Movies

Thursday, Feb. 11 • 6-8pm

Moon

Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. His time on the moon is nearly over. Sam's suddenly deteriorating health leads to an almost fatal accident when Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago.

• Rated R

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Friday, Feb. 12 • 6pm

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Get your Edward Cullen fix on a screen bigger than your home TV. Blue Devil Productions is proud to present the film New Moon at UW–Stout.

Free • PG-13

U.W. Stout Applied Arts 210, 712 S. Broadway St., Menomonie 232-2432

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Thursday, Feb. 18 • 6-8pm

Repo! The Genetic Opera

After an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet, a savior emerges in GeneCo, a biotech company that offers transplants that can be financed. However, when people default on their payments, the Repo Men, GeneCo's surgeon assassins, come to take the organs back. This goth horror-musical stars Anthony Stewart Head, Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton and Sarah Brightman.

FREE with BluGold ID or International Film Society membership • Rated R

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Friday, Feb. 19 • 11:59pm

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Yeah, it's one of those audience participation shows! When a soon-to-be married couple must take shelter in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, what follows is the classic fast-paced pastiche of camp, science fiction, rock music and "horror" which made the Rocky Horror Picture Show among the greatest cult classic films in history. Tickets available at the Davies Service Center.

$8, $5 with UWEC student ID • Rated R

Council Fire Room, Davies Center, UWEC

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Saturday, Feb. 20 • 6:45-9pm

Amancia, Two Faces on a Tombstone

In this award winning documentary film, a young gay man is murdered in Yuma, Arizona and features the heroic efforts of one man to bring the murderer to justice. Directed by award winning film maker Tom Murray, AMANCIO received the “Audience Favorite” award at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and has been shown at numerous film festivals across the US, both gay and mainstream.

FREE

Chippewa Valley LGBT Community Center • Eau Claire • 552-LGBT

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Monday, Feb. 22 • 5:30pm

Chocolat

Chocolat tells the story of a young mother who arrives at a repressed French village to open a small chocolaterie. The store imbues both wonder and angst within the villagers as her chocolate begins to change the lives of the townspeople.

• PG-13

The Healing Place, Sacred Heart Hospital • Eau Claire • 717-6028 • www.sacredhearthospital-ec.org

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Thursday, Feb. 25 • 6-8pm

Tell No One

Pediatrician Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) still grieves eight years after the murder of his beloved wife Margot. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when Alex receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to video that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to tell no one.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Friday, Feb. 26 • 11am

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Join us as we view the 2009 movie release based on the same titled book by Judi Barrett. Open to anyone. Children under 12 should have a note signed by their parents stating that it is okay for them to view the movie. Popcorn provided.

• PG

Chippewa Falls Public Library • Chippewa Falls • (715) 723-1146

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Friday, Feb. 26 • 7-9pm

It Came From Outer Space (in 3D)

Enjoy a memorable B-movie night in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It Came From Outer Space promises thrills that almost touch you through the magic of 3-dimension. Witness amazing sights the human eye has never before seen.

FREE showing; 3D glasses, popcorn, dinner, gourmet coffee and soda available to purchase • 18+

The Blind Munchies Coffeehouse, 621 Wilson Ave, Menomonie 235-9300

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Sunday, Feb. 28 • 5pm

Siren's Song

Siren's Song is a locally produced, locally filmed modern version of a Scottish siren legend in which a seaman betrays his young lover. The drowns herself and is reborn banished to an enchanted river, where her songs are preludes to more sinister deeds.

$5

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 720-2291 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Tuesday, Mar. 2 • 6:30pm

Azur et Asmar

Azur is a blond boy with blue eyes, Asmar has dark hair and dark eyes. As kids, they fought and loved each other as brothers do. As grown ups, they mercilessly become rival in the quest for the djinn's fairy, in a medieval Maghreb, full of dangers, magic spells and wonders. Pre-party at 5:30pm includes refreshments and a speaker about French cinema.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Wednesday, Mar. 3 • 7:30pm

Monumental: David Brower’s Fight for Wild America

Brower, who was Sierra Club executive director from 1952-1969, is known as one of the most prominent conservationists of the twentieth century. What is lesser known is his colorful history as a mountaineer, river rafter, and filmmaker. Through its look back at an earlier period, the film hopes to inspire renewed confidence in the ability of citizens to fight against environmental threats despite overwhelming odds.

FREE

Northstar Middle School Commons, 2711 Abbe Hill Dr., Eau Claire 926-5107

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Thursday, Mar. 4 • 6-8pm

M

Inspired by an actual case, Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork of private madness and public hysteria stars Peter Lorre as a serial child murder terrorizing Berlin. The police conduct an investigation that so disrupts the city’s underworld that the criminals also organize a search for the murderer.

FREE with a valid Blugold ID Card or International Film Society membership card. • not rated

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Saturday, Mar. 6 • 6-8:15pm

Sherlock Holmes

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. Will Sherlock Holmes wits be enough to solve this impossible crime? This movie is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some startling images and a scene of suggestive material. Run time is 128 minutes.

FREE

UW-Stout Applied Arts Room 210, 712 S Broadway, Menomonie 232-2432

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Sunday, Mar. 7 • 2-3:30pm

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

In honor of International Women's Day, the Women's and Gender Equity (WAGE) Center will be screening Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which chronicles the story of courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. Inspiring, uplifting, and motivating, Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a testimony of how grassroots activism can alter the history of nations.

FREE

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire, 105 Garfield Ave., Eau Claire 836-2693

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Tuesday, Mar. 9 • 5:15pm

Iron Jawed Angels

Katja von Garnier's "Iron Jawed Angels" tells the remarkable and little-known story of a group of passionate and dynamic young women, led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and her friend Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), who put their lives on the line to fight for American women's right to vote. This film showing is part of UW-Stout's Women's History Month.

Micheels Hall room 290, UW-Stout, Menomonie

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Tuesday, Mar. 9 • 6:30pm

La Graine et le Mulet

At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired sixty year old has is going through a difficult period in his life and desires escape from it to set up his own restaurant, a seemingly unreachable dream. His family which gradually reconnects to help realize this project.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Wednesday, Mar. 10 • 6:30pm

Un Baiser, s'il Vous Plait

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening together and at the end, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences", then telling him a story about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Thursday, Mar. 11 • 6-8pm

Thirst

A devoted Catholic priest selflessly volunteers to test a new vaccine is stricken by a deadly virus, transforming him into a vampire. Struggling with his newfound carnal desire for blood, the priest is further tested when a friend’s wife (Kim Ok-vin) seeks his help in escaping her unhappy life. Seduced into a world of sensual pleasures, the priest fights to maintain what is left of his humanity.

FREE with a valid Blugold ID Card or International Film Society membership card. • Rated R

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Friday, Mar. 12 • 6-7:45pm

Brothers

There are two sides to every family; a young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. Brothers was nominated for two Golden Globes and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, and Tobey Maguire.

FREE

UW-Stout Applied Arts Room 210, 712 S Broadway, Menomonie 232-2432

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Tuesday, Mar. 16 • 2pm

Film Screening and Discussion: Broken

The WAGE Center will be screening the film "Broken", an independent film directed by Juli Stone Pitzer, a UW-Eau Claire alumni. The film draws attention to the distortion of female body image. Pitzer will facilitate two discussions about the film immediately after its its screening in Davies Theatre. The first discussion will focus on Pitzer’s experiences as a female film director, while the second discussion will address issues related to women’s body image.

FREE

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire, 105 Garfield Ave., Eau Claire 836-2693

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Tuesday, Mar. 16 • 6:30pm

Eldorado

Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet extraordinary adventures.

http://www.uwec.edu/lsf

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Thursday, Mar. 18 • 5:15pm

Einstein's Wife

Until recently, the life of Mileva Maric was little more than a footnote in her famous husband's biography. Upon the first release of Einstein's private letters in 1987, the world learned of a brilliant and ambitious woman who shared her husband's interest in science and was a pioneer in the history of women in science. This film is part of UW-Stout's celebration of Women's History Month.

Micheels Hall room 290, UW-Stout, Menomonie

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Thursday, Mar. 18 • 6-8pm

The Wicker Man

A police sergeant (Edward Woodward) travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. He finds an isolated community whose ancient religious practices run counter to his Christian faith, and he is told that the girl never existed. The film has acquired a cult following for its enigmas, psychological twists and fascination with Celtic ritual. “Anthony Shaffer penned the screenplay which, for sheer imagination and near-terror, has seldom been equaled,” wrote Variety.

FREE with a valid Blugold ID Card or International Film Society membership card • Rated R

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Friday, Mar. 19 • 1-2:30pm

Air Bud Spikes Back

Not simply content with his basketball prowess, Air Bud (who has also played football, soccer and baseball) sets out to conquer the beaches to play in competitive volleyball. However, when a neighborhood crime concerns his owners, Buddy also plays the role of detective as he tries to reveal the identity of the neighborhood menace.

FREE • for K-5th grade

Menomonie Public Library • Menomonie • 232-2164 •

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Tuesday, Mar. 23 • 6-7:30pm

In Good Conscience

In honor of Women's History Month, WAGE will be screening the film In Good Conscience. This film depicts Sister Jeannine Gramick, an American nun who ministers to gay and lesbian catholics. Ordered to stop her activities, the sister has refused and is attempting to take her case to the Vatican. Discussion of the film will follow in the Alumni Room, Davies Center.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-2693 • www.uwec.edu

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Tuesday, Mar. 23 • 7pm

Go

A survivor of the ongoing Ugandan conflict that inspired "The Invisible Children", Pepito attended school through Invisible Children's scholarship fund, lived in a displacement camp with his grandmother, paid for his school fees and supported his grandmother on his own. In "Go", Pepito tells his story, and he and a team of activists will discuss what is being done to bring peace and hope to northern Uganda.

Schofield Auditorium, Schofield Hall • Eau Claire

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Wednesday, Mar. 24 • 2:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Ask Not

Ask Not is a rare and compelling documentary film that explores the effects of the US military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay and lesbian soldiers and service members. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to the discriminatory law and examines the societal shifts that have occurred since its passage in 1993.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Thursday, Mar. 25 • 7pm

23 Days of Filmmaking Screening & Awards Show

Watch 10 films completed in 23 days as part of the 23 Days of Filmmaking Project, plus a few others. Awards will be given for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film, Best use of Prop, Most Creative, and an Audience Award where audience members vote on the best movie.

blawton39@yahoo.com

Davies Center • Eau Claire • 828-6576 (Ben)

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Friday, Mar. 26 • 5pm

Fish Fry Night Milwaukee

Filmmaker Ron Faiola, UWM alum, directed, wrote and produced a 60-minute whimsical documentary on the Fish Fry culture in Milwaukee. This film was a finalist for Best Wisconsin Film at the Beloit International Film Festival last month and had a sold-out show at the festival. The film takes you to some of Milwaukee's most popular, historic and unique fish fry places and is about people who host them and enjoy them.

$8 • all ages

Masonic Auditorium • Eau Claire • 953-1089 • www.masonicballroom.com

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Wednesday, Mar. 31 • 6pm

Sherlock Holmes

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. Will Sherlock Holmes' wits be enough to solve this impossible crime? This movie is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some startling images and a scene of suggestive material.

• PG-13

UW-Stout, Applied Arts 210, 712 S Broadway, Menomonie 232-2432

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Saturday, Apr. 3 • 10am

Easter Egg Hunt and Veggie Tales Movie at Micon

Micon Cinemas hosts an Easter Egg Hunt plus a showing of the Veggie Tale movie, food and a visit with the Easter Bunny.

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 720-2291 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Thursday, Apr. 8 • 6-8pm

No Such Thing

Writer-director Hal Hartley takes a satirical look at a society driven by instant gratification and voyeuristic sensationalism. A short-tempered monster (Robert John Burke) with angry contempt for humanity is discovered. A guileless young reporter (Sarah Polley) befriends the monster and brings him hope of ending his life of misery.

FREE with a valid Blugold ID Card or International Film Society membership card • Rated R

Schofield Auditorium, Schofield Hall • Eau Claire

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Friday, Apr. 9 • 6pm

The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death.

FREE

UW-Stout, Applied Arts 210, 712 S Broadway, Menomonie

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Thursday, Apr. 15 • 6-8pm

Shaolin Soccer

Sing (Stephen Chow) is a down-on-his-luck disciple of the ancient art of Shaolin kung fu who reunites his ragtag brethren in a bid to win a national soccer competition. Using an unlikely mix of martial arts and newfound soccer skills, the team seems unbeatable - until it has to face off against the black-garbed Team Evil in the ultimate battle for the title and the big money.

FREE with a valid Blugold ID Card or International Film Society membership card • Rated PG

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Friday, Apr. 16 • 6-9:30pm

A Night at the Museum

The Children’s Museum of Eau Claire is excited to present the 1st annual “A Night at the Museum.” This annual event offers supervised activities, fun and food for children in kindergarten - 5th grade. Registration required, deadline: Apr. 16.

$10 adults/kids under 5 • K-5th grade

Children's Museum of Eau Claire, 220 South Barstow Street, Eau Claire 832-5437

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Friday, Apr. 16 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: The Bubble

Vacillating provocatively between romantic comedy and political tragedy, The Bubble is photographed with a sunny brightness that belies the gravity of its intentions. Set primarily in the fashionable Sheinkin Street district of Tel Aviv, the story follows three left-leaning 20-somethings whose notion of political action is to hold a “rave against the occupation.”

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 102, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Saturday, Apr. 17 • 10am-1pm

Spiritual Cinema

Join us as we explore monthly movies to enlighten and inspire us toward spiritual advancement. Coordinated by Julie Geigle. Call for details. Space limited - register early.

Heaven Sent Hypnotherapy • Eau Claire • 833-1096 •

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Saturday, Apr. 17 • noon

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story

In 1949, photographer Don Normark visited Chavez Ravine, a close-knit Mexican American village on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles. Enchanted, he stayed for a year and took hundreds of photographs documenting community life. But little did Normark know that he was capturing the last images of a place that would disappear within a few short years, destroyed by greed, political hypocrisy and good intentions gone awry.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Saturday, Apr. 17 • noon

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. The FBI

An unlikely team of young activists and old civil rights workers come together to battle the U.S. government, but their strategic relationship was too much of a threat. After Judi Bari's car is bombed in 1990, and three hours later was arrested as a terrorist, she is convinced it is a ploy by the FBI to discredit her and Earth First!

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Saturday, Apr. 17 • 3pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: California Company Town

This documentary extends a critical gaze at the landscape of California industrial towns built and abandoned by large corporations during the mid-20th Century era of US capitalist expansion.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Saturday, Apr. 17 • 7pm

Hyenas

Anyone can be bought if the price is right. The vengeance that the richest woman in the world brings to the dusty African village of her birth is an avalanche of irresistible Western paraphernalia that will certainly eradicate the area's tribal culture. Symbolism is enriched by frequent shots of fiery-eyed hyenas restlessly stalking the outskirts of the town like evil spirits alert to the scent of decay.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 100, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Saturday, Apr. 17 • 7-9:30pm

The 24 Hour Project

Creative and performing artists from four disciplines collaborate on an exhibition of works conceived, rehearsed and performed within 24 hours. It is produced by the UWEC Players, Eau Claire's very own guerilla theatre organization. The kick off at 7pm April 16th; the performance is 24 hours later.There will be music, art, theatre and dancing, and you're invited.

$3 for students and $5 for the public

Riverside Theatre, 121 Water Street, Eau Claire 255-0ACT

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Sunday, Apr. 18 • noon

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Tulpan

Following his Russian naval service, young dreamer Asa returns to his sister’s nomadic brood on the desolate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles. Accompanied by his girlie mag-reading sidekick Boni (and a menagerie of adorable lambs, stampeding camels, mewling kittens and mischievous children), Asa will stop at nothing to prove he is a worthy husband and herder.

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Sunday, Apr. 18 • 3pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Privilege

Privilege recounts the tale of Steven Shorter, a charismatic pop star, whose meteoric rise to the top as well as his huge audience appeal, most notably to a new generation of youth, results from the deliberate crafting of his performance, and especially of his persona, by a sordid combination of big business, big media, big government, and established Christian religious interests.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Sunday, Apr. 18 • 7pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Boy A

Jack (Andrew Garfield) is released from prison, finally, at the age of 24; having been institutionalized for most of his life. The film follows Jack's attempts to readjust to the world and restart a life which never really got going. Under the fatherly mentor-ship of Terry (Peter Mullan) his parole contact and social worker, he experiences a coming of age, which would normally have happened years ago, though forces from the past are constantly upon him.

FREE • Rated R

Hibbard Humanities Hall 100, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Monday, Apr. 19 • 7pm

I Never Thought it was Rape

This film features interviews with three rape survivors and one offender and attempts to dispel myths about rape and sexual assault. It also raises questions about sex education and the appropriate punishment for sex offenders. Facilitated discussion follows the film.

Alumni Room, Davies Center, UWEC, Eau Claire 836-2693 (Abby)

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Monday, Apr. 19 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: The World According to Monsanto

This is one of the most powerful, must see films for anyone interested in the behind the scenes world of the food industry, and how just one world dominating corporation holds the keys and patents to much of the worlds food supply. Monsanto, which started out as one of the planets largest chemical companies is also responsible for such chemical compounds as Agent Orange, Bovine Growth Hormone, PCBs and genetically-engineered crops.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 100, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Tuesday, Apr. 20 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Liberation Day (Munyurangabo)

About the ngoing fallout from the Rwandan genocide, the story follows Munyurangabo and Sangwa, two young boys from opposing tribes who test their friendship on a quest for some measure of justice.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 100, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Wednesday, Apr. 21 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Trouble in the Water

Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen; a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes, surviving the storm and seizing a chance for a new beginning. With no means to leave the city and equipped with just a few supplies and her hi 8 camera, she and her husband Scott tape their harrowing ordeal as the storm rages, the nearby levee breaches, and floodwaters fill their home and their community.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 100, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Thursday, Apr. 22 • 6-8pm

Dead Man

Accountant William Blake (Depp) crosses the country to the Old West for a job promised to him. Instead, he is cast out into the muddy streets and shot. Now a hunted man, he escapes to the, cared for by a benevolent Indian (Gary Farmer) who helps him prepare for his next journey. Dead Man popularized the Acid Western film genre and features a cast including Lance Henriksen, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop and Gabriel Byrne; Neil Young wrote the score.

FREE with a valid Blugold ID Card or International Film Society membership card • Rated R

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Thursday, Apr. 22 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Burma VJ

Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. Armed with small handycams, the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reports from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out of the country and broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered as free use for international media.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 102, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Friday, Apr. 23 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Trouble in the Water

Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. It's a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall-twenty-four year old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts is turning her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. "It's going to be a day to remember," Kim declares. With no means to leave the city and equipped with just a few supplies and her hi 8 camera, she and her husband Scott tape their harrowing ordeal as the storm rages, the nearby levee breaches, and floodwaters fill their home and their community. Seamlessly weaving 15 minutes of this home movie footage shot the day before and the day of the storm, with archival news segments and verite footage shot over two years, directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal document a journey of remarkable people surviving not only failed levees, bungling bureaucrats and armed soldiers, but also their own past.

FREE

Hibbard Humanities Hall Room 323, UWEC

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Friday, Apr. 23 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Wounded Knee

On the night of February 27, 1973, a caravan of cars carrying 200 armed Oglala Lakota—led by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists—entered and occupied Wounded Knee. When federal agents arrived, they declared, “The Indians are in charge of the town,” and a 71-day standoff ensued. Compiling an astonishing amount of archival film footage and firsthand accounts from participants, Stanley Nelson creates an immersive, comprehensive account of the occupation and its fascinating complexity.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 100, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Saturday, Apr. 24 • noon

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: When I Came Home

When I Came Home looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight for the benefits promised to them. Through the story of Herold Noel, an Iraq War veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and living in his car in Brooklyn, When I Came Home reveals a failing system and the veteran's struggle to survive after returning from the war.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Saturday, Apr. 24 • 5pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Of Time and the City

Of Time and the City is both a love song and a eulogy to Liverpool. Terence Davies returns to his native Liverpool and to his film making roots to capture a sense of the City today and its influences on him growing up in the late 40's and early 50's. Liverpool’s phoenix-like rise is portrayed like it’s never been seen before; how a city can change itself and the people under its influence.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Saturday, Apr. 24 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: XXY

Alex is not like other girls. She is a 15-year-old with a secret, one that no other can claim. Her parents keep her hidden away at a coastal town in amongst the dunes of the shoreline, buying time before they must decide on a life-threatening operation. When old family friend and plastic surgeon Ramiro arrives with his teenage son Álvaro, Alex begins to realise that his visit could change her life forever.

FREE • Unrated

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Sunday, Apr. 25 • noon

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Hunted Like Animals

Hunted Like Animals is an eye-opening documentary about an ongoing, but unknown, genocide — against the Hmong people in the jungles of Laos. Coerced into joining the CIA’s anti-communist efforts during the Vietnam war, this ethnic minority became a Secret Army. When the U.S. pulled out of Southeast Asia in 1975 and the Lao kingdom was overthrown by the communists, the Hmong became targets of retaliation and persecution. Hundreds of thousands fled the country; others ran to remote mountainous regions of Laos, still hunted like animals two generations later.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Sunday, Apr. 25 • 2:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) tells the story of a family’s epic journey from war-torn Laos to the streets of New York. Filmed over the course of 23 years, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) chronicles the family’s struggle to reckon with that which was left behind while forging a new and difficult life in a foreign land.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Sunday, Apr. 25 • 5pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Killer’s Paradise

Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala, with the numbers escalating every year. Yet, lawmakers and government officials continue to turn a blind eye. Powerful and uncompromising, Killer's Paradise uncovers one of the most emotionally-wrenching hidden human rights abuses taking place, while exposing the impunity allowed by an inept judicial system.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 323, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Sunday, Apr. 25 • 7:30pm

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Courting Justice

From tyranny to democracy. Fourteen years after the defeat of apartheid, South Africa’s fledgling democracy is acclaimed for its constitutional promise of comprehensive human rights and unprecedented judicial reform. But what is essential for transformation to succeed? Courting Justice takes viewers behind the gowns and gavels to reveal the women who make up 18% of South Africa’s male-dominated judiciary.

FREE • Unrated

Hibbard Humanities Hall 100, UWEC, Eau Claire

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Thursday, Apr. 29 • 6-8pm

Brand Upon the Brain!

Whatever are young “Guy Maddin’s” parents really up to in their lighthouse home/orphanage on grim, remote Black Notch Island? This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of the mad, imaginary childhood of Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin is equal parts childhood reminiscence, Expressionist horror movie and gender-bending teen-detective serial.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Friday, Apr. 30 • 7:30-9:30pm

Banff Radical Reels Film Tour

SAORE (Stout Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education) and Alfresco host a film tour, complementing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. Focusing on dynamic, high-adrenaline films featuring skiing, climbing, kayaking, base jumping, snowboarding and mountain biking, SAORE and Alfresco want to help make the outdoor community larger and more involved in area counties.

FREE

University of Wisconisn Stout Applied Arts Rm 210, 13th Ave between 3rd E & 6th E, Menomonie, WI (414) 614-5256

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Tuesday, May. 4 • 7-9pm

DIRT!

DIRT!, a documentary "with heart and soil" tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility, from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. A panel discussion follows feat. prominent soil citizens. DIRT! is tied to our lives and we need to alter our practices and nourish it.

FREE

Phillips Hall Rm P007 UWEC, Water St btw 1st and 2nd, Eau Claire 829-0754

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Thursday, May. 6 • 6-8pm

The Rage in Placid Lake

Quirky twentysomething Placid Lake (singer Ben Lee) spent his school career asserting individuality and was regularly beaten up for it. Finally out of school, Placid decides to reject his bohemian upbringing, rebel against his hippy parents (Miranda Richardson, Garry McDonald) and become a person who will fit in by going to work for an insurance company.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Sunday, May. 9 • 1pm

The 11th Annual ST.I.F.FE.

UWEC's Student Independent Film Festival showing and awards ceremony.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Thursday, May. 13 • 6-8pm

The Bicycle Thief

In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man who hopes to support his desperate family with a new job loses his bicycle. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.

Davies Theatre, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-3727 • www.uwec.edu

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Saturday, May. 15 • 6:45-9pm

Saturday Night at the Movies: Prayers for Bobby

Prayers for Bobby is based on the true story of Mary Griffith, a gay rights crusader whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.

FREE

LGBT Community Center of the Chippewa Valley, 510 S. Farwell St., Eau Claire 552-LGBT

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Sunday, May. 16 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Moving Forward Together

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Wednesday, May. 19 • 1-2:30pm

Air Bud World Pup (Early Release)

The world's most athletic Golden Retriever is back to conquer the soccer field.

FREE

Menomonie Public Library • Menomonie • 232-2164 •

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Sunday, May. 23 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Red Carpet and Respect

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Sunday, May. 30 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Road Rage

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Sunday, Jun. 6 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Center of the Universe

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Wednesday, Jun. 9 • 11am-12:40pm

Finding Nemo

When Nemo, a curious clownfish gets lost in the open sea, his father Merlin sets off to find him.

FREE • all ages

Chippewa Falls Public Library • Chippewa Falls • (715) 723-1146

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Wednesday, Jun. 9 • 9pm

Dive-In Movie: The Tooth Fairy

Head to the pool and watch a movie on the big screen while you sit or float in the shallow area. For children who are or eligible to be in grades 5-8.

$3.75 or season pass

Fairfax Pool • Eau Claire • 839-1680

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Sunday, Jun. 13 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: The Price of Freedom

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Tuesday, Jun. 22 • 1:30-3pm

The Princess & the Frog

A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana, following suit, upon kissing the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams (from IMDB).

FREE

Altoona Public Library, 1303 Lynn Ave, Altoona 839-5029

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Saturday, Jun. 26 • 10pm

Decadent Cabaret: The Story Behind the Festival

Decadent Cabaret started as one-night with one band. It has since become a three-night festival celebrating the local Eau Claire bands. This DVD documentary features the story of Decadent's beginnings, where it has been and where it is going. With interviews of the co-founders intermixed with clips from the 31st Decadent Cabaret, the story and history of this great festival unveils itself. Doors open at 8pm.

Eau Claire House of Rock • Eau Claire • 838-0158 •

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Sunday, Jun. 27 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Izzi and the Giant

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Sunday, Jul. 4 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Dependability

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Monday, Jul. 5 • 9:30pm

Volume One Back Alley Summer Cinema Series: Raising Arizona

This Monday-night film series screens classic and out-of-the-mainstream films of all kinds. The space holds no more than 200 people, so show up early for a good spot. Raising Arizona follows a former outlaw (Nicolas Cage) and his wife, a former police officer (Holly Hunter) who find out they’re infertile and cannot adopt, so decide to kidnap a baby. Slapstick hilariousness and impressive pyrotechnics ensue as they become entangled with a headhunter and two prison escapees.

FREE • 82 min, PG-13

The alley that would be 205 Graham Ave., Downtown Eau Claire 552-0457

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Sunday, Jul. 11 • 10am

Veggie Tales: Sweetpea Peauty

Sweetpea Beauty, “a girl after God’s own heart” reveals the meaning of true beauty.

FREE • contact@fellowshipcf.org

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 720-2291 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Saturday, Jul. 17 • 7pm

Saturday Night at the Movies: Transamerica

“Transamerica” (2006) A pre-operative male-to-female transsexual takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. Nominated for two Academy Awards and stars Felicity Huffman. Beverages and movie snacks available to purchase, but popcorn is on the house.

FREE

Chippewa Valley LGBT Community Center • Eau Claire • 552-5428

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Sunday, Jul. 18 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Goodwill

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Sunday, Jul. 25 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Stage Fright

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Sunday, Aug. 1 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Honesty

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Sunday, Aug. 8 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Joyfulness

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Thursday, Aug. 12 • 1-4pm

Alice In Wonderland

For today's Tween Days event, we'll watch Tim Burton's version of "Alice in Wonderland", starring Johnny Depp. Rotten Tomatoes calls the film "an undeniable visual treat". We'll enjoy some treats of our own as we watch this updated version of an all-time classic.

FREE • grades 6-8

Bloomer Public Library, 1519 17th Ave., Bloomer 568-2384

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Sunday, Aug. 15 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Cooperation

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com

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Friday, Aug. 20 • 1-4pm

Make a Splash End of Summer Bash + Shark Tale

Wrap up your summer reading and celebrate with prizes and fun. Turn in your reading log and stay for our raffle for your chance to win. Afterwards, we’ll have popcorn and watch the movie “Shark Tale”.

FREE

Bloomer Public Library, 1519 17th Ave., Bloomer 568-2384

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Sunday, Aug. 22 • 10:20am

Auto-B-Good FREE Summer Movies: Cleanliness

Featuring 9 animated cars and a supporting cast of over 50 other vehicles, this movie series keeps children entertained while teaching respect, consideration and confidence. See the movies and participate in fun activities too. Hosted by Fellowship, a multi-denominational Christian community.

FREE

Micon Cinemas • Chippewa Falls • 379-0888 • www.miconcinemas.com