There will be thrills, there will be chills, songs and of course there will be Glory!

We’re celebrating our 32nd year of The Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race!

The theme this year is A Kinetic Mythos: Goddesses and Gods. We hope you will enjoy our theme that, for the first time ever, comes complete with its own Kourse Story line that will be portrayed throughout the race.

Racers will find themselves badgered by Zeus as they make their way through the now two day kourse, and as they battle gorgons and titans they will find the true meaning of the words, “For the Glory!”

A Kinetic Skulpture is a human powered, artistically enhanced vehicle that must go through sand (Kwick Sand), mud (The Dismal Bog), float on water (The Great Bay), and transverse hilly, silly neighborhoods. Some skulptures are engineering marvels while most are a mixture of bicycle parts, styrofoam, duct tape, imagination and prayers. Awards are given to each racer whether they want it or not, but the most highly prized award is the “Mediocrity Award”, the skulpture that finishes in the middle of the pack. Kinetic racers as well as glorious spectators must be kapable of having fun without taking the event too seriously.

Saturday’s festivities start at Low Noon beginning with a parade downtown, followed by a break test, and then the water portion of the race! At 8:00pm there will be a Koronation Ball where a new Rose Hips Kween will be chosen, an unbelievable display of talent, jokes and recipes will help the crowd choose the winning kontestant! Live music will be played by a live band to keep everyone dancing well into the night.

Sunday the race continues, but first, in front of City Hall, the racers will be required to sing their way into the hearts of the krowd, and perform a sobriety test to prove that the Ball libations did not dull their senses. The racers begin pedaling at Low Noon, Kinetic Kops will issue citations, kontrolling khaos and konfusion at the event, while the glorious judges look on to find their favorites. Bribes given freely may help to keep the judges marking you high and help persuade the kops to ignore felonious indiscretions, and bribing the Kinetic Konsortium is always wise. Racers complete the route around 5pm if they are lucky, and arrive at the awards ceremony muddy, sore, and yet brimming with well earned Glory!

Key City Public Theatre presents Charlie Bethel in a one-man rendition of Homer’s classic.

Shipwrecks, sirens and sex goddesses meet cannibalism, death and revenge.

Acclaimed solo artist Charlie Bethel re-imagines Homer’s famous myth in a faithful yet utterly accessible format. Voyage across land and sea, explore the underworld, and climb Mt. Olympus with the brave and courageous hero, Odysseus, as he valiantly seeks his homeland and the arms of his wife and child.

You’re sure to recognize yourself in this sometimes comic, at times harrowing, and always thrilling, epic adventure.

Visit http://keycitypublictheatre.org for tickets and information.

Coming next at Key City Public Theater – Gin Hammond plays 26 characters and uses multiple dialects to tell the true story of a female African-American doctor living in a small southern town shortly after WWII.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit http://keycitypublictheatre.org/.