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Monday, Nov. 24

Toys for Tots: You GIVE, You GET

Active Health Chiropractic and Nutrition is offering a great special to help others, as well as yourself. Give a new, unwrapped toy to donate to the Salvation Army and get a free chiropractic exam for new patients. Existing patients will get a free adjustment on Dec. 5. Please call us if you want to help the children of the Chippewa Valley.

FREE

Active Health Chiropractic and Nutrition, 3119 Golf Road, Eau Claire 834-6333

 Education

Monday, Nov. 24 • 10am-1pm

Beginning Quilting

We will cover a number of basic quilting techniques including rotary cutting, 1/4" seam allowance, and the ins and outs of constructing accurate blocks. The class is also held from 6:00- 9:00pm.

$30 plus required books and supplies

The Calico Shoppe • Eau Claire • 834-9990 •

 Kids

Monday, Nov. 24 • 10:30-11:15am

Movin' & Groovin'

Each Movin'& Groovin' class is filled with discovery and adventure. You will witness your child's development in language, listening, self-esteem, and musical awareness.

Free

River Source Family Center • Chippewa Falls • (715) 720-1841

 Kids

Monday, Nov. 24 • 10:30-10:50am

That's Adorable: Storytime

We have storytime daily Monday-Saturday. Come and share our love for reading! If you would like to, please bring a food donation for the Grace Lutheran Food Pantry during the month of November.

FREE

That's Adorable! 29 N Barstow, Eau Claire 456-6180

 Kids

Monday, Nov. 24 • 11:30am-1:45pm

Family Resource Center: Drop In & Play

Play for all ages with a newly expanded play area.

FREE

Family Resource Center for Eau Claire County • Eau Claire • 833-1735 • www.frcec.org

 Education

Monday, Nov. 24 • 4-5pm

Advanced Ebay Selling

If you have experience selling on Ebay or have attended “Ebay: Selling Safely” at our Center and want to continue learning or practicing, this class is designed to help you. North High School teacher Rick Walters instructs.

$20 members, $30 nonmembers

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

 Nightlife

Monday, Nov. 24 • 4pm-2am

Music Industry Night

Calling all musicians! You gig hard all weekend, let Monday be your day. Support the industry and meet other local musicians!

Free

Stones Throw • Eau Claire • 552-5882 •

 Stage

Monday, Nov. 24 • 4:30-8pm

Auditions: Fanny Hill Theatre

Auditions will be held for the following productions: Chapter Two (comedy), Lend Me a Tenor (farce), I Do, I Do (musical), A Nice Family Gathering, and Rudy’s Holidaze Reunion. Call for number of acting parts and requirements. Appointments not necessary.

FREE

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

 Education  Kids

Monday, Nov. 24 • 5-7pm

Fall Dance Classes

Held in the Volunteer Room at the Heyde Center for the Arts, classes will culminate in a student performance from the Nutcracker Suite and a party. Dance experience builds coordination, listening skills, musicality, special awareness and creativity, with the goal of instilling a joy of dance in the heart of each student. Call or email deborahlang@hotmail.com for tuition, registration or questions.

The Heyde Center for the Arts • Chippewa Falls • 723-8889 •

 Words

Monday, Nov. 24 • 6pm

WAGE Book Club Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Discuss this book by Zora Neale Hurston. Books can be purchased at the University Bookstore for 20 percent off.

FREE

WAGE Center, Schofield 30, UW- Eau Claire campus

 Nightlife

Monday, Nov. 24 • 7pm-2am

Beer Pong & Ping Pong

Everyone's favorite beer guzzling game.

Fox Run Tavern • Eau Claire • 835-6489 •

 Words  Education  Food & Drink

Monday, Nov. 24 • 7pm

Book Discussion: Animal Vegetable Miracle

In Barbara Kingsolver’s bestseller, ”Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life,” the author elegantly chronicles a year of back-to-the-land living with her husband, Steven, and 19-year-old daughter, Camille. While Barbara makes diary entries about attempts to grow their own food and to consume only locally-grown items, Steven explores business topics such as the economics of going organic, the losing battle in the use of pesticides, the importance of a restructured Farm Bill, and fair-trade.

FREE

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

 Education  Food & Drink

Monday, Nov. 24 • 7pm

Menu for the Future

A discussion on all things edible: food’s impact on our culture and environment, what it means to eat locally, and how we can create a sustainable food system. Rick Magyar will lead the four discussion sessions designed by Northwest Earth Institute. Nov. 4: You Are What You Eat. Nov. 11: A Just Food System. Nov. 18: Farming for the Future. Nov. 24: special session on Barbara Kingsolver’s recent best-seller, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life." Dec. 2: Choices for Change. Pre-registration is encouraged. Copies of the readings will be provided to registered participants.

FREE

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

 Music

Monday, Nov. 24 • 7:30pm

Women's Chorus

Robert Mondlock conducts.

FREE

Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center • Eau Claire • 836-2284 • www.uwec.edu

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Sunday, Jan. 4
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Hope and Change in Uncertain Times

The Creamery's Brickhouse Art Gallery Exhibits four local artists. Featured work includes Helen Heinz Peterson painted furniture, Miriam Houg’s monotypes, Brianna Capra’s paintings, and Clay Vajgrt’s digital prints.

FREE

The Creamery Restaurant & Inn • Downsville • (715) 664-8354 •

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Monday, Nov. 24
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The End of A Beginning - Senior Show of Deb D'Souza, Tim Howe, Karen Barthels, and Ashley Sudden

The Senior Show of Debra D'Souza, Timothy Howe, Karen Barthels, and Ashely Suddendorf. The culmination of our BFA degree, come and see our show of fine art paintings, drawings, and prints based on nature and memory.

FREE

Gallery 209, Applied Arts Building, UW- Stout, 415 13th Avenue East, Menomonie (715) 232-2261

 Words

Event Ends: Thursday, Dec. 18
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Censorship in Schools and Libraries

Through narratives and illustrations, this exhibit chronicles incidents of censorship dating back to the 19th century, as well as frequently challenged books and creative works. Information on US Supreme Court and lower court decisions is an integral part of the exhibit, including the Children's Internet Protection Act.

FREE

McIntyre Library • Eau Claire • 836-3856

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Wednesday, Dec. 31
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Mixed Media by Amy Krause

No description available.

FREE

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

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Thursday, Jan. 1
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Susanne Schroeder: Fine Art Flower & Nature Photography

Owner of Bruce, Wisconsin's Clear Creek Nursery, photographer Susanne Schroeder's works display moments of natural beauty in flowers, bugs, cats, dogs, and landscapes.

Avalon Floral • Eau Claire • 838-8880 • www.flowersbyavalon.com

 Kids  Food & Drink  Recreation

Event Ends: Tuesday, Dec. 23
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Create a Country Christmas Memory

Take a wagon ride out to the trees and choose & cut your own! Free hot chocolate and popcorn. Gift Store is also open. Nov. 22-23 Christmas Open House: gourmet food tasting and in-store specials on florals. Nov. 28-30 and Dec. 6-7 See the "Living Nativity" and Mr. and Mrs. Claus 11-3pm; Dec.13 see Santa Claus.

Free

Pleasant Valley Tree Farms, RR 1, Elk Mound, WI (715) 879-5179

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Friday, Nov. 28
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In Support of the Arts: A Janet Carson Retrospective

Join us in a very special gallery event as we host a retrospective of work from 1947 to the present of noted artist and educator, Janet Carson. Every piece will be for sale with all proceeds being donated back to the Art Gallery. From Carson's artist statement: "From an early age I knew my destiny was to be a writer or an artist. With the middle name of WELLINGTON how could I do other? My drawing as a child was unremarkable. I designed dresses for my paper dolls and copied pictures from a dog book. I did not win the poster contest! However, the older I became the more I felt that making art was my main source of comfort and joy. As an art teacher I witnessed children discovering a reassuring sense of self through making art as well. As an aging adult looking back on those years of making and teaching art, I have experienced elation in sharing it, and I do so now in hopes that the work still in my possession will generate funds for a front door entrance to this gallery."

FREE

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

 Visual Art  Uncategorized

Event Ends: Thursday, Dec. 4
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Changing the Way We Think: New Media Art

The millennium has witnessed the growing vitality of new media art, mediated via digital means, often with the internet as its platform. Originating from an increasingly technologically dependent society, it not only challenges traditional creative media and ways of thinking, but also posits new questions concerning all realms of contemporary life.

Free

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

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Monday, Nov. 24
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Eau Claire Area Art League Exhibit

The Eau Claire Art League, founded in 1944 by a group of nine local artists, is an organization that works together in the spirit of creativity to foster and promote art in the area by encouraging new artists and accepting them into its membership. The group sponsors various art shows to help members display their work in the area. This exhibit features over 30 new pieces in a variety of media created by 15 local artists.

FREE

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

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Friday, Nov. 28
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Exhibit: Common Thread Quilters

When Bob and Deb Aaron’s house burned down in the Dunn County town of Otter Creek in 1984, one thing that grew out of the ashes was a women’s quilt group, Common Thread Quilters. The fire quilt they made as their first project for the Aarons was followed by baby quilts, wedding quilts, graduation quilts, and now includes grandchildren quilts. The membership has changed a little over the years, but the majority are founding members with many still living in western Wisconsin, and a few “social members” scattered from Duluth to Madison to New Mexico. The ladies still gather for monthly working sessions in each others' homes, as well as summer quilt retreats at a cabin near Tomahawk on Crystal Lake.

$1 suggested donation

Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater • Menomonie • 235-0001 •

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Friday, Dec. 5
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Prints from Oaxaca + Poster Offensive 4

"Prints from Oaxaca” features artists from la Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca in Mexico. Most of the exhibition's prints were printed from reliefs that the artists carved into sheets of plywood. Other artwork processes include lithography, intaglio, silk screen and monotypes. “Poster Offensive 4” features non-partisan posters by 40 artists. The themes of the posters are peace and democracy.

FREE

Furlong Gallery • Menomonie • 232-2261 • furlonggallery.uwstout.edu

 Stage

Event Ends: Sunday, Jan. 25
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A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol

Cantankerous bar owner Gunner Johnson has an argument with his wife Clara, tells her he’s skipping Christmas, and storms out. Gunner then has a dream in which he is visited by folk legend, Sven Yorgenson, who takes him on a journey similar to that of A Christmas Carol. Features 17 original songs including “The Christmas Cheese Polka” and “I Love You More Than Football”.

Prices Vary

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

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Sunday, Nov. 30
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Flesh & Bonsai Paintings by Kaz Kuroki

Talented local painter Kaz Kuroki will be displaying some of his more impressive pieces through the month of November. A reception will be held for Mr. Kuroki on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 30th, 7-9pm. If needed, check venue for hours.

Free

Infinitea Teahouse, 112 East Grand Ave., Eau Claire (715) 514-1975