Fundraiser concert set at Jardin du Soliel

The Global Earth Repair Summit Benefit Fundraiser, featuring Dana Lyons, is set for 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at Jardin du Soliel Lavender Farm, 3932 Sequim-Dungeness Way.

Lyons is an international known environmental singer/songwriter whose concerts are “a blend of comedy, beautiful ballads, and fascinating stories of the road,” event organizers say.

Cost is a suggested $10-plus donation at the door.

The farm’s gift shop will be open. Pacific Pantry food cart will sell food on-site and the farm features a large maze for youths.

Michael Pilarski of the Global Earth Repair Foundation will give a presentation on the state of the world’s eco-restoration movement.

The Global Earth Repair Summit is a hybrid online/in-person event set for Oct. 21-24; see globalearthrepairfoundation.org for more information.

RSVPs are not required but are suggested; RSVP at Skeeter.Eventbrite.com.

Buttercup Lane brings tunes to Elks club stage

The band Buttercup Lane will be playing dance music for couples and free dancers featuring classic rock and roll, blues, R&B, country, swing and other genres that will get folks on the dance floor Sunday, Oct. 9, at the Sequim Elks Lodge, 143 Port Williams Road.

Dance or listen to great music from 6-8:30 p.m. There is a cover charge at the Elk’s Sunday dances: $10 for members and $12 for guests.

Buttercup Lane members include: Mike Johnson, electric uke and lead vocals; Diane Johnson, lead vocals and harmony; Rodger Bigelow, lead guitar and vocals; Dave Keyte on the electronic wind instrument (EWI), and Bob Rhodes on bass guitar.

The band has played at many events and venues on the Olympic Peninsula such as the Clallam County Fair, Sequim Lavender Weekend, Sequim Irrigation Festival, Sequim Prairie Grange and others.

Fiddlers to meet, jam

Members of the Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association (WOTFA) District 15 chapter meet for a jam session from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road.

In WOTFA jams, dobros, dulcimers, autoharps and ukuleles are also often present. Come to play or just to learn and enjoy this traditional style of music.

There is no charge to attend, but donations in support of the club’s youth scholarship

program are welcome. Attendees are encouraged to bring a snack to share.

‘Creative Photographic Visions’ exhibit set

The Digital Artistry Group presents Creative Photographic Visions, a print exhibition, with opening receptions from 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, and noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles.

An electric group of recent work from seven well-established photographers will be on display. The show includes images based on landscape, nature, and portraiture, as well as altered reality and abstract images. This art was created using photographs and the artists creative skills in the digital darkroom.

Artists include Lewis Bennett, Colleen Bittner, Peg Hanson, Barbara Lippert, Tim O’Neill, Witta Priester and Susan White.

For more information about the exhibit, call Studio Bob at 415-990-0457.

DelaBarre’s work on display

Harbor Art Gallery, at 114 N. Laurel St., Port Angeles, will be featuring the artwork of Garret DelaBarre throughout the month of October.

For Years, DelaBarre has poured his artistry into the building of fine custom homes here in the Northwest. Residing in Port Angeles for more than 30 years, he credits his community, an intense love for fishing and his family as inspiration for his creative expressions.

“I utilize a mixture of tools and techniques … there are no rules,” DelaBarre said.

Harbor Art Gallery is open 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. During the Second Saturday Art Walk on Oct. 8, the gallery will be open until 7 p.m., and visitors can meet with DelaBarre and other cooperative artists.

The gallery also showcases work by local artists Bob Stokes and Cindy Elstrom, Carolyn Guske, Robert Amaral, Kelly Coffey, Terri Ench, Tammy Hall, David Johannessohn, Susan Kantowitz, Ruth Kaspin, Nancy McFaul, Gail McLain, Roger Mosley, Eric Neurath, Randy and Sallie Radock, Jodi Riverstone, Nathan Shields, Lance and Haley Snider, Eileen Webb and Kevin Willson.

2nd Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Poetry Reading

The North Olympic Library System (NOLS) is hosting the second-annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Poetry Reading in celebration of poetry created and performed by Native poets of the Olympic Peninsula. Gather in person at ʔaʔkʷustəŋáw̕txʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse on the Port Angeles campus or join live via Zoom on Monday, Oct. 10, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Visit nols.org/IPD or contact the library for the Zoom information.

An open mic for Native poets will kick off this event, followed by the featured reader for the evening, Sara Marie Ortiz, an Acoma Pueblo writer, performing artist, and filmmaker. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, New Poets of the American West, and more. She is the author of Red Milk (2013) and lives in Burien.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a national holiday that honors the Indigenous peoples of what is now known as North America. First celebrated in 1992 on the second Monday in October, Indigenous Peoples’ Day was officially proclaimed a national holiday in 2021.

This program is generously supported in part by Peninsula College and local Friends of the Library groups. For more information about this program, visit nols.org, email to discover@nols.org, or call 360-417-8500.

OPA series continues

As part of the ongoing Olympic Peninsula Authors’ Writers Read series at the Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., October promises a week of fast- paced fun for local authors.

• Oct. 6-8: Writers come to the gallery to view a delightful new exhibit. Choose a piece of art to write a poem or short piece of prose about.

• Oct. 10: By midday, email your poem/prose to olypenauthors@olypen.com. Paste it into the body of your email, not as an attachment; submissions should be no longer than one page.

• Oct. 11: Members of Olympic Peninsula Authors will organize as many of the submissions as possible for live readings by their creators in the gallery. If a work is chosen, the author will be invited to participate.

Oct. 12: the live readings will begin at 2 p.m. in the gallery; the presentation will last about one hour.

Olympic Peninsula Authors, which was founded to promote local writers, sells books at major holiday fairs, hosts Fourth Friday Open Mic Readings on Zoom, curates readings at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (PAFAC) and publishes an annual anthology. For more information, email to olypenauthors@olypen.com.