Eau Claire
Jamf Theatre
Jamf Theatre is the flexible black-box room inside Pablo Center at the Confluence, the $60.5 million UW-Eau Claire and community arts complex that opened on the Chippewa-Eau Claire river point in September 2018. Pablo Properties, the holding firm Jamf co-founder Zach Halmstad runs in Eau Claire with Julia Johnson and Jason Wudi, bought the naming rights for $5 million and named the property after Halmstad's favorite jazz label, Pablo Records. The Jamf room itself runs roughly 400 seats in proscenium and reconfigures for general admission, which puts Phoebe in what the building's operators have called the largest hybrid black-box theatre in the Midwest.
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The Tuttle Hill quarry encounter, 1976
Forty-five miles southwest of this stage, around 11 PM on April 22, 1976, Elmwood relief officer George Wheeler radioed dispatch about what he took for a fire at the limestone quarry on Tuttle Hill. The radio cut out mid-call. A farmer who reached him found Wheeler dazed beside a cruiser whose electrical system had burned out; Wheeler said a glowing, saucer-shaped object had been hovering low over the pit, with figures moving inside it, before a blue flash hit him and the craft climbed off. His health came apart in the months that followed and he died less than a year later. Elmwood, population under a thousand, had already logged enough sightings that local officials drafted a proposal for an illuminated UFO landing strip; the village still hosts UFO Days every July as Wisconsin's self-styled UFO Capital.
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capacity
400
year opened
2018
venue type
hall
doors
tba
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Eau Claire, WI MSA
city
72,331
2024 est.
metro
176,153
2024 est.
// coordinates
128 Graham Ave, Eau Claire, WI 54701
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