Events Calendar

Sat. Sep. 14 10am-4pm (click for all dates)

DECI Fall Festival

Downtown Eau Claire

Sat. Sep. 14 6pm (click for all dates)

Pablo Center Fundraiser: A Night at the Bazaar

Pablo Center at the Confluence
Eau Claire

Galas

Saturday, October 12, 2024

All DaySaturday Oct. 12

Reflected Light | The Plein Air Art of GO Paint

Artists have painted the rolling farmlands, dramatic riverbanks, charming downtown areas, prairies and forests of the surrounding counties.

Pablo Center at the Confluence
Eau Claire

Visual Art

All DaySaturday Oct. 12

Public Telescope Viewing

Join members from Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society at Hobbs Observatory to view the night sky through telescopes.

Hobbs Observatory
Fall Creek

Outdoors

All DaySaturday Oct. 12

2024-25 School of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition

This exhibition will showcase the talented artists and designers that make up the School of Art & Design, bringing a wide range of work together for a compelling exhibition.

Furlong Gallery
Menomonie

Visual Art

7:30am-1pm Saturday Oct. 12

Artist Market of Eau Claire

Celebrates and promotes the local creative community by offering a place to showcase and display original, handmade arts & crafts.

Phoenix Park
Eau Claire

Open Houses & Shopping

7:30am-1pm Saturday Oct. 12

Eau Claire Downtown Farmers Market

Local musicians and artist markets every Saturday.

Phoenix Park
Eau Claire

Farmers Markets

8-9:15am Saturday Oct. 12

Goat Yoga

A relaxing all levels yoga session with some gentle stretches and calm while being nudged and nuzzled with playful goats.

Hidden Timber Soul Sanctuary
Fall Creek

Fitness

8-10:30am Saturday Oct. 12

Greater Chippewa Valley Chess Club

Casual chess club for all skill levels. Social engagement and having fun are the primary objectives. They also like coffee and blunders.

Check Facebook page for Weekly Location

Games & Hobbies

8am-1pm Saturday Oct. 12

Menomonie Farmers Market

Fresh local produces, lunches, vendors, and more.

Wilson Park
Menomonie

Farmers Markets

9-11am Saturday Oct. 12

CVSCC Cars & Coffee

Chippewa Valley Sports Car Club hosts this monthly meetup.

Burger King - Hastings Way
Eau Claire

Car Show

9am-2pm Saturday Oct. 12

Fall Creek Fall Fair

Celebrating Fall Creek's local businesses & organizations. Face painting, crafts, games, and a pumpkin carving competition. Scavenger hunt. Apple cider donuts, pumpkins, and more.

Library Parking lot across from The Red Fern Cafe
Fall Creek

9am-6pm Saturday Oct. 12

What Does It Even Mean? Art Show

Eau Claire abstract painter Jamie Bowers explores the thoughts of art viewers. Sometimes profound and introspective. Other times, not so much.

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Eau Claire

Visual Art

9am Saturday Oct. 12

Goldstar Tech Marketplace Warehouse Sale

Warehouse + mixed media sale with discounts up to 85% off retail prices. Free cookies, coffee, and lemonade, and weekly giveaways.

Goldstar Tech Marketplace
Eau Claire

Open Houses & Shopping

10-11:15am Saturday Oct. 12

Goat Yoga

A relaxing all levels yoga session with some gentle stretches and calm while being nudged and nuzzled with playful goats.

Hidden Timber Soul Sanctuary
Fall Creek

Fitness

10-11:30am Saturday Oct. 12

The Written Page Writer's Group

Turn your blank page into The Written Page with encouragement and, when needed, constructive criticism from other local writers.

Bloomer Public Library
Bloomer

Words

10am-2pm Saturday Oct. 12

Ager Open House

Open house at the Ager Museum. A docent will be present to assist in finding items in the library or viewing items in the museum.

Ager House
Eau Claire

Museums & History

10am-2pm Saturday Oct. 12

Fiber Arts Group

Great for a spinner, knitter/crocheter, weaver, dyer, or someone new to the fiber arts/textile crafts who is looking for a social group.

Altoona Public Library
Altoona

Crafting & Making

10am-2pm Saturday Oct. 12

Waldemar Ager Open House

Discover the legacy of journalist, business man, novelist Norwegian immigrant Waldemar Ager and browse a library of 1,600+ volumes of Scandinavian literature.

Ager House
Eau Claire

Museums & History

10am-2pm Saturday Oct. 12

Ager Open House

Includes Waldemar Ager's study, the newspapers he edited for nearly 50 years, and a 1,600 volume library of materials on Scandinavian history.

The Waldemar Ager Museum
Eau Claire

Museums & History

10am-4pm Saturday Oct. 12

Field of Screams Family Fun Days

Games, petting zoo, corn maze, haunted trail and barn, pumpkin carving and painting, face painting and more.

Rockin' T-R Ranch
Eau Claire

Kids Halloween

10am-5pm Saturday Oct. 12

Projects on the Porch (P.O.P)

Drop-in glass fusing activity most Saturdays and Sundays in the fall. See website for exact dates, times, and available projects.

The Glass Orchard
Eau Claire

Crafting & Making Kids

10am-5pm Saturday Oct. 12

Hot Glass Make Your Own Classes

Try your hand at hot glass while we walk you through the steps of creating your own glass piece. Book your class online.

The Glass Orchard
Eau Claire

Crafting & Making

10am-5pm Saturday Oct. 12

West Wisconsin Railroad Club Train Show

Tons of varied, operating layouts, vendors, and more. Big trains, historic trains, modern trains, steam trains, high speed trains, trains, and trains.

L.E. Phillips YMCA Indoor Sports Center
Eau Claire

Games & Hobbies

10am Saturday Oct. 12

Chippewa Valley Humanists

Open meeting for members and anyone interested in learning more about Humanism.

Banbury Place, Building 2, Fourth Floor, Gillette Room

Community

10:30-11am Saturday Oct. 12

Family Storytime

Age-appropriate stories, rhymes, fingerplays, flannels, music, and movement to help your child develop language and early literacy skills.

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Eau Claire

11am-2pm Saturday Oct. 12

"A Minor Inconvenience" Release Party

Chelsea Jean's book, "A Minor Inconvenience" will release on Oct. 10. She will read from the book, and have some for sale and signing.

Dragon Tale Books
Menomonie

Words

11am-5pm Saturday Oct. 12

Food Truck: Mi Mi Cafe

Serving carefully crafted Vietnamese style street food.

River Bend Winery & Distillery
Chippewa Falls

Food & Drink

11am-6pm Saturday Oct. 12

Harvest Bridge at Munson Bridge

A vendor fair at scenic Munson Bridge Winery. Food trucks, produce, and more.

Munson Bridge Winery
WIthee

11am Saturday Oct. 12

ECCT - Spookley the Square Pumpkin: The Musical

This Halloween themed musical is based on the popular kids books and animated special.

The Oxford
Eau Claire

Stage Halloween

11:45am-12:15pm Saturday Oct. 12

Pablo Center ARTmobile @ the Library

Connects people of all ages to the visual arts with fun, inspiring, and relevant art projects that have an educational component.

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Eau Claire

noon-3pm Saturday Oct. 12

Royal Credit Union's 60th Anniversary Celebration

Featuring live music from the Whitesidewalls, food trucks, giveaways, a special brew, a free drink ticket and pint glass for the first 500 attendees, and more.

The Brewing Projekt
Eau Claire

noon-7pm Saturday Oct. 12

Leinie Lodge Food Trucks

Leinie's Lodge hosts food trucks every weekend May through early October.

Leinenkugel's
Chippewa Falls

Food & Drink

noon-9pm Saturday Oct. 12

Mystery at the Schlegelmilch House Escape Room

Where are You? Doo you have a CLUE? Help those darn kids figure out what's haunting the Schleglemilch House. Teams of 4-12 with 1 adult min. for this family-friendly mystery escape room operated by Tactical Escape 101. Escape Room fundraiser benefits Chippewa Valley Museums

September 28 - October 27. Every Wednesday - Friday, 4-8:30, Saturday 12-9, Sunday 12-6

Schlegelmilch House Museum
Eau Claire

1-3pm Saturday Oct. 12

LEGO Club

Join fellow LEGO® brick fans for free building. They supply the LEGOs, you supply the imagination.

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Eau Claire

1-3pm Saturday Oct. 12

Holistic Wellness Workshop

Build confidence, create support networks, and provide you with the techniques to boost your energy, manage your stress, and foster compassion for yourself.

UW Stout Vocational Rehabilitation building
Menomonie

Wellness

1-4pm Saturday Oct. 12

Blu Kano Duo

Relatives of the Sage Band, they do tight harmonies and crowd pleasers.

Dixon's Autumn Harvest Winery
Chippewa Falls

1:30pm Saturday Oct. 12

ECCT - Spookley the Square Pumpkin: The Musical

This Halloween themed musical is based on the popular kids books and animated special.

The Oxford
Eau Claire

Stage Halloween

2-5pm Saturday Oct. 12

Live Music: Brady Luke

The Brady Luke Band has opened for National Country Touring acts such as Craig Morgan, Tyler Farr and Trailer Choir.

River Bend Winery & Distillery
Chippewa Falls

4-6pm Saturday Oct. 12

Eau Claire Traditional Irish Session

Sing along, clap, dance or enjoy conversation with your neighbors.

Lazy Monk Brewing
Eau Claire

4-8pm Saturday Oct. 12

Fall Party & Annual Meetin

Join us for this year's Fall Party and Annual Meeting! Registration closes 10/04.

Beaver Creek Reserve
Fall Creek

Outdoors

6-7:30pm Saturday Oct. 12

Dark History Trolley Tour

Board the trolley as we investigate the seedy under belly of Eau Claire’s backstory, sharing historic and modern tales of crime, scandal, and the just plain bizarre.

6pm and 7:30pm. Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat Sept 27 thru Nov 2

The Local Store
Eau Claire

Halloween

6:30-7:15pm Saturday Oct. 12

Glass Soap Dish Class

Create a slumped soap dish or trinket dish with the use of pre-fused glass dots while learning about different processes of glass fusing.

The Glass Orchard
Eau Claire

Crafting & Making Kids

7-10pm Saturday Oct. 12

Field of Screams Haunted Trail and Barn

Experience their most frightening Halloween event yet. Proceeds benefit Feed My People Food bank, and youth organizations. Cash, Paypal, and Venmo.

Rockin' T-R Ranch
Eau Claire

Halloween Kids

7-10pm Saturday Oct. 12

Josh Gallagher Group

Catch this masterful and swinging pianist in action leading his group.

The Lakely
Eau Claire

7-10pm Saturday Oct. 12

Backstroke / Homestretch / The Dead Ambers

Watch some local artists shred some punk rock riffs at Abraxas Wax.

The Abraxas
Eau Claire

7:30-9pm Saturday Oct. 12

Are you Afraid of the Improv?

A completely improvised episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark" a horror show on Nickelodeon in the 90s.

Oh Claire Improv
Eau Claire

Comedy

7:30-9pm Saturday Oct. 12

Dark History Trolley Tour

Board the trolley as we investigate the seedy under belly of Eau Claire’s backstory, sharing historic and modern tales of crime, scandal, and the just plain bizarre.

6pm and 7:30pm. Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat Sept 27 thru Nov 2

The Local Store
Eau Claire

Halloween

7:30-9:30pm Saturday Oct. 12

CVSO Presents: Echoes of Eternity: A Journey Through the History of the Chippewa Valley

Welcoming LA Phil Principal Violist Teng Li for the premiere of a viola concerto by award-winning local composer Chiayu Hsu, inspired by the history of the Chippewa Valley.

Pablo Center at the Confluence
Eau Claire