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Top Picks 🏅
Our top picks for events you won’t want to miss.
Saturday 5/2 Get excited for Retro Game Fest (and Sunday)
Saturday 5/2 Adventure awaits at Wild About Oregon; music about animals
Saturday 5/2 Wildflower Celebration at the park w/ music, food, and more
May is Bike Month… get outside and enjoy a tons of events
Jet-lagged is not the preferred way to write this week’s email, but I’m telling myself it’s good practice for when we have our first child in a few weeks 🤣 Congrats to all the runners who finished the marathon last weekend, and congrats to everyone else for making it through another week!
As always… Happy reading, and see you out there! 🤠
Around Town 🏙
It’s healthy to leave your house once in a while…
Wednesday 4/29 Amelia Day brings a wide range of music to stage
Wednesday 4/29 Listen to Pat Metheny and his guitar
Thursday 4/30 Enjoy an immersive spoken word show: The Shadow
Thursday 4/30 Come hungry to the Lions’s Club Spaghetti Dinner 🍝
Thursday 4/30 See A Case for the Existence of God play (all weekend)
Friday 5/1 Stories in Stitches quilt show, vendors, etc (and Saturday)
Friday 5/1 Musical about the land and water; It’s WaterWorks (through Sun.)
Friday 5/1 Eugene Symphony presents Dolly Parton’s Threads
Friday 5/1 Music about The Glory of Love with Hannah Rudkin (and Sun.)
Friday 5/1 Talking Heads tribute band Life During Wartime perform
Friday 5/1 Little Women on stage by The Non-Stop players (all weekend)
Friday 5/1 Cedar Redd performs at Art House
Friday 5/1 Go see Keely and Du, a play by Very Little Theater (all weekend)
Saturday 5/2 Mother’s Day Tea at Dorris Ranch 🫖
Saturday 5/2 Pop-Up Artisan Craft Market at Mountain Rose Mercantile
Saturday 5/2 The Racks Vintage Market; vendors, music and food trucks
Saturday 5/2 Music under the stars w/ Evocantus Chamber Choir
Sunday 5/3 Return of the Jedi; film & score with Eugene Symphony
Sunday 5/3 Eugene VeganFest brings vendors, learning and more
Sunday 5/3 Native American Arts and Crafts Market in town
Sunday 5/3 Plants for the People; plant sale, food, music and more
Sunday 5/3 Share a meal and learn at the Camas Gathering event
Monday 5/4 Monday night Big Band music comes to stage
Tuesday 5/5 Go see electronic-funk performers The Floozies
Tuesday 5/5 Suss takes the Art House stage w/ their ambient country music
Eugene Emeralds play the 29th through the 4th at home… play ball!
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For the Kiddos 🛝
We won’t judge if you want to go and don’t have kids!
Friday 5/1 Dia De Los Ninos at the library; dancing, music, games and more
Friday 5/1 Go see the musical Something Rotten Jr. (all weekend)
Friday 5/1 Craft everlasting faux flower crowns (ages 13-19)
Saturday 5/2 Fishing Derby and Water Safety Day, try your luck 🎣
Tuesday 5/5 Family storytime; this month about bikes
The Duck Corner 🦆
All things University of Oregon.
Thursday 4/30 Oregon Wind Symphony presents Revelations
Thursday 4/30 Learn some at a geography talk on Alaskan Boreal Forests
Friday 5/1 Go see the play Radium Girls (all weekend)
Monday 5/4 Black Box Diaries; film screening and director talk
Tuesday 5/5 Men’s Baseball vs Grand Canyon
What’s on Tap 🍻
Grab a beverage and stay a while.
Wednesday 4/29 DoKnow brings his comedy to the Olsen Run stage
Thursday 4/30 It’s Margaritafest at Beergarden (through Tuesday)
Thursday 4/30 Class rock jam-band Flostate takes the stage
Thursday 4/30 Laugh it up with Donnell Rawlings (though Sat)
Thursday 4/30 Duck Talks; drinks and learning about renewable energy
Thursday 4/30 Listen to some organ-drizen soul jazz at The Jazz Station
Friday 5/1 PublicHouse celebrates their 8th Anniversary all weekend
Friday 5/1 Comedians get high and tell jokes at The Gateway Show
Saturday 5/2 Double Entendre comedy; battle of the champions show
Saturday 5/2 Bluegrass music & cosmic grooves combine; MoonShroom
Saturday 5/2 All eyes on stage for the Dan Latarski Quintessential
Sunday 5/3 America’s Got Talent comedian Erica Rhodes performs
Sunday 5/3 Genre-bending music w/ clarinetist Christopher Mothersole
Tuesday 5/5 Comic Dan Docimo takes the stage at Olsen Run
⬇And for weekly trivia, bingo, and much more ⬇
Take a Hike 🌲
Get outside, you live in Oregon for darn sakes!
Saturday 5/2 Learn for free some edible garden irrigation techniques
Saturday 5/2 Learn how to grow herbs and edible flowers in your garden
Saturday 5/2 Stroll and observe on a Weed ID Walk
Sunday 5/3 Go on a tour of some beautiful native plant gardens
Sunday 5/3 Hike in the Hardesty Mtn roadless area with Oregon Wild
Free 💸
Need we say more?
Thursday 4/30 Science Night Out; hear about cutting edge science
Friday 5/1 Stroll around town on the First Friday Artwalk
Friday 5/1 CityClub Eugene presents Law Day: Building Better Citizens
Friday 5/1 Free day at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Saturday 5/2 Help volunteer making paper wildflowers
Saturday 5/2 Rhododendron Truss Show and sale
Saturday 5/2 Explore an exciting pert of town; Warehouse Art Hop
Saturday 5/2 Hear from award winning horror/sci-fi author Cassandra Khaw
Saturday 5/2 Springfield Community Seed Swap; get gardening!
Saturday 5/2 Free Comic Book day including giveaways, workshops & more
Saturday 4/25 Eugene Saturday Market & Lane Farmer’s Market are back
Saturday 5/2 Author Event; with books about bus drivers and anarchists
Sunday 5/3 Enjoy the spring weather at Mother’s Day in the Park
Monday 5/4 Go on a walking tour backstage and more of The Hult
Not Eugene, but Close Enough 🚗
Events about an hour away, ish.
Wednesday 4/29 Oakridge Tree Planting Festival; block party, 5k run, parades… and of course tree planting (Oakridge, all weekend)
Thursday 4/30 Rhythm and Blues Revue (all weekend, Cottage Grove)
Friday 5/1 Check out the musical Bye Bye Birdie (all weekend, Junction City)
Friday 5/1 Check out 15+ artists at Artists Guild Sale (Leaburg, and Sat.)
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