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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...

Music on the Move: Crystal City Trio

Northside Market Place Market Street, Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Summer of the Arts continues to partner with Iowa City’s Parks and Recreation Department to bring music to the neighborhoods in June, July, and August! To see our full schedule of events all around town, visit https://summerofthearts.org/festival/2024-music-on-the-move/

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Try This: Writing Poetry for Non-Poets

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

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 -7:00pm to 8:00pm Meeting Room A Register11 of 30 registered With prompts from a real poet and no pressure to share what you write, try your hand at penning something poignant. This workshop will be led by Regina Napolitano, a poet and teacher from Oakland, CA. She is a second-year MFA candidate in...

Event Series Musical Bingo

Musical Bingo

The Vue 328 S Clinton Street STE A, Iowa City, IA, United States

EAT, DRINK, AND TEASE YOUR BRAIN! Rally your team to win prizes on the second Tuesday of every month! Hosted by Vue Rooftop & Trivial Dudes Just like regular Bingo, but with music! We play a song from a category (80s, 90s, Country, Classic Rock, etc) and if the song we play is on your...

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Michael Miller- The High Bridge

Prairie Lights Bookstore

Former University of Iowa professor Michael Miller will read from his new historical fiction, The High Bridge. Author Sally Roesch Wagner calls The High Bridge "A highly engaging and thought-provoking journey into what might have resulted if suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage and future president Grover Cleveland, who lived in the upstate village of Fayetteville at...

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...

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...

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...

Stories Project Preview Event

Goosetown Cafe

You’re invited to preview a momentous opportunity for Iowa City. For decades, residents and local organizations have dreamt of a national museum for American writing and literature – right here in Iowa City. It almost happened in 2008. Under the working title “Stories Project,” a coalition of local governments, civic organizations, and the University of...