Toys for Tots: You GIVE, You GET

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 9:30-10:30am

MOMS Club of Eau Claire (North)

Mothers Offering Mothers Support is a support group for stay-at-home mothers.

Grace Lutheran Church, 202 W. Grand Ave 852-0188

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 9:30-11:30am

Playgroups, Chippewa Falls

A chance for kids and parents to socialize. Occasional field trips.

FREE

River Source Family Center • Chippewa Falls • 720-1841

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 10am

Thanksgiving Day Turkey Bowling

Open Thanksgiving Day at 10am, enjoy turkey bowling ($10/team of two), $6 turkey dinner plates at noon, prizes and give-aways all day. All proceeds go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Wisconsin.

Whiskey Dick’s • Altoona • 829-3425

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 10:30-11am

Preschool Storytime - Eau Claire

For the preschool-age child, this 30-minute session includes longer stories and more advanced activities. Kids ages 4 and up may attend unsupervised, but for parents must stay in the library and pick up children immediately following the program. No registration required.

FREE

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

Food & Drink

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 11am

Community Thanksgiving Dinner

This annual celebration sponsored by Dunn County Interfaith Volunteers and Our House includes a service and homemade dinner open to the entire community. To volunteer or have food delivered, call 235-2920. For a free ride there, call DET at 235-7433.

FREE and donations welcome

Old Town, 903 Cedar Falls Road, Menomonie

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 11:30am-1:45pm

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

Visual Art Education

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 1:30-5pm

Rosemalers Unite!

Drop in to the Ager House any Thursday afternoon to work on your favorite project and share the companionship of other rosemalers. Beginners to gold medalists are welcome.

$2-3 Contribution

Ager House • Eau Claire • 835-8718 • www.agerhouse.org

Education Recreation

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 2-3pm

Pilates

Pilates Increases our awareness of all muscle groups, relieving the strain on those that are often overused. Anna King instructs.

$40 members, $60 nonmembers

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

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 3-5pm

3-5 Club (Homework Help)

Tutoring available for students of all ages. After homework, students may continue specialized tutoring, work on a craft project, play ping-pong, work on computers, or go outside for basketball, football, soccer, etc. Food is available free of charge. Tutors include local college students and retired UWEC faculty.

FREE

First Presbyterian Church • Eau Claire • 839-9331 •

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 7pm-2am

Ladies Night

Enjoy drink specials and karaoke.

FREE

Eisold’s Irvine Bar • Chippewa Falls • 720-1280

Music Education

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 7pm

Open Mic

Show up and play.

FREE

Acoustic Cafe, Menomonie • Menomonie • 235-1115

Music

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 7:30-9pm

Music at the Hill

Every Thursday, musicians from across the area will be brought together in an informal atmosphere to provide patrons with an evening of smooth sounds and conversation. The emphasis will be on a mixture of music; light blues & rock, jazz, folk, and other popular genres. The event will be outside on our beautiful deck when the weather permits, and yes. . . the Tiki Bar will be open! When the weather starts to turn, we’ll move inside.

FREE

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

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 8pm-1am

Party Hits with DJ John

Ladies Night + requests all night long.

Free • 21+

Pioneer Grill & Saloon • Menomonie • 235-9927 •

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 8-10pm

Trivia Night

Test your knowledge of everything from current events and pop culture to geography in a three-round contest where teams compete for prizes. Enjoy the mini gameshows between rounds.

FREE

Wigwam Tavern • Eau Claire • 834-9061 •

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 9pm-2am

DJ + Karaoke

With AV Live.

FREE

The Village Tavern. 32 W. Spring St. Chippewa Falls. 723-3009

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 9pm-2am

Karaoke

Sing, dance, drink and be merry.

FREE

Tomahawk Room, Chippewa Falls 726-9433

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 9pm-1am

Karaoke

sing, dance, be merry

FREE

T&C Roundabout, 8685 Hwy 124, Chippewa Falls 723-2709

Music Nightlife

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 9pm-2am

Karaoke

Every Thursday.

FREE

Erwin's 19th Hole • Chippewa Falls • 831-6337

Music Nightlife

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 9:30pm-2am

Karaoke

Bring your friends and belt it out.

FREE

Court 'n' House • Eau Claire • 832-5478

Music

Thursday, Nov. 27 • 9:30-11:30pm

Sassy Magoo

Rock 'n' roll.

Free • 21+

Tailgates Sports Bar & Grill • Eau Claire • 552-1733

Event Ends: Sunday, Jan. 4
Check with venue for hours.

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 •

Words

Event Ends: Thursday, Dec. 18
Check with venue for hours.

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

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

Kids Food & Drink Recreation

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

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

Event Ends: Monday, Sep. 7
Check with venue for hours.

Family Fun Zone

A program offered for accompanied children ages 6mo to 6yr. Enjoy open play on a large turf field filled with numerous toys, games, sports equipment, inflatables, and dress up clothes. Organized activities are also offered at different times each morning.

kids $2.50, adults FREE

Eau Claire Indoor Sports Center • Eau Claire • 552-1200 •

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
Check with venue for hours.

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

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 •

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

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

Stage

Event Ends: Sunday, Jan. 25
Check with venue for hours.

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 •

Stage

Event Ends: Sunday, Jan. 25
Check with venue for hours.

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 Uncategorized

Event Ends: Thursday, Dec. 4
Check with venue for hours.

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