Square dance with The Horsenecks

Eaglemount Wine and Cider will hold a square dance night featuring the southern sounds of The Horsenecks with calling by Kelsey Nelson, to be held at the Palindrome Hall on Aug. 16. The Horsenecks, who have appeared at Centrum’s Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, feature Gabrielle Macrae and Barry Southern, who will display their hard-hitting, heartfelt old-timey sounds. Macrae’s Appalachian fiddle style pairs with Southern’s driving three-finger work on the banjo.

Calling out all the right moves for square dancers to follow will be Kelsey Nelson, of Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands. Nelson has been actively organizing square dances on the islands for years, and has been a featured caller at the Portland Old-time Gathering and Olympia Old-Time Festival.

The dance will begin at 8 p.m. at the Palindrome Hall at 1893 S. Jacob Miller Road..

Northwind Reading Series

Kevin Clark and Stan Sanvel Rubin, will be the featured authors for the Northwind Reading Series at 7 p.m. Aug. 16.

Poet Kevin Clark has appeared in The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast and Crazyhorse. His book of poems, “Self-Portrait with Expletives,” won the Pleiades Press contest, and his first book “In Evening of No Warning” won five the Oaks Press contest.

Rubin is the director of the SUNY Brockport Writers Forum and Video Library, and co-founding director of the Rainier Workshop, which is where Clark teaches. His poems have appeared in widely-circulated magazines including The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, The Laurel Review, The Iowa Review and others. Rubin currently writes essay reviews of poetry for Water-Stone Review.

Suggested donation is $5. Northwind Reading Arts Center is located at 701 Water St.

Movies for Memory

The Rose Theatre will play host to Meet Me at the Movies from 1 to 2:30 p.m.  Aug. 21. This month’s theme will be People and Places of the Pacific Northwest, which will highlight people and places of the region. Clips of 2016’s “The Boys of ‘36,” a documentary about the a University of Washington varsity crew boat representing the United States in the 1936 Summer Olympics, will be shown. Also shown will be 2014’s “Wild,” which illustrates a woman’s hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in a journey of discovery.

The Meet Me at the Movies program is designed for people with memory loss and their care partners and can be enjoyed by all adults. This year was when it expanded to the Rose Theatre, as well as the Bainbridge Island of Museum Art.

Registration is not required and is free for all. Doors open 30 minutes before the program begins. First-come, first seated.

Staples to headline Candlelight

With the theme of “La Regatta,” singer Lissa Staples will make a return to the Candlelight Concert Series on Aug. 23.

As a tribute to the Wooden Boat Festival, Staples’ will present a set of songs by Rossini titled “La Regatta Veneziana,” including Mozart’s “Alleluia,” Debussy’s “Mandoline,” Strauss’ “Allerselen” and Verdi’s Verdi’s “Mercè dilettet amiche” from I Vespro Siciliani. Also included will be songs from composers Faure and Ricky Ian Gordon.

Accompanying Staples on Trinity’s Petrof grand piano will be Carol Rich, who has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall and the Vienna Opera House. Beginning training when she was just three years old, Rich is a third generation Juilliard graduate, holding three degrees in piano performance.

The concert will begin at 7 p.m. at the Trinity United Methodist Church at 609 Taylor St. Doors open at 6 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 and will go to benefit Jumping Mouse Children’s Center in Port Townsend.

PT Shorts

For the next PT Shorts program, author Kathryn Trueblood’s first book of short fiction, “The Sperm Donor’s Daughter (and Other Tales of Modern Family)” will be the featured work to be read.

As her first book, “The Sperm Donor’s Daughter” received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize 2000, and obtained wide acclaim from several publications. “As a writer, Trueblood likes the thorny questions medical developments post for human identity,” reads a press release from the Northwind Arts Center, an organizer of PT Shorts.

Along with Northwind, Key City Public Theatre brings these series to Port Townsend every third Thursday. The program highlights short works of fiction and creative non-fiction from a variety of writers, such as Sarah Vowell, Mark Twain, and George Saunders.

The event to be held at William James Bookseller at 829 Water St. from its original time and venue, and is free and open to the public.