Plays, music and puzzles top weekend events

Stage productions, music performances and a crossword puzzle contest highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

• Saltfire Theatre will stage its sixth production, “An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf,” with shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Vintage, 725 Water St. in Port Townsend.

Tickets are $25 per person at https://saltfire theatre.bpt.me.

The play, written by Michael Hillinger, is a dark comedy set in Paris during the early 1960s.

• “The Thanksgiving Play” will finish its run with a show at 7 tonight in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall and another at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Little Theater on Peninsula College’s Port Angeles Campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

Tickets for all shows are $20 at the door.

Peninsula College students will be admitted free to the on-campus performance.

The satire was written by native American playwright Larissa Fasthorse in 2018 and features a group of woke art teachers attempting to create a politically correct elementary school play about the first Thanksgiving.

“The Thanksgiving Play” is not a children’s holiday play.

Attendees should be prepared for violence, sexual content, racially insensitive language, racism and the mention of suicide.

For more information, contact Lara Starcevich at laras@pencol.edu or visit www.pencol.edu.

• Samite Mulondo will present his one-man show, “Resilience,” at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.

Tickets are $25 to $50 for adults and $15 for youth at www.fieldhallevents.org.

Mulondo intertwines traditional African music and personal storytelling to chronicle his journey from political refugee in Kenya to artist and advocate.

• Stephanie Anne Johnson will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road, Port Townsend.

The singer-songwriter will be joined by Shaun Crawford on guitar.

Tickets are $20 at www.ticketstorm.com or $25 at the door.

• Mia Torres will perform from 5 to 7 tonight at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.

• Jack Dwyer will perform from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday in Spirits Bar and Grill at the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock. No cover charge.

• An English Country Dance is set from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Rosewind Common House, 3131 Haines St., Port Townsend. Admission is $10 per person. A potluck dinner will follow the dance.

• Dawn and Steve, with Russ Lowry on drums, will perform from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, Sequim.

Admission is $12, $10 for lodge members.

• The second Song Swap is set for 7 p.m. Friday at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles.

Featured performers, each of whom will perform two original compositions, include Hayden Lindsey, C.V. Wells, Owl Chrysalis Medicine and the duo Aaron Smith and Rachel Ginsberg.

Tickets are $12 at www.studiobob.art or $15 at the door.

Food and drinks will be available for purchase at The Loom Bar.

For more information, call the studio at 360-775-2160.

• A crossword puzzle contest is set for 10 a.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., Port Angeles.

Contestants may work alone or in teams of two to complete three crossword puzzles.

All teams will have two hours to solve the same three puzzles, one easy and two medium difficulty.

The contest is open to adults and youths 12 and older.

Another contest is planned for Dec. 14 at the Forks Branch Library, 171 S. Forks Ave., Forks.

For more information, call the library at 360-417-8500, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.

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