An artists’ reception, a fair and parade and multiple music performances highlight the upcoming events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host a reception for the opening of “Lighten Up” from 5 to 7 tonight at the center’s Esther Webster Gallery, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
The exhibit will celebrate color and humor using neon to explore light as language, material and mood.
Participating artists include Sarah Cass, Dani K, KCJ, Bri Chesler, Marisa Manso and MinHi England.
Light bites will be provided during the free reception, and drinks will be available for purchase.
“Lighten Up” will remain on display from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays until Nov. 2.
For more information, visit www.pafac.org.
• The Quilcene Fair and Parade will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Quilcene School, 294715, U.S. Highway 101, Quilcene.
The free, family-friendly event will feature food, vendors and a car show with the Olympic Peninsula chapter of Rat Bastards Car Club.
The parade will step off at 11 a.m. on Highway 101. Registration starts at 9 a.m.
Longtime Quilcene Fire Rescue volunteers Bruce and Sue Stratton, this year’s King and Queen, will lead a parade that is expected to include floats from Port Townsend’s Rhody Festival, Sequim’s Irrigation Festival, the Borderline Dance Team, Cape George Highland Alpacas, the Olympic Peninsula Shrine Club and Strait Air Volksgruppe VW Car Club.
Registration for the car show, which costs $25 per vehicle, will begin at 8 a.m. at the school’s athletic field. Participants should turn off Highway 101 onto Rose Street then turn left onto McCardle Road and another left onto the athletic field.
The fair will be open until 3 p.m. and also will feature kids games and prizes, the GameTruck mobile video game experience, live band karaoke with Rockaraoke, and community craft vendors inside and outside the school.
Fairgoers are invited to stay for the Quilcene Rangers’ football game against the Neah Bay Red Devils. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.
Proceeds from the fair will support next year’s event as well as local nonprofits focused on youth in Quilcene and Brinnon, including the Weekend Nutrition Program, the Quilcene Masonic Lodge’s Bike for Books program and the Quilcene Girl Scouts.
For more information, email quilcenefair@gmail.com or visit www.quilcene fair.org.
• Dana Cooper will perform for Concerts in the Woods at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center, 923 Hazel Point Road, Coyle.
Admission is by a suggested donation of $20.
Cooper also will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Rainshadow Recording in Building 315 at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.
Tickets are $20 per person at www.ticketstorm.com/c/17038/rainshadow recording or $25 at the door.
Cooper, a singer-songwriter with a career spanning more than 50 years, is half of the Texas-based Shake Russell/Dana Cooper band.
Cooper released his 32nd studio album, “The Ghost of Tucumcari,” in May 2024.
The album includes guest artists Lyle Lovett, Hayes Carll, Susan Gibson, Mando Saenz, Darden Smith, Shake Russell and Libby Koch.
For more information, visit www.danacooper music.com.
• Jesse Roper will return to Port Angeles on Saturday for two shows in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
Roper, a Canadian blues musician, will take the stage for a matinee performance at 2 p.m. and a candlelight performance at 7 p.m.
Tickets for the matinee are $25 to $50 per person. Tickets for the candlelight show are $35 to $60 per person. Tickets for both shows are available www.fieldhallevents.org/tickets.
Roper’s performances will kick off the third season of the In Harmony series, a collaboration between the Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts and Field Hall.
Based in Victoria, B.C., Roper previously has performed at the Juan de Fuca Festival for the Arts, the Concerts on the Pier series and in the 2024 In Harmony series at Field Hall.
Concertgoers also may purchase an add-on meet-and-greet with Roper before each show to benefit KSQM Radio in Sequim.
• The Port Angeles Garden Club will host the fourth Forever StreamFest: Tending Our Gardens Beyond Our Backyards from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Pebble Beach Park, 301 Marine Drive, Port Angeles.
Attendees can learn ways to join efforts to protect, restore and preserve streams and natural resources throughout the North Olympic Peninsula.
The family-friendly festival will feature food, a beer and cider garden, music and environmental exhibits.
For more information, visit www.portangeles gardenclub.org.
• The Sequim Community Church will kick off its fall Friday Night Live season with a potluck meal at 5:30 tonight in the Fellowship Center, 950 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a dish to serve eight people.
After the meal, Black Diamond Junction will perform classic hits from the 1970s through 1980s.
Attendees are requested to RSVP by calling the church at 360-683-4194 or by visiting www.sequim communitychurch.org.
• Kitsap Bank will continue its “From Shred to Fed” fundraiser series from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at its Port Angeles branch, 716 E. Front St.
Volunteers will accept monetary donations for the Port Angeles Food Bank.
Participants may bring up to 75 pounds of documents per vehicle for shredding along with a cash or check donation.
For more information, visit www.kitsapbank.com.
• Ed Adams and Pam Pace will present “The World of Dahlias” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday during the free Digging Deeper gardening series at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road, Sequim.
The master gardeners will discuss how to select and identify dahlias as well as how to plant, feed and water them.
Attendees also will learn how to protect them from pests and viruses, and how to harvest and store them properly.
For more information, call 360-565-2679 or visit https://extension.wsu.edu/clallam.
• Saleem Shafi will demonstrate how to turn a spoon using an off-center chuck of his own design at 10:30 a.m. Saturday during a meeting of the Strait Turners woodturners club at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road, Sequim.
Turners of all levels, and those who wish to learn about the hobby, are welcome.
For more information, email Lisa Brice, the club’s membership director, at lisakbrice@gmail.com.
• SilverKite Community Arts will present “Sip and Paint Watercolor: Landscape on Canvas” online at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
The free intergenerational program, sponsored by the North Olympic Library System, is appropriate for all ages.
Attendees will learn techniques for blending colors, building texture, layering and experimenting with colored pencils.
Participants can use their own materials and follow along live on Zoom or later with a recording of the presentation.
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.
• Fayla Schwartz will present “Vegetation Zones of the Olympic Peninsula” at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Fort Flagler Hospital, 10541 Flagler Road, Marrowstone Island.
The free presentation is sponsored by the Friends of Fort Flagler.
Schwartz will discuss the various vegetation zones on the Peninsula and will explain how elevation, soil, moisture and temperature shape each zone.
Schwartz, who holds a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Washington, is the chair of the Olympic Peninsula Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society.
Attendees must register at www.eventbrite.com.
• Finnriver Farm and Cidery will host a party to celebrate its 15th anniversary from noon to 7 p.m. Sunday at the cider garden, 124 Center Road, Chimacum.
Starting at 12:30 p.m., depending upon the weather, Dream Catcher Balloon will provide free, tethered hot air balloon rides to kids with disabilities.
The farm invites guests to a community toast, with free cake, at 4:30 p.m., and Uncle Funk and the Dope 6 will perform live funk and soul from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
For more information, visit www.finnriver.com/finnriver-anniversary-party.
