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Performance | Sky Creature and Tony Orrico

Stanley Museum of Art 160 West Burlington Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Join us at the Stanley for a four-hour immersive, multimedia collaboration between NYC-based art-rock duo Sky Creature and dancer/artist Tony Orrico. In this live music+live art performance, Tony Orrico (Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Intermedia, and Dance) partners with Sky Creature to produce a high-energy dialogue between sight and sound. Originally conceived as a soundtrack to Orrico's performance, the music is part contemporary Classical, part ambient...

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Phil Dorthy Drawing Studio

Artifactory 120 N Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States

The Thursday night life drawing group in memory of our dear friend, Phil Dorothy. Bring your own drawing materials which can include graphite, charcoal, pastels or watercolors. Drawing boards and easels will be available. Water-based oils and acrylics will be allowed. Solvent based oils may be used with odorless solvents. It is suggested that artists...

$10
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Tatiana Schlote-Bonne in conversation with Jessie Kraemer

Prairie Lights Bookstore

Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program graduate Tatatiana Schlote-Bonne will read from her YA horror debut, Such Lovely Skin. She will be joined in conversation by fellow NWP alum Jessie Kraemer.  Booklist says, “Schlote-Bonne's debut novel moves fast and doesn't slow down. Fans of Five Nights at Freddy's and other horror games will undoubtedly binge this jump scare-filled story.” "In mixing demonic...

Featured Featured Event Series Once Upon a Time in The People’s Republic of Iowa City

Once Upon a Time in The People’s Republic of Iowa City

The James Theater 213 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Once Upon a Time in The People's Republic of Iowa City September 6 - 8: 8PM September 12 - 15: 8PM The James Theater, 213 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA   Doomsday cults roaming the streets of Iowa City? The living dead infesting Prairie Lights? Vengeful cowboy assassins, Black Angels, and a serial killer...

Donation

DeadPhish Orchestra

Gabe's Iowa City 330 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA, United States

DeadPhish Orchestra at Gabe's! 7pm Doors

$15

Drag Show @ Studio 13

Studio 13 13 S. Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.

Traveling Exhibition | BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY)

Stanley Museum of Art 160 West Burlington Street, Iowa City, IA, United States

BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) is a cross-country exhibition tour inside of a 27-foot Box Truck celebrating Reproductive Justice, Queer Liberation, and Trans Joy! Newark-based Project for Empty Space is bringing over 200 artists’ works inside this truck to cultivate community coast-to-coast. The exhibition will be parked alongside Gibson Square Park, outside the Stanley Museum of Art on Friday,...

Event Series 2024 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel Discussion

2024 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel Discussion

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

  Fridays, -12:00pm to 1:30pm In-person event + Livestream Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C Images of America The Fall IWP Residents share impressions of their time in the United States. The IWP Friday Panel Discussion series provides an opportunity for the residents of Iowa City to meet and converse with writers from around...

Event Series Clothes That Don’t Fit | Eric Conrad

Clothes That Don’t Fit | Eric Conrad

Public Space One 229 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Arrested by codependent relationships, Eric Conrad’s oversized figures are mixed-up into absurd and precarious scenarios where they teeter on the verge of emotional collapse. Scraps of clothing, plastic flowers, and bits of detritus become precious artifacts to Eric, whose textile-based sculptures and sculptural drawings will be on display in the exhibition space at PS1. ABOUT...

Julia Bullock and Conor Hanick

Hancher Auditorium 141 Park Rd, Iowa City, IA, United States

Tickets Adults $30 / $20 Students & Youth $10 Friday, September 20, 2024, 7:30 pm Buy Tickets Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Two luminous musicians shine their collective light on an achingly haunting exploration of grief. Grammy winner Julia Bullock hails from St. Louis and is among the leading operatic sopranos singing today. Pianist Conor...

$10 – $30
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The Two Tracks

The James Theater 213 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, United States

The James Theater presents The Two Tracks, Friday, September 20th, 2024.   The Two Tracks draw inspiration from the rural surroundings of their home in the foothils of the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. Their live show features an array of sounds from introspective ballads to foot-stomping anthmes….sons that reflect their earthy authenticity and a genuine...

$15 – $20
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Crash Test Dummies

Englert Theatre 221 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, IOWA CITY, IA, United States

Crash Test Dummies with Carleton Stone Show Description In 2018, 25 years after the release of their multi-Grammy nominated hit album “God Shuffled His Feet”, The Crash Test Dummies hit the road for the first time in 20 years with an Anniversary Tour that spanned North America. The overwhelming reception led to a 30th Anniversary Tour in 2022 for...

$32 – $69