival will be screened at 6:30 tonight and 1 p.m. Saturday in the Little Theater at Peninsula College’s Port Angeles campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The free annual festival sponsored by Peninsula College’s Magic of Cinema and Clallam Mosaic will showcase a selection of short films created by, starring and about neurodiverse individuals, including those living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The festival is scheduled in October to celebrate Disability Employment Awareness Month, ADHD Awareness, Dyslexia Awareness, Disability History and Down Syndrome awareness.
“Not just telling great stories, these films showcase the jobs in filmmaking, and that they are available to everyone, either in front or behind the camera, no matter what label the individual actor, videographer, director or writer is defined by,” said Bonnie Smith, Clallam Mosaic’s board president.
The full schedule and previews of the films are posted at www.clallammosaic.org/all-in-film-fest.
For accommodations, contact Access Services in advance at ssd@pencol.edu, call 360-417-6373 or video phone at 360-406-4759.
• Sophie Loubere will give an artist talk at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Jeanette Best Gallery, 701 Water St., Port Townsend.
Loubere, a Port Townsend-based printmaker and mixed-media artist, will discuss her creative process.
Loubere, who recently earned a master of fine arts degree at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, uses alternative photography techniques and unconventional materials to make her art. She plans to show a short video and talk about the pieces she has in the “Showcase 2025” exhibition in the gallery.
For more information, visit www.northwindart.org.
• Merryn Welch will present From the Ashes 7 at 8 p.m. Saturday at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $25 per person at www.studiobob.art.
The annual fundraiser, which debuted in 2015, raises awareness of domestic violence and supports victims. All ticket and raffle sales will benefit Healthy Families of Clallam County.
“Most every performer and person behind the scenes has had their life or someone close to them impacted by domestic violence,” said Welch, a domestic violence survivor. “I wish I didn’t feel the need to do this. I wish we didn’t need crisis lines and emergency shelters. I wish domestic violence was a thing of the past, but I believe through education, hard work and standing together as a community, the cycle can be broken.”
The show will feature a variety of performances, including live music, dance, spoken word and performance art from Peninsula performers including Welch, Richard Stephens, Craig Logue, Owl Medicine, Shula Azhar, Matt Bellah, Amori, Mike Drop, Wyk Dreamcaster, Daryl Trowbridge and Transcend.
• The Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival will explore the world of mycology Saturday and Sunday at the Clallam County Fairgrounds, 1608 W. 16th St., Port Angeles.
Festival tickets and on-site camping reservations are available at www.olypenfungifest.com.
The vendor hall at the fairgrounds will be open from 8:25 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 8:25 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
The hall will host more than 40 craft, art and farm vendors along with 15 interactive educational booths in the educational building.
The festival also will present 18 speakers, including Michael Beug, Graham Steinruck, Amy Honan, Larry Evans and Robert Rogers, at the main stage.
The workshop building will offer hands-on workshops in mushroom identification, cultivation and dyeing.
• The Port Townsend Chamber Music Series will present a free concert at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 45 Redeemer Way, Chimacum.
The program includes the premieres of two pieces, “Recuerdo/On the Ferry” for Bassoon, Cello and Narrator and “Do You Consider Yourself a Nature Poet?” for Bassoon, Cello and Narrator, by local composer Philip Hirschi.
Also on the program are Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 by Ludwig van Beethoven; Pavane, Op. 50 for Saxophone Quartet by Gabriel Fauré, arranged by Eddie Jennings; Classics for Saxophone Quartet by George Gershwin; Duet for Two Cellos Op. 22, No. 1 by Friedrich August Kummer; Sonata for Flute and Piano, FP 164 by Francis Poulenc; and Hungarian Dance #1 and #5 for Piano Duo by Johannes Brahms.
Featured artists include Tamara Rotz, flute; Kristina Holm, bassoon; Karl Perry, violin; Pat Gunning, Philip Hirschi and Pamela Roberts, cello; Jessica Larson, Michael Carroll and Sung-Ling Hsu, piano; Merion Wright, narrator; and the saxophone quartet of Vincent Oneppo, Al Thompson, Stephanie M. Neumann and Jonathan Doyle.
For more information, visit ptsymphony.org/chamber-music-series-musicians.
• The fifth Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival is set for Saturday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The annual family-friendly event is free and open to the public, although a $5 donation to support programs at the center is suggested.
The festival’s pumpkin carving contest is open to the public. Entries are $5 per pumpkin. Pumpkins may be dropped off at the center between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday.
The entries will be available to view along the paths through Webster’s Woods from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
A panel of judges will select a winning pumpkin based on design, creativity and skill of execution. The winner will be announced at 7 p.m. from the stage in the meadow.
At 5 p.m., festival-goers can view the neon-based exhibit “Lighten Up” in the Esther Webster Gallery or listen to spooky stories in the courtyard read by staff from the Port Angeles Main Library.
The festival also will include shadow puppet theater performances by HeHe House Productions at 5:45 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Seating for the shadow puppets will be first-come, first-served.
Throughout the evening, activity stations will be open in the meadow with event partners Clallam Resilience Project, Olympic Nature Experience and the Port Angeles Community Playhouse.
There will be food from Pacific Pantry and drinks from Angeles Brewing.
For more information, visit www.pafac.org.
• The Port Ludlow Village Players will present Luigi Jannuzzi’s “All The King’s Women” at 6:30 tonight and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through Oct. 26 at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place, Port Ludlow.
Tickets are $27 per person at www.ludlow villageplayers.org or at the door.
The play explores the world of Elvis Presley mania through the eyes of women whose lives were forever touched by The King,
Ted Brown will direct a cast that includes Nancy Bamberg as Barbara and Bonnie, Dave Cunningham as the radio announcer, Starley Flynn as Eve and Alice, James Gormly as the guard, Jackson as Eddie, Christie Lang as Cynthia and Lora, Kate Marshall as Cathy and the saleswoman, Kelly McNees as Abby and Leslie, Karen Ni as Mona, Vickie Norris as Alice and Cindy, Carol Riley as Beth and Cheryl Weinstein as Paula.
• Simon Lynge and the Martial Hearts will perform at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $25 per person at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadow recording or $30 at the door.
The Martial Hearts include Nicolai Land on bass and Anders Pedersen on drums, both from Copenhagen, along with multi-instrumentalist Richard Lobb from Bristol, England, and Port Townsend vocalist Janna Marit.
Land, Pedersen and Lobb are in town to record a new album with Lynge for an expected 2026 release.
Born in Denmark and raised in Greenland, Lynge grew up singing in a church choir. As a teenager he began to write his own music, inspired by the music of artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Simon and Garfunkel, and Crosby Stills and Nash.
Lynge now lives in Port Townsend with his wife, Janna, and sons, Django and Tashi. He manages Rainshadow Recording,
• Brendan Rooph and the Sunny Day Ensemble will perform for a live recording session at 8 tonight at the Palindrome, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend. Admission is $10 at the door.
• The Port Angeles Friends of the Library will host a Bag of Books sale from 10:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today and from 10:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the entrance lobby at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
Bags will be provided, and customers will be able to purchase as many books as they can fit into the bag for $5.
Customers also may bring their Friends of the Library canvas tote bag and fill it for $3.
The Friends of Library’s book bags also will be available; customers may buy a bag for $8 and fill it for free.
Proceeds will benefit special programs hosted by the North Olympic Library System.
For more information, visit www.friendsofthe librarypa.org.
• The Friends of the Port Townsend Library will host a book sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St., Port Townsend.
For more information, visit www.friendsofptlibrary.org.
• Ted Alway will present “The Wenatchee Mountains, Geology and Diverse Flora” at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 1943 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.
Alway, a member of the Wenatchee Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society, will address a meeting of the society’s Olympic Peninsula Chapter.
Alway will discuss the concentration of native plants in the Wenatchee Mountains and show how this is a result of the area’s geology and location.
For more information, visit www.wnps.org/op-events.
• The Port Townsend Branch of the American Association of University Women will host the panel discussion, “Behavioral Health Services for Children,” at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend.
Panel members Mel Rose, Dr. Peter Geerlofs and Kelli Parcher will discuss the range of behavioral health services that are available for children.
For more information, email programs@aauwpt.org or visit www.aauwpt.org.
• A native plant sale will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kul Kah Han native demonstration garden at H.J. Carroll Park, 9884 Rhody Drive, Chimacum.
The sale will feature native perennial plants, shrubs and trees from the garden’s Chimacum nursery.
Proceeds will support the demonstration garden and nursery.
For more information, visit www.nativeplant garden.org.
• The Grand Olympics Chorus will host a bunco party fundraiser at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim.
Admission is $15 and will include a lunch with sandwiches, salads and desserts.
There also will be a silent auction.
Proceeds will fund music, education and future shows by the chorus.
The Grand Olympics Chorus, part of Sweet Adelines International, is a women’s four-part a cappella harmony chorus.
• Harriet Baskas will present “Weird, Wonderful and Worrisome Objects in Washington State’s Museums” at 7 p.m. Saturday at Northwest Maritime, 431 Water St., Port Townsend.
Baskas will discuss a variety of objects found in the back rooms of museums in Washington and around the country, including items like a Spokane institution that holds Bing Crosby’s toupees and a museum in Lynden with a 150-year-old pickle.
Baskas will be joined by staff from the Jefferson County Historical Society who will highlight some of the society’s own curiosities.
For more information or a link to the presentation, visit www.jchsmuseum.org/programs.
• Tony Mates will call for a community dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., Port Townsend.
Music will be provided by the Interstate Studebakers featuring Howie Meltzger on fiddle.
Beginners and experienced dancers are welcome.
Admission is $10 per person, $20 for a family.
• Cindy Elliser will speak at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Future of Oceans series at 3 p.m. Sunday in the chapel at Fort Worden State Park on Fort Worden Way near W Street in Port Townsend.
Elliser, the founder of Pacific Mammal Research, will summarize the organization’s findings from 10 years of research into the behavior, ecology and movement patterns of harbor porpoises in the Salish Sea.
For more information, visit www.ptmsc.org.
