April First Saturday
April First Saturday
Join us every first Saturday of the month at the Jefferson Museum for free admission, extended hours, and Art Walk activities!
Join us every first Saturday of the month at the Jefferson Museum for free admission, extended hours, and Art Walk activities!
REGISTER VIA SIMPLETIX Saturday, April 22 at 7:00 PM at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History Pre-registration required, capacity limited to 30 Suggested donation: $10 In celebration of our Landscapes: Real & Imagined and Under Water Street exhibitions, join local artists David Eisenhour, Joan Jonland, and Stephen Yates to hear the stories behind their work. Each artist’s reverence for our natural environment emerges in their unique approach, creating art that inspires and challenges us to see and consider our world differently. Pre-registration is required to attend this event and capacity will be limited to 30. Sponsored in part by the City of Port Townsend Arts Commission
Saturday, April 29, 12:00 - 2:00 PM at the Rothschild House Free, no registration required but donations are appreciated! Join us for a special reopening celebration of the 1868 Rothschild House with an open house and picnic! Come celebrate the unique objects within the home, our wonderful public lands, and stories of the Rothschild family! Bring a picnic, take in the views from the bluff, enjoy lawn games (croquet, anybody?), and tour this very special 154-year-old house. This free event will kick off our 2023 season at the Rothschild House. Regular open hours will be 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Fridays and Saturdays starting May 5. Visit our historic houses page for more information about the house and the Rothschild family, plus accessibility and parking information to help you plan your visit.
First Friday Author Talk: A discussion on the history of sex work with the co-writers and editors of Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute REGISTER VIA SIMPLETIX Friday, May 5 at 7:00 PM Livestreamed and in-person at Northwest Maritime Center Suggested donation: $10 This program will be offered in-person (capacity limited to 75) and by livestream. All registered attendees will receive a recording of this program. Join writers and historians Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus in a discussion about the history of sex work and their book, Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute (Heyday Books). They will also share themes in Alice's story that extend to issues facing sex workers today, thoughts about shifting ideas of gender roles, and some newly uncovered research about Alice herself and the history of sex work in Washington State. About Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the harrowing events she endured after entering “the life.” While prostitute narratives had been […]
Join us every first Saturday of the month at the Jefferson Museum for free admission, extended hours, and Art Walk activities!