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Calendar of Events

Welcome to the events calendar for the Eugene, Cascades & Coast region. Thousands of events take place each year. Music and ethnic festivals, Broadway performances, museums, sporting events and guided hikes are some of the exciting events that happen here.
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Always...Patsy Cline
August 17, 2012 - August 19, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday & Saturday 7 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $10, $25 season tickets
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  • Location: Florence Playhouse
  • Address: 208 Laurel St, Florence, OR 97439
  • Phone: 541.997.1675

Always...Patsy Cline is more than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963. The musical play, complete with down home country humor, true emotion, and even some audience participation, includes many of Patsy's unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Walking After Midnight.

BBQ & Bluegrass
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 6:15 - 9 p.m.; dinner, 5:30 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $10 advance; $15 door
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  • Location: Dorris Ranch Living History Farm
  • Address: 205 Dorris St, Springfield, OR 97477

Bluegrass music and a barbecue in the perfect setting. Relax to the music of the Alder Street All-stars and the Cascadia Folk Quartet. Food and beer garden by the Pump Cafe.

Cornflower, The Fret Drifters, Don Haugen
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 8:30 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $8 advance, $10 door
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  • Location: WOW Hall
  • Address: 291 W 8th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401
  • Phone: 541.687.2746

Cornflower is a vocalist, beatboxer, one-man jam-band. His music is a fusion of Organic Live-electronica, Soul, Dub & Tribal-Funk-Hop.

Creswell Airport Fun Days Fly-In
August 17, 2012 - August 19, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Friday; Saturday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday
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  • Location: Creswell Airport
  • Address: 83501 Melton Road, Creswell, OR 97426
  • Phone: 541.895.2913

Enjoy free airplane rides, pancake breakfast, aircraft displays, an auction, golf tournament, prizes and more!

Eugene Emeralds Baseball
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 7:05 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $6 - $12
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  • Location: PK Park
  • Address: Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Eugene, OR 97401
  • Phone: 541.342.5367

Come out to the baseball diamond and watch the Emeralds take on the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.

Friday Night Live in the Wine Room
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 7 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Territorial Vineyards & Wine Company
  • Address: 907 W 3rd Ave, Eugene, OR 97402

Come enjoy a glass of wine and the music of GEO4.

Friday Night LIVE with The Fret Boys
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 6 - 9 p.m.
  • Event Admission: no cover
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  • Location: Saginaw Vineyard
  • Address: 80247 Delight Valley School Road, Cottage Grove, OR 97455
  • Phone: 541.942.1364

Join Saginaw Vineyard for old-fashioned fun and entertainment. Delicious and reasonably priced BBQ dinners and snacks provided by Shady Oaks Catering from 6 - 8:30.

Friday Nite Fetes
August 17, 2012 - August 24, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 4 - 9 p.m.
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  • Location: Sarver Winery
  • Address: 25600 Mayola Ln, Eugene, OR 97402
  • Phone: 541.935.2979

Sarver Winery is firing up the grill and tunes Friday evenings throughout the summer. Enjoy gourmet pizzas, delicious wine and music. No reservation necessary and you are welcome to pack your own picnic or order off the bar menu.

Lane County Fair
August 17, 2012 - August 19, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Wednesday - Thursday, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Friday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $9, $7, $6, Free kids 5 and under
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  • Location: Lane Events Center
  • Address: 796 W 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402
  • Phone: 541.682.4292

Here Comes The Fun! One of the Northwest's finest fairs, offering outstanding concerts, thrilling rides and games and exhibits showcasing Lane County's best.

Let's Go Camping
August 17, 2012 - August 25, 2012
  • Recurring weekly on Sunday, Friday, Saturday
  • Event Times: Friday, 4 p.m. - Sunday, noon
  • Event Admission: $20 per family
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  • Location: At various State Parks
  • Address: OR
  • Phone: 888.953.7677

Oregon Parks and Recreation District hosts fun filled camping weekends for novice campers and families at various Oregon State Park throughout the summer. With extra gear for you, there's plenty of fun for adults and children. S'more included!

Mountain Bike Oregon SOLD OUT
August 17, 2012 - August 19, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Friday - Sunday
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  • Location: Greenwaters Park
  • Address: 48362 Highway 58, Oakridge, OR 97463
  • Phone: 541.968.5397

Three full days of unequaled single-track riding with fully supported ride options that leave from camp. 500 miles of the world's best single-track trails, hundreds of cyclists, camping along the Willamette River, three meals/day, free beer garden, free demo bikes, clinics, mechanics and more. Register early.

Movie in the Park: Kung Fu Panda 2 (in Spanish)
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 9 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Petersen Barn Center
  • Address: 870 Berntzen Road, Eugene, OR 97403

Enjoy a movie under the stars! Bring your blankets and lawn chairs for this outdoor film.

Movie in the Park: The Game Plan (in Spanish)
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 8:30 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Meadow Park
  • Address: 851 Mill St, Springfield, OR 97477

Outdoor movie time! Bring your blanket and lawn chairs for a movie under the starts. Concessions available. Proceeds support the free summer movie program.

Roving Park Players present Five Children & It
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Thursday & Friday, 6 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Petersen Barn Community Center
  • Address: 870 Berntzen Road, Eugene, OR 97401
  • Phone: 541.686.2738

When five adventurous children meet a sand fairy near their vacation home, their fondest wishes are granted; but they soon learn the truth of the saying "be careful what you wish for." Come join in the fun and surprises of this park play.

Science Factory Children's Museum: Food Detectives
August 17, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Monday - Friday, 1 - 4 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $5
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  • Location: Science Factory Children's Museum
  • Address: 2300 Leo Harris Parkway, Eugene, OR 97401

Where does your food come from? In this camp, we'll cook a variety of simple dishes. We'll trace how their ingredients traveled from the worlds of nature and agriculture to our dinner plates and what changes happened to them along the way. Ages 9-11.

Science Factory Children's Museum: Ocean Animals
August 17, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - noon
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  • Location: Science Factory Children's Museum
  • Address: 2300 Leo Harris Parkway, Eugene, OR 97401

Explore the many ecosystems that can be found in the ocean. We'll look at animals from the surface to the deep ocean to see how they interact with each other. We'll also meet some trained scuba divers to find out how they do research in the ocean, and more! Ages 7-9.

Science Factory Children's Museum: Science Superstars
August 17, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Monday - Friday, 1 - 4 p.m.
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  • Location: Science Factory Children's Museum
  • Address: 2300 Leo Harris Parkway, Eugene, OR 97401

Explore the world while thinking like a scientist! Bake a cookie using solar energy, follow a grain of sand from a mountain to the ocean, find out how different animals make their homes, and more. Ages 5-7.

The Ben Rice Band
August 17, 2012
  • Event Times: Friday, 9 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $5
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  • Location: Mac's Restaurant & Nightclub
  • Address: 1626 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97405
  • Phone: 541.344.8600

Ben Rice brings real vintage blues into the modern era - twisting soul, roots blues, and west coast blues with rockabilly, funk, and rock.

The Silver Spurs Saloon
August 17, 2012 - September 01, 2012
  • Event Times: Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 7 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $14 - $18
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  • Location: The Red Cane Theatre
  • Address: 1077 Chambers St, Eugene, OR 97402
  • Phone: 541.556.4524

The ten member cast sings, dances and performs their way into your heart with a great western story of past regrets and new beginnings. Food available from the Ring of Fire.

The Spitfire Grill
August 17, 2012 - August 26, 2012
  • Recurring weekly on Sunday, Friday, Saturday
  • Event Times: Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 2:30 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $21, $19 senior/student
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  • Location: Cottage Theatre
  • Address: 700 Village Dr, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
  • Phone: 541.942.8001

Released on parole after 5 years in prison, a young woman makes a clean start in a small town in Wisconsin in this heart-warming 2001 musical about finding hope in the unlikeliest of places.

Western Oregon Exposition Family Fair
August 17, 2012 - August 19, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Friday & Saturday, 10 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sunday, Noon - 6 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $3
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  • Location: Western Oregon Exposition Fairgrounds
  • Address: 2000 N. Douglas St, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
  • Phone: 541.942.2411

Free games for the kids with cash prizes, hay rodeo, logging competition, livestock competition, complete with pony rides and a midway of games. Bingo, live entertainment, and terrific food.

Exhibits & Shows


A Year of Paintings
August 17, 2012 - September 27, 2012
  • Event Times: Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. - noon
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  • Location: Island Park Art Gallery at Willamalane Adult Activity Center
  • Address: 215 W C St, Springfield, OR 97477
  • Phone: 541.736.4444

Visit an exhibit featuring 52 paintings by PJ Sargeant. A free reception to meet Sargeant is scheduled Friday, Aug. 10, from 5 - 7 p.m. Wine, cider and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Many of the artists’ works will be for sale.

Guided Museum Tours
August 17, 2012 - November 02, 2012
  • Recurring weekly on Friday
  • Event Times: Friday, 1 & 3 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free with admission; $3 adults; $2 youth & seniors
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  • Location: University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
  • Address: 1680 E 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403
  • Phone: 541.346.3024

Enjoy a guided tour free with admission. Discover the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, where 15,000 years of human history and 200 million years of geology are at your fingertips.

Nick Sixkiller: The Man Behind the Mic
August 17, 2012 - June 23, 2013
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Wednesday - Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $2 - $8
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  • Location: University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
  • Address: 1680 E 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403
  • Phone: 541.346.3024

Nick Sixkiller is a powwow MC, radio DJ and advocate in Eugene who seeks to connect native and non-native people through his service in the community. Learn more about this amazing local leader.

Out in Space, Back in Time: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope
August 17, 2012 - February 10, 2013
  • Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
  • Event Times: Wednesdays - Sundays, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $3; $2 seniors & youth; $8 families; Free on Wednesdays & to staff, students, children, faculty
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  • Location: University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
  • Address: 1680 E 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403
  • Phone: 541.346.5083

The Hubble Telescope takes amazingly clear pictures of objects beyond Earth. From our close neighbors in space to the distant Rose Galaxies, discover the universe in this exhibit of photographs.

Russel Wong: The Big Picture
August 17, 2012 - August 19, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Tuesday - Sunday, 11a.m. - 5p.m.
  • Event Admission: $5; $3 seniors; free students, members & UO faculty/staff with ID
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  • Location: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon
  • Address: 1430 Johnson Ln, Eugene, OR 97403
  • Phone: 541.346.3027

UO graduate Russel Wong strives to distinguish his work by re-defining and re-styling glamorous figures with greater depth, texture, and imagination. He has photographed for Vogue, Nike and Time.

Spring & Summer: Green, Green the Color of New
August 17, 2012 - August 27, 2012
  • Recurring every week day
  • Event Times: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Lane Community College - Building 19
  • Address: 4000 E 30th Ave, Eugene, OR 97405
  • Phone: 541.463.3518

The David Joyce Gallery located in the Center for Meeting and Learning at Lane Community College has opened its final exhibit of the 2011-12 academic year all about the inspiration of the color and term "Green."

Tidewaters by Rich Bergeman
August 17, 2012 - November 04, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Wednesday - Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $3; $2 seniors & youth; $8 families; Free on Wednesdays & to staff, students, children, faculty
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  • Location: University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
  • Address: 1680 E 15th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403
  • Phone: 541.346.3024

Bergeman's photographs document his exploration of the light, landscape and way of life that once flourished along the navigable rivers of Oregon's Coast Range.

Tough by Nature: Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West
August 17, 2012 - September 09, 2012
  • Event Times: Tuesday & Thursday - Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $5, $3 seniors 62+; Free for members, students and faculty
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  • Location: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon
  • Address: 1430 Johnson Ln, Eugene, OR 97403
  • Phone: 541.346.3027

A exhibition and accompanying publication by Eugene based artist, Lynda Lanker, presenting portraits and stories of the more than fifty women, from thirteen western states, who gain their sustenance and livelihood from the land.

Victorian Mourning Exhibit
August 17, 2012 - November 11, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday 1 - 4 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $6 adults, $3 kids 4-12, children 3 and under free
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  • Location: Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson House
  • Address: 303 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97401
  • Phone: 541.484.0808

View the Victorian Mourning Exhibit. There’s always something new to see and do at the Castle on the Hill.

Weird and Wonderful: Lane County Highlights and Footnotes
August 17, 2012 - September 15, 2012
  • Recurring daily
  • Event Times: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Event Admission: $3
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  • Location: Lane County Historical Society and Museum
  • Address: 740 W 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402
  • Phone: 541.682.4242

An exhibit featuring the county's notable oddities, superlative scenery, cinematic moments, and surprising personalities.

On-going


Aloha Friday
August 17, 2012 - November 16, 2012
  • Recurring monthly on the 3rd Friday
  • Event Times: Friday, 6 - 8 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Hodgepodge Hawaiian Grill
  • Address: 2190 W 11th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402
  • Phone: 541.846.6300

A free monthly variety show for people who love Hawai'i. Usually includes open mic, a presentation on Hawaiiana (short film, pop quiz, show and tell, etc.), and a featured musical guest. Plenty aloha!

Rogue Trivia Night
August 17, 2012 - November 23, 2012
  • Recurring weekly on Friday
  • Event Times: Friday, 8 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Rogue Public House
  • Address: 844 Olive St, Eugene, OR 97401
  • Phone: 541.345.4155

Mr. Bill's Traveling Trivia Show hosts a fun-filled evening of tricky questions.

University of Oregon Campus Tours
August 17, 2012
  • Recurring weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
  • Event Times: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m. & 2 p.m.; Saturday, 10:30 a.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Ford Alumni Center / UO Alumni Association 
  • Address: 1720 E 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403
  • Phone: 541.346.3201

Student Ambassadors offer 90-minute walking tours of the main campus. Available year-round except holidays.

Markets


Springfield Farmers' Market
August 17, 2012 - October 26, 2012
  • Recurring weekly on Friday
  • Event Times: Friday, 3 - 7 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Downtown Springfield
  • Address: 5th St & A St, Springfield, OR 97477
  • Phone: 541.345.7106

An open-air marketplace for locally produced fresh vegetables, fruits, plants, prepared food and specialty artisan goods. Open every Friday during the May-October growing season.

Veneta Downtown Farmers' Market
August 17, 2012 - September 28, 2012
  • Recurring weekly on Friday
  • Event Times: Fridays, 2 - 6 p.m.
  • Event Admission: Free
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  • Location: Luther & Territorial
  • Address: 88267 Territorial Rd, Veneta, OR 97487

Weekly community grower's market offering local produce for sale.

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