If our actions are our only true belongings, what will you be happy to take with you when you die? Death Café is an informal, communal occasion to eat cake and create open communication about end of life. This is not a support group and there is no agenda except mindful inquiry and exploration in...
Scholar and essayist Samira Mehta will read from her book of blended memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, The Racism of People Who Love You. She will be joined in conversation by Ari Ariel. What Kirkus Reviews describes as "Thoughtful meditations on identity" and what Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give, describes as "insightful, provocative,...
Meeting Room A, Online StoryJAM is a music and movement program designed to model, encourage, and facilitate music-making as an early literacy skill. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. Masks are required for all individuals over the age of two. Social distancing between groups in attendance is encouraged. In order...
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An Artist's Life (Before, During and After Iowa) | Artist Talk by Bruce Dorfman Date: March 27, 2025 Time: 6:30pm to 8:00pm Location: Stanley Museum of Art Come join us for an engaging talk by artist and UIowa alumnus, Bruce Dorfman at the Stanley Museum of Art. Get a unique insight into his creative process,...
A. Kendra Greene will read from her marvellous new essay collection, No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity. She will be joined in conversation by Nonfiction Writing Program Faculty Inara Verzemnieks. "No Less Strange or Wonderful doesn't so much live up to its title as explode out of it. What the amazing A. Kendra Greene makes of...
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Tuesdays, 10:30am to 11:00am Storytime Room Join us for Book Babies! Let's have fun together singing, reading, and rhyming. Book Babies is a program designed to stimulate your infant's language development and is geared towards ages 0-2 years. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. ¡Ven para Book Babies! Divirtámonos juntos cantando, leyendo...
“Elusive Balance” is a traveling group exhibition exploring the challenges of finding balance within artist and mother/caregiver identities. Works include fiber art, painting, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, and photography. Showcasing the voices of Iowa artist mothers who represent a range of diverse backgrounds, ages, motherhood stages, and mediums. In an effort to be inclusive of...
Middle-grade author H.M. Bouwman will read from her newest novel, Scattergood, which features a thirteen-year-old protagonist named Peggy who witnesses numerous changes in her small Iowa farm community (West Branch) in 1941. Writers' Workshop alum Laurel Snyder wrote in her New York Times Book Review of Scattergood that it's "...a brave, beautiful book, wise enough to reach for something beyond...
Emilia Bendler is a local Iowa City singer/songwriter. She started playing piano when she was 6, and has been playing and singing ever since. In college, she was in a band with two of her best friends, and has since ventured out on her own as a solo artist. She takes inspiration from all different...
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