Monday Musicale set
The Monday Musicale group meets in the Queen of Angels fellowship hall Monday, May 21.
The noon meeting at the hall at 209 W. 11th St., Port Angeles, will be followed by 1 p.m. entertainment which is open to the public. The Port Angeles High School Chamber Orchestra will perform.
For more information, call Helen Coleman at 360-775-0594.
City seeks artists
The city Arts Advisory Commission (CAAC) seeks entries of art, in any medium, for the exhibit themed “Earth, Wind, Fire & Water” to be displayed in the Civic Center’s lobby.
Deadline for submissions is Friday, June 8.
For complete entry guidelines and exhibit information, visit the city website at www.sequimwa.gov; pick up a brochure at the center, 152 E. Cedar St.; or contact Charisse Deschenes, assistant to the city manager at 360-681-3432 or cdeschenes@sequimwa.gov.
The exhibit will be on display at the center July 1-Sept. 30.
All entries will be juried by the CAAC.
An artist reception is scheduled for Friday, July 6.
Book talk takes on ‘Being Mortal’
The Novel Conversations Book Discussion Group talks about “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave.
The group meets every fourth Wednesday of the month at 4 p.m. To participate, simply read the book and attend the discussion; no reservations are needed and drop-ins are welcome.
In this personal account, Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life, but also the process of its ending.
This program is supported by the Friends of the Sequim Library. For more information about this and other programs for readers and book lovers, visit www.nols.org, email to discover@nols.org or call 360-683-1161.
PAFAC hosts ‘Wild Olympia’
“Wild Olympia,” an art exhibition exploring all kinds of wilderness — outside and inside us — opens at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., on Saturday, May 19.
Longtime Peninsula College professor Michael Paul Miller is the artist behind these works, which include altered images of Olympic Peninsula mountains, waters and skies — plus a huge cardboard tree stump he built.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome at the exhibition and its opening party with wine, snacks and soft drinks from 5-7 p.m. Saturday, May 19.
For more information about “Wild Olympia,” which will stay on display through July 8, call the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center at 360-457-3532, or stop by the center; its spring hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursdays through Sundays.
Comedian comes to PC stage
Pittsburgh comedian Derrick Knopsnyder is coming to the Little Theater stage at Peninsula College on Thursday, May 17.
Knopsnyder’s 2018 tour started at the National Association for Campus Activities Conference in Boston in February and will have landed at 14 colleges across the nation before his stop in Port Angeles.
The show, featuring adult content, opens at 7 p.m. in the Pirate Union Building, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd. Admission is free to Peninsula College students and by donation for employees and community members.
“We’re super excited to bring Derrick to Peninsula,” said ASC vice president of programming, Paige O’Dell. “His show is full of hilarious college, adult humor and his awkward quirks are what make his show so entertaining.”
The event is hosted and underwritten by the Peninsula College ASC. For more information, contact Rick Ross at rross@pencol.edu.
Magic of Cinema screens Standing Rock film, ‘Awake’
Peninsula College’s Magic of Cinema, House of Learning and Writer in Residence program hosts a screening of “Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock” at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 17, in the college’s Keegan Lecture Hall, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
Following the film will be a panel discussion and question-and-answer session with local community members who participated in the peaceful resistance at Standing Rock. They will be joined by Lynda V. Mapes, 2018 Peninsula College Writer in Residence and Seattle Times staff member who reported from Standing Rock.
This screening is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Dr. Helen Lovejoy at hlovejoy@pencol.edu or 360-417-6362.
Retrospective to showcase decade of Longhouse artwork
An upcoming House of Learning-Peninsula College Longhouse Art Gallery retrospective exhibit celebrates artists who have exhibited on the college campus as Longhouse guest artists since the opening of the House of Learning in 2007.
The exhibit will also honor those whose artwork is part of the permanent collection.
The exhibit will run this week through Friday, Aug. 31, in the Longhouse.
An artist reception is slated for 1-4 p.m. on Friday, June 1, also in the Longhouse. Summer hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Sadie Crowe at scrowe@pencol.edu.
