Joyce Daze, art walks and a livestock auction highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The 42nd Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival is set for Saturday at a variety of locations in downtown Joyce.
The annual festivities will kick off with a pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Crescent Grange and finish after the 3 p.m. raffle and button drawing.
This year’s festivities will include a salmon bake hosted by the Crescent Bay Lions Club from 11:30 to 3 p.m. at the mini-mall.
Other featured events will include a blackberry pie contest, blackberry pie sales, vendor booths, kids activities, live music, the grand parade down state Highway 112 and the popular extreme slug racing at 2:30 p.m. at the Family Kitchen Beer Garden.
Organizers anticipate more than 200 freshly baked pies, made with local wild blackberries, to be available for sale.
The pies, sliced into sixths, will be sold for $7 per slice, $8 each when topped with ice cream.
Whole pies, if any remain, will be sold after the parade.
Proceeds from pies sales benefit scholarships, community projects and equipment for the Joyce Fire Department.
Those who want to test their skills as a piemaker can enter the Wild Blackberry Pie Contest by dropping pies at the tent next to the Joyce Depot Museum before 11 a.m.
The youth category is for bakers ages 10-17.
Complete rules are posted at www.joycedaze.org.
Local bands will be featured throughout the day starting at 10 a.m. in front of the Joyce Museum.
The extreme slug races at the Family Kitchen will raise funds for the fire department. Post time is right after the parade.
Bring your own slug or bet on one provided by someone else. The event is open to slug owners of all ages.
• The First Friday Art Walk will celebrate with a yellow-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 August include:
— Three Little Birds Studio d’Arte, 247 E. Washington St., an arts and crafts store and studio, will join the Art Walk this month.
— Fat Ferdie and the Stolen Sweets will perform at 7 p.m. at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave.
Tickets are $20 at www.olympictheatrearts.org.
The band features vocalist Jessie Lee; Ed Donahue, trumpet; Andy Geiger, tenor saxophone; George Radebaugh, keyboards; Ted Enderle, bass; and drummer Tom Svornich.
— The Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., will host a reception for Jean Glaser and Julie Hembree from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Glaser and Hembree will present “Voices of Land and Sea” at the gallery during August.
Hembree uses natural materials, such as shells and sea glass, to create coastal-themed multimedia artwork.
Hembree has recently begun incorporating collage techniques into her work to add new layers of depth and storytelling.
Glaser has been working primarily in animal portraits for more than 20 years.
Before moving to the Pacific Northwest, Glaser primarily created animal portraits. Her art is now transforming through the use of collage, texture, markers and pencils to incorporate patterns and colors unrelated to the subject.
— Sequim Museum & Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave., will feature “Challenging our Creativity” in the Judith McInnes Tozzer Art Gallery.
The art quilt and fiber arts exhibit will feature the work of the Peninsula Art Quilters, a sub-group of the Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club.
Quilts on exhibit include “Inspired by Birds,” “Trees on the Discovery Trail” and “Circles.”
— The A. Milligan Art Studio and Gallery, 520 N. Sequim Ave., will present Chiaroscuro.
Chiaroscuro, which means “light-dark” in Italian, is a technique that uses strong contrasts to create a sense of volume, depth and dramatic effect.
The exhibit will feature the works of Suzan Noyes and gallery owner Anne Milligan.
Noyes has worked in advertising as a colorist and illustrator and also as a muralist. Her artwork has been exhibited in solo shows and juried exhibitions over the past 40 years.
Noyes enjoys painting natural subjects such as trees, foliage, flowers, landscapes and seascapes.
Milligan, who studied fashion design in New York City, has designed costumes for avante-garde off-off Broadway productions. She also has etched portraits into granite with diamond scribes, created plans for highly functional cabinetry as an interior designer, painted commissioned portraits on her laptop while traveling, and she now works in pastels at her Sequim studio.
A member of the Northwest Pastel Society, Milligan’s paintings have been juried into regional and international exhibitions and hang in private collections across the country and in Europe.
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.
• The Port Angeles Masonic Lodge will host its fourth Car and Bike Show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday across the street from the Masonic Temple, in the parking lot of the former Rite Aid, 621 S. Lincoln St., Port Angeles.
Registration for exhibitors is $20 per vehicle and opens at 9 a.m.
Dash plaques and goody bags will be given to the first 75 registrants.
The free show will include a raffle and hamburgers. Hotdogs and soft drinks will be available for purchase.
Proceeds from the show will help fund repairs and restoration of the historic temple.
There also will be a vendors’ market across the street in the temple during the car show.
• The Port Ludlow Art League will host its Art Fair from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday on the lawn east of the Grace Christian Center, 200 Olympic Place, Port Ludlow.
The annual fair also will include a free concert of rock, pop and soul music from the 1960s to the 1980s by Sound Advice at 2 p.m.
Sound Advice is composed of Dawn Martin, keyboards; Scott Bradley, guitar; Russ Lowery, drums; and Mark Parris, bass and vocals.
The fair will feature local artwork, including jewelry, paintings, photography, woodworking, ceramics, textiles, mosaics and cards.
For more information, visit www.portludlowart.org.
• The Clallam County Junior Livestock Auction is set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, Sequim.
The Clallam County Junior Livestock Auction is a non-profit organization that provides local youth with the opportunity to raise and sell livestock to the public. Hogs, lambs, steers and goats will be sold by the pound, while ducks, turkeys and rabbits will be sold per animal, and meat chickens will be sold in a pen of three.
All livestock entered into the sale must meet a strict set of rules to ensure overall quality and health.
Bidders can sign up prior to the auction or on the day of the sale. Proxy bidding is available for bidders unable to attend the live auction.
The auction is a non-terminal sale. Buyers may pick up the live animals or have them processed by the auction. Harvesting, cutting, wrapping and curing/smoking of the meat may be arranged by the auction, but all costs will be paid by buyer.
For more information, call Cyndie Stumbaugh at 360-460-6362 or visit www.clallamcountyjuniorlive stockauction.com.
• The Tree City Travelers will perform a free, all-ages concerts at 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Marrowstone Vineyards, 423 Meade Road, Nordland.
The Tree City Travelers play Pacific Northwest bluegrass music, a fusion of traditional bluegrass sounds and contemporary influences. They will perform original compositions, covers and re-imagined classics.
The band is traveling from Boise, Idaho, for a fourth year, this time to promote its new album, “More Alive.”
Concert-goers are encouraged to bring a lawn chair and a picnic.
For more information, visit www.marrowstone music.com or the band’s website, www.treecity travelers.com.
• First Saturday Art Walk will host a variety of artwork from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, mostly in downtown Port Townsend. Among the galleries that will stay open late are the Port Townsend Gallery, Gallery-9 and the Grover Gallery.
— Gallery-9, 1012 Water St., will feature the woodworking of Robin McKann and silk batiks and oil paintings by Carolyn Doe from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
McKann moved to Port Townsend after retiring following three decades as a finish carpenter.
McKann produces functional art like cabinets, tables, decorative boxes and cutting boards from spalted alder, figured maple, myrtlewood and other exotic woods. He then applies multiple coats of hand-rubber tung oil to give it a durable, water-resistant and nontoxic finish that enhances the natural beauty of the wood.
Doe is a self-taught silk batik artist and oil painter. She will exhibit oil paintings of trees and framed silk batiks with scenes of nature and birds.
She uses pure beeswax and silk dyes to create images on silk fabric, which she then stretches and frames under glass.
Doe uses palette knives to create oil paintings that often show wide horizons with stately trees or the quick pose of a small bird on a slender branch.
The art of Doe and McKann can be viewed from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays at Gallery-9.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
— The Grover Gallery, 236 Taylor St., will host an opening for “Chasing Light Beams” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The exhibit will feature new photographic creations by Brian Goodman using images captured at concerts by the Dead and Company.
Goodman has experimented with various aspects of the images, including composition, colors, light, textures and movement, to expose the magic hidden deep within each.
Goodman used the visual tools he has compiled over the years in combination with images of the band, the lights, the video screens and the dancing Deadheads to create the exhibit.
“Chasing Light Beams” is the melding of Goodman’s photographic processes, the inspiration of the Grateful Dead and the psychedelic experiences of the 1960s.
The exhibit can be viewed at the Grover Gallery from noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays throughout August.
— The Port Townsend Galley, 715 Water St., will host a reception for Nancy Pascoe, Pat Herkal and Andrea Guarino-Slemmons from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Guarino-Slemmons will exhibit photography featuring birds of the Pacific Northwest. The exhibit will include hummingbirds that she’s photographed in her own garden alongside owls spotted in the wilds of British Columbia and Oregon.
Guarino-Slemmons spends hours in the field, quietly observing, waiting to capture the perfect shot.
Pascoe, a Port Townsend-based bag artisan, creates crafted pouches and purses for everyday life. She draws inspiration from the patterns and negative space of Japanese woodblock prints, vernacular Northwest architecture and the indigo and grays of the Puget Sound waters and sky.
The exterior fabrics are Japanese cottons, and the interior fabrics are selected to either reflect the outside or to surprise the user.
She often uses fabrics inherited from her mother for the linings, and many of her purses are hand-quilted using the Japanese style of embroidery called sashiko.
Herkal is a fiber and bead artist who follows the philosophy “more is not enough.” She creates three-dimensional birds, mostly out of silk, with some made of upholstery or wool fabrics.
After she sews the bodies, she embellishes them with embroidery, beads, feathers and wire.
She uses photographs in books and magazines to help create her patterns.
Pascoe, Herkal and Guarino-Slemmons will be the featured artists throughout August. Their work can be viewed at the Port Townsend Gallery from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
For more information, call the gallery at 360-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsend gallery.com.
• Ann and Charlie Heymann will present a free Gaelic harp concert, “Harp Concert: Golden Jubilee,” at 6:30 tonight in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.
The couple has been performing under the name Clairseach throughout the U.S., Ireland, Scotland, Wales, continental Europe and Australia for 50 years.
Ann plays the Gaelic harp and Charlie plays the cittern, button accordion and sings.
The cittern is a flat-backed, wire-strung, lute-like instrument common in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.
For more information, visit www.nols.org.
• The North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild will discuss preparations for the upcoming Clallam County Fair when it meets at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The guild will meet 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.shuttleandspindle guild@gmail.com or visit www.nossg.org.
• Kristin Varner will present “Turn Your Story Into a Graphic Novel” at workshops in Sequim and Port Angeles on Saturday.
The morning session will be at 10:30 a.m. in the gymnasium at Olympic Peninsula Academy, 400 N. Second Ave., Sequim, and the afternoon session will start at 3 p.m. in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Varner will guide participants through drawing original characters and creating mini four-panel comics.
She also will share the creative process behind her middle-grade graphic novels and describe how her childhood experiences have inspired her stories.
Varner is the author of the middle-grade novels “Horse Trouble” and “Dog Trouble,” both of which were named on the American Library Association’s “Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List.”
For more information, visit www.nols.org.
• Lynda V. Mapes will present “The Trees Are Speaking: Lynda V. Mapes with Tim Abbe and Vanessa Castle” at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 1943 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim.
Mapes, an environmental reporter with the Seattle Times, will discuss her new book, “The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests.”
The book explores the connection between the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest and salmon populations.
Mapes will be joined by Tim Abbe, a river scientist, and Vanessa Castle, a cultural conservation science coordinator and member of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe.
A Q&A session will follow the panel discussion, and Mapes will be available to sign copies of her book.
• Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona St., Port Townsend, will host its annual open house from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Attendees can tour the food bank garden with new wheelchair-accessible beds courtesy of the Farmer’s Fund at the Port Townsend Food Co-op.
There also will be free ice cream, live music and a plant sale.
