A&E briefs — Jan. 30, 2019
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Echo at Elks
Dee Coburn’s Echo plays rockabilly, country, classic rock and Elvis for a concert and dance at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, at 6-8:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1.
Class for beginning birders
The Dungeness River Audubon Center hosts birding classes starting at 1 p.m. each Tuesday in February (Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26), at 2151 W. Hendrickson Road. The class — $50 for river center members, $70 for non-members — is for beginning birders and new residents who want to learn and recognize local birds. The class will cover basic birding: identification, types, behavior, adaptation, sounds, field guides, nest boxes and optics use.
All planning to attend must pre-register. Email to RCEducatuion@Olympus.net or call 360-681-4076.
Book group talks ‘Dead Wake’
The Second Saturday Book Discussion Group examines “Dead Wake” by Erik Larson at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave.
Copies of “Dead Wake” — a book detailing the sinking of the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, one of great disasters of history — are available in various formats including regular print, large print, audiobook on CD and downloadable eBook, which may be requested online by visiting the library catalog at www.nols.org. A limited number of copies of each book discussion selection are available at the Library the month prior to each meeting.
To participate, simply read the book and attend the discussion; no reservations are needed, and drop-ins are welcome. To view a complete list of 2019 Book Discussion Group selections, visit www.nols.org/book-discussion-groups. 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.
McCallum in spotlight at PA gallery
Local artist Tracy McCallum is the featured artist for February at Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St. in Port Angeles. McCallum will be on hand to meet and talk with visitors during the Second Saturday Art Walk set for 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9.
McCallum studied oil and acrylic painting at San Francisco City College and the San Francisco Art Institute. He settled in Taos, New Mexico, for 40 years where he built two homes, created and showed his landscape work and also worked as a librarian for more than 20 years.
He has been a member artist of the Harbor Art Gallery since April of past year.
Boekelheide to give lecture in PT
Bob Boekelheide of Sequim is the featured speaker at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s “The Future of Oceans” lecture, set for 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at the Chapel at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend.
Boekelheide’s talk, “Seabirds and Marine Mammals of the Protection Island Aquatic Reserve,” will describe the wide variety of animal life that can be found in the 23,778 acres of state-owned aquatic lands surrounding the Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge, a federally-protected sanctuary managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A biologist, author and wildlife enthusiast, Boekelheide said he will address a number of questions, including what species are in the aquatic reserve and how many; when they are here; what areas they use; how they relate to one another, and what foods they eat.
The PTMSC Future of Oceans lecture series, started in 2014, explores the frontiers of ocean research and emerging technologies while confronting the human capacity to understand and sustain healthy oceans. For more information about the lecture series, visit https://ptmsc.org/programs/learn/lecture-series.
Native artwork on display
Artwork by Dusty Humphries Sr. of the Jamestown S’Klallam and Makah Tribes will be on display in the House of Learning/Peninsula College Longhouse, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles, through April 25.
Winter gallery hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Tuesday through Thursdays.
Humphries apprenticed under Jamestown S’Klallam Master Carver Jeff Monson during the creation of the Welcome Pole in 2010 on the Peninsula College campus and started producing his own art around the same time. He is now a carver for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.
His utilitarian wood carvings feature the use of positive and negative space, an element of Coast Salish design.
For more than a year Humphries has been working on a 26-foot pole for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, and will design and carve a second pole as well. When the project is finished there will be three poles to welcome the canoe pullers to the Jamestown beach during Tribal Canoe Journeys.
A free artist reception is scheduled for Friday, March 1, in the Longhouse.
For more information or to schedule a tour, email to longhouse@pencol.edu or call 360-417-7992.
