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November 27th, 10am - 4pm
1300 Pearl Street
A community celebration, free market, potluck and dance. Please bring any underused items from your closets, attic, garage, pantry, cellar, or shed. Let's tap into our generous holiday spirit and create a marketplace where everything is free. Gifts can be physical goods or acts of service. The celebration will include music, dance, feasting, connecting activities, and healing arts from local bodyworkers. Please bring Thanksgiving leftovers if you have them!
More info: at[email protected]
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Deadline to Order Holiday Wreaths
From MLP, Woodburn-based Women's Cooperative
November 29th
Support farm worker women by purchasing a beautiful holiday wreath! The
wreaths are made by Mujeres Luchadoras Progresistas, a Woodburn-based
women's cooperative.
The wreaths are 24-26 inches wide, hand-tied out of fresh Oregon noble
fir, and decorated with holly, pine cones and a red bow.
This project provides needed income for farm worker families during a cold
time of year, and also creates opportunities for the women to gain
financial management and leadership skills.
The cost is $35 and all orders must be pre-paid. Checks must be made out to "MLP", but mailed or delivered to LASC at 458 Blair Boulevard, Eugene OR 97402. The wreaths will be available for pick-up on Saturday, December 5th, 3-5pm at 458 Blair Boulevard.
Contact LASC to place an order or for more information: [email protected] or 541-485-8633.
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Community Ecstatic Dance
Benefiting Planned Parenthood
November 29th, 1 to 3pm
WOW Hall
$5 - $10 suggested donation
Community Ecstatic Dance is a volunteer effort whose purpose is to provide an opportunity for people in the Eugene community to experience ecstatic dance at beautiful and historic WOW Hall. Donations benefit a local charitable non-profit monthly. A facilitator each week brings an intention and guidance to an opening circle, and a dj mixes varieties of tribal, groove, electronic, roots, and other forms of music with intention and inspiration. Each dance is approximately 80 minutes with a warmup period and a closing circle at the end.
Ecstatic Dance in its most basic definition is free-form movement /dance inspired by music, allowing our bodies to move freely without judgment or concern for the "grace" or beauty of the dance. This dance is an inner/outer journey of moving meditation. It develops a direct body-spirit connection, letting your body and inner guide be your teachers. It's about being present with your own energy and discovering your own dance within using this movement and energetic experience to release stuck patterns in your body, emotions, mind and spirit.
No dance experience or partner is necessary. It's a perfect outlet for those who think they "can't dance" and for experienced dancers alike. It is free-form, not a structured dance. It is also not a social dance. It is an environment without observers or conversation, where you can feel safe to try new things and really push your envelope. It is lightly facilitated with invitations to explore movement with specific areas of the body and to explore larger themes as a whole through your movement. Much of the time it is an open dance floor for you to explore different rhythms, patterns of movement and your inner journey.
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Northwest Mixtape: Hip Hop Culture and Influences
December 2nd, 6pm
Downtown Eugene Public Library
Free
Join journalist and writer Donnell Alexander for an illustrated talk and conversation about hip hop in the Pacific Northwest, as part of Oregon Humanities' Conversation Project.
The Pacific Northwest has a complex, sometimes commercially exceptional, relationship with hip hop culture. Hip hop's influences have quietly but broadly affected language, fashion, art, and local life in ways not always recognized by mainstream audiences. Alexander will share what makes Pacific Northwest hip hop unique; provide context for the history that brought mainstays such as Sir Mix-A-Lot, Cool Nutz, and Macklemore into being; and explore how hip hop has influenced social, artistic, and political life in the region.
Donnell Alexander is a storyteller and editor who coproduced the 2009 animated short "Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No" and authored the memoir "Ghetto Celebrity" based on his earlier essay "Cool Like Me: Are Black People Cooler than White People?" He has served as a staff writer at LA Citybeat, ESPN: The Magazine, LA Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the Chico News & Review.
Oregon Humanities connects Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform communities. More information about Oregon Humanities' programs and publications, which include the Conversation Project, Think & Drink, Humanity in Perspective, Idea Lab, Public Program Grants, and Oregon Humanities magazine, can be found at
oregonhumanities.org. Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust.
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IWW Holiday Movie: Office Space
December 2nd, 7pm
601 W. 13th Ave.
This comedy portrays three company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss. Free.
Sponsored by the Lane branch of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Generating Ideas for Action
to Improve Shared Spaces Downtown
December 2nd, 6:30-
8:30 p.m.
Downtown Campus of Lane Community College
101 W. 10th Avenue
Participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups to discuss their vision for downtown shared spaces and to identify the top actions they believe could help improve those areas. The event aims to build a common awareness about the opportunities for downtown public spaces as well as the legal responsibilities that can help inform possible solutions.
The event is free and open to the public. In order to help plan for the event, the City is asking those interested in attending to RSVP by calling 541-682-5049 or sending an email to [email protected].
The City of Eugene is committed to access for all participants. All events are held in wheelchair accessible rooms. Assistive listening devices (if available), sign or Spanish-language interpretation, note taking and materials in alternative formats can be provided with one week notice prior to the meeting. To arrange for these services, contact staff at 541-682-6021.
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Science, Policy, and Passion
Reflect Challenges Facing Bees
Downtown Athletic Club, 3rd Floor Ballroom
Guest Speakers: Ramesh Sagili, Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University; Aimee Code, Pesticide Program Director, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation; and Jen Hornaday, Healthy Bees = Healthy Gardens.
Seven times in the past two years, Oregon was the site of bee die-offs involving hundreds of thousands of bees. Each event was associated with the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. Bees are vital to a functional ecosystem - and food production.
The speakers will discuss the role and importance of bees as crucial pollinators of both wild and cultivated plants. In addition to the familiar honey bee, another 4,000 species of bees native to the United States often go unnoticed. They, too, provide valuable pollination of native plants and food crops.
Bees now face a number of challenges: parasites and pathogens, poor nutrition, and pesticides. The speakers will review those risks in Oregon and across the nation and describe ongoing efforts to promote bee health. They will describe innovative educational projects and steps that each of us can take to promote and conserve our important pollinators.
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Curry for a Cause: Peace Corps
December 5th, 5-8pm
555 E 15th Ave
Enjoy a full curry dinner, along with information about what projects and programs are happening in Peace Corps posts around the world. Friends and children welcome!
Tickets at the door: $10 for adults, $5 for children.
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Family Fun: Songs, Dances, & Games of Africa
December 6th, 2:30 pm
Downtown Eugene Public Library
Free
Kids and family: join Habiba Addo to learn songs, dances, and games from several African countries - with live drumming!
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After the UN Climate Talks- In Solidarity with Paris:
Our "Red Line" is Our Kids
Dec. 12th, 11 am - 12:15 pm
Lane County Fairgrounds Indoor Vestibule
Declare our commitment by surrounding our children with a Red Line to protect their future. Seriously festive, interactive musical theater.
We demand a stable climate future for our children. That's why we're building a massively broad, relentless and effective intersectional movement!
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Family Fun: Pajaritos de Ceramica / Clay Birds
December 13th, 2:30 pm
Downtown Eugene Public Library
Free
Kids and family: make clay birds with Samuel Becerra at a bilingual Spanish/English week for Family Fun!
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Family Fun: Origami
December 20th, 2:30 pm
Downtown Eugene Public Library
Free
Kids and family: learn to make colorful origami with Tomo Tsurumi, who teaches at the Oregon Asian Celebration.
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December 22nd, 5:30-8pm
Kesey Square
Please join us in celebrating the return of the light by bringing the Yule Hearth to those with no Hearth of their own. We intend to bring the warmth of the sacred Yule fire to those who need it most, and share in food and friendship with our community both housed and homeless alike.
To us, Yule is about so much more than the turning point in the year- we see it as a celebration of interdependence and community. Historically, even blood enemies put down their swords and welcomed each other into their halls to celebrate, declaring their peaceful intentions unto each other beneath the mistlestoe. They shared their mead and their bread, drank their Wassail and blessed the orchards by joining together in song, a tradition that has, to this day, been preserved in the form of Christmas Carolling.
So we wish to bring the fire, the feast, and the hall to the street, to the public square where we can celebrate together, a holiday that, to us, means coming together. See the Facebook event.
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Teen Winter Break: Upcycled Zipper Jewelry
December 30th, 2-4pm
Downtown Eugene Public Library
Free
Teens: learn to make zipper jewelry and other wearables out of upcycled vintage zippers with artist LeBrie Rich. Design and create pins, hair clips, cuffs, earrings, and more that are fun to wear and on-trend. Colorful zippers, rhinestones, and all supplies provided. For ages 13 - 17.
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Cap the Gases Campaign Meetings
1st & 3rd Wednesdays,
5:30 - 6:30 pm
First United Methodist Church at 1376 Olive Street
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Occupy Medical Free Clinic
8th and Oak
Every Sunday,
12-4pm
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KEPW 97.3 FM
Home Grown Community Radio Meeting
Every Friday, 6-8 pm
Upstairs Growers Market, 454 Willamette Street
Eugene PeaceWorks is the parent organization of Home Grown Radio Station 97.3 KEPW-LP. This station's focus is economic justice, environmental sustainability, local food production, and music made right here in Oregon.
If you'd like to be a part of Home Grown Radio and you have ideas, skills, energy and want to help,
come to our weekly meetings!
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Whiteaker Community Council (WCC) Meetings
Free and open to the public
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The Interfaith Prayer Service
11th of every month
6:45pm prelude and
7pm-8pm service
1166 Oak Street
Each month features 8-10 presenters representing a variety of spiritual backgrounds.
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Every Sunday
336 Clark Street
Prep starts 12pm, d
istribution starts 2:30pm
Burrito Brigade's mission is to feed the unhoused and hungry of Eugene through a local community network of personal donors and nonprofit partnerships while engaging our community in the fight to end hunger. Burrito Brigade works with, accepts donations from, and provides for the public, regardless of ability, race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, sexual orientation, social status, addiction, criminal background, political and religious affiliation or age.
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Cuentos y Canciones:
Stories & Songs in Spanish
Every Saturday, 11:15 am
Bethel Branch of Eugene Public Library
1990 Echo Hollow Road
A free weekly storytime in Spanish for children and families.
For information in Spanish, call 541-682-5450 and press 5.
For information in English, call 541-682-8316.
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Sensory Storytime
Every Wednesday, 1pm
Downtown Eugene Public Library
Fun stories, songs, and word play designed especially for children with sensory integration or other special needs, with caregivers. Developed by Debby Laimon, Early Childhood School Psychologist. Free.
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Every Friday 3-7pm
Sprout Market, 418 A St in Springfield
Have a sit-down meal and a beer from Claim 52, or buy food to go!
Huerto de la Familia is a nonprofit organization offering Latino families a place to connect to their roots and the earth by growing their own food, as well as training and peer education in organic gardening, small scale farming and small business creation. They build wide-ranging partnerships to achieve their goals of cultural identity, community integration and economic self-sufficiency in the Latino community.
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Club de Arte para Mamás
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
University of Oregon
1430 Johnson Lane
Talleres gratuitos de arte para mamás latinas, no es necesario inscribirse previamente. Acompáñenos a pasar una mañana relajada haciendo arte con otras mamás. Nosotros proporcionaremos el cuidado de niños. Este club se reunirá el primero y tercer lunes de cada mes de 9 a 10 am en el estudio de arte (excepto días feriados). Si tiene alguna pregunta, por favor contacte a Arthurina Fears:
[email protected]
o al (541) 346-6443.
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Do you value the Community Events Calendar?
The Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC) is a nonprofit organization on a mission to educate and mobilize for peace, human dignity, and social, racial, and economic justice. Our Community Events Calendar is only one of many ways that we advance peace and justice in Lane County.
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To add your event to the calendar, please email the details to
[email protected].
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The posting of events does not imply an endorsement of the sponsoring groups or their political views.
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