Upcoming Events

From the Air

September 14

7:00 PM

Dave Woodcock’s aerial photos of Crescent Bay and Port Angeles harbor, which are featured in Safe Harbor, are just a tiny taste of the large body of work that the Sequim-based pilot/photographer has created in the skies above the Olympic Peninsula. His recently published monograph, From the Air: The Olympic Peninsula, is a collection of stunning views of the remarkably diverse topography of this upper left hand corner of the map.

The images, which comprehensively scour the shoreline, the lowlands and the stunning backcountry of Olympic National Park, are complemented with evocative text by Tim McNulty, the Lost Mountain poet and essayist who is regarded by many as the quintessential voice of the Olympic biosphere, blending the eye of a naturalist with the responses of the artist.

Woodcock and McNulty will share the podium for a personal slide tour through the book’s images and relate behind-the-scenes stories of how the images were made.

There will be opportunities to go home with a dual- autographed copy that you’ll find many occasions to share with friends and visitors.

Admission is free.

andre Feriante

September 19

2:00 PM

Andre Feriante returns to Port Angeles with a new program for a Sunday afternoon concert. A perennial favorite at PAFAC since his first appearance fifteen years ago, Feriante is a classical guitar virtuoso, a master at painting musical pictures whose colorful repertoire is saturated with a strong romantic streak. Feriante’s sparkling musicianship has gained him wide acclaim and a loyal and ever-growing international audience, but the Webster House remains one of his favorite stages.

Always a mesmerizing soloist and occasional ensemble player (his last PAFAC appearance was with Lummi Nation violinist Swil Kanim), Feriante will this time bring a new entourage in the form of a half-dozen different guitars from his collection, each with its own distinctive voice and repertoire. These include a classical arch-top suited for early music selections, a Richard Schneider Kasha design for 20th century classical music, a David Daily design for Spanish 19th century music, a Jerusalem guitar made from Mediterranean cypress and spruce for flamenco, a traditional jazz guitar for pop arrangements, a modern Northwest steel string for folk ballads, and a ukulele for a high register exotic touch.

Andre’s performances draw the listener into realms of myth and dream. When he interlaces his guitar work with “song poems,” overlaying the melodies with the verse of Surrealist and mystic poets such as Lorca or Rumi, his performance takes on an incantatory quality.

Admission is $12 general, $10 for Friends members. Tickets in advance at PAFAC, Port Book and News, or at the door.

Mary lou Sanelli

September 24

7:30 PM

Port Townsend poet, essayist and dancer. Mary Lou Sanelli, will present Mothers & Daughters: Breathe In, Breathe Out, her latest performance offering. Well known locally for her readings and her regular column in the Peninsula Daily News, Sanelli has enchanted audiences in the Webster House many times, winning them over with poignant insights and gentle self-effacing humor.

Critics have called her work “… erudite, yet highly readable and entertaining … touching hearts, minds, and funny bones … jaw-droppingly honest.”

“This presentation,” she says, “is about mothers and daughters, the life cycle, the mother/daughter evolutionary process that lasts your lifetime. It’s a dynamic that has wiggled its way into so much of what I write. Reading from this work is the most fun. I look out into the audience and the women are nodding their heads, wiping their eyes, smiling. They know what I mean.”

Besides exploring the safe harbor of the mother/daughter bond, Sanelli’s reading will help engender a safe harbor against human suffering. She will contribute her proceeds from this special performance to the Maasailand Health Project organized locally by Tom & Rhonda Curry. The mission of that project is to combat malaria in the Olduvi region of Tanzania by providing Masai villages with insecticide treated mosquito netting and other aid (see http://www.mlhp.org for full details)

Admission is $10 general, $8 Friends members and advance tickets are available at PAFAC and Port Book & News, or at the door.

Ethnobotanical tour

September 25

11:00 AM

With the approach of autumn Victoria-based naturalist, Joe Percival, will lead an ethnobotanical tour of Webster’s Woods. In the aboriginal world this would be the season to gather a safe harbor for the coming winter. Interspersed with the surprises of Art Outside, Percival will search out edible and medicinal plants that were important to the original inhabitants of the Salish Sea ecosystem. General admission $5; Friends members $3.

Chasman & Robb

October 1

7:30 PM

This meeting of Paul Chasman and Terry Robb on the PAFAC stage is part of a reunion tour for these two guitar masters. After performing for a decade as half of the acclaimed quartet, Acoustic Guitar Summit, followed by separate paths for the next five years, they reunited as a duo to perform last spring at the Juan de Fuca Festival. Delighted with their seamless reunion and warm audience response, they now embark on a series of concerts in Oregon and Washington.

Portland-based Terry Robb is considered one of the top blues guitarists on the West Coast. As a close friend of the late John Fahey and heir his musical legacy, Robb is an inventive and ever-evolving “American Primitive” master. A 2009 inductee into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, Robb has for a record thirty times won the Cascade Blues Association’s prestigious “Muddy Award” as best acoustic guitarist.

Since he moved to Port Angeles from Oregon three years ago, Paul Chasman has appeared at the Center on numerous memorable occasions. A composer as well as a consummate fingerpicker, he has recently composed and recorded the score for a Port Townsend produced feature film, The Last of Us, and has served as musical director for the PA Community Players’ productions of Celebration and Man of La Mancha.

The collaboration between these two virtuosi is guaranteed to produce dazzling guitar technique spiced with musical intelligence, wit, and high-wire interplay.

Admission is $12 general, $10 for Friends members.

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Enter Stage Left: A Conversation with Hattie McDaniel

Date: Friday, March 19th, 2010
Time: 7:30
Location: PAFAC

A staged reading of REBECCA REDSHAW’s A Conversation with Hattie McDaniel, which brings to life the seminal African American film actress, Hattie McDaniel, who won an academy award in 1939 for her supporting actress role in Gone with the Wind. Redshaw directs Marie O’Neill and Jessica Claiborne in a hypothetical interview by a reporter from the 21st century.

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