Summer of the Arts continues to partner with Iowa Cityâs 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/
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...
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...
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 Cityâs 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...
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...
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...
Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.
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 Cityâs 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...
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...
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...
Youâre 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 â right here in Iowa City. It almost happened in 2008. Under the working title âStories Project,â a coalition of local governments, civic organizations, and the University of...
learn more about the Muslim Futurism project here! âALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISMâ is an evolving experiential art exhibition and digital archive created by MIPSTERZ that explores Muslim Futurismâa 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...
