Alex Award-winning Iowa City author Bart Yates will read from his latest novel, The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl. The subject of this intriguing and innovative novel, historian Isaac Dahl, encapsulates his remarkable life in this chronicle of twelve remarkable days. "The life course of a gay man born at the end of World War...
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 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...
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...
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...
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, July 26, 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! The infamous Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark, Ms. Tarantula, and Mr. Wolf find their lives of crime coming to an end as they face imprisonment. Determined to retain their freedom,...
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 ...
Suzanne Scanlon will read from her intimate, unsparing chronicle of surviving mental illness, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen. She will be joined in conversation by Mieke Eerkens. "Suzanne Scanlon’s memoir Committed is a lyrical and illuminating account of a young woman’s struggle with mental illness and institutionalization. Mining the metaphors endemic to the institutional setting—the way madness or insanity is “a...
Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.
The Iowa City Farmers Market is managed by the Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department. It is an open-air market held in the Chauncey Swan parking ramp, Chauncey Swan Park, and on E. Washington St. in downtown Iowa City. The market runs from May through October. We strive to serve culturally and economically diverse populations by...
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...
