Elks to host Holiday Bazaar

The Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road, will host a Holiday Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.

Organizers said they will have several new vendors as well as favorites from past years.

For more information, call 360-683-2763.

NOLS to offer online workshops

The North Olympic Library System is offering free art workshops taught by SilverKite Community Arts on Zoom this fall.

Use your own materials and follow along with the instructor during the webinar or watch the recording after each session. Visit NOLS.org/silverkite to view the supply lists and register with access code NOLS2023.

Remaining events include:

Ornamental Lettering, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dec. 2.

Draw your name, initials or a selected word using an ornamental style.

Holiday cards and gift tags using watercolor and ink, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dec. 9.

Explore watercolor techniques and winter-themed designs.

The program is funded in part by Friends of the Library groups. For more information, visit NOLS.org, email discover@nols.org or call 360-417-8500.

Roast the Peninsula Steampunk style

The Port Angeles Community Players will host tryouts for an annual variety show.

Auditions will be held at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd. in Port Angeles.

Performers can try out up to three acts with a maximum time limit of three to four minutes. Adult humor is encouraged but may be edited for content. A Steampunk theme is encouraged but not required.

Rehearsals will begin the first week of January and will be two times per week until the week of the performance, when additional rehearsals will be required.

Cast members will be responsible for their own props and costumes and will receive two free tickets to the show for a friend or family member.

Shows are scheduled for the Jan. 24-25.

For more information, call Rebecca Gilbert at 970-946-0663 or visit pacommunityplayers.org.

City calls for Sunshine Fest craft vendors

The city of Sequim is accepting applications from craft vendors to participate in the Sunshine Market at the 2025 Sequim Sunshine Festival.

The market will be from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 8 inside the Guy Cole Event Center at Carrie Blake Community Park, 202 N. Blake Ave.

Booth space will be available for $75 per space. Applications are due by Dec. 20 and must be submitted at https://form.jotform.com/243084409645056.

All applications will be juried by the Sequim Sunshine Festival Committee. Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid-January. If the application is accepted, payment for booth space is required by Feb. 14.

For more information about the festival or vendor requirements, visit visitsunnysequim.com or contact Parks and Events Specialist Carrie Kann at ckann@sequimwa.gov.

NOLS hosts book discussion groups

The North Olympic Library System will host three book discussion group meetings monthly. Registration is not required.

Paperback copies of the titles will be available to pick up any time after the current month’s discussions at the Port Angeles Main Library or the Sequim Library’s temporary location on a first-come, first-served basis.

Copies in other formats, such as large print, book on CD or eBook also may be available to borrow through the NOLS catalog. ­

The December schedule includes:

“The Sun is a Compass” by Caroline Van Hemert. On Zoom at 4 p.m. Dec. 11. Paperback copies are available at the Port Angeles and Sequim libraries.

“Written in Bone” by Sue Black. In person at 3 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Sequim Library’s temporary location, 609 W. Washington St. Paperback copies are available at the Sequim Library’s temporary location.

“Calypso” by David Sedaris. Due to the holidays, the group will meet at 6 p.m. Dec. 18 in the Raymond Carver Room at the Port Angeles Main Library, 2210 S. Peabody St. Paperback copies are available at the Port Angeles Main Library.

Book discussion groups are supported by a donation made in memory of Sally Albiso, the Port Angeles Friends of the Library and the Friends of Sequim Library. For more information visit nols.org, call 360-417-8500 or email discover@nols.org.

PA Players’ offer more auditions

Auditions for the Port Angeles Community Players’ winter play, “Enchanted April,” will be conducted from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 11 and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 14.

The auditions will be on the playhouse main stage at 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.

The show performance dates are from Feb. 21 through March 9.

Three men ranging in age from mid-20s to 50-plus and five women in their mid-20s to 60-plus are needed to cast the show. Actors only need to attend one audition session.

Rehearsals will start as early as Dec. 30. Rehearsals will generally be three or four times per week, but in the early weeks, not everyone will be required to attend every rehearsal.

The play, written by by Matthew Barber, is based on the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. Feeling lost in the shadows of marriage and forgotten in the rush of 1920s post-war society, two London housewives pool their savings to rent a villa in Italy for a ladies-only holiday away, reluctantly recruiting a pair of difficult upper-class women to share the cost and the experience. Together under the Mediterranean sun, the four women clash — and then begin to bond and bloom — until men once again upset the balance.

Director Janice Parks said all the characters have experienced a loss of some kind and are working through what that means and how they continue with the rest of their lives.

Parks requests that potential cast members avoid watching the movie version of “Enchanted April” in order to look at the script from a fresh perspective.

Perusal copies of the script are available at the Sequim and Port Angeles public libraries. If an actor wishes to audition but cannot make the scheduled audition dates, contact PACP board member Ken Winters at kenpacp@gmail.com.

Studio Bob to host Nosferatu Screening

Studio Bob will host a screening of the original 1922 Nosferatu film on Dec. 13th.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. at 118 1/2 E. Front St., Port Angeles. A costume contest with prizes will follow at 7 p.m.

Participants will celebrate the original film in preparation for remake which will premier Dec. 25.

To commemorate the remake, graphic novel creator Narwhal, Per Berg of Sequim, will have the reissue of his comic for sale. His work, inspired by the original Nosferatu film, will be available alongside several other horror-themed books and free mini-comics.

The 1922 Nosferatu film took inspiration from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Most of the copies of the original film were destroyed due to allegations of copyright infringement. The version screening at Studio Bob will feature a new soundtrack by Blankenberge, the Russian Shoegaze band.

Tickets, available at the door, are $5 for the screening or $25 for the screening and a limited-edition copy of the Nosferatu graphic novel.

For more information, call 360-775-2160 or visit www.studiobob.art.