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Community Book Discussion: “Torn Apart” by Dorothy Roberts

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

Thursday, February 29, 2024 -6:00pm to 7:00pm Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C The Office of Equity and Human Rights and the Iowa City Public Library will host a community book discussion of Dorothy Roberts' book Torn Apart:- How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families - And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Discussion...

Book Babies

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

10:30am to 11:00am In-person event + Online other Join us in person 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. Book Babies will meet...

Art & Write Night

University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums Iowa City, IA, United States

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell...

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Carolina Hotchandani & Kelly Hoffer

Prairie Lights Bookstore

Carolina Hotchandani and Kelly Hoffer will read from their debut poetry collections. Carolina Hotchandani will read from The Book Eaters.  “Carolina Hotchandani’s The Book Eaters is that rare debut: one that satisfies the heart and head in equal measures. In these subtle, lyric poems, Hotchandani explores the loss of a father’s language and memory, a loss complicated by...

Event Series Dharma Teachings by Khenpo Tamphel

Dharma Teachings by Khenpo Tamphel

Garchen Mila Buddhist Center 209 E Washington St., Suite 200, Iowa City, United States

Dharma teachings by Khenpo Tamphel: In Praise of Dharmadatu' by Nagarjuna Sundays, 9:30-10:15am Join us for profound teachings on Nagarjuna’s ‘In Praise of Dharmadatu,’  This poetic work from the great 2nd century Indian Buddhist master Nagarjuna shows us how buddha nature exists in all beings, and how it can be gradually uncovered by those who...

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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...

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Jonna Higgins-Freese

Prairie Lights Bookstore

Jonna Higgins-Freese will read from her debut novel Fearless: A Novel of Frances Perkins and Social Security. "Richly detailed, deeply satisfying, a novel that speaks to the heart of its time, and ours." - Susan Wittig Albert, author of Loving Eleanor. Jonna Higgins-Freese's writing has appeared in national and local publications including The Wapsipinicon Almanac and Obsolete!. She won The Examined Life’s 2013 poetry...

Event Series Broadsides: Creative and Independent Techniques

Broadsides: Creative and Independent Techniques

IC Press Co-op at Public Space One 225 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

REGISTER HERE Have you ever wanted to make a broadside of your own writing? Or of somebody else’s? A broadside is basically a fancy word for poster — and broadsides have historically been used as a way to cheaply disseminate writing! There are infinite ways to make a broadside — one-of-a-kinds and editions — and in this...

$100
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Megan Carnes

Prairie Lights Bookstore

Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Megan Carnes will read from her new novel, The Celdan Heresies. "This is an extraordinary, well, epic I think I'd call it. I'm in awe of Megan Carnes's imagination. I love how, as I read, I kept thinking about authors like Milton, Thomas Mann, Dante, and also my favorite theologians. I love...

Event Series Writing with 1-Week-Critique for Middle and High Schoolers

Writing with 1-Week-Critique for Middle and High Schoolers

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

Thursday 4:00pm to 5:00pm In-person event + Online other Teen Center Adam from 1 Week Critique is here every Thursday to lead a Teen Writing workshop. If you love to write or have considered it and have been too scared to try, now's your chance! Teen authors also have the opportunity to have their work featured at...

Looking Forward with Dave Eggers

Join the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation for an evening in conversation with Dave Eggers benefiting the Iowa City Public Library. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A. Presigned copies of books will be available for purchase from Prairie Lights in the lobby at the event. 10% of book purchases will be donated...

$10.00

Book Babies

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

10:30am to 11:00am In-person event + Online other Join us in person 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. Book Babies will meet...