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Our things to do this week include a mushroom extravaganza at Mount Pisgah, free live music and a bloody good rock ‘n’ roll musical.
How do you do, Lookouters? We’ve got a solid array of things to do for you this week, with some of them being free! Whether you’re in the mood for a rock ‘n’ roll musical, a slasher-themed aerial show or a mushroom extravaganza at Mount Pisgah, there’s plenty to do for you.
Without further ado, let’s get into it.
“Lizzie: The Musical”
The Oregon Contemporary Theatre is once again performing “Lizzie: The Musical,” in which the audience teleports back to 1892, to find out Andrew Borden and his wife have been murdered. The main suspect? Andrew’s daughter from a previous marriage — Lizzie Borden. The show explores Lizzie’s trials and tribulations through a rock ‘n’ roll score.
When: Saturday, Oct. 24, through Sunday, Nov. 8; tickets and details available online.
Where: Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 194 W. Broadway in Eugene
How much: Tickets start at $34; details are online. Name-your-own-price nights are Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 22 and 23.
Screamfield Monster Bash
The Springfield History Museum partners with The Block Party for Screamfield Monster Bash, an evening of prizes and scares in downtown Springfield. The carnival features vendors, games and prizes, a pumpkin derby with cash prizes, a costume walk, portraits, drinks for kids and adults and plenty of food trucks. Fright! at the Museum, the museum’s haunted house, runs throughout the event, and the Boot Heel Dance Band plays live music in the evening. Sixth Street from Main to A streets will be closed, with most of the carnival in the parking lot under City Hall.
When: 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. Haunted house, 4 to 8:30 p.m.; pumpkin derby, 4:30 p.m.; live music, 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: Springfield History Museum, 590 Main St.
How much: Free to enter the carnival; haunted house admission is $5 for adults, $3 for kids ages 5-17, free for children under 5 and $20 for families of five or more; details are online.
Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Festival
The Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Festival features an exhibit of local mushroom species, displayed by type and staffed by members of the Cascade Mycological Society. Also on site will be mushroom vendors, food, live music, guided nature walks and children’s activities.
When: Sunday, Oct. 25, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Mount Pisgah Arboretum
How much: General admission tickets are $15; details are online.
Live music by “Drive to Space”
Experience free music at Beergarden this Saturday. Drive to Space is a funk-rock and Americana jam band originally from Eugene. One of its performances last year at Blairally featured crazy neon lights and funkadelic music. All ages are welcome.
When: Saturday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m.
Where: Beergarden, 777 W. Sixth Ave. in Eugene
How much: Free admission, details are online.
A slasher-inspired aerial circus performance
If you love Halloween and circus-like performances, this one is for you. Revelers Aerial Works is performing a live slasher-themed aerial circus show, free for all ages. You’ve heard of the adage, “Don’t run with scissors.” This performance calls for a new saying: “Don’t trapeze with knives.” This performance is part of the larger Revelers’ Bizarre Bazaar, which includes a night market, Thai food and face painting. Make sure to wear 1990s slasher attire or your best Halloween costumes!
When: Friday, Oct. 23, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Where: 85 E. Eighth Ave. in Eugene
How much: Free; details are online.
Día de los Muertos at Maude Kerns Art Center
Honor those who have passed by placing their photos at the altares at the Maude Kerns Arts Center. Additionally, explore the center’s exhibit that showcases Día de los Muertos, a holiday that blends ancient Aztec harvest rituals with the Catholic observances of All Saints and All Souls Days; the show spans paintings, prints, embroidery and soft sculptures.
When: Oct. 16 through Nov. 6
Where: Maude Kerns Art Center, 1910 E. 15th Ave. in Eugene
How much: $1 donations are suggested on tours of the exhibit; details online.
Box office
Special screenings
“House” is a 1970s Japanese horror-comedy unlike almost anything else you’ll see this Halloween season. A schoolgirl nicknamed Gorgeous takes her friends to her aunt’s countryside home for the summer. The house, as it turns out, is hungry. Director Nobuhiko Obayashi threw in painted backdrops, wild editing tricks and a killer piano, and the result plays like a fever dream. It’s a goofy, gory, gleefully weird time, and nothing like a standard haunted house movie.
Where: Art House, 492 E. 13th Ave., Eugene
When: Friday, Oct. 23, through Saturday, Oct. 31; details and tickets are online.
“The Cuckoo Clock” is a locally made psychological horror film with a premise that sounds like a fever dream. Penny falls for the home-health nurse caring for her grandmother, who has dementia. When the nurse vanishes, the family’s cuckoo clock starts talking and warns Penny that Grandma might be responsible. It’s Lisa Jay’s directorial debut, and it’s getting a very limited run this month.
Where: Art House, 492 E. 13th Ave., Eugene
When: Friday, Oct. 23, and Saturday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m.
On the big screen
Based on the best-selling novel, the stop-motion animated film “Wildwood” is produced by Portland-based LAIKA studios, known for “Coraline,” “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “The Boxtrolls,” among other films. “Wildwood” is set in Portland, and follows our young main character, a seventh-grader named Prue. She ventures into Portland’s impassable wilderness when a murder of crows takes her baby brother. Growing up in Portland, I witnessed murders of crows descend onto the downtown waterfront during golden hour nightly.
My perception before and after reading the novel is night and day. I am much more aware of crows now, to say the least.
Playing at Metro Cinemas, Cinemark Eugene-Springfield and Regal Valley River Center
“Clayface” is DC’s first real swing at horror, and it looks properly gross. Tom Rhys Harries plays Matt Hagen, a rising Hollywood star whose face is destroyed. A miracle treatment fixes it, but it also unravels his mind and sends him on a revenge spree. The film is directed by James Watkins (“Speak No Evil”) with a script from Mike Flanagan.
Playing at Cinemark Eugene-Springfield and Regal Valley River Center.
That’s all for this week. Thanks for tuning in. You’ll probably find me in a movie theater this weekend trying to catch up on movies: They’re piling up like hotcakes. I hope this list helps quench your thirst for things to do this weekend, but if not, feel free to check out our things to do calendar. If you have any suggestions or tips, I’m available via email at Leoh@lookoutlocal.com.
