PORT ANGELES — Life is messy, absurd and beautiful.

Such is the message of “The Things Around Us,” a solo performance on Thursday by Ahamefule J. Oluo, an internationally known stand-up comic and musician who lives in rural Jefferson County.

Oluo will offer a kind of one-person symphony of sound and story at 7 p.m. at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles — “about the biggest and smallest things in life,” as Oluo puts it.

The performer, who uses the pronouns they and them, interweaves comic stories from their life, clarinet and trumpet music, and rhythms from the cardboard shipping boxes arrayed on the stage.

“It’s a very fun, funny show,” Oluo said in an interview from their home on the Coyle peninsula south of Quilcene.

Tickets are at fieldhallevents.org with fina

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