Kids

Sunday, Sep. 28

Fall Harvest Week

Dress up a paper potato, build a paper tractor, draw a farm scene, color a horse, and bead a necklace.

$5 adults/seniors/kids

(715) 832-5437

 Food & Drink

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 8am-2pm

Festival Foods Farmers Market

A variety of fresh produce from local farmers.

Festival Foods • Eau Claire • 838-1000

 Kids

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 8am-6pm

Learn to Skate Registration

Interested in learning how to skate? Sign up for one 8-week session or both 8-week sessions. Season starts October 26-December 14. Session 2 is January 6-February 24.

• 5 and up

The Heyde Center for the Arts • Chippewa Falls • 715-720-1936 •

 Recreation

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 9am-5pm

Autocross hosted by CVSCC & CVTC Auto Clubs

Timed precision driving event where vehicles take turns completing a course marked by traffic cones. Drivers must have a valid DL and minors must have guardian present & sign in. Part of proceeds benefit CVTC auto programs. $5 discount with CVTC ID. Registration is Required. Deadline is: 09-26-2008

$35 adults In Advance: $30 adults • 16

CVTC Main Parking Lot (715) 836-0145

 Recreation

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 9am

Grand Prix at the Bridge Autocross

This exciting race will bring custom and modified sports cars and go-karts from all over Wisconsin and Eastern Minnesota. Participation is limited to the first 100 cars registered, and is $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Race begins at 11:00am.

FREE

Clairmont Campus parking lot, Chippewa Valley Technical College 836-0145

 Education

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 10am

Many Paths to the Top

Presented by Matt Alspaugh.

FREE

Unitarian Universalist Congregation • Eau Claire • 834-0690 • www.uucec.org

 Food & Drink

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 11am-5pm

Apple Festival

A Fall tradition in LaFayette Township's Apple Orchard country. Church festival serving lunch, one of a kind, apple dumplings, apple and pumkin pie, ice cream. Country Store with Bake and Thrift Sale. Raffle for quilt and other prizes.

FREE

St. Simeon's Episcopal Church, 19058 Co. Hwy. J, Chippewa Falls 864-5021

 Recreation

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 11am

Chippewa Valley Buddy Walk

Registration begins at 11:00, and the walk starts at noon. Lunch provided immediately following the walk, and music, entertainment, and raffle plays throughout the event. Help support the inclusion and acceptance of people with Down syndrome. Pre-registration recommended and form available on website.

$7

Irvine Park, Chippewa Falls 834-7204

 Food & Drink  Recreation

Sunday, Sep. 28 • noon-6pm

Fishing and Hobo Chefin'

An afternoon of fishing, shore lunches, and possible live music. No license required; no limit on catch or season since it`s a private fish farm.

FREE admission; pole rental, fish, and shore lunches available for purchase

 Food & Drink  Recreation

Sunday, Sep. 28 • noon-6pm

Fishing and Hobo Chefin'

An afternoon of fishing, shore lunches, and possible live music. No license required; no limit on catch or season since it`s a private fish farm.

FREE admission; pole rental, fish, and shore lunches available for purchase

 Nightlife

Sunday, Sep. 28 • noon-2am

Free Pool

Spend a Sunday afternoon chillin' out and shootin' pool.

FREE

Irvine Bar • Chippewa Falls • 720-1280

 Food & Drink

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 1pm

Pancake/French Toast Breakfast and Craft Sale

Bring family & friends to the Center for “all you can eat” pancakes/French toast served with sausage, applesauce, coffee, milk & orange juice. Tickets are available in the office or at the door. All proceeds benefit the L.E. Phillips Senior Center.

adults $5, kids 10 and under $3

L.E. Phillips Senior Center • Eau Claire • 839-4909 • www.lephillipsseniorcenter.com

 Music

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 2pm

Big Band Era Salute: "Let Freedom Ring"

UWEC jazz ensembles I and II, directed by Robert Baca and Jeffery Crowell.

Contact Service Center for ticket info at 836-3727.

Zorn Arena, UWEC

 Education  Food & Drink

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 3-5pm

Tea Party Class

Achieve tea-brewing perfection and enjoy hot tea and treats. Classes are small, so register in advance. More dates available.

$25

Wildwood Crafts and Treasures. 401 Barstow St. 830-9870

 Nightlife

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 5pm-2am

World Tavern Poker League

Have a seat and try your hand at this famous cut-throat game

FREE

Pioneer Grill & Saloon • Menomonie • 235-9927 •

 Movies

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 6-8:15pm

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Poetic modern-day Western about a veteran cowboy, Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), living in a small Texas town on the Mexico border. He becomes friends with Melquiades Estrada soon after he hires him as a ranch hand. When Estrada is gunned down in mysterious circumstances, Perkins forces a border policeman (Barry Pepper) to disinter the body and accompany him on a treacherous journey to take his friend's body home. Cannes Film Festival winner for Best Screenplay and Best Actor.

Free

Davies Theatre, Davies Center, 2nd Floor | UW- Eau Claire, Eau Claire (715) 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

 Music

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 7pm

Jim Brickman and John Trones

Platinum-selling, Grammy nominated recording artist and piano sensation Jim Brickman and international recording artist, actor and Minnesota native John Trones are set to make their Eau Claire debut this September at the State Theatre! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to catch these two incredible performers live, sharing the same stage! America’s new romantic piano sensation AND Minnesota’s own international crooner! Joining Jim & John is their special guest; chanteuse and voice over artist Joanna Jahn. An intimate, magical evening of romantic music at its best!

Gold Circle $45, box $35, all ages $35 or $30

Eau Claire Regional Arts Center • Eau Claire • 832-2787 •

 Music

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 7pm

Travelin' Shoes Gospel Choir (Benefit for Feed My People Food Bank)

The Travelin' Shoes Gospel Choir will perform a concert on Sunday, Sept 28 at 7 pm at Grace Lutheran Church. A freewill offering will be collected during the concert, with all proceeds used to benefit the Feed My People Food Bank. Travelin' Shoes is a 55-member, all volunteer community choir whose members represent a dozen communities within a 40-mile radius of Pepin, Wisconsin, and embrace a wide variety of beliefs and denominations. They meet each Sunday evening to rehearse and explore the rich, traditional music of the African-American church. Besides the singing, the Travelin' Shoes Gospel Choir has as its mission to raise funds to address the needs of food and shelter for the less fortunate residents of the communities where they perform. To date, the group has helped raise over $30,000 for area food shelves and crisis shelters.

Free

Grace Lutheran Church (715) 832-9713

 Movies

Sunday, Sep. 28 • 8:30-11pm

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Poetic modern-day Western about a veteran cowboy, Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), living in a small Texas town on the Mexico border. He becomes friends with Melquiades Estrada soon after he hires him as a ranch hand. When Estrada is gunned down in mysterious circumstances, Perkins forces a border policeman (Barry Pepper) to disinter the body and accompany him on a treacherous journey to take his friend's body home. Cannes Film Festival winner for Best Screenplay and Best Actor.

Free

Davies Theatre, Davies Center, 2nd Floor | UW- Eau Claire, Eau Claire (715) 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Tuesday, Sep. 30
Check with venue for hours.

Mark Aumann: Photography of Vietnam

Mark Aumann is an Eau Claire photographer whose work has appeared in state and national publications. His work, exhibited in both Wisconsin and Minnesota galleries. primarily focuses on people encountered during his numerous travels overseas. His most recent exhibit is from his 2007 and 2008 trips to Vietnam. Past exhibits have focused on Latin America and the Caribbean.

FREE

Acoustic Cafe, Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 832-9090 • www.theacoustic.com

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Tuesday, Sep. 30
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Lois Images

Whimsical photo manipulations by Lois Bravo. Lois creates her art images by taking a photograph, using Photoshop CS2 to liquefy the colors, and then re-forming the colors into a unique and different “Lois Image” that has no resemblance whatsoever to the original photo except for the colors, which are usually vivid, intense, and stimulating. The images are surrealistic and primitive in style. They seem to exhibit a startling, dreamlike supernatural quality, an altered awareness that is sometimes subtle, sometime obvious.

FREE

Just Local Food • Eau Claire • 577-5564 • justlocalfood.blogspot.com

 Education

Event Ends: Sunday, Oct. 26
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Harry Miller: Automotive Genius

New exhibit featuring the éGolden Submarine" - an innovative streamlined race car built in 1917 for legendary race driver Barney Oldfield, on temporary loan from collector Buck Boudeman.

adults $4, seniors $3, ages 13-18 $2, ages 6-12 $1, members and ages 5 and under free

Russell J. Rassbach Heritage Museum • Menomonie • 232-8685

 Stage

Event Ends: Sunday, Nov. 2
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The Odd Couple

This is, without a doubt, the classic American comedy by a classic American playwright, Neil Simon. Few shows enjoy such wide-ranging popularity as The Odd Couple; not only as a hit Broadway comedy but also a box office smash movie and a long-running television show. Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison, eternally locked in the battle of “Sloppy and the Neat-freak" continue to delight audiences. Matinees: Dinner at noon, showtime at 1:45pm. Evening: Dinner seating 5:45-6:30pm, showtime at 8:00pm.

show $25.99-$28.99, plus optional meal

Fanny Hill Dinner Theatre • Eau Claire • 836-8184 •

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Thursday, Oct. 2
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Art Faculty Show

Lia Johnson and Scott Robertson are this fall's featured faculty artists. Johnson's doctoral thesis in curriculum and instruction tracked belief change using narratives and text analysis. This thesis informs her art, which is conceptual and consists mostly of sculpture created from mixed media — rubber, metals, fibers, found objects and text. Johnson is inspired by an interest in the materials and the stories embodied in them. She uses these materials in an intentional way to express some rudimentary and universal emotions. Robertson has created a series of six ink drawings for the exhibit. The subject of the series is the interplay between structure and the organic elements. Robertson's approach to this series is similar to automatic surrealism, in which the artist begins with a mark and then lets the drawing instrument be guided by his or her subconscious. He begins with very limited marks and intricate cross-hatching that are often closely related and continuously repeated, creating a pattern. The patterns are all based on inspirations from nature.

FREE

Foster Gallery, Haas Fine Arts Center, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-2328 • www.uwec.edu

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Tuesday, Oct. 14
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Photography by Mark R. Fay

The exhibit features photos published in the soon-to-be released book Fill `er Up: the Glory Days of Wisconsin`s Historic Gas Stations, as well as photos of historic Wisconsin architecture and samplings of Mr. Fay`s other work. A book signing is planned for Oct. 9.

FREE

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library • Eau Claire • 839-1648 •

 Words  Visual Art

Event Ends: Thursday, Jan. 8
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Private Soldiers: A Year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit

This exhibit honors Wisconsin's participants in the Iraq War and helps viewers understand the conflict's human side. "Private Soldiers" is an exhibit version of a Wisconsin Historical Society Press book of the same name. The exhibit showcases photographs and text provided by three members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 2-127th Infantry Battalion. This compelling firsthand documentation chronicles the battalion's yearlong deployment from the unique perspective of the soldiers themselves. Through the candid prose of Capt. Benjamin Buchholz and the vivid camera work of Lt. Nathan Olson and Staff Sgt. Joseph Streeter, "Private Soldiers" captures the experiences of these citizen soldiers from training and deployment to their unique mission to their return to homes, jobs, and families. Their mission took them into the most dangerous regions of Iraq, where they withstood hundreds of attacks, saw dozens wounded, and lost three members killed in action.

$4 adults

Chippewa Valley Museum • Eau Claire • 834-7871 • www.cvmuseum.com