The Port Angeles Community Players plan a celebration of author Raymond Carver from Aug. 28-30 at the Community Playhouse in Port Angeles.

The weekend opens on Friday, Aug. 28, with a showing of “Birdman,” the Oscar-winning film from last year, which has never been shown publicly in the Sequim-Port Angeles area before. A short story by Carver figures prominently in the plot of “Birdman.”

Dramatic readings from “Beginners,” the soon-to-be-published Carver collection of stories, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday

Admission to “Birdman” and the dramatic readings will be by donation. The events are presented by the Port Angeles Community Players’ Second Stage.

“Beginners,” according to director Jim Guthrie, is Carver’s original version of the collection “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” The publication marks a lengthy effort by Carver’s widow, poet Tess Gallagher of Port Angeles, to right a literary wrong because Carver didn’t approve of the edited version, Guthrie said.

Readers are Karen Hogan, Kathleen Balducci, Mary-Alice Boulter, Kennedy Cameron, Linda Cameron, Jim Guthrie, Janet Lucas, John Merton Marrs, Fred Robinson, Jeffrey Tocher and Kristin Ulsund.

Carver was credited for reviving the American short story form in the 1970s and 1980s.

He lived the last 10 years of his life in Port Angeles with Gallagher, dying in 1988 at the age of 50 from lung cancer.