It’s Thursday, which means you’re totally entitled to start dreaming up the weekend. Here are our best bets:
This generation gets a bad rap for promiscuous behavior. But let’s face it: You parents had your sex, drugs and rock n’roll, too. Relive the glory days when hippies ruled the earth (or at least thought so in their purple haze) in BPA’s production of “HAIR.” Last call is this weekend. Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave. N. Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 3.p.m. $27; $22 senior; $19 youth/student/military/teacher. (206)842-8569, www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org
In this kind of pageant, judges don’t care about world peace, whether Tom Brady cheated, or the inability of Americans to locate the U.S. on a world map. Oh honey, it’s all about beauty at the annual Poultry Pageant. So fluff up Chicken Little’s feathers with the cutest/most holiday-happy/most sportiest costume/insert other costume category you can find and watch with pride as he clucks out the competition. Voting begins at 11:45 and ends at 12:15. Awards at 12:30. Keep ’em caged, people. Town Square, 280 Madison Ave. Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. www.bainbridgeislandfarmersmarket.org
Didn’t some poet drown in the Bloedel pond? Yeah, we always knew the reserve had an eerie side. This Saturday, catch it in full sinister splendor with a Spooky Walk hosted by West Sound Wildlife Shelter. While you tour the grounds, you’ll meet the creatures of the night – an opossum, a vulture, and an owl. Pre-registration required. Bloedel Reserve, 7571 NE Dolphin Drive. Saturday, 3:30-8:30 p.m. $10 ages 13 and older, $5 children ages 5 to 12, free for children under 5. (206)855-9057, www.westsoundwildlife.org
Really, you should just cancel your weekend plans and coast on the cinematic tidal wave that is Celluloid Bainbridge Film Festival. But if you are only going to attend one of the 16 locally flavored films airing on Sunday, we’d beseech you not to miss “Salam Neighbor.” Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci, an island native, are the first filmmakers to be fully embedded in a refugee camp. So it’s kind of a big deal. Is your humanitarian heart oozing with excitement? Great, cough up the extra money and meet the makers at the opening night celebration, 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at BIMA. Otherwise, your vital deets: Lynwood Theater, 4569 Lynwood Center Road. Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m. $9 adult, $4 kids for all-day ticket. (206)842-7901, www.ahbainbridge.org
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