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Featured Featured Event Series ALHAMDU: MUSLIM FUTURISM

ALHAMDU: MUSLIM FUTURISM

Public Space One Close House 538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

learn more about the Muslim Futurism project here! “ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM” is an evolving experiential art exhibition and digital archive created by MIPSTERZ that explores Muslim Futurism—a cultural and artistic aesthetic that learns from frameworks of Afrofuturism and imagines a broader Muslim future free from the oppression of today, set in a utopic tomorrow...

Dance Party with My Friends

Stanley Museum of Art 160 West Burlington Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Start your weekend early with an epic 80s-theme dance party against the vibrant backdrop of the Stanley Museum of Art! Free and open to all. Dance the night away under the open sky in Gibson Square Park, surrounded by art, music by DJ Ahzia, and delicious food from Da Flava Unit. Inspired by the vibrant and...

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Cait West in conversation with Lori Erickson

Prairie Lights Bookstore

Cait West will talk with Iowa City author Lori Erickson about Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy.  This debut memoir is West's story of being raised in a strict, religious family, homeschooled, and ruled by authoritarian discipline and a literal interpretation of the Bible. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls Rift “A powerful meditation...

Drag Show @ Studio 13

Studio 13 13 S. Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.

Event Series Where’s Rusty 2024

Where’s Rusty 2024

Downtown Iowa City 210 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Join the scavenger hunt and help find Rusty the Giant Sloth! The Iowa City Downtown District and Museum of Natural History are excited to announce the return of Iowa City’s favorite summer scavenger hunt for kids and families. Kids have from Monday, July 1st to Friday, August 31st to find him hiding in 28 stores downtown. Once you have found...

Event Series Herky on Parade Scavenger Hunt

Herky on Parade Scavenger Hunt

Downtown Iowa City 210 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Join the hunt and find the Herky on Parade statues in Downtown Iowa City. Kids and families can use the poems and clues on the scavenger hunt card to find the statues around the downtown area. Pick up your card at the Iowa City Public Library or print your own! To complete the hunt, find...

Event Series Chinese Bilingual Storytime

Chinese Bilingual Storytime

Iowa City Public Library 123 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

10:30am to 11:00am Storytime Room Join us every Monday for a special Chinese Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Fang! Together we will enjoy songs, rhymes, stories and fun crafts in Chinese and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us. 每周一请与少儿部图书馆员王芳一起加入我们的中英双语故事会！我们将阅读中英文绘本，分享儿歌，童谣和趣味手工。欢迎各年龄段的小朋友们和看护者参加活动。 ¡Ven a la biblioteca cada lunes para disfrutar de una hora...

Featured Featured Event Series ALHAMDU: MUSLIM FUTURISM

ALHAMDU: MUSLIM FUTURISM

Public Space One Close House 538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

learn more about the Muslim Futurism project here! “ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM” is an evolving experiential art exhibition and digital archive created by MIPSTERZ that explores Muslim Futurism—a cultural and artistic aesthetic that learns from frameworks of Afrofuturism and imagines a broader Muslim future free from the oppression of today, set in a utopic tomorrow...

Friday Flick: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Iowa City Public Library 123 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Friday, August 9, 2024 -1:00pm to 2:30pm Storytime Room Take a break from the summer sun and join us every Friday for a matinee movie showing! After a bite from a radioactive spider, Miles Morales becomes the one and only Spider-Man. When a dimensional gateway opens up, Miles soon realizes he isn't the only spider superhero as...

Featured Featured Event Series Whales in the Sky

Whales in the Sky

Public Space One 229 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Whales in the Sky: the Star Death, the River Now and the Imaginal Future ( A Triptych) This autobiographical exhibit is a  time-based art installation that coalesces as its layers change, deepen, and grow over the four weeks it is open. It is a meandering interactive river of poetry, mythic portals, playfulness, song and visual...

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Rock the Chalk 2024

MidWestOne Bank 102 S Clinton St, Iowa City, IA, United States

MidWestOne Bank's Annual Community Chalk Art Festival, Rock the Chalk! The festival will take place in downtown Iowa City on the streets surrounding our bank headquarters building at 102 S. Clinton Street. Community members and local artists will fill the street with unique chalk art pieces, and we will "rock" to various Iowa musical talent...

Featured Featured Event Series Friday Night Concert Series

Friday Night Concert Series

Weatherdance Fountain Stage - Downtown Ped Mall 210 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, United States

Summer of the Arts invites you to come out and get to know Eastern Iowa musicians. Running mid-May through September, this festival kicks off the summer season. Grab food and drink at nearby restaurants and food trucks and enjoy free, live entertainment! Full Schedule May 10        Iowa Steel Band (this performance ends at 8:00 PM) 17       ...

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