Calendar
OUTDOORS/RECREATION
GEARs rides: Veneta breakfast
ride, 50 miles (hilly) & 38 miles
(fl at), 9:30am, Alton Baker Park.
www.eugenegears.org
SOCIAL DANCE Barn dance
for seniors, feat. Country Club
Band, 7pm, Petersen Barn Com-
munity Center. 682-5521. $2.
Winter
Ball
&
Showcase,
formal attire required, 7:30pm,
StaverDanceSport. $15.
SPIRITUAL
Winter Solstice
Celebration, feat. music by Wind-
song & Kat Del Rio, Jaya Lak-
shmi, w/yoga mantra, medita-
tion, 7pm, Far Horizons School.
687-0282. $12 adv., $15 door.
Joy & Diana from Brails present
THEATER Actors Cabaret’s A
Christmas Carol continues. See
Friday.
Lord Leebrick’s It’s a Wonderful
Life: A Live Radio Play continues.
See Friday.
Nunsense continues. See Friday.
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S U N DAY
Sunrise 7:45am; Sunset 4:37pm
Av High 45; Av Low 33
SnarkCast: MOTTLED
ARTS/VISUAL
Fiber arts
open studio, noon-4pm today &
Dec. 28, Fox Hollow Farm & Fiber,
30781 Fox Hollow Rd. FREE.
BENEFIT Pet photos with San-
ta Paws, fundraiser for non-prof-
its, 11am-3pm, Johnson Brothers
Greenhouses, Coburg. $5.
DANCE Eugene Ballet Co.’s The
Nutcracker continues. See Friday.
FARMER’S MARKET Holiday
farmers’ market continues. See
Saturday.
GATHERINGS Piccadilly fl ea
market, 10am-4pm, Lane County
Fairgrounds. $1.50.
Saturday
Market’s
Holiday
Market, featuring performances
by Students of Laura Kemp,
10:30am;
Michael
Conley,
11:30am; Beth Miriam Rose &
Friends, 12:30pm; Laura Kemp,
1:45pm; Sweet Papa Lowdown,
3:15pm;
The
Streamliners,
4:45pm, 10am-6pm, Lane County
Fairgrounds. www.holidaymarket.
org FREE.
KIDS/FAMILIES Eugene Bal-
let’s “Nutcracker Tea” continues.
See Saturday.
LITERARY ARTS Winter Sol-
stice Nature Readings, bring
your own nature writings to
read, 3pm, Mount Pisgah Arbo-
retum. $5 sug. don.
MUSIC DJ Disston, Ore., 2pm,
Wandering Goat. FREE.
Charles Talmadge, organist,
3:30pm, Trinity United Methodist
Renée Fleming stars in
The Met’s Thaïs, showing
live in HD at Gateway
Mall’s Cinemark 17
Saturday
BOWL
FALL SPECIAL
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
Church, 440 Maxwell Rd. FREE.
Brian Cutean, 5pm, Tsunami
Books. Don.
Eugene Sacred Harp Singers’
holiday concert, 7:30pm, Hilyard
Community Center. Don.
Ty Connor’s Solstice Pudding
Nightmare Festival of Lights, w/
Richard Crandell, 8:30pm, Sam
Bond’s. $5.
OUTDOORS/RECREATION
BikeLane Coalition’s Shortest
Day Ride to Maitreya Ecovillage,
2:30pm, meet at bike path at
24th and Amazon Parkway. www.
bikelanecoalition.org FREE.
Obsidians
hike:
Tahkenitch
Dunes, 7 miles. See YMCA for
details/sign-up.
GEARs rides: Deerhorn, 60 miles
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Dec 20, 2:00 & 7:30 pm
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