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what's happening 16 thurs Sunrise 7:11am; Sunset 5:43pm Av High 51; Av Low 35 BENEFITS Eugene Symphony’s annual black-tie Gala fundrais- er w/dinner, auction packages, live music performed by Swing Shift, 6pm, Eugene Hilton, 66 E. 6th Ave., 687-9487. $150, $1,200 per table. To those who’ve never attended the Asian Celebration, now in its 27th year: You’ve seriously been missing out. Saturday and Sunday the Lane Events Center will welcome the regular 18,000-plus visitors to the cultural heritage fair that is a full- blown immersion in pan-Asian food, entertainment, art, crafts and more. There’s the curatorial: the Asian Heritage Exhibit, includes photographs of the underrepresented Asian loggers of Oregon’s past, an exhibition on the 1911 bombing of the Ping Yang School in Marcola and displays on Oregon’s early Asian pioneers. There’s the delicious: dozens of vendors ready and waiting to offer you any number of tasty meals, plus cooking demos presented to all who wish to perfect their cooking technique or brush up on knowledge of Asian cuisine. And as if one needed more motivation to attend, the Community Network Room will host a series of documentary fi lms and workshops on human rights and civil liberties. Don’t forget to check out the marital arts displays, the Chinese lion dancers, the brush paintings, the Japanese koto music, the Korean fan dances and much, much more. For more info on the Oregon Asian Celebration, go to www asiancelebration.org T-Bone Wheldon & the Prime Cut Band, Betty & the Boy, ben- efi t for Food For Lane County, 7:30pm, Cozmic. $5-$20 or 2 sets of silverware. DANCE Dance 2012, 8pm today, tomorrow & Saturday, Dougherty Dance Theatre, Gerlinger Annex, UO. $10, $5 stu. & sr. Film Backcountry Film Festival, 7pm, Lawrence 177, UO, www. backcountryfi lmfestival.org $7, $5 co-op mem. FOOD/DRINK Wine tasting, 5-7pm today & Thursday, Feb. 23, Supreme Bean Coffee Co., 2864 Willamette St. FREE. GATHERINGS Court Support, for marijuana activist Daniel Ernst, please dress appro- priately, 10am, new Federal Courthouse, 405 E. 8th Ave. Sazon Booya, electronica, 9pm, WOW Hall. $5 before 10pm, $8 after. OUTDOORS/RECREATION Family Storytime, 11am, Sheldon Branch Library, 1566 Coburg Rd., info at 682-8316. FREE. LECTURES/CLASSES Birds of Oregon & General Science: “A Look at the Dark Sky, Objects of discovery & interest in Deep Space” w/Rick Kang, 9-11am, Campbell Center, 155 High St. $1 sug. don. League of Women Voters of Lane County: “Can Our Cities Meet the Challenge of Sustainability?” w/ Robert Liberty, 11:30am-1:30pm, Hilton Garden Inn, 3528 Gateway St., Spfd. FREE. Bernice Johnson Reagon: Freedom Songs from the Civil Rights movement & organiz- ing experiences in the South, 7:30pm, Beall Hall, UO. FREE. MUSIC Open Jazz Jam w/Free Jazz Trio, 5pm, Cozmic. FREE. The League of Women Voters of Lane County: Privatization: The Public Policy Debate, 9:30am Cascade Manor, 434-4107. Prenatal Yoga, 5-6:15pm today & Thursday, Feb. 23, RiverBend Medical Center, 3333 Riverbend Dr., Spfd., 222-7074. $11, $40 for 4 classes. Kesey Square Revival: Creating vibrant public space down- town that focuses on commu- nity inclusion, noon-dark, Kesey Square. FREE. Yoga & Qigong, 5:30pm today & Thursday, Feb. 23, Celebration Studio, 1820 Willamette St. $10. Guided Tours at UO Museum of Natural & Cultural History, 1pm & 3pm, UO. FREE w/admission. Beginning Yoga, fi rst class free, 6-7:15pm today & Thursday, Feb. 23, Green Phoenix Institute, 352 W. 12th Ave., http://wkly.ws/15t Aloha Friday: Kohala, acoustic guitar trio from Big Island, jazz & traditional, open mic & pop quiz on Famous Hawaiian Couples, 6-8pm, Hodgepodge, 2190 W. 11th Ave. FREE. Drop-in Kayaking, bring equip- ment, no instruction provided, ages 12 & up, 8-10pm today & Thursday, Feb. 23, Echo Hollow Pool, 1655 Echo Hollow Rd. $5. SPIRITUAL Reiki Tummo Healing Clinic, by appt., 5:30- 7:30pm, 2550 Portland St., 914- 0431. Don. An In Depth Look at the Shma Prayer w/Shmuel Shalom (Geoffrey) Cohen, 7pm, 514-2571 for location & info. $10. Don’t Drink the Water, 8pm to- day, tomorrow & Saturday, 2:30pm Sunday, Cottage Theatre, 700 Village Dr., Cottage Grove, www.cottagetheatre.org $16, $14 sr. & stu. Wonderful Ones Storytime, 1-year-olds w/ caregivers, 10:15am & 11am, downtown library, info at 682- 8316. FREE. GATHERINGS Unit meetings of City Club of Eugene: “At the Corner of Main Street & Broadway: New Downtown Businesses in the Eugene Area,” 11:50am-1:30pm, Eugene Hilton, 66 E. 6th Ave. $5, mem. FREE. Wayne Morse Center for Law & Politics: prescreening of OPB program on Wayne Morse to be aired Feb. 21; 12:30pm & 5pm to- day, Knight Law 110, UO. FREE. KIDS/FAMILIES Vegan Potluck, eat for the en- vironment, no animal products, 7pm, McNail-Riley House, 601 W. 13th Ave., 341-1690. Walk with Us, weekly self-led neighborhood walking group, ages 50 & up, 9:30-10:30am to- day & Thursday, Feb. 23, meet at Petersen Barn Community Center, 870 Berntzen Rd. FREE. No Shame Eugene Theater Workshop, write, direct & act in original 5-min. pieces, 7:30- 9:30pm, 126 W. Broadway. FREE. Occupy Medical Clinic, triage, 5-7pm today & Thursday, Feb. 23, Occupy V, 1274 Polk St. FREE. MIMI NOLLEDO PHOTOGRAPHY Last Watch, Ape Machine, Testface, 9pm, Sam Bond’s. $3-$5. Rally for Safe Access, ending interference in medical canna- bis programs, noon, U.S. Court House, 405 E. 8th Ave. 1-4pm, Lane County Healthy & Human Services room 310, 151 7th Ave., 682-4041. EUGENE WEEKLY Eugene Symphony: Pathetique, 8pm, Hult Center. $15 & up. Eugene Metro Business Networking International, 11:30am, Downtown Athletic Club, 999 Willamette St., http:// wkly.ws/159 $12 lunch. HEALTH STD Clinic, 8-11am, FEBRUARY 16, 2012 20 music THEATER Roving Park Players: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, 7pm today, tomorrow, Saturday & Thursday, Feb. 23; 3pm Sunday; through Feb. 26, Good Samaritan Center, 3500 Hilyard St., 686- 2736. FREE. Harlow Neighbors general meeting, 6-8pm, North Park Community Church, 3484 Harlow Rd. FREE. 12 17 movie VOLUNTEER Care for Owen Rose Garden, bring gloves & small hand-weeding tools, instruction provided, noon-3pm, end of N. Jefferson St., 682-5025. 17 fri Sunrise 7:10am; Sunset 5:45pm Av High 51; Av Low 35 BENEFITS Oregon Law Students Public Interest Fund Auction, funds for summer sti- pends for law students in unpaid public service positions, full din- ner buffet, silent auction, desert auction, live auction & no-host bar, 5:30-9pm, Eugene Country Club, 255 Country Club Rd., http://wkly. ws/16w $25, $500 per table. Brian Cutean, benefi t for Reality Kitchen, 7:30pm, Reality Kitchen, 245 Van Buren St., www. realitykitchen.org Don. DANCE Work Dance Company: Nightlife, 7:30pm, Hult Center. $15, $13 stu. Middle Eastern Dance night, 8pm, Cozmic. $5 sug. don. Dance 2012 continues. Thursday, Feb. 16. See FILM Nordic Film Series: Troubled Water, 7pm, 177 Lawrence, UO. FREE. FOOD/DRINK Eugene Food Not Bombs, 2-4pm, 8th & West Park. FREE. Game Night, bring board game or use house game, 7pm, Divine Cupcake, 1680 W. 11th Ave. FREE. Trivia Night, 8pm, Rogue Public House, 844 Olive St. FREE. KIDS/FAMILIES Baby Storytime, ages 0-1 w/caregivers, 10:15am & 11:15am, downtown li- brary. FREE. Family Storytime, 10:15am, Bethel Branch Library, 1990 Echo Hollow Rd. FREE. LECTURES/CLASSES Theme Lecture: Alejandro Planchart, 3:15pm, Collier House, UO. 9-11 Blueprint for Truth w/Richard Gage, founder of Architects for Truth, 7-9pm, LCC Building 17 Room 308, 344-0282. FREE. Eugene Natural History Society: Greta Binford: Spider Venom, 7:30pm, Willamette 100, UO. FREE. MUSIC Acoustic Hootenanny, 3-6pm, Mrs. Thompson’s Herbs, 347 W. 5th Ave., 686-6136. FREE. Garden Goat, folk, rock, 5pm, Cozmic. FREE. The Jazz Cafe, 7:30pm, Aasen- Hull Hall, UO. $5. Vagabond Opera, Mood Area 52, Aeon Now, cabaret, 8:30pm, WOW Hall. $12 adv., $15 door, $20 reserved. And And And, AAN, Father Figure, rock, 9:30pm, Sam Bond’s. $5. ON THE AIR “Meet the Band” show w/Betty & the Boy, 7:30- 8pm, Comcast channel 29. “The Sunday Morning Hangover TV Show,” the Memorial Day an- ti-war show, Antiques Roadshow, 11pm, Comcast channel 29. OUTDOORS/RECREATION Obsidians: hike Silver Falls State Park Waterfall Loop, 8.5 miles, info & sign up obsidians.org Prenatal Yoga, 5:30-6:45pm, Eugene Yoga, 3575 Donald St., www.eugeneyoga.us $11. SOCIAL DANCE Contact Improvisation Dance Jam, 6-8pm, Musical Feet Studio, 420 W. 12th Ave., heartandsoulwell- ness.com $5-$15 sliding scale. Dancin’ By The River, profes- sional dance lesson followed by DJ’d music, all ages, 7-9pm, Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Spfd. $5, $3 stu. w/ID. Wolf Pack Square Dance, 7:30- 8pm rounds, 8-10pm main- stream squares, Emerald Square WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM
