Tuesday, November 12, 2024 -4:00pm to 5:00pm Storytime Room Join us on the second Tuesday of every month for a new Books to Cooks Club, where read a picture book and make a delicious after school snack from the story! This program is for K-6th grade. How does a dinosaur eat all his food? Does he burp,...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 -6:00pm to 8:00pm Meeting Room D All writers are welcome to join us at The Violet Realm where we talk about all things fantasy and science fiction. Are you a new writer starting on your first book? Are you an experienced author who's looking to spruce up your work? Then join us for...
John Elizabeth Stintzi will read from their surreal, darkly humorous short stories told from a queer, non-binary perspective, Bad Houses. They will be joined in conversation by Mason Andrew Hamberlin. "Bad Houses is a rare, incomparable collection, surreal yet firmly anchored to the mechanics of contemporary living. Mimes, dismemberment, pumpkin patch trolls, creatures made of mould and laundry--these...
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...
Read on the Rug is back with monthly offerings! Join us on the second Wednesday of each month in Iowa Hall at the UI Museum of Natural History for Read on the Rug. Ideal for families with kiddos aged 2-5, all are welcome to this free educational program. This program series was designed with our youngest...
Wednesdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm Digital Media Lab Girls Who Code Club is for girls and non-binary youth in grades 3-5 who are interested in learning how to code. No previous experience necessary! The goal of this club is to create a safe and supportive environment of peers and role models where students learn to see themselves as...
Poets Shane Book and Mark Levine will read from their work. Shane Book will read from All Black Everything (Kuhl House Poets, 2023). Mark Levine will read from Sound Fury (Univ of Iowa Press). “All Black Everything proposes an expansive, global poetics, which is equally a poetics of Black diasporan fluency. All Black’s poems ride the crosscurrents of history and popular...
Faculty Chamber Recital: Katie Wolfe, violin and Réne Lecuona, piano Rhapsodies and Fantasies by Georg Phillip Telemann, Jessie Montgomery, Béla Bartók, and Franz Schubert Katie Wolfe, violin Réne Lecuona, piano View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31179 This concert is free and open to the public.
A poetry open mic, brought to you by Iowa City Poetry Slam and Alley Cat. Mic at 8:30! Sign up in person! Karaoke after poetry!
Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf By Ntozake Shange Directed by Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates Choreographed by Christine Catherine Wyatt Historic and groundbreaking, Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a choreopoem that celebrates womanhood and discovery through an inimitable combination of...
Bessie Flores Zaldívar will read from Libertad, a queer YA coming-of-age novel set during the rigged Honduran presidential election about a young poet discovering the courage it takes to speak her truth about the people and country she loves. Kirkus Reviews calls it “An emotionally charged must-read,” and in a starred review, Publishers Weekly says, “Through...
