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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1982)
r ★ ★ December 16 - December 23, 1988 ★ ★ i What’s Happening This Week in Eugene & Springfield A Weekly Guide to Events and Entertainment Vol. I No. 14 Dec. 16, 1988 * Published Every Thursday FREE Thursday 16 Workshops The Way of the Dreamer—Free in troductory workshop focusing on remembering and recording dreams, Gestalt and Senoi dreamwork, dreams and relationships, and heal ing the body through dreams. 7-9 pm at the New Age Center, 1015 River Road. Led by Gary Reiss, 683-4483 or 1-942-8060. Meditation instruction, chanting, and a video "Satsang with Mukta nanda" at 7:30 pm at 86 W 25th Ave, 342-8387. Free. Sponsored by Siddha Meditation Center. Boogie Music Reggae Music with Arousing Spirit at Max's Tavern, 550 E 13th, at 9 pm, costs $2. Strictly Roots plays reggae music at the WOW Hall, 8th & Lincoln, at 9:30 pm, $2.50. Sports / Recreation Disabled community specialized re creation activities at Washington Park, 2025 Washington from 4-6 pm is free. Sponsored by the Specialized Rec Program of Eugene Parks & Rec Dept. For wheelchair transporta tion, call Molly or Diane at 687-5322. Fairs / Festivals 12th Annual Old Oregon Christmas Fair at the Fairgrounds continues to day; entertainment includes Tom Bergeron and Don Latarski playing jazz sax and guitar at 6 pm and Southwind at 7:30 pm. Dance Nutcracker performed by the Eugene Ballet Company and the Eugene Symphony Orchestra in 8 pm performance at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Silva Theatre. Tickets may be sold out; call the box office, 687-0020, for details. Meetings Parents Without Partners general meeting at 8 pm at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 777 Coburg Rd., features speaker Jim Stephen son on the topic of insurance. Free to new people; membership $20/year. Radio Songs for Stupid are featured on KLCC, 89.7 FM, on Songs of Work, Struggle and Change at 8:30 pm. Dramas of Prokofiev are featured at 12 noon on KWAX, 91.1 FM; the New York Philharmonic performs his suite of Romeo and Juliet. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Part 6, at 7:30 pm on KLCC, 89.7 FM, shows Scholar Thon Taddeo as a pawn be tween the church and a power hungry ruler. Sound familiar? Children The Great Toy Robbery and Zlateh the Goat—free holiday films for children of all ages at 3:30 pm in the Meeting Room at the Springfield Public Library. Etc. Marketing (and tasting) Oregon Wines at 6:30 pm at Pacificomm, 132 E Broadway, Penthouse, costs $2 for hors d'oeuvres. The public is invited to attend; please RSVP 485-3373. Friday 17 Fairs / Festivals Old Oregon Christmas Fair con tinues today at the Lane County Fairgrounds from 10-9 pm, free. To day Reverend Chumleigh performs at 12:30 noon, Irish music at 6 pm, and Chumleigh at 7:30 pm. Celebrate Winter Solstice at Brei tenbush, today through Dec 22, family and friends will gather to dedicate the Medicine Wheel Hot Tubs and to celebrate the Long Night between years. $20/day for food, lodging, facilities and events: music, dance, song, storytelling, yoga class, Morning Circle, hot springs. For information or to regis ter, call Breitenbush Community: (503) 854-3501 or 854-3715 (message). Sports / Recreation Professional Wrestling at Lane County Convention Center and Fairgrounds costs $4.50 general ad mission, $5.50 ringside, and the events begin at 8 pm. 1 —-::-7 Concerts for smAll People will present a multicultural program celebrating Hannukah, Christmas and Winter Solstice. See Saturday's listing for details. Concert Music Oregon Madrigal Singers, Diane Retallack, Director, present a con cert of Christmas Carols and Songs of Festivity at First Christian Church, 1166 Oak, at 8:30 pm. $3. Includes music of the Renaissance and contemporary and traditional carols. Theatre On the Edge features original com edy, music and improvisation at the Brass Rail, 4th & Willamette, at 9 pm; $2. Boogie Music The Milkmen play rock and roll for big kids at the WOW Hall, 8th and Lincoln, 9:30 pm. Costs $2.50. Film Tree of Life, a film by Rowena Pat tee, will be shown at 7:30 pm at Eu gene Church of Religious Science, 390 Vernal, 726-0534, $3. Producer Pattee will be present at the showing of her film which depicts cosmic evolution and history, the creation of all life from seeds to stars and from atoms to galaxies. Dance The Nutcracker is performed at the Hult Center Silva Theatre at 8 pm. Call 687-0020 for ticket information. Children Preschoolers make Holiday Cookies at Westmoreland Community Center from 2-3 pm. Cost is $4 and you can take home what you make. Call 687-5316 for more information. Holiday Cookie Making for school age children from 3-4 pm at West moreland Community Center costs $4. Take home the cookies you make; 687-5316. Video/TV Metromania: What's Happening is featured as this week's Valiant Effort on George Stathakis' weekly video vignette public access program on Cable 11 at 7 pm. Saturday 18 Dance Music Teen Dance at the Lane County Fair grounds Agriculture Building begins at 9 pm and costs $3. No one under 14 years admitted. Christmas Dance for Cascade Singles Club features the Statesmen playing from 9 pm-1 am at World's Fare, VRC, above Gullivers. Costs $4. Call 726-7889 for more infor mation. Children Concerts for SmAll People presents its 5th Annual "Holiday Songs and Merriment," a multicultural family show celebrating Hannukah, Christ mas, and the Winter Solstice, at Friends Meeting House, 2274 Onyx, at 7 pm. Costs $1.50 child, $2 older. Call 343-8284 for more information. Keith Richard was born today, 1943.
