Fort Worden State Park

New Years Eve with Wild Coho at the Commons

Executive Chef Jay Payne invites you to a four-course celebration!

Bon Appetit Management Company, Fort Worden, and Executive Chef Jay Payne invite you to celebrate New Year's Eve with "Wild Coho at the Commons" Featuring four-course sustainably-focused menu featuring local northwest wine pairings.  Two seating only, 5PM and 8PM.
RSVP today!

Menu:
Amuse - Dungess Crab Wonton with Spicy Tomato Harissa
Appetizer (choose one) - Fromage Blanc Crepe with Cape Cleare Smoked Salmon and Apple or Roasted mushroom flan with celery root cream soup. Celery leaf salad with Oregon White Truffle Oil.
Salad - Mesclun with Saved Fennel, Oranges, Citrus-Thyme Vinaigrette
Entree (choose one) - 
* Grilled Rack and Sirloin of Anderson Farm Lamb with Merlot Reduction, Lamb Jus, and Semolina Gnocchi
* Smoke Roasted King Salmon with Fingerlings, Cider Braised Cippolini in Cabbage, Eaglemount Cider Sabayon.
* Individual Beef Wellington - Oregon Country Beef Tenderloin in Puff Pastry with Mushroom Deuxwlles and House made Chicken Liver Pate. Shallot and Chanterelle Jus.
* Vegerarian Option Available
Dessert (choose one) - Chocolate Trio! or NW Cherry Clafouit and Carmelized Pear Tart with Hazelnut Cream

<<Menu subject to change depending upon availability>>

Value price: $65 per person includes tax and gratuity

Call 360-344-4441 or e-mail your RSVP today

Holiday Open House at Copper Canyon Press and Corvidae Press

Copper Canyon Press is hosting a Holiday Open House on Friday, December 12, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. During the Open House, all books, signed books, limited editions, letterpress broadsides, and CDs will be sold at special holiday prices; poetry buttons will be free and treats will be provided.

Award-winning poet Emily Warn will read from her new book, Shadow Architect, at 5:30. Chinese translator Red Pine will likely make an appearance (not to read, but to eat, drink, and talk shop).

Copper Canyon is a non-profit publisher dedicated to poetry. Located in Port Townsend, Washington, since 1975, the press has received national awards and attention for its work, including the Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, and features in The New York Times, NPR’s Fresh Air, and PBS’s Lehrer NewsHour.

Copper Canyon Press is easy to find:  Enter Fort Worden at Cherry Street and continue straight through the intersection, past Building 204, to the end of the road. Copper Canyon is Building 313, located right across from the gymnasium. Look for the holiday lights.

Across the street from Copper Canyon is Corvidae Press. They will also be hosting a Holiday Open House and print sale at the same time. Members of the printmaking collective will be offering their artwork for sale, and visitors can learn about the art of printmaking.

Woodworking School Open House December 11

Join the fine folk at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking on December 11th for a celebration of their First Full Year.

Tim Lawson of the School says:

"We've had a lot of fun getting the School up and running. More importantly we've really enjoyed working with our students and getting to know them. Plus when we stand back and scratch our heads (not a pretty sight) we are kind of gobsmacked (a fine old British expression) at the great reception we have received.

We've had a whirlwind first year. Starting from a raw building filled with paint cans we have a functioning class / bench room and machine room.

We've had around 200 students attending a mixture of 1-5 day classes in 2008. Our lecture series has drawn up to 50 people on a Thursday evening. We've even had folks staying at the park for some of the longer courses. We've drawn students from the East Coast, Arizona, Kansas, Florida, California, Switzerland and Canada.

Our current course schedule for 2009 has us running classes for about 40 weeks next year - which if fully enrolled would have more than 450 students attend the school.

We're expanding our faculty to include nationally renowned woodworkers from around Puget Sound, and from California and New Hampshire."

They will open their doors at 5:00pm. Please come and join them--refreshments provided!

3 by 3: Fort Worden Winter Film Series

The Port Townsend Film Festival and Centrum have partnered to create 3 by 3: The Fort Worden Winter Film Series. Curated by Tom Skerritt, Reel Grrls, and Kathleen Murphy, the series will screen nine films, one every Tuesday evening from January 6 to March 3. Each film will be introduced by one of the guest curators, and a question-and-answer period with the guest curator will follow each film.

Films will be shown in the historic Joseph F. Wheeler Theater, built in the 1940's to serve as the Fort Worden’s original movie house.

Tickets are $12; $8 with current student ID, and are available online at www.fortwordenwinterfilms.com, or by calling Centrum at 360-385.3102, x117. Series passes are $95. Tickets are also available at the Wheeler Theater box office one hour before the film begins.

Reel Grrls is a unique after-school media & technology training program that empowers girls to critique media images and to gain media technology skills in a safe, open environment, mentored by a network of multi-cultural women media professionals. Each of the three films selected by Reel Grrls will be preceded by a five-minute short film. Reel Grrls chose films that were female-directed and women-focused, taking care to match each of the feature films with Reel Grrls’ participant-created shorts  similar in subject matter or theme.

The films of Tom Skerritt, an Emmy Award-winning American actor who has appeared in over forty feature films and more than two hundred television episodes, include M*A*S*H, Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through it and Smoke Signals, among many others. His television series include Gunsmoke, Picket Fences, and Cheers. The three films in this series offer a retrospective of his choices as an actor and testify to his range.

Kathleen Murphy has served on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington where she founded a Cinema Studies program and headed the UW Arts and Humanities Department in Continuing Education. She has served on the selection committees of the Seattle International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. Murphy’s selection was based on films that artfully express the complicated connections between art and life, creativity and experience.