Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin! Mark your calendars for the 2014-2015 Winter Farmer’s Markets. New this year is that each market will be held in the same location convenient to Downtown Eau Claire at the L.E. Phillips Senior Center. Take advantage of these monthly opportunities to purchase high quality local vegetables, meat, dairy, poultry and other farm products direct from the farmers who produce them. ecdowntownfarmersmarket.com Markets are held from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. All markets will be held the second Saturday of each month: 2014 November 8th December 13th 2015 January 10th February 14th March 14th April 11th All …

Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin! Mark your calendars for the 2014-2015 Winter Farmer’s Markets. New this year is that each market will be held in the same location convenient to Downtown Eau Claire at the L.E. Phillips Senior Center. Take advantage of these monthly opportunities to purchase high quality local vegetables, meat, dairy, poultry, and other farm products direct from the farmers who produce them. ecdowntownfarmersmarket.com Markets are held from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. All markets will be held the second Saturday of each month as follows: 2014 November 8th December 13th 2015 January 10th February 14th March 14th April …

Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin! Mark your calendars for the 2014-2015 Winter Farmer’s Markets. New this year is that each market will be held in the same location convenient to Downtown Eau Claire at the L.E. Phillips Senior Center. Take advantage of these monthly opportunities to purchase high quality local vegetables, meat, dairy, poultry, and other farm products direct from the farmers who produce them. ecdowntownfarmersmarket.com Markets are held from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. All markets will be held the second Saturday of each month as follows: 2014 November 8th December 13th 2015 January 10th February 14th March 14th April …

Woman to Woman featuring Anita Renfroe Tuesday, September 9 | 7 – 8:30 PM $18 | $14 | Buy Tickets Sponsored by Sacred Heart and now in it’s sixteenth year, Woman to Woman has been inspiring women in the Chippewa Valley to live healthy, savor good company and enjoy the wit and wisdom of national speakers. Our featured performer this year is Anita Renfroe.  With her unique brand of estrogen flavored musical comedy and blend of sass, edge and slightly offbeat takes on All Things Female, audiences at her comedy concert tours, viewers of Good Morning America appearances and the YouTube masses who enjoyed …

ARTmobile Sunday, September 7 | 7:30 AM – 1 PM Let’s make some ART! Join us this summer in Phoenix Park: Wednesdays under the Farmer’s Market Pavilion | 9am-1pm Thursday afternoons under the Farmer’s Market Pavilion | 1-5pm Thursday evenings at VolumeOne’s Sound’s Like Summer Concert Series | 6pm-8:30pm Saturday mornings at the Artist Market of Eau Claire | 7:30am-1pm Art projects are designed for all-ages.  There is a wide spectrum of art projects available to inspire you and your family to create. See you at the park! The ARTmobile connects Eau Claire’s children with the visual arts. Its purpose is to …

Revisiting the Sistine Chapel September 1 | 9 AM – 4:30 PM An on-going exhibit in the Eau Claire Regional Arts Center Paintings by Anders Shafer, Poem by Max Garland Open M-F, 9am-4:30pm | Thursdays 9am-7pm Enter through the Janet Carson Gallery eauclairearts.com REVISITING THE SISTINE CHAPEL Max Garland They’ve just cleaned the Creation of Man, God’s beard newly whitened, blown back in a turbulent cloud as he reaches for the left hand of Adam, his first mistake, Adam’s left arm, il sinistro, lazily balanced on his knee, the outline of the serpent already lounging in the musculature. The next two panels …

Barbara Shafer, Movement September 1 | 9 AM – 4:30 PM BARBARA SHAFER movement an on-going exhibit in the dance studio on the second floor of the Eau Claire Regional Arts Center. eauclairearts.com Artist Statement Growing up in near the Hudson River, just north of New York City, I was strongly drawn as a child to the powerful outcroppings of rock. Even as a young artist, I wanted to express in my work my resonance to the internal forces of these formations and their organic surfaces. My other two childhood passions were dancing and my dolls.  I believe I held on to …

2014 Confluence of Art Biennial September 1 | 9 AM – 4:30 PM August 22-September 26, 2014 Open M-F 9am-4:30pm | Th 9am-7pm A Meet the Artists’ Reception is Saturday, September 6 | 5-8pm eauclairearts.com Awards will be given at the reception. The Eau Claire Regional Arts Council’s Visual Arts Committee Presents the 2014 Confluence of Art Biennial. This exhibit juried by UW-Stevens Point Professor of Art and award winning painter, Diane Canfield Bywaters, continues in success exhibiting talented regional artists as well as highlighting national artists. Featuring the work of: Jean Accola | Christine Alfrey | Daniel Atyim | Jody Balow …

Menomonie Theater Guild Presents ON GOLDEN POND 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. For tickets, visit mabeltainter.org This is the adventurous love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory but still as tart-tongued and eager for life as ever. Ethel, the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiance who head off to …

Menomonie Theater Guild Presents ON GOLDEN POND 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. For tickets, visit mabeltainter.org This is the adventurous love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory but still as tart-tongued and eager for life as ever. Ethel, the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiance who head off to …