Event Listings in Oregon

On August 23rd, 2025, the Community Center for the Performing Arts presents: Garcia Birthday Band

Garcia Birthday Band (Billy Strings concert after-party)

Garcia Birthday Band, based in Portland Oregon, isn’t your mother’s Grateful Dead cover band. Playing for over 20 years, GBB has evolved into something far deeper than the sum of its parts. The beating heart of the Pacific Northwest’s GD community, the band’s ever-expanding fanbase is an experience unto themselves. Using the Dead’s repertoire as a springboard for limitless potential and improvisation, Garcia Birthday Band are a cornerstone of the modern Grateful Dead universe, and their fans have come to expect the unexpected as the norm.Placing no boundaries on eras of the Dead’s career or catalog, and drawing on decades of individual and shared experience, GBB play the music through an auditory kaleidoscope. Composed of some of the most ace players of the Oregon live music community, the band makes every show an act of exploration, both musically and spiritually. United hearts and minds blur the line between the stage and crowd – a carnival of human potential. If you’re new to Garcia Birthday Band, their doors are always open, and you’ll recognize it as something familiar when you first walk in: home. You may recognize the fellas in GBB from acts such as Nine Days Wonder, Cubensis, Shafty, Turkey Bouillon Mafia, The Campfire Boys, Deadhenge, Shadow of Sound, The Buds of May, The Ike Willis Band, Dead Sessions, and Dark Matter Transfer.

The Sunday Market is a farmers and makers market featuring local food, farms and artisan crafts. Held on the newly remodeled grounds of the Lincoln City Cultural Center in the heart of Lincoln City. Live music each week from 11-1.

Come enjoy folk-rock at the local Whiteaker Community Market!
The Whiteaker Community Market is a neighborhood farm & artist market in the Whit Neighborhood. The Sunday market features over 30 artists, farmers, makers, growers, and food vendors and weekly live music. Sassafras! is an acoustic trio from Eugene, playing folk-rock and Americana with heartfelt ballads and playful harmonies since 2023. For more info: https://www.whiteakercommunitymarket.com

Free Shakespeare in the Park Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s romantic comedy: Two Gentlemen of Verona.

With live music, a real dog actor, and staged combat; Shakespeare’s play bursts to life in the South Lawn Amphitheater at Amazon Community Center & Park!

Featuring two friends vying for the same love, one foolish knight, two girl outlaws, a faithful servant and their beloved dog, all wondering “Who is Sylvia?”

The play will show Saturdays & Sundays beginning August 2 and running thru to August 24. On Sunday, August 10, Two Gentlemen of Verona will be ASL Interpreted. All performances begin at 6pm and end at 8:15pm.

Bring picnics, blankets, lawn chairs, families & friends and join us for an evening of fun. All performances of Two Gentlemen of Verona are free of charge, family friendly, ADA accessible, including an ASL interpreted performance on Sunday August 10, 2025.

For more information contact: Amazon CC Office: (541) 682-5373 Website: www.freeshakeseugene.org

See you out in the park!

Get your writing time in and tell your story.

Accountability works. As does working alongside fellow writers in the sweet quiet of the Wordcrafters studio. No espresso machines screeching, annoying music playing, or folks chatting. Plus, you can get up and go to the bathroom whenever you need to! And you won’t have the distraction of laundry or other procrastination chores.

Date: Tuesdays and Sundays

Time: 9:30 am-noon Tuesdays, 6:30-9 pm Sundays

Price:
Members: $0 (Yes, Writing Time is free for Wordcrafters members!)
Access: $3 – if you have limited access to funds
Participant: $5 – the actual cost of this event
Patron: $10 – if you have more access to wealth/resources and can support others who need to pay less

We trust you to discern your financial situation and your level of need or ability to give to others with less access to wealth. Learn more about our Pay From Your Heart Pricing: https://wordcrafters.org/pfyh/

About your hosts

Jeaux Bartlett (they/them or xe/xem) is a writer and teacher living in Eugene, Oregon. Jeaux has published several books and online courses focused on personal growth and their work has appeared in the Register Guard, Lane Monthly, Rochester insider, Crossroads Chronicle, and Nature’s Wisdom amongst other publications.

Sunday evening volunteer host

Heather McBride (she/her) is a content strategist at Adobe but has novelist aspirations. She’s been bookish since birth but got serious about her own writing when teaching composition at U of O.

Cascade Brewers Society was founded in Eugene in 1982 and views itself as a small “drinking club with a homebrewing problem.” Since last century, CBS has evolved into a large community of brewers that celebrate the art and science of fermentation.

We’re home to ferments of all types: beer, cider, mead, wine, kombucha, meats, veggies, and hot sauces, to name some. Come join us and share what you’ve got fermenting!

Annual dues are $30 and cover an entire household. Your first meeting is free, and potential members are encouraged to attend a meeting before paying dues to get a feel for our community. We meet every last Monday of the month.

For more details, feel free to attend a regular club meeting or e-mail cascadebrewerssociety@gmail.com.

Get your writing time in and tell your story.

Accountability works. As does working alongside fellow writers in the sweet quiet of the Wordcrafters studio. No espresso machines screeching, annoying music playing, or folks chatting. Plus, you can get up and go to the bathroom whenever you need to! And you won’t have the distraction of laundry or other procrastination chores.

Date: Tuesdays and Sundays

Time: 9:30 am-noon Tuesdays, 6:30-9 pm Sundays

Price:
Members: $0 (Yes, Writing Time is free for Wordcrafters members!)
Access: $3 – if you have limited access to funds
Participant: $5 – the actual cost of this event
Patron: $10 – if you have more access to wealth/resources and can support others who need to pay less

We trust you to discern your financial situation and your level of need or ability to give to others with less access to wealth. Learn more about our Pay From Your Heart Pricing: https://wordcrafters.org/pfyh/

About your hosts

Jeaux Bartlett (they/them or xe/xem) is a writer and teacher living in Eugene, Oregon. Jeaux has published several books and online courses focused on personal growth and their work has appeared in the Register Guard, Lane Monthly, Rochester insider, Crossroads Chronicle, and Nature’s Wisdom amongst other publications.

Sunday evening volunteer host

Heather McBride (she/her) is a content strategist at Adobe but has novelist aspirations. She’s been bookish since birth but got serious about her own writing when teaching composition at U of O.

This is a social club for LGBTQIA folks and allies of all ages; we meet every week but only talk about one book per month. Some activities are chatting about what books we’re reading, discussing trans artists and issues, reading each other LGBTQIA-friendly picture books, and we’ll even chat about shoes.

On the last Tuesday of the month we discuss our monthly discussion book. Our discussion book is a book about/for/by trans and gender diverse people. Reading the discussion book is not required; see our list of discussion books on our website. FREE. Email info@transponderoregon.org for the Google Meet link!

This discussion group is for Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color, who are also LGBTQIA2S, questioning, and/or somewhere on the rainbow. Ages 13+. FREE.

Email info@transponderoregon.org for the Google Meet link.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025. 6 p.m.

Deadpan. Mysterious. Unmistakably Jarmusch.
This month at CTV, we invite you to sink into the quiet, melancholic charm of Broken Flowers (2005), a wry and soulful road movie from one of independent cinema’s most enigmatic voices: Jim Jarmusch.

Starring a perfectly understated Bill Murray, Broken Flowers follows Don Johnston, an aging bachelor who sets off on a reluctant cross-country journey to revisit a string of former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter claiming he has a 19-year-old son. What unfolds is not a quest for answers so much as a meditation on aging, regret, and the strange poetry of unresolved lives.

Like many of Jarmusch’s films, Broken Flowers unfolds at its own rhythm—minimalist, dryly funny, and full of lingering silences that say more than any monologue could. It’s a film that trusts mood over momentum, character over clarity.

Jarmusch’s career—equal parts punk, poet, and cinematic oddball—embodies the spirit of Eugene’s young, eccentric film scene: fiercely original, defiantly outside the mainstream, and allergic to anything predictable. For local filmmakers carving their own idiosyncratic paths, Broken Flowers serves as a subtle, beautiful reminder that there’s more than one way to tell a story—and more than one kind of ending.

Join us for a quiet classic from the king of indie cool.
“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.”

106 minutes. Comedy/Drama/Mystery. Rated R.

📅 Tuesday, August 26, 2025. 6 p.m.

📍 CTV Studios, 2455 Willakenzie Rd. #15 (behind Sheldon High School next to KRVM)

💰 FREE!!! PLUS FREE FOOD & DRINKS PROVIDED
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