Name: Chippewa Valley Book Festival: A History Stretching Across Oceans and Generations
Start: 2026-10-19
End: 2026-10-19

The premier place in Eau Claire for vinyl records, CDs, cassettes, and the best audio equipment to play 'em in Western Wisconsin. Swing by and browse their vast selection of new and used records.

Revival Records

The Informalist strives to provide a unique and diverse offering of palate pleasing options. Situated inside The Lismore Hotel, the menus cover the full range of daily offerings from breakfast and brunch to wood stone pizza and a full dinner menu serving from the break of day until late in the evening. The Informalist staff has prepared a selection of options that include gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan platings.

The Informalist

An upbeat, modern lodge located in the heart of downtown Eau Claire next to bike trails, rivers, parks, theaters, restaurants, bars, retailers, festivals and events. The Oxbow Hotel features hip and comfortable indoor spaces and flexible urban outdoor spaces for a variety of highly exclusive parties and events. We can host nightlife-driven revelries, site-wide celebrations, private corporate lunches and more. Guest enjoy highly unique single rooms and two-room suites featuring handcrafted wood furniture, custom artwork and record players.

The Oxbow Hotel

The Lakely is a cocktail lounge and Midwestern hub for live music and entertainment. A place to gather, hang, and absorb the culture. A place to feel at home whether you’re a local, a traveler, or something in between. The Lakely boasts Midwest pub-style comfort food menu, including their famous Koldtbord, and behind the bar features a cleverly curated list of craft cocktails and local brews on tap and in bottles. The Lakely hosts local and touring jazz and other live music, as well as Open Mic Nights, Trivia Nights, Drag Bingo, and more. Their generous courtyard patio offers outdoor lounge seating, high-top tables, two fire pits, a yard game lawn, and more.

The Lakely: Cocktail Lounge • Midwest Eats • Live Music

Eau Claire features a 24-7 outdoor public art exhibit that resides along the streets of downtown. It’s called SCULPTURE TOUR EAU CLAIRE and with nearly 80 sculptures from local and international artists, it’s the largest outdoor sculpture tour in the nation. Each year, new sculptures are added and the public is able to vote for their favorites.

Sculpture Tour Eau Claire

Rent electric bikes and scooters from the Electric Bike Rental at The Local Store! They proudly offer Giant's Momentum LaFree E+ bikes and Segway Ninebot KickScooter MAX G30P. Created for recreational riders, the bikes let you cruise up hills and cover longer distances in less time, up to 65 miles on a single charge. Pick up and drop off bikes at The Local Store where staff will recommend destinations, provide route maps, and get you all set for a successful outing.

Electric Bike Rental

I’m Dom Flock, owner and guide of DF Outdoors. My passion for the outdoors started at an early age and has grown into a career dedicated to sharing Wisconsin’s best hunting and fishing opportunities. At DF Outdoors, I welcome everyone from first-time hunters and anglers to seasoned sportsmen, offering trips that are fun, safe, and tailored to each client. Whether it’s running around the lake looking for big fish or chasing whitetails in the woods, my goal is to provide expert guidance, teach proven techniques, and create lasting memories in the great outdoors.

DF Outdoors Guide Service

Introducing Eat O'Clock, the ultimate destination for Hmong comfort food on wheels, bringing the flavors of Hmong cuisine to the streets connecting us with our community in a fun and convenient way.

Eat O'Clock Food Truck

This Years Event is December 11th -13th The local improv scene has grown steadily, and Eau Claire is gaining national attention as an improv community . Last year 600 people attended festival workshops and performances over two days and nights. The Eau Claire Improv Festival offers opportunities to see live performances with both area improvisers and guest artists. Performance spaces for ECIF are The Plus and Memorial High School Little Theatre. Workshops will be held at various locations throughout downtown Eau Claire, including the public library and ECRAC studios, among others. The Eau Claire Improv Festival celebrates the rich history of improvisation in Eau Claire and seems to further develop local talent by offering access to successful working artists from around the country. Improvisation requires physical endurance, intelligence, empathy, critical thinking, and active listening. You will experience the thrill of witnessing a story created on-the-spot and the head-shaking, knee-slapping fun that is part of this up-and-coming art form when you attend or participate in the Eau Claire Improv Festival.

Eau Claire Improv Festival

The mission of Eau Claire Jazz, Inc. is to educate, entertain, promote and perpetuate the worldwide cultural experience of jazz. We provide exciting and authentic jazz experiences, inspiring audiences to build a lifelong appreciation for jazz. Originating at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire more than 40 years ago, the Eau Claire Jazz Festival maintains a standard of excellence in jazz education and performance that has been recognized worldwide. This celebration of jazz music and culture has the distinction of being one of the oldest and largest events of its kind in the nation. by showcasing the work of local, national and international artists and by perpetuating the enduring elements and important directions of this distinctly American music. This collaboration between UW-Eau Claire and Eau Claire Jazz, Inc. has grown into a community-wide partnership of musicians, artists, educators, businesses, schools and other organizations committed to the genre. UW-Eau Claire’s department of music and theatre arts offers an outstanding undergraduate education for aspiring musicians and music educators, and also serves as a primary cultural resource for western Wisconsin. The department’s jazz studies area, under the direction of Robert Baca, is internationally recognized. Jazz Ensemble I has received the Down Beat Magazine "Best College Big Band" award six times, and two of its CD recordings have been nominated for Grammy Awards.

Eau Claire Jazz, Inc.

Located in western Wisconsin, Eau Claire offers sports planners a destination that's easy to reach, easy to navigate, and ready to host. Just 90 minutes from the Minneapolis–St. Paul area and within driving distance of Chicago, Eau Claire is well positioned to welcome teams, athletes, and fans from across the Midwest.

A versatile mix of indoor and outdoor venues supports events across a wide range of sports and competition levels, with tournament-ready fields, courts, ice facilities, pools, trails, and large-scale indoor spaces. Hotels, restaurants, venues, and visitor amenities are conveniently located throughout the community, making it easy for teams to get where they need to be throughout the event.

Visit Eau Claire's sports team works alongside event organizers to help bring the details together, connecting planners with venues, accommodations, local resources, and destination support.

And there's plenty waiting beyond the competition. Eau Claire's walkable downtown, local restaurants and breweries, miles of trails, public art, live music, family attractions, and the Chippewa River give athletes and their families more to experience between games and after the final whistle.

Eau Claire has the facilities to host the event and the destination experience to make the trip worth it.**** Bring the competition, bring the crowd, and come as you are — Eau Claire is ready to host.

Visit Eau Claire

Few know the full story of how the Hmong became refugees. V.T. Bidania will give a brief overview of the history of the Hmong and their resettlement in the US, and discuss her new middle grade verse novel, *A Year Without Home*. This novel tells the journey of her family’s escape from Laos after the Vietnam War and their year living in refugee camps before arriving in the US. She will share her inspiration for her chapter books *Extraordinary Eliana* and *Astrid & Apollo* and talk about her process of writing a fictionalized memoir.

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