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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...

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...

Featured Featured Event Series 2024 Northside Music Series, Curated by the Englert

Northside Saturday Nights: A Music Series Curated by the Englert

Northside Outside Corner of Market St & Linn St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Saturdays May 4th - September 26 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Sponsored by Hills Bank with additional support from Phelan Tucker Law LLP, Dr. Suzanne Stock, Orthodontist, and Dr. Ann Connors DDS - Northside Family Dentistry Pull up a chair, grab a bite to eat and your favorite beverage as the Englert programs your Saturday Nights...

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...

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Sunday Fun Day: Stained Glass Butterfly

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

Sunday, August 18, 2024 -2:00pm to 4:00pm Storytime Room This colorful craft is paint, crayon and collage all in one! Make your own unique butterfly like the butterfly that emerges from the chrysalis at end of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in an art style inspired by stained glass. Sunday Fun Days are suitable for all-ages, but younger...

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...

Event Series Spanish Bilingual Storytime

Spanish Bilingual Storytime

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

In-person event + Online other Join us every Tuesday for a special Spanish Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Raquel! Together we will enjoy songs, rhymes and stories in Spanish and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us. Masks are required for all individuals over the age of two. Social...

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...