Community events coming in November 2026

Robin Bloomgarden: These are community updates.

Warehouse District Art Hop and Bike Crawl Saturday, Nov. 7, all day.

The Warehouse District Art Hop is a monthly art walk through the studios, galleries, and breweries and shops of West Eugene’s warehouse district bike, walk, or drive between venues.

Meet the artists and see what the neighborhood is making. This November, Art Hop features a special event at Hot Tees (that’s spelled T-e-e-s) led by graphic designer Rob Nance. The show features an array of interactive art opportunities presented in a carnival-like setting. You’re sure to be amused and amazed.

Art Hoppers can gather stamps at different art hop locations to earn a limited edition poster with their picture embedded in a scene printed live on site.

R. Nance Design has been leading the graphic design of our printed map for the last few months. That’s for the Art Hop.

There’s something to see and do all day. So check the map on the website and chart your course and we’ll see you out there. Sounds like great fun for kiddos too. The website is WarehouseDistrictArtHop (all one word) .com. Be there or be square.

Sunday, Nov. 8 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Gilbert Park Community Days. This is in Bethel neighborhood on Gilbert Street. Young people can make pine cone bird feeders.

Story time, scavenger hunt, new book walk, refreshments and socializing. All are welcome. Looks like fun for kids. Next one is:

Art in the Parks. There’s a grant deadline at noon on Nov. 10, 2026. Is there a cultural event you would like to present in a local park? Community-driven events are needed now more than ever to build connections, uplift the soul and share stories and experiences from our increasingly diverse city.

The Art in the Parks Fund invests in community-organized events that activate Eugene parks with support from city of Eugene Cultural Services in partnership with Parks and Open Space.

Funding of up to $2,500 for small-scale events, up to $3,500 for a small-scale series of events, and up to $5,000 for large-scale events.

And there’s an asterisk. There will be awarded to organizations or individuals who wish to produce their own quality programming in a Eugene Park funding can support a variety of artistic or cultural disciplines, including visual art, dance, music, theater, film slash video slash media, multidisciplinary fields, festivals and cultural events apply online www.eugene-or.gov.

Join us for the Bethel Safety Town Hall and Skill Up on Veterans Day Wednesday, Nov. 11.

In these difficult times, we are skilling up our capacity to care for each other with tools for crisis, intervention boundaries, and scene safety. Join us in envisioning and practicing safety and resilience.

A special welcome to vets on Veteran’s Day, as well as Bethel-area friends and neighbors, and anyone else who cares to be there.

Presented by Willamette Valley Crisis Care, with co-host Active Bethel Community Neighborhood Association. Capacity is available to the first 99 attendees. The event will take place at Shasta Middle School on Nov. 11 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Leaf collection and delivery program. Eugene’s leaf pickup and delivery program runs from November to January. Both leaf pickups and leaf deliveries are made according to your area.

And this is from me. Burying your food and shrubbery beds in the fall with leaves helps build up your soil and provides a snug place for all the little critter bugs to overwinter and be ready to go in the spring to work for you for free in spring.

Just leave the leaves and they will help keep the soil moist while breaking down slowly to feed all those plants. Best of all, it’s all free. You just call them, tell ’em how much you want, and they dump it wherever you want ’em to dump it, but not in the street unless you’ve got a lot of people to get it out of the street in one day.

What are RecycleOn Centers? RecycleOn Centers are convenient drop-off locations for items that aren’t accepted in your recycling bin at home or work.

There is no cost to use RecycleOn Centers. This includes items like plastic bags. Plastic lids, plastic buckets, shredded paper and aluminum foil. Community members with disabilities who are unable to transport their recycling to a recycle on center can request a free pickup using a form on the website.

Businesses with large volumes of materials should please contact, recycle on to arrange for alternative collections. Recycle on centers are not bottle return locations and won’t offer deposit refunds for bottles and cans.

Contact BethelNeighbors@gmail.com and that’s B-E-T-H-E-L-Neighbors (that’s all one word) at gmail.com.

If you would like to help A, B, C by filling up blue bags with your returnable bottles and cans. The bags will be delivered to you and picked up when you let us know they are free. Take advantage of all of this stuff. For more information, RecycleOn (all one word) dot org / OregonCenters. Again, RecycleOn (It’s all one word) .org/OregonCenters.