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Top Picks 🏅
Our top picks for events you won’t want to miss.
Friday 8/8 Catch Toy Story out under that stars at Monroe Park
Saturday 8/9 Free Shakespeare at Park; Two Gentleman of Verona (& Sun)
Saturday 8/9 Eat and sip at Oakridge Keg & Cask Festival (Oakridge)
Oregon Festival of American Music; concerts, films, talks &more (all week)
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Happy reading, and see you out there! 🤠
Around Town 🏙
It’s healthy to leave your house once in a while…
Wednesday 8/6 Head to Tsunami Books to see folk singer Olive Klug
Wednesday 8/6 Last chance to be a track star! OTC All Comers Meet
Thursday 8/7 Hip Hop Show at ArtHouse… check it out
Friday 8/8 Sail the seven seas with the Yachtley Crew yacht rock band
Friday 8/8 Rapper Too Short takes the McDonald Theater stage
Friday 8/8 Opening reception for two art galleries at Maude Kerns Center
Friday 8/8 Catch some theater; A Fox on the Fairway farce (all weekend)
Friday 8/8 A night of Brazilian jazz with Bill Beach & Brasil Beat
Friday 8/8 Backyard art show; A Garden of Artists (all weekend)
Friday 8/8 Be entertained w/ shows of Once Upon a Mattress (all weekend)
Saturday 8/9 The music of Cap’n Trips to celebrate Jerry Garcia
Saturday. 8/9 Indie rock band Strfkr rock out on stage
Saturday 8/9 Video meets art at the Science Center (also Sun.)
Saturday 8/9 Learn how to make a comic book about your own life
Saturday 8/9 Jazz trumpeter Paul Krueger and his quintet perform
Saturday 8/9 Learn all things about tomatoes; preserving, salsa, and sauce
Sunday 8/10 Kristin Chirico takes over the comedy stage
Sunday 8/10 Summer Garden Serenade concert w/ Eugene Concert Choir
Monday 8/11 Songs and storytelling with cellist Ben Sollee
Tuesday 8/12 Bluegrass night; Leftover Salmon & Infamous Stringdusters
Tuesday 8/12 Rock band 311 brings energy to the Cuthbert Amphitheater
Tuesday 8/12 Night of folk music; Spine Stealers, Roos Thorn & Just Clark
The Eugene Emeralds play Spokane Wednesday through Sunday
For the Kiddos 🛝
We won’t judge if you want to go and don’t have kids!
Wednesday 8/6 Craft pollinator and bumblebee nesting sites (ages 5-9)
Friday 8/8 Save the Earth with games, challenges, and puzzles (or Sat.)
Friday 8/8 Comic-Con for teens and tweens (ages 9-19)
Friday 8/8 Learn about archaeology with Family Fun in the Sun
Saturday 8/9 Check out Fobble the Dragon puppet show
Sunday 8/10 Family pool party at Sheldon Pool
Tuesday 8/12 Make recycled collages out of anything (ages 9-12)
The Duck Corner 🦆
All things University of Oregon.
Friday 8/8 Women’s Soccer vs Idaho
Friday 8/8 Women’s Volleyball vs itself
What’s on Tap 🍻
Grab a beverage and stay a while.
Wednesday 8/6 Music for a cause with singer Jessica Willis Fisher
Wednesday 8/6 Learn about straw bale construction over a drink
Saturday 8/9 Think you can win the Paper Airplane contest at Bier Stein?
Saturday 8/9 Funk music & more w/ Soul Vibrator, Whiteaker Hot Club, etc
Saturday 8/9 Drag, Burlesque and more at Musical Madness Cabaret
Saturday 8/9 Hop Party 2025 at Hop Valley Brewing
Sunday 8/10 Speed Friending at public house… make new friends!
Monday 8/11 Have a drink to support the arts at Oakshire Inspires
Tuesday 8/12 Whitaker Pop Up Market at PlayEugene
⬇And for weekly trivia, bingo, and much more ⬇
Take a Hike 🌲
Get outside, you live in Oregon for darn sakes!
Wednesday 8/6 Walk it out with the YMCA… and your 4 legged friends
Saturday 8/9 Sunset/Moonrise group hike up Mt Pisgah
Saturday 8/9 Get wet or not at Living River Exploration day at Green Island
Saturday 8/9 Stretch the legs on a 10k/5k at the Veneta Park Run
Sunday 8/10 Go on a birding tour at Mt Pisgah Arboretum
Tuesday 8/12 Go on a Wetland Wander through Shady Creek Forest
Tuesday 8/12 Trashy Tuesday; help pick up trash from a boat on the river
Tuesday 8/12 Try out your putting… on the disc golf course
Free 💸
Need we say more?
Wednesday 8/6 Music in the Courtyard w/ a jazz trio and brass quintet
Wednesday 8/6 Check out the Indigenous Cultural Celebration
Wednesday 8/6 Attend the Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration
Thursday 8/7 Pendleton Highway rocks out at concert in the park
Thursday 8/7 Samba Ja performs outside in the park
Thursday 8/7 Music in the park Veneta- Born of Wildfires band
Thursday 8/7 Roving Park Players present Peter Pan outside (all weekend)
Friday 8/8 Concert and book reading w/ Willy Vlautin & Miriam Gershow
Friday 8/8 Watch the Eugene annual SLUG Queen Pageant/coronation
Friday 8/8 Catch Freaky Friday on the big screen outside at 5th St Market
Saturday 8/9 Go check out the Saturday Market and Farmer’s Market
Sunday 8/10 Satin Love Orchestra brings disco funk music to the park
Sunday 8/10 The Whiteaker Community Market is the perfect little stroll
Sunday 8/10 Piano music from young performers; In Good Hands
Not Eugene, but Close Enough 🚗
Events about an hour away, ish.
Friday 8/8 Shakespeare’s The Tempest (all weekend, Cottage Grove)
Saturday 8/9 Sup & Spa; paddle boarding, massages & more (Walterville)
Saturday 8/9 Head to the coast for the 2025 Summer Bazaar (Florence)
Saturday 8/9 Go on a marine tidepool tour on the coast (Florence)
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