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About Eugene weekly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1993-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 2006)
WHAT’S happening The Eugene Ballet Company has had one heckuva Nutcracker season, staging per- formances as far afield as Grand Junction, Colo., Billings, Mont., and little ol’ Weed, Calif., the gateway to Mount Shasta. Finally, their tour comes to a grand finale with this weekend’s hometown Hult Center extravaganza. Starting with recorded music today and continuing with accompaniment by the Oregon Festival Choirs Friday through Sunday, this annual balls-to-the-wall ballet makes for fun, fast and loose hol- iday fun. See Thursday, Dec. 21 Calendar. What, you don’t want to spend all of your carbon credits rushing around on the weekend looking at art? You’d rather bus, bike or walk down to the Gallery District, no? Well, Opus6ix has the show for you: The Best of Oregon Crafted. That’s right, the incredibly NEBULA SERIES BY GREG KENNEDY cool economic development project (we know, you don’t hear us say “incredibly cool economic development” often) to help local artists make more art comes to a place near you. There’s also an exhibit of hand knotted Persian, Tibetan and Afghani rugs (talk about your intensive labor) at Opus6ix. And while you’re in the Gallery District, check out shows at Something about this time of year makes us get all jazzed about driving home from work at 5 pm, White Lotus, Karin Clarke, the Jacobs Gallery and no, it’s not the blur of headlights making us candy-eyed epileptics on autopilot. It’s the holi- day lights display, dummy! Well, we’re happy with those who at least try, let alone those who deck (including work by Oregon Crafted artist Amy out their shrubbery. So, if you’re like us, make reservations for the 9th Annual Miracle Lights and even the Horsehead, where you can grab a Tour of outdoor holiday decorations, a benefit for the Children’s Miracle Network. You get to hop pint and contemplate Rowan Watson’s “Erotique” on a bus at either Eugene’s ShopKo or Springfield’s Jerry’s Home Improvement, refrain from spit- photography exhibit. The true meaning of the holi- wadding the back of the seat and revel in a guided tour of the area’s most bedecked holiday dec- days is about art, humans’ connections to each other, orations. Before you get too excited, just remember the school bus safety refrain: “Backs to reaching across neurons to pluck at synapses … or some- backs, seats to seats.” See Thursday, Dec. 21 Calendar. thing like that. Anyway, we’re for it. See Art in the Galleries. Beller), DIVA, Fenario, New Zone, La Follette DECEMBER 21, 2006 25
