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Top Picks 🏅
Our top picks for events you won’t want to miss.
Friday 5/29 See all the options at Eugene Spring RV Show (all weekend)
Saturday 5/30 Throw on your kilt, it’s the Eugene Scottish Festival
Sunday 5/31 Free family movie-music concert by ESC Orchestra
It’s Eugene Beer Week; from sips to bike crawls and more 🍻
Sorry for the delay in getting this one out to you… I guess that’s what happens when you bring a newborn baby home with you over the weekend!
Well, back to diaper changing for me… Hope you all have a good week.
As always… Happy reading, and see you out there! 🤠 (Won’t actually see you out there… very firmly will be here at home for a while trying to both take naps while at the same time drinking coffee?!)
Around Town 🏙
It’s healthy to leave your house once in a while…
Wednesday 5/27 Beatles, Beach Boys & Bill Withers w/ Randy Napolean Trio
Wednesday 5/27 Documentary and panel talk; The Price of Milk
Thursday 5/28 Listen to dark electronic music with Dance of the Dead
Thursday 5/28 Want to watch a track meet? Oregon high school championships (through Sat.)
Thursday 5/28 Home Grown; concert, documentary, & discussion
Friday 5/29 Vanessa Greenway sings music of iconic Lena Horne (& Sun.)
Friday 5/29 Eugene Opera presents Three Decembers (& Sun.)
Friday 5/29 Eric Howk brings his multi-instrumentalist music to stage
Friday 5/29 House concert w/ fiddle champion Clarridge & Crissman
Saturday 5/30 Arias in Bloom, a musical fundraiser for Eugene Opera
Saturday 5/30 Bleepin’ Funny at Tsunami Books with Anne Jasheway
Saturday 5/30 See the Eugene Ballet perform Alice in Wonderland (& Sun.)
Saturday 5/30 Hear the music of California based rapper Mike Sherm
Saturday 5/30 Eugene Gleeman in their 100th Anniversary Gala concert
Saturday 5/30 No More Silence; a concert by Accord Community Choir
Saturday 5/30 Rackstown USA vintage market takes over 5th St Market
Saturday 5/30 ArtHouse holds their Annual Yard Sale (and Sun.)
Saturday 5/30 Listen to the music of Ukraine with Kommuna Lux
Saturday 5/30 See the new comedy play Dog Mom at OCT Theater (& Sun.)
Saturday 5/30 Pride Month Contra Dancing kick-off party
Sunday 5/31 Folk singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson returns to Eugene
Sunday 5/31 Swing Shift Jazz Orchestra presents Locals Only concert
Sunday 5/31 Solidarity Social w/ music and activities to support immigrants
Monday 6/1 Celebrate the legacy w/ the Shasta Band Farewell Concert
Tuesday 6/2 Upstream Conversations w/ envir advocate Robert Macfarlane
Tuesday 6/2 The Springfield Drifters back for another season of baseball
Someone always asks for a campfire story. Nobody ever has one ready.
Fireside Post mails you an original campfire story each month- printed on real paper, written for the dark. $7/month on the annual for Eugene Cal subscribers with code Kindling.
Don’t read this alone.
For the Kiddos 🛝
We won’t judge if you want to go and don’t have kids!
Wednesday 5/27 Learn to use a loom to weave a bag (ages 5-9)
Thursday 5/28 Make a collage to inspire your summer
Friday 5/29 Enjoy a free puppet show on Indigenous Oregon
The Duck Corner 🦆
All things University of Oregon.
Wednesday 5/27 Hear ZZ Packer read some of her fiction work
Thursday 5/28 Learn about art and design with visiting artist Allan Wexler
Thursday 5/28 Hear the music of the Oregon Wind Ensemble
Thursday 5/28 Enjoy an evening of Dance Student Spotlight (all weekend)
Friday 5/29 See the play Los Dreamers on stage (all weekend)
Saturday 5/30 Listen to the music of the Gospel Ensembles
What’s on Tap 🍻
Grab a beverage and stay a while.
Wednesday 5/27 Fisherman’s Market brings their Cajun Crab Boil to Gryff’s
Thursday 5/28 Sip and book talk: Founders, Foreigners, and Swindlers
Thursday 5/28 Duck Talks: What’s the deal with quantum computing?
Thursday 5/28 Two Step Thursday dancing with PigHogSwine
Thursday 5/28 Fancy some bingo to support CASA at Falling Sky Brewing
Friday 5/29 Get a little spicy at Kinky Bingo
Friday 5/29 Bop to some jazz with Mhondoro
Friday 5/29 Laugh it up with comedian Frankie Quiñones (and Sat.)
Friday 5/29 Comedian Toni Nagy hits The Hybrid stage
Saturday 5/30 Enjoy some big band music with Nathan Poehlke Ensemble
Sunday 5/31 Get some new reads at the PlayEugene Book Swap
Tuesday 6/2 Stand up comedian Fiona Cauley brings the laughs
⬇And for weekly trivia, bingo, and much more ⬇
Take a Hike 🌲
Get outside, you live in Oregon for darn sakes!
May is Bike Month; still more great events on the calendar 🚲
Thursday 5/28 Fancy a trail race? Emerald City Trail Series at Mt. Pisgah
Friday 5/29 Learn about Hiking in the Aftermath of Oregon’s Wildfires
Saturday 5/30 Listen at the Ambient Music in the Park free concert
Saturday 5/30 Attend and learn; Compost Workshop
Sunday 5/31 Kalapuya Ways hike and talk at Hendricks Park
Free 💸
Need we say more?
Thursday 5/28 Swap and trade arts and crafts supplies (through Sat.)
Friday 5/29 Enjoy the first Whiteaker Last Friday Artwalk of the year
Saturday 5/30 Stroll the oddities market for interesting finds
Saturday 5/30 Eugene Saturday Market and Lane farmer’s market
Saturday 5/30 We Are Bethel celebration; vendors, food trucks and more
Saturday 5/30 Watch classic movie A League of Their Own (🍿provided!)
Saturday 5/30 Try your hand at (nose?) blending Roll-on Aromas & Oils
Sunday 5/31 Sip and stroll at the Eugene Tea Festival 🫖
Sunday 5/31 Stroll the Whit at the Whiteaker Community Market
Sunday 5/31 Art gallery reception; art about Fernridge Lake
Monday 6/1 Tour the public art, backstage area and more at The Hult
Tuesday 6/2 Dance Open show at LCC, go check out their work
Not Eugene, but Close Enough 🚗
Events about an hour away, ish.
Thursday 5/28 Explore the low head dam on the Long Tom River (Monroe)
Friday 5/29 Function 4 Junction brings the car show (& Sat., Junction City)
Saturday 5/30 Kidz Rock Art & Music fest at Axe and Fiddle (Cottage Grove)
Saturday 5/30 Oakridge Rocks the Park benefit festival (Oakridge)
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