Fort Worden State Park

Presidential Inauguration watch & witness party

Don't miss this historic event Tuesday, January 20th at 9am PST. Join together with your co-workers and PT community to witness President-elect Barrack Obama’s inauguration. Enjoy a Local Goods latte and Obama's favorite cookies (Chocolate chunk) - or any of Local Goods other delicious cafe items - while you gather around watching history unfold. This FREE watch & witness will feature a live CNN feed broadcast on a screen in Company B of the Commons. Join us!

Bring Your Bones Day

Saturday, January 17, 2009 1-4pm, Natural History Exhibit

Be in a room surrounded by huge whale bones, tiny bird bones, complete skeletons…and bring in any old bones you’ve found and treasured. Come to the Natural History Exhibit at Fort Worden State Park. Bring Your Bones Day is a free event and is for beachcombers, artists, families and anyone fascinated by the unknown.

On hand to examine, help identify and tell stores about the bones will be a master marine mammal skeleton articulator from Alaska, Lee Post, aka “Mr. Boneman,” and Dr. Tony Rogstad, the veterinarian from Chimacum Valley Vet Hospital, who is also a wildlife specialist. Bones from the PTMSC’s collection will also be on display. See grey whale, seal, otter, dolphin and bird skeletons. No formal presentations are planned.

People can drop in any time during the three-hour period and informally ask questions, compare, chat or simply feast their eyes on the wonderful shapes on display. Artists and budding naturalists are especially encouraged to come and draw, paint or visually document the collection.

2009 Winter Wanderlust Announced

Stunning photography, feats of endurance and stories of challenging travel to wild and remote places are featured at Winter Wanderlust, which begins its 22nd season on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at the Joseph F. Wheeler Theater in Fort Worden State Park.

These tales from afar will bring some light to cold, dark winter nights on eight Wednesdays, through February.

A journey to Chile's Patagonia coast begins the series on Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m., when Port Townsend resident Tom Stammer and partner and photographer Bev McNeil present the subsistence life of those living on a tiny remote island in the Chiloe archipelago. Their images of agricultural and maritime life among the few island families are supplemented with their adventures by sea kayak to explore the wild and isolated coast.

Other Wanderlust programs this year feature a search for exotic plants in mountainous Asia, the unique life and wonderful creatures of the Galapagos, traversing the Gobi Desert by camel, a safari to Borneo's wild jungles and rivers, an ascent of China's unclimbed Yangmolong peak, traveling across America by horse and wagon, and walking Scotland coast to coast on the Southern Upland Way.

Jan. 7
Chile's Patagonia coast

Explore subsistence life on the tiny remote island of Anihue in the Chiloe archipelago, with added adventures by sea kayak on its wild and isolated coast, with Tom Stammer and Bev McNeil.

Jan. 14
Seeking Asia's exotic plants

View the rich botanical and cultural heritage of China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces while tramping the mountains in search of new ornamental plants. This program is a light-hearted look at modern-day plant hunting with Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken.

Jan. 21
Boobies, iguanas and albatross

Learn about the wonderful creatures of Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, their fascinating behaviors and adaptations to an isolated environment. Travel by boat and on foot through the varied terrain of these distant islands with Selden McKee.

Jan. 28
Gobi Desert by camel

Step back in time and travel across Mongolia's remote Gobi Desert on camelback, staying in nomadic ger (yurt) camps en route. Experience the complete silence of a world with no roads and no power with Juelie Dalzell.

Feb. 4
Borneo's wondrous wilderness

Journey on a family safari to the wild jungles and rivers of Borneo's Sabeh area. In a habitat of exotic wildlife and biodiversity, meet orangutans, gibbons, langurs, leopards, giant hornbills and pygmy elephants with Coke Smith.

Feb. 11
Climbing China's high mountains

Witness an attempt to summit the unclimbed peak of Yangmolong (19,800 feet) in the Tibetan region of Sichuan, Western China. Travel through areas now closed to foreigners after Tibetan demonstrations and before the recent earthquake with Richard Isherwood.

Feb. 18
Across America by horses and wagon

Travel by wagon more than 3,000 miles from New York to Montana. This program features the places and people of an 11-month journey through one of the coldest winters of the Midwest with Dave McWethy.

Feb. 25
Walking across Scotland coast to coast

View endless rain-soaked days hiking and slogging 200-plus miles through bogs, villages and local legends on the longest footpath in Scotland with Ron Strange.

A season's pass for the eight-program series costs $35 and is available at Sport Townsend, 1044 Water St., or at the door. Admission to single shows is by donation, $5 suggested or $1 for students. All shows start at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at Joseph F. Wheeler Theater in Fort Worden State Park.

Proceeds from the Wanderlust series benefit two local nonprofit programs: Fort Worden's Olympic Hostel and the Jefferson Trails Coalition. Call 385-0655.

Fort Worden Winter Film Series: Cléo de 5 à 7

Cléo de 5 à 7, the first of nine films in the 3 by 3 Fort Worden Winter Film Series, begins on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 7:30pm in the Wheeler Theater here at Fort Worden.

Each film is selected by a guest curator. The first three films were curated by Reel Grrls, 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.

Cléo de 5 à 7 will be screened with: Dedicated to My Family (Reel Grrls, 2003). Both films are selected and presented by Maile Martinez – Reel Grrls Program Manager

(1962/France/90 minutes. Unrated.) Agnes Varda portrays a slice of Cléo's life in faux real time, but this stretch from 5 to 7 p.m. is a far from random choice: It's the last two hours Cléo must wait until hearing the results of a test for cancer. At first facing her mortality with pouty petulance, the singer wends her way through the city, eventually achieving a last-minute epiphany. With this, a more mature response to Breathless, Varda transforms the typical French cinema gamine into a complex, tragic figure: the girl who's all too good at playing plaything, forced to face the hollowness of her youth.

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