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No Meeting on Feb. 13
February 13, 2026
City Club of Eugene will not meet on Friday, Feb. 13, in honor of Presidents Day. Please plan to join us the following week!
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A History of Exclusion: The Black Eugene Experience and the Black Cultural Initiative
February 6, 2026
Oregon was considered a white utopia for American settlers. As a result, Oregon has a deep history of discrimination which includes but is not limited to: * Three Black Exclusion Laws, 1844-1857, that made it illegal for Black people to settle in Oregon; * A statute in the Oregon Bill …
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What You Need to Know about the Kalapuya
January 30, 2026
The Kalapuyans originally occupied over a million acres in the Willamette and the Umpqua valleys. They have lived here for over 14,000 years and have endured enormous changes to their traditional life-ways during the past 200 years. The Kalapuyan peoples created the amazing fecundity of the Willamette Valley by practicing …
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Oregon Legislature 2026 Short Session: What’s Next?
January 23, 2026
The City Club of Eugene will host Julie Fahey (D), Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, and Senator Floyd Prozanski (D) District 4 for a public forum examining priorities and challenges facing the upcoming short session of the Oregon Legislature. The Oregon Legislature convenes its constitutionally limited 35-day session …
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No Program on Jan. 16
January 16, 2026
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day, City Club of Eugene will not meet on Friday, Jan. 16.
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A.C.T. Now Lane
January 9, 2026
A.C.T. (Advancing Community Together) Now Lane is a cross-sector coalition uniting leaders, organizations, and community members to address Lane County’s housing and homelessness crisis head-on. Lane County has one of the highest rates of homelessness per capita in the nation, with thousands of individuals in our community living unhoused. A.C.T. …
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No Program on Jan. 2
January 2, 2026
Happy 2026! City Club of Eugene’s programs will resume on Friday, Jan. 9.
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No Program on Dec. 26
December 26, 2025
City Club of Eugene will not meet on Friday, Dec. 26, but we’ll return on Friday, Jan. 9!
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Gifts to the City
December 19, 2025
If you could give any gift to the City of Eugene, what would it be? Every year since its beginnings in the early 1990s, City Club of Eugene has posed this question to a broad selection of community members and asked them to share their answers in just three to …
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The Future of the Lane County Fairgrounds
December 12, 2025
On October 9, 1859, a few months after Oregon joined the Union, the Lane County Agricultural Society hosted its inaugural show, which would later become the Lane County Fair in 1884. With the exception of world wars and pandemics, the fair has been held every year since, including nearly a …
