Events

MuseArt offers opportunities for artists of all skill levels and mediums to draw local musicians while they perform. An amazing multi-media art event!

MuseArt offers opportunities for artists of all skill levels and mediums to draw local musicians while they perform. An amazing multi-media art event!

MuseArt offers opportunities for artists of all skill levels and mediums to draw local musicians while they perform. An amazing multi-media art event!

The Sons Of Oregon are an alt/country, rockabilly band fronted by singer songwriter Jake Koozie. Comprised of players from the pacific northwest’s best, The Sons of Oregon combine exceptional songwriting and musicianship with a captivating performance.

Robert Meade’s a singer/songwriter, solo acoustic musician who’s been living and performing throughout the Northwest area for over a decade. His brand of upbeat Rhythm ‘n’ Blues & Americana music channels some of rock’s greatest souls in his raw, vulnerable lyricism and playing. It’s bound to lift the spirit!

Laurie Kilmartin has been doing standup since 1987 and has appeared on CONAN, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Comedy Central. Her Seeso special “45 Jokes About My Dead Dad” made Vulture’s list of Top Ten Comedy Specials of 2016. She’s written two books, Shitty Mom (2012) and Dead People Suck (2018). She is currently a writer for CONAN on TBS, and previously wrote for Tough Crowd w/Colin Quinn (Comedy Central) and The Late Late Show with Craig Fergusion (CBS). She has appeared the Montreal Comedy Festival as a New Face and, 12 years later, as a Master.

Jackie Kashian is a comic whose current album, I Am Not The Hero Of This Story, was #1 comedy album on iTunes and Amazon and is critically acclaimed. She is in the thirteenth year of her podcast The Dork Forest, where she talks with people about what they love to do, think about and collect. She also has a podcast with Laurie Kilmartin where they complain and celebrate standup comedy. It is called The Jackie and Laurie Show.

They will each be doing a half hour of standup, followed by a live taping of their podcast, The Jackie and Laurie Show, for an amazing two hours of entertainment!

Originally created as a side project in 2008, The BeatCrunchers quickly grew in scope to start carving their own niche in the NW music scene. Borrowing members from bands such as Macaco Velho, Samba Ja, Kef, and the Klezmonauts, the group draws from a variety of genres and sensibilities to form a fresh and distinct sound.

The Beat Crunchers are fresh, funky, and live. They get the booty shaking and keep it shaking with their mighty Brazilian percussion and exuberant horns. The Beat Crunchers take you on a breathless tour of the world’s best dance parties, Afropop to Balkan to Cumbia. This is a band that turns everything it touches to a divine rug-cutting boogie-down, be it a childhood cartoon theme song or a funked-up Rachmaninov prelude. The Beat Crunchers resist boxes, and enable you lovely dancers to do the same.

Ken Sokolov – drum kit, vocals
Matt Noble – bass, vocals
Matt Pilcher – Percussion, vinyl, vocals
Markus Johnson – Surdo, cuica, dub effects
Ashley Wright – Tenor saxophone, keyboard, vocals
Ryan Chaney — trombone
Alex Lowe – trumpet
Cody Simpson – trumpet

November 19th is World Toilet Day! Everybody needs a toilet, but billions of people don’t have one. And for those that do, toilets are not always problem free. They use lots of water, often pollute, and may not work during a disaster. Come learn about different types of toilets- ecological toilets- that turn your poo into compost, don’t need water, and will work even during a disaster. There will be a toilet trivia game too! (This is a free event.)

November 19th is World Toilet Day!

Everybody needs a safe toilet, but billions of people don’t have a one. Without adequate treatment, sewage pollutes waterways and drinking water supplies.

Come learn about different types of toilets- ecological toilets- that turn your poo into compost, don’t need water, and will work even during a disaster. Local experts will present on managing wastewater and biosolids, composting toilets, emergency preparedness, and how composting toilets became legal in Oregon.

There will be a toilet trivia game too, with prizes!

(This is a free event.)

Presentations include

• Managing the waste of a quarter-million people: regional wastewater treatment and beneficial reuse. Tod Miller and Michelle Miranda from MWMC will present about Eugene/Springfield’s wastewater plan and nutrient recovery biosolid program.
• Composting toilets: Laura Allen and Tao Orion will present on composting toilets: health and safety, types of toilets, and toilets for disaster preparedness.
• How composting toilets became legal in Oregon. Composting toilet pioneer Ron Davis will present about the legalities of composting toilets.

About the presenters:

Laura Allen

Laura Allen is a founding member of Greywater Action, the author of The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape (Storey Press, 2015) and Greywater, Green Landscape (2017). She works on sanitation regulations on the technical committee for WE-Stand, IAPMOs green plumbing code.

Ron Davis

Ron Davis is a clinical laboratory scientist and a director at Emerald People’s Utility District in Cottage Grove. Ron successfully lobbied to legalize composting toilets in Oregon and wrote a book on the topic.

Tao Orion

Tao Orion is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015). She teaches permaculture design at Oregon State University and at Aprovecho, a 40-acre nonprofit sustainable-living educational organization.

Metropolitan Wastewater Management CommissionThe Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC) is a partnership of the cities of Eugene and Springfield and Lane County.  Its mission is to protect the community’s health and the environment by providing high-quality wastewater services to the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area.