School plans fundraising dance
The ninth-annual Beat the Blues Barn Dance is a Five Acre School Parent Service Organization fundraiser. Doors open at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, and wristbands are sold at the door. Youths 13 and under are free daytime (2-5 p.m.). An event pass for those 14 and over are $5 and they may upgrade to an evening pass for $15. All day and evening wristbands are $20 at the door. Parking is only at King’s Way Four Square Church, 1023 Kitchen-Dick Road. A free shuttle will bring you to and from the Big Barn Farm.
OTA auditions set
Auditions for “Over the River and Through the Woods” will be at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., at 7 p.m. Sunday-Monday, Feb. 5-6, and if needed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7. Casting needs are are two men and two women ages 70-80, one man in his thirties and one woman in her twenties. Auditions will consist of reading selected scenes from the play. Being familiar with the play is helpful but not required. Scripts are available at the box office from 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave.
Accordion social planned
There will be an accordion social from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Shipley Center, 921 E. Hammond St., Sequim. A suggested donation is $2. Featured players will be Elsa and Hermann Laresser from Sequim. Any accordionist is welcome to come and play. For more information, call Caryl Dowell at 520-369-3550 or Frank Bruckner at 208-290-4037.
Design video games
Have you ever wanted to try designing your own computer video game? Give it a shot this February and March at the Port Angeles and Sequim branch libraries. “Flatverse Coding Camps” will offer participants of all ages weekly opportunities to experiment with an interactive programming environment from Microsoft Research and are free to attend.
Port Angeles Library camps will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m. every Thursday in February.
Sequim Library camps will be from 4-6 p.m. on Fridays, March 3, 10, 17 and 24. Laptops will be provided and registration is required. To register, visit www.nols.org, select “Events,” and either “Sequim” or “Port Angeles,” or send an email to Discover@nols.org.
PC hosts Salish exhibit
Peninsula College will host a new exhibit, courtesy of the Burke Museum, “Salish Bounty: Traditional Native American Foods of Puget Sound.” Focusing on the revival of traditional Native foods, “Salish Bounty” is co-curated by Burke Museum archaeologists and Coast Salish advisors. The exhibition will be displayed in the Peninsula College Longhouse between Feb. 7-March 3, and in the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Red Cedar Hall from March 6-April 14. Longhouse Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Tuesday-Friday. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Sadie Crowe at scrowe@pencol.edu or 417-7992.
