Eugene and Roseburg Weekend Planner: December 29-31, 2023

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EUGENE: 

WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND
‘Tis the season to be Walking In A Winter Wonderland through Christmas lights with friends and family drinking hot cocoa! The Cottage Grove Speedway will be illuminated with lights and holiday cheer, and the fire pits, cocoa and cocktails will be at the ready to warm you up. Capture the memories with a photo with Santa!

 
THE STREETS NEARLY NEW YEAR PARTY
Prepare for an unforgettable New Year’s celebration at The Streets Nearly New Year Party the most electrifying street party of the year! With two incredible DJs spinning the hottest tracks all night long, you’re in for a musical journey that will keep you dancing until midnight.


WILLAMETTE VALLEY ORNAMENT CONTEST
The Willamette Valley Ornament Contest is returning for its fifth year. Explore some of the community’s most beloved trails for the chance to come across one of the hundreds of ornaments placed on designated, non-wilderness trails. The Willamette Valley Visitors Association (WVVA) website has a list of trails where these ornaments can be found. 


EUGENE SYMPHONY NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION

Eugene Symphony had such a blast at their first-ever New Year’s Eve Celebration in 2022, so they want to keep the party going by ringing in 2024 with class and style. The festivities begin with a concert featuring Strauss waltzes, favorites from the Great American Songbook with Eugene’s own Halie Loren, and pianist Alexandre Dossin playing George Gershwin’s timeless Rhapsody in Blue as it marks the 100th anniversary of its 1924 premiere. Afterward, commemorate the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one with dancing, drinks, and more in the lobby!


ROSEBURG:  


UMPQUA VALLEY FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
The 31st annual Umpqua Valley Festival of Lights continues to feature more than a half-million lights and over 90 displays at Riverforks Park, west of Roseburg. For just $10 per car, visitors enjoy all the traditional attractions that have made the Festival famous – including the newly refurbished World’s Largest Nutcracker and the Dutch Bros Holiday Village. 


NEW YEARS EVE EDM NIGHT

Join us for a local New Years Eve EDM Night to end out the year of 2023 and into the beginning of the new year with some of the hottest local DJs. Featuring 10,000 watts of sound with full Lazers and visuals, this event will be hosted at an all-new upstairs venue in Roseburg by SHOOPFX in partnership with Food n Beverage.


POPULAR ON NETFLIX/HULU/DISNEY+   


TOP GUN: MAVERICK

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.(Netflix)

 
ELF
When young Buddy falls into Santa’s gift sack on Christmas Eve, he’s transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa’s helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can’t shake the nagging feeling that he doesn’t belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher. (Hulu)

 
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. (Disney+)


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