Playwrights read from works

North Coast Writers welcomes playwrights Jerry Kraft and Rebecca Redshaw for an evening of theatrical performance and exposition at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at Wine on the Waterfront, 115 E. Railroad Ave. in Port Angeles.

Kraft, a playwright, poet and journalist, will offer “God Clicked,” a dramatic monologue, as well as a short play, “Sand Script.”

Redshaw, a Port Angeles fiction author, playwright and director, also will showcase one of her short plays, “Broadway Showtunes Game of Life.”

Community orchestra continues strings program

The Sequim Community Orchestra will begin its fourth season with its first rehearsal from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in the James Center for the Performing Arts, Swisher Hall in Sequim.

The orchestra always is looking for new members who can read music, play an orchestral instrument and enjoy playing orchestral music with other amateurs.

The orchestra has three concerts planned for the upcoming season, the first on Dec. 7 in collaboration with the Sequim City Band for its Christmas Concert.

The orchestra will perform arrangements of Christmas favorites. On Feb. 20, the orchestra will present a special family concert with pre-concert activities for children and families.

The orchestra will be joined by members of the Sequim Beginning Strings Class during the performance.

A third performance will be in June.Strings ProgramNow beginning its second year the Strings Program will have two classes this year for all Sequim School District students in fourth and fifth grades.

The new beginning class will be team taught by Lilias Green and Margaret Whitley.

The second year class will continue with orchestra director Phil Morgan-Ellis. Classes start Oct. 7 and are held every Tuesday and Thursday school is in session through the end of May from 3:15-4:15 p.m. at Greywolf Elementary School.

For more information, e-mail Green at legreenmusic@gmail.com.