Spring Storytime
2025-04-30 09:30 - 10:45, 2025-05-01 09:30 - 10:45 UTC | Menomonie Public Library, 600 Wolske Bay Road, MENOMONIE, WI, 54751-1579, United States
Spring storytime is here and there is fun to be had for children of all ages!
The spring storytime session goes from April 1-May 1 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
9:30-10 Learning Together-For children of all ages, attending with a caregiver.
10:15-10:45 On My Own-For children 3-6 years old,
Come & enjoy the fun!

Menomonie in Motion
2025-04-30 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-05 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-07 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-12 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-14 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-19 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-21 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-26 17:30 - 18:30 | Menomonie Public Library, 600 Wolske Bay Road, MENOMONIE, WI, 54751-1579, United States
Ready for spring to get out and get moving? Join us at the library Mondays and Wednesdays March 24-May 28.

Class is FREE
For runners & walkers ages 14+
Meet in library meeting room
Complete a 5K at the end of class.

Class is FREE to attend! REGISTRATION is required.
WHO: YOU! No matter where you are in your fitness, there is a spot for you in this class. Grab a friend and join us. You can do this! Let’s take the first step together!
WHERE: Menomonie Public Library meeting room
WHEN: March 24-May 28 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30
Let’s get in motion together!

The Double Stops
2025-05-02 08:00 - 17:00 | The Spirit Room at the Mabel Tainter, 205 Main Street East, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Based in the Chippewa Valley, The Double Stops duo is the musical pairing of Emily Watkins (guitar, vox) and Dustin DeGolier (guitar, vox). They perform a relaxing blend of guitar-centric pop, classic rock, ’90s alternative, vocal jazz, and original music perfect for all audiences.

Speakeasy Soiree at 6th Avenue Cidery
2025-05-02 19:00 - 22:00 | 120 6th Ave. W Menomonie, WI 54751
Step back in time to the Roaring Twenties for an evening of mystery, cocktails, and vintage glamour. This speakeasy soirée will feature an immersive murder mystery where guests can put their detective skills to the test. Dress to impress in your finest 1920s attire for a chance to win a gift card in the costume competition. The night will also showcase a selection of prohibition-era cocktails, ciders, and a specially curated appetizer and dessert buffet. Entry is $40, with reservations required to receive the secret password. Reserve in person at 6th Avenue Cidery or online at https://6thavenuespeakeasysoiree.eventbrite.com.

Designer Purse Bingo
2025-05-03 11:00 - 16:00 | Tanglewood Greens, 2200 Crestwood Dr., Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Your ticket includes:
10 rounds of Bingo, each offering a chance to win a stunning designer purse from brands like Coach, Michael Kors, and Kate Spade.
With 50 purses up for grabs, your odds have never been better!
Lunch Option: Tanglewood Greens will offer a taco buffet from 11:00 AM to 12:45 PM for an additional $20. To enjoy this delicious meal before the games begin, please add the lunch option when purchasing your ticket.
Get Your Tickets Now: Tickets are on sale now! You can purchase them using this link: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/test-19
Why Attend: All proceeds support The Bridge to Hope, providing free and confidential services to victims and survivors of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking in our community.
Gather your friends, enjoy a day of Bingo, and take home a gorgeous designer purse all while supporting a vital cause.

Free Yoga
2025-05-05 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-12 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-19 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-26 09:00 - 10:00 | MENOMONIE PUBLIC, 800 Wilson Ave., Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
The library teams up with Mayo Clinic Health System to bring you FREE Yoga.
Are you ready to pause, quiet your mind, and be present? Join us in the meeting room every Monday to bring some calm to your busy days.

Mondays from 9-10 am
March 24 – May 19 (no class 4/21)

A Year In Design; An Invited Student Showcase - Opening Reception
2025-05-09 17:00 - 21:00 | Furlong Gallery
Curated by program directors, this exhibition brings together a selection of exceptional student work from across UW–Stout’s nationally recognized Design Department. Representing both undergraduate and graduate programs, the show features a wide array of projects—including visual campaigns, garments, digital experiences, games, posters, and prototypes. A Year In Design reflects the depth of exploration and inventive thinking that defines design at UW–Stout, offering a glimpse into how students engage with ideas, materials, and emerging forms.
The Awards Ceremony will be held from 5:00–5:30 PM in the Atrium during Senior Show Night, celebrating outstanding student achievement in the School of Art & Design. Highlights include the announcement of the Noah Norton Portfolio Prize Endowed Fund, honoring the legacy of Industrial Design professor Noah Norton, and the reveal of the next two Bud & Betty Micheels Student Artists-in-Residence, who will receive funding, studio space, and yearlong exhibition opportunities. Additional recognitions include top project awards from A Year In Design, BFA Solo Show selections, and Curio Cabinet’s Best in Show and honorary mentions.

Sanctuary: Student Artist-In-Residence Exhibition
2025-05-09 17:00 - 21:00 | Furlong Gallery
Sanctuary brings together Lily Smith and Ellie Eklof whose work explores identity through personal and cultural lenses.
“I have been diving deep into the intersections of gender expressions and folk craft,” says Eklof. “The show’s intention is to put a new lens onto gender expression in a 21st century world that balances precariously between nature and technology. Sanctuary behaves as an alternate reality. For me, Sanctuary is what life can look like when we break beyond norms and interrogate binaries.”
Exhibiting alongside Eklof, Smith presents a bold, satirical take on regional and gender-based identities: “Through painting, I work to satirize overarching attitudes and stereotypes towards women and femininity by examining imagery of subculture and Midwest cultural ideals.”
The Bud & Betty Micheels Student Artist-In-Residence program provides an opportunity for UW-Stout students of all majors to explore the relationship of art and technology. Recipients of this grant each receive a $2,000 stipend for the academic year, up to $1,000 account for materials/related expenses, and an appropriate workspace. Award winners are honored by two exhibitions: a year-end exhibition of their work in the Furlong Gallery in Micheels Hall as well as the University Library. One piece from each recipient is donated for the permanent collection housed in the University Library. The Student Artist-in-Residence Program is a valuable learning experience for all recipients and a continuous and growing aesthetic resource for the University of Wisconsin-Stout and the community.
The Awards Ceremony will be held from 5:00–5:30 PM in the Atrium during Senior Show Night, celebrating outstanding student achievement in the School of Art & Design. Highlights include the announcement of the Noah Norton Portfolio Prize Endowed Fund, honoring the legacy of Industrial Design professor Noah Norton, and the reveal of the next two Bud & Betty Micheels Student Artists-in-Residence, who will receive funding, studio space, and yearlong exhibition opportunities. Additional recognitions include top project awards from A Year In Design, BFA Solo Show selections, and Curio Cabinet: Student Juried Art Exhibit’s Best in Show and honorary mentions.

Meet the Author – M R Thoreson
2025-05-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Dragon Tale Books
Meet author M R Thoreson; she’ll have books for sale and signing.

About the Book:
The Winter Wrath, Blue Heart Troll explains why Carol, half indigenous, must leave her husband because of his habits and abuse. She must leave her car because the husband keeps her car keys. So, she and her 3 children take a cab to catch the bus to Waco, TX, to stay with her mother and husband, who is indigenous. Carol is a dream seer and can hear the guy downstairs mentally talking to her. But she tries not to let him know. She can also receive his filthy sexually explicit images, if she dozes. Then, Carol meets a great landlord who rents to her and gives her a job. (They eventually become friends.) He doesn’t believe she’s being harassed by the young man in the middle apartment. She lives in the top apartment, while two indigenous girls move into the basement apartment. Claine, the boy below her, starts out slow trying to get into her head. Then, he starts sending up images when she dozes in the hope she’ll partake in ceiling sex. He rams the ceiling more and more until finally, he’s sometimes keeping her up all night. One night, about 5 am, he mentally rapes her with cues. But it’s the young girls who get traumatized eventually, while Carol and a handyman, who works on the apartments, starts following Claine because one of the indigenous girls has been kidnapped.

About the Author:
M R Thoreson has an AAS in Human Services. Lived in Spokane, WA for 33 years. Was a professional caregiver for many years, being certified for the State of Washington. She has a son who is on the autism spectrum but learned to become a gaming host on you tube. He is a computer savant. Author is also an Autism Specialist, and wrote “Junuh the Mechanic, A Story of Autism & Discrimination.” The story reveals how her son was treated in a 2-year school after high school. She’s also written a dream analyzing book.

Oaklawn Inn Classical Music Series presents Jen Lohmann
2025-05-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Oaklawn Inn
Take a leap back in time as Jen Lohmann, professional keyboard player from Eau Claire, presents Renaissance and Baroque music on the harpsichord (precursor to the piano) in the splendid surroundings of Oaklawn Inn in the next installment of its classical music series.

Trivia Night in The Spirit Room
2025-05-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Spirit Room at the Mabel Tainter, 205 Main Street East, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Bring your friends and your thinking caps for a fun night of trivia in the Spirit Room! If you’re lucky, you might even win a prize!

Summer Menomonie Farmer's Market
2025-05-17 08:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-24 08:00 - 13:00 | Wilson Park, 800 Wilson Ave., Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Summer Menomonie Farmer’s Market – Saturdays & Wednesdays
Menomonie Farmers Market has been proud to call the gorgeous Wilson Farmers Market Pavilion our summer home since 2017. From the 3rd Saturday in May through the 3rd Saturday in October, you’ll find us twice a week in Wilson Park, on the corner of 8th Street and 9th Avenue, just off of Lake Menomin in Menomonie, WI.

Join UW-Stout for Design Wisconsin 2025!
2025-05-17 08:00 - 2025-05-18 11:30 | Memorial Student Center
UW-Stout’s School of Art & Design presents the 4th Annual Design Wisconsin event showcasing the impacts of industrial design and fashion design on Wisconsin’s culture, commerce, community, and brand—past, present, and future. And this year, we’re expanding to include UW-Stout alumni designers’ impact in our neighboring state to the west, Minnesota!
It is a little-known secret that Wisconsin is a hub for product innovation, and it’s our mission to showcase and celebrate prominent Wisconsin-based industrial design and fashion design teams and their work. We hope this format will inspire participants and strengthen connections within these industry communities, as well as cultivate new ones!
The event includes an open house of major Wisconsin and Minnesota Design/Manufacturer groups. In the past, these have included TREK, Milwaukee Tool, Kohler, Mercury Marine, Polaris, Fiskars, Oshkosh and many more.
This is a FREE event on May 17-18, 2024 at Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University, UW-Stout

2025 Wakanda Open
2025-05-17 08:00 - 2025-05-18 17:00 | Wakanda Park, 909 Pine Ave., Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Two day PDGA (Professional Disc Golf Association) sanctioned disc golf tournament hosted by the Menomonie Area Disc Golf Organization (MADGO).

44th Annual Red Cedar Auto Club Car Show & Craft Swap Meet
2025-05-18 08:00 - 14:00 | Dunn County Fairgrounds, 620 17th St SE, MENOMONIE, WI, 54751, United States
Join us for the 44th Annual Red Cedar Classic Auto Club Car Show & Craft & Swap Meet!
Antique & Classic Cars, Custom Cars, Rods, Trucks, Tractors, Motorcycles, Studebaker Drivers Club, & more!
FREE Parking + Admission for ALL Spectators!
Trophies! Cash prizes! & Raffles!
Address: 620 17th Street SE, Menomonie, WI 54751
When: Sunday May 18th, 2025
Time: 8am-2pm
Food Vendors
Craft Vendors
Live Music from Rich Schroeder
Show car + driver: $10Car for sale: $10Swap meet + Craft Vendors: Outdoor $25. Indoor $35

Summer Menomonie Farmer's Market - Wednesday
2025-05-21 10:00 - 18:00 | Wilson Park, 800 Wilson Ave., Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Summer Menomonie Farmer’s Market – Saturdays & Wednesdays
Menomonie Farmers Market has been proud to call the gorgeous Wilson Farmers Market Pavilion our summer home since 2017. From the 3rd Saturday in May through the 3rd Saturday in October, you’ll find us twice a week in Wilson Park, on the corner of 8th Street and 9th Avenue, just off of Lake Menomin in Menomonie, WI.
Visit Menomonie Farmer’s Market website

Menomin Wailers: Sea Shanty Singalong
2025-05-21 19:00 - 20:30 | brewery nønic, Menomonie, WI, 621 4th St. W, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
A fun evening of sea shanty singing in a social and informal environment. Everyone is welcome and no preparation is required.
menominwailers@gmail.com

Spring 2025 Downsville Community Museum Pancake Breakfast
2025-05-24 08:00 - 11:00 | Downsville Community Museum
Serving homemade buttermilk pancakes with maple syrup and fruit toppings, sausage, milk, juice & coffee. Freewill donation.
