Entertainment: A&E Briefs — June 7, 2017

Trinity United hosting ringers, singers

Since 1976, The Ringers &Singers of First United Methodist Church of Lakeland, Fla., has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. The group comes to Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave., Sequim for a concert set for 3-4 p.m. Tuesday, June 13. The group performs a variety of musical styles with 24 voices and 140 handbells. Cost is by donation. For more information, call 683-5367 or email to church@sequimtumc.org.

Peninsula College to premier student films

Peninsula College’s Fourth Annual Moving Pictures Film Festival will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, in the Maier Performance Hall at the college. This year’s films were created by Maria Terry Binando, Elaine Cochran, Jack Cote, Ellie Dewhurst, Christopher Enges, Donna Geer, Rebecca Groves, Cindy Guoan, Darryl Hayes, Patrick McCready, Kathleen Perry, Sierra Pick, Anthony Richards, Lois Spicer and Seth Wonderly.

Many filmmakers have earned or are earning their Short-Term Certificate in Digital Video at Peninsula College. Multimedia communications program coordinator and instructor Renne Emiko Brock will host a Q &A with the filmmakers to discuss the Digital Video courses offered at PC and filmmakers’ successes after graduation.

This event is free and open to the public. Donations are encouraged.

For authors, writers

The next Fourth Friday Readings is scheduled for June 23 at 6:30 p.m., with guest featured writers Linda B. Myers and Heidi Hansen. They will each read from the just published “In The Words of Olympic Peninsula Authors,” an anthology of 14 local writers they compiled and edited. The 5-minute open mic readings will follow.

The book launch of “In The Words of Olympic Peninsula Authors” is from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., with 12 of the authors present.

A “Spontaneous Writing” session meets on the third Monday of every month — on June 19 this month — at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., from 9:30-11:30 a.m.