Editor’s note: Listen Up is a Q&A featuring locals in the arts and culture community.
MILWAUKEE — The statewide youth performance group Kids From Wisconsin is holding auditions Feb. 15 in Eau Claire.
Nationally known group the Bodeans will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Metro, 201 E. Lake St.
For local band Orenda Fugue, it has always been about the connection: between each other, between the audience and between other local musicians.
Editor’s note: Cues From Katy is a list of events entertainment reporter Katy Macek thinks are worth checking out this weekend.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
UW-Eau Claire senior fine arts candidates have to put their best work forward each semester for the culminating project of their college career: Creating a piece for the Foster Gallery’s “Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibition.”
Editor’s note: Listen Up is a Q&A featuring locals in the arts and culture community.
MENOMONIE — Local musicians the Sue Orfield Band, Emily Menz and Jon Menz have teamed up to perform "A Night to Remember Christmas Concert" at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, at Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts, 205 Main St. E.
MENOMONIE — UW-Stout and Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts are co-sponsoring the new Red Cedar Film Festival, which will take place July 24-28 in downtown Menomonie.
MENOMONIE — Nationally known comedian and Menomonie native Tim Harmston will return home to perform "Guffaws for Paws" on Saturday, Dec. 29, at Stout Ale House, 1501 N. Broadway St.
For most children, Christmas is a time of excitement — and a lot of wondering, “what is Santa going to bring me this year?”
Editor’s note: Cues From Katy is a list of events entertainment reporter Katy Macek thinks are worth checking out this weekend.
The Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild is holding auditions for its "uniquely Wisconsin" musical, "Cheeseheads," at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Grand Theatre, 102 W. Grand Ave.
In the spirit of Eau Claire's annual Light Up Eau Claire New Year's Eve celebration, Visit Eau Claire and Pablo Center at the Confluence are hosting family-friendly lantern workshops for artists of all ages through December.
MENOMONIE — UW-Stout's school of art and design seniors will have capstone projects on display during the fall senior show from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, in Applied Arts, 415 13th Ave. E.
Editor’s note: Listen Up is a Q&A featuring locals in the arts and culture community.
Around this time of year, some familiar titles start to pop up: “A Christmas Carol,” “Miracle on 34th Street” and “The Nutcracker,” to name a few.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — Heyde Center for the Arts, 3 S. High St., is kicking off the holiday season with its first Jingle Ball, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the arts center.
MENOMONIE — UW-Stout's Symphonic Singers and Chamber Choir will host a World War I centennial commission concert at 7 p.m. Friday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 910 Ninth St. E.
UW-Eau Claire will hold its second annual GEEKcon from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the university's Davies Center, 77 Roosevelt Ave.
Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra and Chippewa Valley Jazz Orchestra will combine for “Let’s Go Nut(s)cracker,” a holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday at Pablo Center at the Confluence, 128 Graham Ave.
Editor’s note: Cues From Katy is a list of events entertainment reporter Katy Macek thinks are worth checking out this weekend.
There’s something in the walls of UW-Eau Claire’s Haas Fine Arts Center — or maybe it’s in the professors themselves.
More than 40 films will be screened during the new God Country Family Christian Film Festival, which takes place Dec. 7 to 9 at Micon Downtown Cinema, 315 S. Barstow St.
For the seventh year, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour will bring its award-winning selection of action, environmental and adventure films to Eau Claire on Monday and Tuesday at Pablo Center at the Confluence's RCU Theatre, 128 Graham Ave.
Area artists are invited to submit their work for Wisconsin ArtsWest, the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library's annual juried art show that will be held April 7 through May 28.
MENOMONIE — Menomonie Theater Guild is holding auditions for its upcoming musical, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the guild, 502 Second St. W.
MENOMONIE — Auditions for Menomonie Theater Guild’s production of “A Christmas Carol” in October didn’t go as planned, the show’s director said, pointing to a lack of adult males when the “traditional” show’s cast calls for many.
The Waldemar Ager Association's Ager Museum is holding a free holiday open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at the museum, 514 W. Madison St.
HUDSON — Students in grades 10 through 12 are invited to audition for The Phipps Children's Theater's production of Roald Dahl's "Willy Wonka Jr." from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, and Friday, Dec. 14, at Phipps Center for the Arts, 109 Locust St.
Editor’s note: Listen Up is a Q&A featuring locals in the arts and culture community.
RIVER FALLS — UW-River Falls Masquers theater group will present Robin Rice's "Play Nice!" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, through Saturday, Dec. 8, in the Syse Black Box Theatre of Kleinpell Fine Arts, 420 E. Cascade Ave.
It started as a joke that turned into a song, and from there Eau Claire’s latest duo, the Gossips, was formed.
Editor’s note: Cues From Katy is a list of events entertainment reporter Katy Macek thinks are worth checking out this weekend.
Eau Claire resident Steven Johnson's landscape photography will be on display at "Southwestward Ho!," an art exhibit that runs Sunday, Dec. 2, through Jan. 28 at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, 400 Eau Claire St.
HUDSON — The Phipps Children's Theater cast will perform "Bah, Humbug! Scrooge's Christmas Carol" at 7 p.m. Fridays, 1 and 4 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Friday through Dec. 16, at Phipps Center for the Arts, 109 Locust St.
MENOMONIE — UW-Stout’s Symphonic Band will present its winter concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, in the Memorial Student Center’s Great Hall, 302 10th Ave.
When Eau Claire’s iconic House of Rock shuttered its doors nearly two years ago, local musicians and fans were left wondering what would come next for the Chippewa Valley music scene.
The Plus's weekly Tuesday night open mic is getting a special visit from New York City-based comedian Caitlin Cook at its Tuesday, Nov. 27, show.
Editor’s note: Listen Up is a Q&A featuring locals in the arts and culture community.
MENOMONIE — Local author David Tank of Menomonie ("Postcards from the Past") has released a middle-aged children's book just in time for the holidays.
The Artists Series at UW-Eau Claire will present the musical play "All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, in Schofield Hall's auditorium, 105 Garfield Ave.
A follow-up to his novel, "America's Heartbeat," author Dennis Miller will present a readers theater production and Uniroyal film, "What Happened to Brian?", at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, at The Local Store, 205 N. Dewey St.
For many writers, getting the words on the page is the “easy” part. It’s the next step that gets tricky.
