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
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