Here are Inside Bainbridge recommendations for the weekend of October 6-8, 2015:
1. Bainbridge Storage Pet Food Drive for PAWS
When: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Where: Bainbridge Self Storage, 9300 Sportsman Club Rd NE
Why: Help PAWS of Bainbridge with a donation of cat food, dog food or kitty litter. While you’re at it, enter your name to win “a great Halloween Prize.”
2. Composting with John Barutt
When: Friday, 1-2:30 p.m.
Where: Bainbridge Library, 1270 Madison Ave. N
Why: Master composter John Barutt is rotating the compost again. Learn about composting techniques and ask questions, even embarrassing ones.
3. Rye and Barley at Bainbridge Brewery
When: Friday, 4-7 p.m.
Where: Bainbridge Island Brewery, 9415 Coppertop Loop
Why: They’re back! Again! Rye and Barley just keep pluckin’ away for your drinking accompaniment. Dog Wagon will be serving hot dogs, and you can bring your own hot dog on leash.
Pumpkin Walk
4. Bainbridge Gardens’ 22nd Annual Pumpkin Walk
When: Friday and Saturday, 6-8 p.m.
Where: Bainbridge Gardens, 9415 Miller Rd NE
Why: Hard to believe it’s that time again already when the Great Pumpkin descends from the night sky onto a bale of straw for photo opps. and people line up to walk through the cold dark to see 300 carved pumpkins. Your donation supports the Bainbridge Island Boys and Girls Club.
5. ‘The Met: Live in HD’ 2015-2016: Otello
When: Saturday, 9:55 a.m.
Where: Bainbridge Cinemas
Who: I didn’t know Otello spoke Italian or that he could sing so well. But guarda:
6. Kitsap Humane Society at the Library
When: Saturday, 10-11:30 a.m.
Where: Bainbridge Library, 1270 Madison Ave. N
Why: Executive Director Eric Stevens will discuss how the Kitsap Humane Society saved more than 5,000 animals last year and has come to have one of the lowest euthanasia rates among large shelters in the nation. Last year KHS found homes for 5,192 animals, performed 4,684 spay/neuter surgeries, rescued 1,221 animals from overcrowded shelters, and recruited 565 volunteers. Find out how.
7. Founder’s Day
When: Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Where: Bloedel Reserve, 7571 NE Dolphin Drive
Why: It’s Bloedel’s 27th year as a public garden. To celebrate they’re giving you half-off regular adult admission. Two-hour guided tours will be offered at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on a first come, first toured basis.
8. Weed Warriors at Pritchard Park
When: Saturday, 1-3 p.m.
Where: Pritchard Park 4192 Eagle Harbor Dr NE
Why: Meet near the pavilion at the Japanese-American Exclusion Memorial with your gloves and garden tools and get to work.
9. Island Theatre at the Library: “Copenhagen”
When: Saturday and Sunday, 7:30-9 p.m.
Where: Bainbridge Library, 1270 Madison Ave. N
Why: Enjoy a little light entertainment at this staged reading of the Tony Award-winning 1998 play “Copenhagen” by Michael Frayn about the calamitous 1941 meeting between German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his former colleague and friend, Danish physicist Nils Bohr, on the Nazis’ efforts to produce the atomic bomb. Free but donations are welcome.
10. Free-Range Films: Maestra and LGBT Rights in Cuba
When: Sunday, 3-4 p.m.
Where: Ground Zero Center, 16159 Clear Creek Rd., Poulsbo
Why: Maestra is narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker. It documents the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign designed to eradicate illiteracy in Cuba in one year. The program sent 250,000 volunteers across the island to teach reading and writing in rural communities. LGBT Rights in Cuba is a film by CENESEX, a government-funded org for LGBT rights headed by Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban leader Raúl Castro.
Maestra Trailer ( www.maestrathefilm.org ) from Abyayala Productions on Vimeo.
