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Top Picks 🏅
Our top picks for events you won’t want to miss.
Friday 9/18 Dancing, drinks, plants and more; Cascadia Mud City Stomp
Saturday 9/19 All the flowers at the Regional Dahlia Show (& Sun.)
Saturday 9/19 Music and more at Turning Tides Music Festival
Saturday 9/19 Activities, arts and more at Magical Morning at the Hult
We have a friend visiting us from out of town this coming weekend, so looking forward top putting this email to good use. Hope you can do that same!
As always… Happy reading, and see you out there! 🤠
Around Town 🏙
It’s healthy to leave your house once in a while…
Wednesday 9/16 The Lone Bellow brings their music to the Hult
Wednesday 9/16 A night of instrumental rock with Stick Men
Wednesday 9/16 Funk, soul, jazz and more combine with the band Lettuce
Thursday 9/17 After Dark in the Park; music/cocktails/etc to support parks
Friday 9/18 Go see My Hero Academia live in concert
Friday 9/18 Head to the Wildish to see the band The Drowns
Friday 9/18 Watch Actors Cabaret w/ Sondheim on Sondheim (all weekend)
Friday 9/18 Kawaii Rave is an anime-inspired dance party for all
Saturday 9/19 Waylon Wyatt takes the stage at McDonald Theater
Saturday 9/19 A night of music & fun for the whole family at Everyone Fest
Saturday 9/19 Dust off the dresses and tux’s; it’s SASS Consent Prom
Saturday 9/19 Hear the sounds of global melodies with Susanna Meyer
Saturday 9/19 Mix and mingle for friends or partners; Golden Connections
Sunday 9/20 Watch Randy Feltface and his gimmicky comedy
Sunday 9/20 Blues and rock with Tommy Castro and the Painkillers
Sunday 9/20 Listen to punchy garage rock with Iguana Death Cult
Sunday 9/20 Ghostbusters in Concert. Who are you going to call (to join)?
Monday 9/21 Matthew Knight Arena hosts the music of Johnny Blue Skies
Tuesday 9/22 Grainne Hunt brings Irish vocals to Art House
For the Kiddos 🛝
We won’t judge if you want to go and don’t have kids!
Wednesday 9/16 Get cozy for fall at Harvest Moon Tea Party (age 13-19)
Wednesday 9/16 Discover, learn and play with balloons (age 5-12)
Thursday 9/17 Garden-inspired mosaic lessons (age 13-19)
Saturday 9/19 Party it up at Golden; a K-pop kids party
Tuesday 9/22 Save some flowers to press into a resin keychain (age 9-12)
The Duck Corner 🦆
All things University of Oregon.
Thursday 9/17 Women’s Volleyball vs Portland State
Friday 9/18 Football vs Portland State
Sunday 9/20 Women’s Volleyball vs Oregon State
Footy Fest
Sporting Cascades FC, the new professional soccer team is turning its select-a-seat event into a party! Your $26 deposit, which is good for either season tickets or a single-game ticket for our 2027 season, now also gets you an afternoon of live music, food trucks, and a kids zone. Head to Civic Park on September 27 to select your seat for the 2027 season and then party the day away. ⚽
September 27, grab your spot now!
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What’s on Tap 🍻
Grab a beverage and stay a while.
Wednesday 9/16 laugh it up with comedian Gianmarco Soresi
Wednesday 9/16 Curious how to play Magic? Learn at Claim 52
Thursday 9/17 Roots and Rising; a benefit concert and more at a winery
Thursday 9/17 The Canon Event; Eugene’s newest variety show
Friday 9/18 Grab your lederhosen; Oktoberfest Public House (all weekend)
Friday 9/18 Try your luck playing a few rounds of kinky bingo
Saturday 9/19 Play some drag bingo at Drop Bear Brewery
Saturday 9/19 Pekin takes the stage Whirled Pies
Saturday 9/19 Get excited for Oktoberfest at BeerGarden (through the 4th)
Sunday 9/20 Try your hand stamp carving at BNF Taproom
⬇And for weekly trivia, bingo, and much more ⬇
Take a Hike 🌲
Get outside, you live in Oregon for darn sakes!
Wednesday 9/16 Grab the bicycle for a spin at Twilight Cyclocross
Thursday 9/17 PSA; fee-free day on US Forest Service land
Friday 9/18 Grab a telescope for the Dark Sky Party
Saturday 9/19 It’s Oktoberfest on the farm at Detering Orchards (and Sun.)
Sunday 9/20 It’s a bug’s life on the insect tour at Mt. Pisgah
Sunday 9/20 Lace up for Eugene Out of the Darkness Walk
Tuesday 9/22 Celebrate the official opening of the South Eugene Meadows
Free 💸
Need we say more?
Wednesday 9/16 Author meet and greet and book signing with Ken Babbs
Wednesday 9/16 Hear from 3 different authors at this Windfall Reading
Wednesday 9/16 Attend a free history lecture; Picking beans and berries
Wednesday 9/16 Get ready for fall with a food preservation workshop on jam
Thursday 9/17 Rally in the Alley to support the upcoming Ducks game
Thursday 9/17 Try your hand at embossing and decorating tin; Hojalata
Thursday 8/17 The Amazon Farmer’s Market for the freshest of finds
Friday 9/18 Stop by the Senior Resource Fair
Friday 9/18 Dance and sway to Los Cumbiamberos at the library
Saturday 9/19 Experience history with Huey (helicopter) Open House
Saturday 9/19 Eugene Saturday Market and Lane farmer’s market
Saturday 9/19 Author meet and signing with Peter Laufer
Saturday 9/19 Learn how to incorporate native plants into an urban area
Sunday 9/20 Shop or stroll the Whiteaker Community Market
Tuesday 9/22 Hear how you can forage this fall in the PNW
Tuesday 9/22 Try your hand making a garden-inspired mosaic
Not Eugene, but Close Enough 🚗
Events about an hour away, ish.
Friday 9/18 Haich ikt’at’uu nature restoration project tour (Florence)
Friday 9/18 Sip & shop the Plein Air Art & Wine Fest (Florence, all weekend)
Saturday 9/19 Enjoy the Elements of Art studio tours (Florence, and Sun.)
Saturday 9/19 Almost time for Mapleton Fall Festival (Mapleton)
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