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...
FilmScene is proud to present the second annual Iowa Disability Film Festival. This festival showcases award winning films by and about people with disabilities with engaging programs that bring together communities to explore, discuss, embrace, and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience. Presented by the Iowa Disability Film Festival "A quirky, funny and...
A. Kendra Greene will read from her marvellous new essay collection, No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity. She will be joined in conversation by Nonfiction Writing Program Faculty Inara Verzemnieks. "No Less Strange or Wonderful doesn't so much live up to its title as explode out of it. What the amazing A. Kendra Greene makes of...
Tickets Adults $30* / $20* Students & Youth $10* *Prices for each concert Thursday, March 27, 2025, 6:00 pm Buy Tickets Thursday, March 27, 2025, 8:00 pm Buy Tickets Part of Hancher's 52nd Season Intensity and refinement are hallmarks of one of the world’s most electrifying string quartets. Adept at balancing individual expression with respectful...
Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.
“Elusive Balance” is a traveling group exhibition exploring the challenges of finding balance within artist and mother/caregiver identities. Works include fiber art, painting, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, and photography. Showcasing the voices of Iowa artist mothers who represent a range of diverse backgrounds, ages, motherhood stages, and mediums. In an effort to be inclusive of...
Presented by the Iowa Disability Film Festival "A groundbreaking work of art, a wonderfully different, beautiful film that showcases creative captioning and visual and audio poetry."—Josh Flanders, Chicago Reader Presented with open captions and ASL interpreters for introduction and post-screening discussion with members of the University of Iowa ASL Club, an ASL professor, and local...
Middle-grade author H.M. Bouwman will read from her newest novel, Scattergood, which features a thirteen-year-old protagonist named Peggy who witnesses numerous changes in her small Iowa farm community (West Branch) in 1941. Writers' Workshop alum Laurel Snyder wrote in her New York Times Book Review of Scattergood that it's "...a brave, beautiful book, wise enough to reach for something beyond...
Pieta Brown Englert Songwriter Series Live @ The James Theater PIETA BROWN & THE TAKEN (ft. Bo Ramsey) MARCH 28th @ The James Theater, Iowa City, IA Pieta Brown brings the most recent version of her continually shape-shifting band The Taken to The James Theater - and featuring renowned producer and guitar icon, Bo Ramsey....
Directed by Lili-Anne Brown In collaboration with Riverside Theatre Hancher Auditorium Written by August Wilson and directed by Lili-Anne Brown The Acting Company is the only professional theater principally dedicated to the development of young classical actors. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley from the first graduating class of the Drama Division...
Live music every Friday from 9-11, and karaoke after the show! Plus great food and drinks all night long! Tickets at the door!
Emilia Bendler is a local Iowa City singer/songwriter. She started playing piano when she was 6, and has been playing and singing ever since. In college, she was in a band with two of her best friends, and has since ventured out on her own as a solo artist. She takes inspiration from all different...
