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According to the U.S. Department of Arts & Culture (not a real department of the federal
government), democracy is not a monologue. You can’t trust the president or his high-profi le
detractors to speak honestly and in plain terms about how things really are. In order to get
a clearer picture of the so-called “state of the union,” the American people fi rst have to step
up to the plate and speak for themselves. That’s why an artist collective, calling itself the U.S.
Department of Arts & Culture, launched the People’s State of the Union last year. On Friday,
Jan. 29, the Many Nations Longhouse in Eugene will be one of more than 150 locations across
the country to host People's State of the Union storytelling events in which folks like you will
have a chance to tell it like it is. The stories you bring to the People’s State of the Union will be
recorded and sent to a group of poets in Philadelphia, who will read them, cut them apart and
stitch them back together into what the USDAC calls the Poetic Address to the Nation, which
the USDAC will broadcast in late February. Add your two cents.
The People’s State of the Union takes place 2:30-4pm Friday, Jan. 29, at the Many Nations
Longhouse on UO campus; FREE, see usdac.us for more information.
GEARS Bike Club: Herman Rd. &
Coburg Bottom Loop, 33 miles,
medium pace, 9:30am, Alton
Baker Park. FREE.
Church of Pinball, tournament,
minors welcome, 3pm, Blairally,
245 Blair Blvd., 683-1721 $5.
Final Table Poker, 3pm & 6pm,
Steve’s Bar & Grill, 117 14th St.,
Spfd. FREE.
Duplicate Bridge continues. See
Thursday, Jan. 28.
SOCIAL DANCE Community
Ecstatic Dance, 1-3pm, WOW
Hall, 291 E. 8th Ave. $5-$10
sug. don.
Argentinian Tango, lesson
3-4pm, dance 5-7pm, 485-6647.
$5-$12.
Music & Dance Workshop w/Taller
de Son Jarocho, 3-5pm, Whiteaker
Community Center, N. Jackson &
Clark St. FREE.
Cuban Salsa, lesson 5pm,
6-8pm, Courtsports, 2728
Pheasant Blvd., Spfd. $3, fi rst
time’s FREE.
Veselo Folk Dancers, weekly inter-
national folk dancing, 7:15-10pm,
In Shape Athletic Club, 2681
Willamette St., 683-3376. $3.
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SPIRITUAL Flying Spaghetti
Monster Worship, potluck &
pirate movie, may ye feeleth
the uplifting suction of its many
noodly tentacles, 2:30-5pm,
Unitarian Universalist Church,
1685 W. 13th Ave., 844-2339.
Don.
Zen Meditation Group, 5:30-
7pm, Blue Cliff Zen Center, 439
W. 2nd Ave. FREE.
Way of the Tao Drum, 6:30pm,
Unitarian Universalist Church,
685 W. 13th. Don.
Gnostic Mass Celebration, 8pm,
Coph Nia Lodge OTO, 4065 W.
11th Ave. #43, info at coph-
nia-oto.org. FREE.
THEATER The 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee
continues. See Friday.
Disenchanted continues. See
Friday.
South Eugene High’s Hamlet
continues. See Thursday, Jan.
28.
The Last Five Years continues.
See Thursday, Jan. 28.
Water by the Spoonful contin-
ues. See Thursday, Jan. 28.
VOLUNTEER Feed the Hungry w/
Burrito Brigade, noon, First Chris-
tian Church, 1166 Oark St. FREE.
MONDAY
FEBRUARY 1
S U N R I S E 7: 3 0 A M ; S U N S E T 5 : 2 2 P M
AV G. HIGH 4 8 ; AV G. LO W 3 4
GATHERINGS Lunch Bunch
Toastmasters, learn public
speaking in a friendly atmo-
sphere, noon, LCC, 101 W. 10th
Ave., room 316. FREE.
Craft Night & Open Music Collab-
oration, bring crafting supplies
& musical instruments, 4-7pm,
Cush Cafe, 1235 Railroad Blvd.
FREE.
Women in Black, silent vigil for
peace, 5-5:30pm at the corner
of Pearl St. & 7th Ave. FREE.
Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30-
6:30pm, Central Presbyterian
Church, 555 E. 15th Ave. FREE.
Musart, drawing musicians as
they perform, 6-8pm, Cozmic
Pizza, 199 W. 8th Ave. $5.
SASS Monday Night Mens
Meet-up, for survivors of sexual
assault, self-identifi ed men 18+,