Editing Eugene, Oregon (section)

== Arts and culture ==
[[File:Eugene Saturday Market craft booth.jpg|thumb|A vendor's craft booth at the [[Eugene Saturday Market]]]]
Eugene has a significant population of people in pursuit of alternative ideas and a large original [[hippie]] population.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ossie Bladine |first=Philip |date=April 20, 2006 |title=Hippie Culture's Still Alive, Man |newspaper=Oregon Daily Emerald |url=http://dailyemerald.com/2006/04/20/hippie-cultures-still-alive-man/ |access-date=May 28, 2007 |archive-date=August 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820111357/http://dailyemerald.com/2006/04/20/hippie-cultures-still-alive-man/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Beginning in the 1960s, the [[counterculture|countercultural]] ideas and viewpoints espoused by area native [[Ken Kesey]] became established as the seminal elements of the vibrant social tapestry that continue to define Eugene.<ref name="Pumper">{{cite web |last=Pumper |first=Molly |date=December 15, 2001 |title=Remembering Ken Kesey – Eugene, Oregon, USA |url=http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/01-12/remembering-ken-kesey-eugene-oregon-usa.html |access-date=May 28, 2007 |publisher=BootsnAll |archive-date=August 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826010903/http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/01-12/remembering-ken-kesey-eugene-oregon-usa.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Merry Prankster, as Kesey was known, has arguably left the most indelible imprint of any [[cultural icon]] in his hometown. He is best known as the author of ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' and as the male protagonist in [[Tom Wolfe]]'s ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]''.<ref name="Pumper" />

In 2005, the city council unanimously approved a new slogan for the city: "World's Greatest City for the Arts & Outdoors". While Eugene has a vibrant arts community for a city its size, and is well situated near many outdoor opportunities, this slogan was frequently criticized by locals as embarrassing and ludicrous.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dietz |first=Diane |date=December 21, 2006 |title=Not the World's Greatest Slogan? Eugene Wonders |work=[[The Register-Guard]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=20061221&id=tl5WAAAAIBAJ&pg=2193,4953323 |access-date=December 31, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602125651/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=20061221&id=tl5WAAAAIBAJ&pg=2193,4953323 |url-status=live }}</ref> In early 2010, the slogan was changed to "A Great City for the Arts & Outdoors."

Eugene's [[Eugene Saturday Market|Saturday Market]], open every Saturday from April through November,<ref>{{cite web |title=Eugene, Oregon's Saturday Market |url=http://www.eugenesaturdaymarket.org/ |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=Eugenesaturdaymarket.org |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104174422/http://www.eugenesaturdaymarket.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was founded in 1970 as the first "Saturday Market" in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=The history of the original Saturday Market |url=http://www.eugenesaturdaymarket.org/smhist.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201193947/http://www.eugenesaturdaymarket.org/smhist.html |archive-date=December 1, 2008 |access-date=November 13, 2007}}</ref> It is adjacent to the Lane County Farmer's Market in downtown Eugene. All vendors must create or grow all their own products. The market reappears as the "Holiday Market" between Thanksgiving and New Year's in the Lane County Events Center at the fairgrounds.

===Community===
Eugene is noted for its "community inventiveness." Many U.S. trends in community development originated in Eugene. The University of Oregon's participatory [[planning]] process, known as [[The Oregon Experiment]], was the result of student protests in the early 1970s. The book of the same name is a major document in modern enlightenment thinking in planning and architectural circles. The process, still used by the university in modified form, was created by [[Christopher Alexander]], whose works also directly inspired the creation of the [[Wiki]]. Some research for the book ''[[A Pattern Language]]'', which inspired the [[Design Patterns]] movement and [[Extreme Programming]], was done by Alexander in Eugene. Not coincidentally, those engineering movements also had origins here. Decades after its publication, ''A Pattern Language'' is still one of the best-selling books on urban design.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levinson |first1=David M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWuTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA232 |title=Place and Plexus: Metropolitan Land Use and Transport |last2=Krizek |first2=Kevin J. |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2008 |isbn=9781135974565 |page=232 |access-date=November 10, 2014}}</ref>

In the 1970s, Eugene was packed with cooperative and community projects. It still has small natural food stores in many neighborhoods, some of the oldest student cooperatives in the country, and alternative schools have been part of the school district since 1971. The old Grower's Market, downtown near the [[Amtrak]] depot, is the only food cooperative in the U.S. with no employees. It is possible to see Eugene's trend-setting non-profit tendencies in much newer projects, such as Square One Villages and the [[Center for Appropriate Transport]]. In 2006, an initiative began to create a tenant-run development process for downtown Eugene.

In the fall of 2003, neighbors noticed "an unassuming two-acre remnant orchard tucked into the Friendly Area Neighborhood"<ref name="Saved">{{Cite news |last=Hirst |first=Jessica |date=December 18, 2008 |title=Madison Meadow Saved |work=Eugene Weekly |url=http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2008/12/18/news.html |url-status=dead |access-date=September 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306033812/http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2008/12/18/news.html |archive-date=March 6, 2017}}</ref> had been put up for sale by its owner, a resident of New York City.<ref name="RG07">{{Cite news |last=Russo |first=Edward |date=April 5, 2007 |title=Clock ticking on Madison Meadow |page=C1 |work=The Register-Guard |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/registerguard/access/1250950201.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+5%2C+2007&author=Edward+Russo+The+Register-Guard&pub=The+Register+-+Guard&edition=&startpage=C.1&desc=Clock+ticking+on+Madison+Meadow |access-date=August 1, 2009 |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107103500/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/registerguard/access/1250950201.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+5,+2007&author=Edward+Russo+The+Register-Guard&pub=The+Register+-+Guard&edition=&startpage=C.1&desc=Clock+ticking+on+Madison+Meadow |url-status=dead}}</ref> Learning a prospective buyer had plans to build several houses on the property, they formed a nonprofit organization called Madison Meadow<ref name="MM">{{cite web |date=April 17, 2008 |title=Madison Meadow |url=http://www.madisonmeadow.org/ |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=Madison Meadow |archive-date=June 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605012120/http://madisonmeadow.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=August 21, 2012 |title=Eugene OR 97405- Tax Exempt Organizations and 97405 Eugene Oregon Non Profit Organizations |url=http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organizations/eugene_or_97405.asp |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=Taxexemptworld.com |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217023823/http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organizations/eugene_or_97405.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> in June 2004 in order to buy the property and "preserve it as undeveloped space in perpetuity."<ref name="MM" /> In 2007 their effort was named Third Best Community Effort by the ''Eugene Weekly'',<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 25, 2007 |title=BEST OF EUGENE 2007: Tightrope Walkers and Trapeze Artists |work=Eugene Weekly |url=http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2007/10/25/coverstory1.html |url-status=dead |access-date=September 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122095753/http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2007/10/25/coverstory1.html |archive-date=January 22, 2016}}</ref> and by the end of 2008 they had raised enough money to purchase the property.<ref name="Saved" />

The City of Eugene has an active Neighborhood Program. Several neighborhoods are known for their green activism. Friendly Neighborhood has a highly popular neighborhood garden established on the right of way of a street never built. There are a number of community gardens on public property. Amazon Neighborhood has a former church turned into a community center. Whiteaker hosts a housing co-op that dates from the early 1970s that has re-purposed both their parking lots into food production and play space. An unusual eco-village with natural building techniques and large shared garden can be found in Jefferson Westside neighborhood. A several block area in the River Road Neighborhood is known as a [[permaculture]] hotspot with an increasing number of suburban homes trading grass for garden, installing rain water catchment systems, food producing landscapes and solar retrofits. Several sites have planted gardens by removing driveways. Citizen volunteers are working with the City of Eugene to restore a 65-tree [[hazelnut|filbert]] grove on public property. There are deepening social and economic networks in the neighborhood.

===Annual cultural events===
*Asian Celebration,<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Oregon Asian Celebration |url=http://www.asiancelebration.org/index.html |access-date=August 10, 2014 |website=Asian Celebration |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812224125/http://www.asiancelebration.org/index.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> presented by the Asian Council of Eugene and Springfield, takes place in late July at Alton Baker Park. The festival was changed to an outdoor venue after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
*The [[KLCC (FM)|KLCC]] Microbrew Festival<ref name="klcc">{{cite web |title=KLCC Microbrew Festival |url=http://klcc.org/term/klcc-microbrew-festival |access-date=July 10, 2017 |work=[[KLCC (FM)|KLCC]] |archive-date=July 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708044656/http://klcc.org/term/klcc-microbrew-festival |url-status=live }}</ref> is held in February at the Lane County Fairgrounds. It provides participants with an introduction to a large range of microbrewery and craft beers, which play an important role in Pacific Northwest culture and the economy.<ref>{{cite web |author=Fiona Watkins Corrigan |date=February 7, 2018 |title=Brewfest hops to the beat |url=http://www.lcctorch.com/2018/02/brewfest-hops-to-the-beat/ |access-date=April 6, 2018 |publisher=The Torch |archive-date=April 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407221811/http://www.lcctorch.com/2018/02/brewfest-hops-to-the-beat/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="klcc" />
*[[Mount Pisgah Arboretum]], which resides at the base of [[Mount Pisgah (Lane County, Oregon)|Mount Pisgah]], holds a Wildflower Festival in May and a [[Mushroom Festival]] and Plant Sale in October.<ref>{{cite web |title=Upcoming Events and Festivals |url=http://www.mountpisgaharboretum.com/festivals-events/ |access-date=October 8, 2010 |archive-date=August 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812085052/http://www.mountpisgaharboretum.com/festivals-events/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Oregon Festival of American Music]],<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Oregon Festival of American Music 2014 |url=https://www.theshedd.org/divp/festival.aspx?series=2823 |access-date=August 10, 2014 |website=The Shedd Institute |archive-date=June 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608080939/http://theshedd.org/divp/festival.aspx?series=2823 |url-status=dead}}</ref> or OFAM is held annually in the early summer.
*The [[Oregon Bach Festival]] is a major international festival in July,<ref>{{cite news |last=Bash |first=James |date=July 10, 2007 |title=How Eugene turned into Bach Mecca |work=[[Crosscut.com|Crosscut]] |url=http://crosscut.com/2007/07/10/arts/4962/How-Eugene-turned-into-Bach-Mecca/ |url-status=dead |access-date=August 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004102942/http://crosscut.com/2007/07/10/arts/4962/How-Eugene-turned-into-Bach-Mecca/ |archive-date=October 4, 2011}}</ref> hosted by the University of Oregon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oregonbachfestival.com/ |title=Oregon Bach Festival |access-date=December 27, 2012 |archive-date=July 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730035554/http://oregonbachfestival.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*The nonprofit [[Oregon Country Fair]]<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Oregon Country Fair |url=http://www.oregoncountryfair.org/ |access-date=August 10, 2014 |website=Oregon Country Fair |archive-date=July 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705010530/http://oregoncountryfair.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> takes place in July in nearby [[Veneta, Oregon|Veneta]].
*The [[Lane County Fair]]<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Lane County Fair |url=http://www.atthefair.com/ |access-date=August 10, 2014 |website=Lane County Fair |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205010/http://www.atthefair.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> occurs in July at the Lane County Fairgrounds.
*The [[Eugene/Springfield Pride Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Eugene/Springfield PRIDE Festival |url=http://www.eugenepride.org/ |access-date=August 10, 2014 |work=eugenepride.org |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812213554/http://www.eugenepride.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> is held annually on the second Saturday in August from noon to 7:00&nbsp;p.m. at Alton Baker Park. A part of [[LGBT culture in Eugene, Oregon|Eugene LGBT culture]] since 1993, it provides a lighthearted and supportive social venue for the LGBT community, families, and friends.
*[[Eugene Celebration]]<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Eugene Celebration Parade and Evening Concert |url=http://www.eugenecelebration.com/ |work=eugenecelebration.com |access-date=August 10, 2014 |archive-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814175834/http://www.eugenecelebration.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> is a three-day block party that usually takes place in the downtown area in August or September. The [[SLUG Queen]] coronation in August, a pageant with a campy spin, crowns a new SLUG Queen who "rains" over the Eugene Celebration Parade and is an unofficial ambassador of Eugene.<ref>{{cite news |last=Feehan |first=Jim |date=August 26, 2006 |title=New queen gets a slug of r-e-s-p-e-c-t |page=D1 |newspaper=The Register-Guard |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/registerguard/access/1117655661.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+26%2C+2006&author=Jim+Feehan+The+Register-Guard&pub=The+Register+-+Guard&edition=&startpage=D.1&desc=New+queen+gets+a+slug+of+r-e-s-p-e-c-t |access-date=July 15, 2011 |archive-date=March 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315144201/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/registerguard/access/1117655661.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+26%2C+2006&author=Jim+Feehan+The+Register-Guard&pub=The+Register+-+Guard&edition=&startpage=D.1&desc=New+queen+gets+a+slug+of+r-e-s-p-e-c-t |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Museums===
Eugene museums include the University of Oregon's [[Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art]] and [[University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History|Museum of Natural and Cultural History]], the [[Oregon Air and Space Museum]], [[Lane County History Museum]],<ref>{{cite web |date=2017 |title=Lane County History Museum |url=http://www.lanecountyhistoricalsociety.org/ |access-date=December 3, 2017 |website=Lane County Historical Society & Museum |archive-date=January 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102041033/http://www.lanecountyhistoricalsociety.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Maude Kerns Art Center]], [[Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson House|Shelton McMurphey Johnson House]], and the [[Eugene Science Center]].

===Performing arts===
[[File:HultCenterPerformingArts.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|The [[Hult Center for the Performing Arts]]]]
Eugene is home to numerous cultural organizations, including the [[Eugene Symphony]] (whose previous music directors include [[Marin Alsop]], [[Giancarlo Guerrero]], and [[Miguel Harth-Bedoya]]); the [[Eugene Ballet]], a professional full-time touring company; the Eugene Opera, the [[Eugene Concert Choir]], the Bushnell University Community Choir, the [[Oregon Mozart Players]], the [[Oregon Bach Festival]], the Oregon Children's Choir, the [[Eugene-Springfield Youth Orchestras]], [[Ballet Fantastique]] and [[Oregon Festival of American Music]]. Principal performing arts venues include the [[Hult Center for the Performing Arts]], [[The Shedd Institute|The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts]] ("The Shedd"), the [[McDonald Theatre]], and [[W.O.W. Hall]].

The University of Oregon School of Music and Dance also attracts world class performers and teaching artists throughout the year, many of whom perform at [[Beall Concert Hall]]. The university campus also frequently hosts performances at [[Matthew Knight Arena]] and the [[Erb Memorial Union]] ballroom.

A number of live theater groups are based in Eugene, including [[Free Shakespeare in the Park]], Oregon Contemporary Theatre, The Very Little Theatre, Actors Cabaret, LCC Theatre, Rose Children's Theatre, and University Theatre.<ref>[http://pages.uoregon.edu/theatre/ University Theatre] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818190549/http://pages.uoregon.edu/theatre/ |date=August 18, 2011 }}. University of Oregon.</ref> Each has its own performance venue.

====Music====
{{Main|Music of Oregon#Eugene}}
Because of its status as a [[college town]], Eugene has been home to many music genres, musicians and bands, ranging from [[electronic dance music]] such as [[dubstep]] and [[drum and bass]] to [[garage rock]], [[Hip hop music|hip hop]], [[Folk music|folk]] and [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]. Eugene also has growing [[reggae]] and street-performing [[bluegrass music|bluegrass]] and [[jug band]] scenes. Multi-genre act the [[Cherry Poppin' Daddies]] became a prominent figure in Eugene's music scene and became the [[house band]] at Eugene's W.O.W. Hall. In the late 1990s, their contributions to the [[swing revival]] movement propelled them to national stardom. Rock band [[Floater (band)|Floater]] originated in Eugene as did the Robert Cray blues band. Doom metal band [[Yob (band)|YOB]] is among the leaders of the Eugene heavy music scene.

Eugene is home to "[[Classical Gas]]" Composer and two-time Grammy award winner [[Mason Williams]] who spent his years as a youth living between his parents in [[Oakridge, Oregon]] and Oklahoma. Mason Williams puts on a yearly Christmas show at the Hult center for performing arts with a full orchestra produced by author, audio engineer and University of Oregon professor Don Latarski.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 2005 |title=Mason Williams biography |url=http://www.masonwilliams-online.com/mwguitarbio05.pdf |access-date=March 11, 2013 |publisher=MasonWilliams-online.com |pages=2, 11 |archive-date=November 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115041904/http://www.masonwilliams-online.com/mwguitarbio05.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Dick Hyman]], noted jazz pianist and musical director for many of Woody Allen's films, designs and hosts the annual Now Hear This! jazz festival at the Oregon Festival of American Music (OFAM). OFAM and the [[Hult Center]] routinely draw major jazz talent for concerts.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Shedd Institute: Now Hear This 2010–11 Series |url=http://www.theshedd.org/divP/series.aspx?event=1748 |access-date=August 11, 2011 |archive-date=September 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928055725/http://www.theshedd.org/divP/series.aspx?event=1748 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Markstrom |first=Serena |date=August 3, 2007 |title=Pursuit of 'magic' keeps Krall going as an artist |page=E11 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/registerguard/access/1315846381.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+3%2C+2007&author=Serena+Markstrom+The+Register-Guard&pub=The+Register+-+Guard&edition=&startpage=E.11&desc=Pursuit+of+%27magic%27+keeps+Krall+going+as+an+artist |access-date=November 25, 2007 |archive-date=March 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315144131/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/registerguard/access/1315846381.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+3%2C+2007&author=Serena+Markstrom+The+Register-Guard&pub=The+Register+-+Guard&edition=&startpage=E.11&desc=Pursuit+of+%27magic%27+keeps+Krall+going+as+an+artist |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Eugene is also home to a large [[Zimbabwean music]] community, home to the Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center "dedicated to the music and people of [[Zimbabwe]]". It was founded in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kutsinhira.org/about-us/|website=Kutsinhira.org|title=About us page}}</ref> 

The city of Eugene is mentioned in the Johnny Cash song "Lumberjack".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.johnnycash.com/track/lumberjack-mono-2/ | title=Lumberjack }}</ref>

===Visual arts===
Eugene's visual arts community is supported by over 20 private [[art gallery|art galleries]] and several organizations, including Maude Kerns Art Center,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mkartcenter.org/ |title=Maude Kerns Art Center |access-date=March 9, 2005 |archive-date=March 8, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308141349/http://www.mkartcenter.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Lane Arts Council,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lanearts.org/ |title=Lane Arts Council |access-date=March 9, 2005 |archive-date=March 3, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050303225632/http://www.lanearts.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> DIVA (the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts) and the [[Eugene Glass School]].

In 2015 installations from a group of Eugene-based artists known as Light At Play were showcased in several events around the world as part of the [[International Year of Light]], including displays at the [[Smithsonian]] and the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite news |date=September 19, 2014 |title=Globe-trotting orb |newspaper=The Register-Guard |url=http://projects.registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32166698-75/opportunities-glow-bright-for-eugene-developers-of-light-art.html.csp |access-date=April 4, 2017 |archive-date=January 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110174016/http://projects.registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32166698-75/opportunities-glow-bright-for-eugene-developers-of-light-art.html.csp |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=September 17, 2015 |title=Light for a Better World – A Celebration of U.S. Innovation at the National Academy of Sciences |url=https://light2015blog.org/2015/09/17/light-for-a-better-world-a-celebration-of-u-s-innovation-at-the-national-academy-of-sciences/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807073318/https://light2015blog.org/2015/09/17/light-for-a-better-world-a-celebration-of-u-s-innovation-at-the-national-academy-of-sciences/ |archive-date=August 7, 2016 |access-date=October 13, 2016 |publisher=UNESCO}}</ref>

====Film====
The Eugene area has been used as a filming location for several Hollywood films, most famously for 1978's ''[[National Lampoon's Animal House]]'', which was also filmed in nearby [[Cottage Grove, Oregon|Cottage Grove]]. [[John Belushi]] had the idea for the film ''[[The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers]]'' during filming of ''Animal House'' when he happened to meet [[Curtis Salgado]] at what was then the Eugene Hotel.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Original Blues Brother: Curtis Salgado |url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/bluesbros/article.html |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=Csse.monash.edu.au |archive-date=September 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929065329/http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/bluesbros/article.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[Getting Straight]]'', starring [[Elliott Gould]] and [[Candice Bergen]], was filmed at [[Lane Community College]] in 1969. As the campus was still under construction at the time, the "occupation scenes" were easier to shoot.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trivia for Getting Straight (1970) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065775/trivia |publisher=[[IMDb]] |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-date=April 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404223440/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065775/trivia |url-status=live }}</ref>

The "Chicken Salad on Toast" scene in the 1970 [[Jack Nicholson]] movie ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]'' was filmed at the [[Denny's]] restaurant at the southern [[Interstate 5 in Oregon|I-5]] freeway interchange near [[Glenwood, Lane County, Oregon|Glenwood]]. Nicholson directed the 1971 film ''[[Drive, He Said]]'' in Eugene.

''[[How to Beat the High Cost of Living]]'', starring [[Jane Curtin]], [[Jessica Lange]] and [[Susan St. James]], was filmed in Eugene in the fall of 1979. Locations visible in the film include [[Valley River Center]] (which is a driving force in the plot), Skinner Butte and [[Ya-Po-Ah Terrace]], the Willamette River and River Road Hardware.

Several [[track and field]] movies have used Eugene as a setting and/or a filming location. ''[[Personal Best (film)|Personal Best]]'', starring [[Mariel Hemingway]], was filmed in Eugene in 1982. The film centered on a group of women who are trying to qualify for the Olympic track and field team. Two track and field movies about the life of [[Steve Prefontaine]], ''[[Prefontaine (film)|Prefontaine]]'' and ''[[Without Limits]]'', were released within a year of each other in 1997–1998. [[Kenny Moore (runner)|Kenny Moore]], Eugene-trained Olympic runner and co-star in ''Prefontaine'', co-wrote the screenplay for ''Without Limits''. ''Prefontaine'' was filmed in Washington because the ''Without Limits'' production bought out [[Hayward Field]] for the summer to prevent its competition from shooting there.<ref>{{cite web |title=Steve Prefontaine and Running Legends |url=http://www.eugenecascadescoast.org/running/history/pre-legends/ |access-date=March 11, 2013 |publisher=Eugene Cascades & Coast |archive-date=February 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203040335/http://www.eugenecascadescoast.org/running/history/pre-legends/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Kenny Moore also wrote a biography of [[Bill Bowerman]], played in ''Without Limits'' by [[Donald Sutherland]] back in Eugene 20 years after he had appeared in ''Animal House''. Moore had also had a role in ''Personal Best''.

''[[Stealing Time]]'', a 2003 independent film, was partially filmed in Eugene. When the film premiered in June 2001 at the [[Seattle International Film Festival]], it was titled ''Rennie's Landing'' after a popular bar near the University of Oregon campus. The title was changed for its DVD release. ''[[Zerophilia]]'' was filmed in Eugene in 2006.

The 2016 ''[[Tracktown]]'' was about a distance runner training for the [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympics]] in Eugene.

===Religion===
Religious institutions of higher learning in Eugene include [[Bushnell University]] and [[New Hope Christian College]]. Bushnell University (formerly Northwest Christian University), founded in 1895, has ties with the [[Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)]]. New Hope Christian College (formerly Eugene Bible College) originated with the Bible Standard Conference in 1915, which joined with Open Bible Evangelistic Association to create [[Open Bible Standard Churches]] in 1932. [[Eugene Bible College]] was started from this movement by Fred Hornshuh in 1925.<ref>{{cite web |title=Discover Open Bible Churches |url=http://www.openbible.org/about_discover.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928111018/http://www.openbible.org/about_discover.aspx |archive-date=September 28, 2011 |access-date=August 11, 2011 |publisher=Open Bible Churches}}</ref>

There are two [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] parishes in Eugene: [[St John the Wonderworker]] Orthodox Christian Church in the Historic [[Whiteaker, Eugene, Oregon|Whiteaker]] Neighborhood<ref name="regguard5">{{cite news |last=Carter |first=Paul |date=September 8, 2010 |title=St. John the Wonderworker: A little church in Eugene carries on ancient traditions |work=Eugene Register-Guard |url=http://www2.registerguard.com/mm/index.php/slideshows/comments/st.-john-the-wonderworker/ |url-status=dead |access-date=January 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911000445/http://www2.registerguard.com/mm/index.php/slideshows/comments/st.-john-the-wonderworker/ |archive-date=September 11, 2010}}</ref><ref name="regguard6">{{cite news |last=Bjornstad |first=Randi |date=September 5, 2010 |title=Spiritual quest: A Eugene man pursues the priesthood in the Serbian Orthodox Church |work=Eugene Register-Guard |url=http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/living/lifestyles/25237791-41/church-orthodox-serbian-bishop-maxim.csp |access-date=January 4, 2012 |archive-date=August 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802194847/http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/living/lifestyles/25237791-41/church-orthodox-serbian-bishop-maxim.csp |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Saint George]] Greek Orthodox Church.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bjornstad |first=Randi |date=July 13, 2005 |title=In Greek Families, Food Takes Center Stage |newspaper=The Register-Guard |url=https://www.questia.com/library/1G1-134120684/in-greek-families-food-takes-center-stage |access-date=March 25, 2013}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

There are six Roman Catholic parishes in Eugene as well: [[St. Mary Roman Catholic Church (Eugene, Oregon)|St. Mary Catholic Church]],<ref>{{cite web |date=2015 |title=St. Mary Catholic Church |url=http://www.stmaryeugene.com// |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626133220/http://www.stmaryeugene.com/ |archive-date=June 26, 2015 |access-date=June 13, 2015}}</ref> St. Jude Catholic Church, St. Mark Catholic Church, St. Peter Catholic Church, St. Paul Catholic Church, and St. Thomas More Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web |date=2015 |title=Archdiocese of Portland |url=http://www.archdpdx.org/parishes// |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616114835/http://www.archdpdx.org/parishes// |archive-date=June 16, 2015 |access-date=June 13, 2015}}</ref>

Eugene also has a Ukrainian Catholic Church named Nativity of the Mother of God.<ref>{{cite web |date=2015 |title=Ukrainian Catholic Church |url=http://www.nativityukr.org// |access-date=June 13, 2015 |archive-date=May 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503133158/http://nativityukr.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

There is a mainline Protestant contingency in the city as well—such as the largest of the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] Churches, Central Lutheran<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Central Lutheran |url=http://welcometocentral.org/ |access-date=August 11, 2014 |archive-date=August 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810013900/http://www.welcometocentral.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> near the U of O Campus and the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] Church of the Resurrection.<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Episcopal Church of the Resurrection |url=https://resurrectioneugene.org/ |access-date=August 11, 2014 |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812211958/https://resurrectioneugene.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Eugene area has a sizeable [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS Church]] presence, with three [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)|stakes]], consisting of 23 congregations (wards and branches).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/tools/stake-and-ward-websites?lang=eng |title=Eugene, Oregon, stake |access-date=July 16, 2019 |archive-date=July 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711152225/https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/tools/stake-and-ward-websites?lang=eng |url-status=live }}</ref> The Church of Jesus Christ announced plans in April 2020 to build a temple in Eugene.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 4, 2021 |title=20 New Temples Announced at General Conference |url=http://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/april-2021-general-conference-new-temples |access-date=April 25, 2021 |website=newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org |language=en |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424234121/https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/april-2021-general-conference-new-temples |url-status=live }}</ref>

The greater Eugene-Springfield area also has a [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] presence with five Kingdom Halls, several having multiple congregations in one Kingdom Hall.

The [[Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist]] [[Temple Beth Israel (Eugene, Oregon)|Temple Beth Israel]] is Eugene's largest Jewish congregation.<ref name="homepage">{{cite web |title=Temple Beth Israel |url=http://www.tbieugene.org/ |website=Temple Beth Israel |access-date=January 28, 2009 |archive-date=July 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728082420/http://www.tbieugene.org/rabbis_page.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was also, for many decades, Eugene's only synagogue,<ref name="Zuckerman87">[[#refZuckerman2003|Zuckerman (2003)]], p. 87.</ref><ref name="Reichman">[[#refReichman2007|Reichman (2007)]].</ref> until [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] members broke away in 1992 and formed "Congregation Ahavas Torah".<ref name="Zuckerman91-93">[[#refZuckerman2003|Zuckerman (2003)]], pp. 91–93.</ref><ref name="AhavasTorahAboutUs">[http://www.ahavastorah.info/about/about.htm About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803174419/http://www.ahavastorah.info/about/about.htm |date=August 3, 2011 }}, Congregation Ahavas Torah website.</ref>

Eugene has a community of some 140 [[Sikhism|Sikhs]], who have established a Sikh temple.<ref>{{cite news |last=Eldridge |first=Cory |date=January 5, 2006 |title=The Sikhs: at home in Eugene |newspaper=Eugene Weekly}}</ref>

The 340-member congregation of the [[Unitarian Universalist Association|Unitarian Universalist]] Church in Eugene (UUCE)<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Our Principles, Mission and Covenant |url=http://uueugene.org/church |access-date=June 1, 2014 |website=Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene |archive-date=June 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602200610/http://uueugene.org/church |url-status=live }}</ref> purchased the former Eugene Scottish Rite Temple in May 2010, renovated it, and began services there in September 2012.

Saraha Nyingma [[Buddhist philosophy|Buddhist Temple]] in Eugene<ref>{{cite web |date=2012 |title=New Saraha Nyingma Temple Opens in Eugene |url=http://northwestdharma.org/2012/09/sarahan/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707083257/https://northwestdharma.org/2012/09/sarahan/ |archive-date=July 7, 2017 |access-date=June 1, 2014 |website=Northwest Dharma News}}</ref> opened in 2012 in the former site of the Unitarian Universalist Church.

The First Congregational Church, UCC is a large progressive Christian Church with a long history of justice focused ministries and a very active membership. Three years ago, the congregation coordinated with the Connections Program of the St Vincent DePaul organization to provide transitional homes for two unhoused families on the church's property. Through life - skills support and training and a more stable housing situation these families are then able to make their way into independent living.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 24, 2019 |title=First Congregational UCC Congregational Meeting February 24, 2019 |url=https://www.fcceugene.org/documents/Board/2019/Congregational_Meeting_02-24-19.pdf |access-date=December 29, 2021 |website=First Congregational United Church of Christ of Eugene |archive-date=December 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211229212206/https://www.fcceugene.org/documents/Board/2019/Congregational_Meeting_02-24-19.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>