Celebration sets earlier date.Byline: The Register-Guard Organizers of this year's Eugene Celebration The Eugene Celebration is an annual community celebration and civic event held in downtown Eugene, Oregon, United States. Featuring bands and performers from throughout the Pacific Northwest, the three-day festival is held in early September and attracts more than 40,000 attendees are hoping neither rain nor home football games will get in the way of the downtown arts celebration, which is now officially scheduled for Sept. 8-10. "We're going to get to work right away on the theme and finalizing the event footprint," said Monica Shovlin, chairwoman of the 14 member board of directors for Downtown Events Management Inc., the event's private nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. organizer. This year's event was scheduled three weeks earlier than last year's festival to lessen the likelihood of rain, and organizers made sure to avoid staging the celebration during a University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. home football game weekend. Three-day wristband wristband An identifying bracelet attached to a Pt's wrist at the time of admission to a health care facility, which may be the only identifier used during a person's stay in a hospital passes for this year's event will be $10. The price is unchanged from last year, but there will be no one-day passes available this year, Shovlin said. Last year, rain dampened the first day of the festival, and many ticket buyers balked balk v. balked, balk·ing, balks v.intr. 1. To stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump. 2. at buying three-day passes. This year, passes will go on sale in early July and there will be prizes and other incentives for early buyers. "We're trying to really push advance wristband sales," Shovlin said. "That's the closest thing that we have to rain insurance." |
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