Selected events from the Go & Do calendar on Gateline.com, taking place this weekend around Gig Harbor and the Key Peninsula:
Thursday March 7
Paleyfest Featuring "The Walking Dead"
Galaxy Theatres
4649 Point Fosdick Drive NW, Gig Harbor
7:30 p.m.
Cast members from "The Walking Dead" screen show footage and take part in a panel discussion. From the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, Calif.
253-857-7469
Friday March 8
Annie Get Your Gun Musical
Gig Harbor High School
5101 Rosedale St NW, Gig Harbor
7 p.m. (also shows Thursday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.)
Gig Harbor High School Theater Department presents Irving Berlin’s musical, Annie Get Your Gun. The musical is a Wild West show-within-a-show narrating the story of Annie Oakley and her rival/beau, Frank Butler. The sardonic, feisty Oakley, a backwoods sharpshooter, is picked up by Buffalo Bill’s traveling variety act and quickly outshoots Butler, the current star attraction. Annie and Frank vie for one another’s hearts and the title of best shot in the land.
253-530-1980
Navigation in the Classroom and On Board
Gig Harbor BoatShop
3805 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This hands-on course starts in the boatyard classroom with the basics of navigation, using both paper charts and electronic charting systems. You'll also learn about the Vessel Traffic System (VTS), and AIS (Automatic Identification System). The class finishes in the state-of-the-art wheelhouse of a 60' vessel while underway - where you will see the concepts of the class applied with modern electronic charting systems. Lunch included. Children under 14 to be accompanied by a paying adult.
253-857-9344
Cheryl Samuel, The Ravenstail Revival and the Dancing of the Robes
Key Peninsula Civic Center
17010 S Vaughn Road KP N, Vaughn
1 to 3 p.m.
Cheryl Samuel, artist and author of The Ravens Tail and The Chilkat Dancing Blanket presents The Ravenstail Revival, the story of a lost art found again and the journey Cheryl has taken bringing the art form back to the people who once wove it. This is a special event because the Ravenstail Robes taking a year or more to weave are going to be danced by the Haan Dei I Jin Dancers (Haida) and the Tsimshian Haayuuk Dancers. This event is sponsored by Two Waters Arts Alliance.
253-884-3456 Open Records and Public Participation
Harbor History Museum
4121 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor
2 to 4 p.m.
The League of Women Voters' Gig Harbor unit will meet from 2 to 4 p.m., March 9, 2013, at Harbor History Museum, 4121 Harborview Drive, in Gig Harbor. The agenda includes Open Records and public meetings, as well as Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (S.L.A.P.P.), which try to discourage critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense. The League meets on second Saturdays at the Harbor History Museum. For information, call Sharon Peace-Doane at 253-265-0841.
The Jerry Miller Band Benefit Concert
Key Peninsula Civic Center
17010 S Vaughn Road KP N, Vaughn
7:30 to 11 p.m.
Legendary Blues/Rock band guitarist, Jerry Miller, and The Jerry Miller Band will be performing at the Key Peninsula Civic Center on Saturday, March 9, 2013, in a benefit concert for the KPCC and the Key Peninsula Food Bank. Jerry is rated #68 of the top 100 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine. Admission is a suggested $15.00 donation. Bring a non-perishable food item and receive a $2.00 off drink coupon.
253-884-3937
Wedding Bliss - Open House & Free Wedding Giveaway
Best Western Plus Wesley Inn & Suites
6575 Kimball Drive, Gig Harbor
1 to 3 p.m.
Prospective brides, grooms, family and friends are welcome to tour The Best Western Plus Wesley Inn & Suites at our exclusive Open House! Taste catering samples from Le Garmache, Meet executive wedding planner Gina Lillie of A Greater Plan & Events, and Sip on wine while envisioning your wedding in the Ballroom at the Wesley Inn. Best of all....admission is free AND you can Enter to Win a FREE Wedding! Must be present to win.
253-858-9690
10th Annual Run for Relief - Burma
Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
7700 Skanskie Ave, Gig Harbor
1 p.m.
Funds raised provide medical and humanitarian support for internally displaced children and families in Burma.
253-851-7779
Nichols Community Center
690 9th Ave, Fox Island
3 p.m.
Travel with Magical Strings to experience the Magic of Ireland in music, stories and lively Irish dancing by members of the Tara Academy of Irish Dance! With Celtic harps, hammered dulcimers, concertina, accordion and whistles, Philip and Pam Boulding will share energetic Irish music and new compositions and stories inspired by their journeys to Ireland and beyond—don’t miss this great opportunity to hear these two heart-filled virtuoso musicians and the tales they weave through their music!
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