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An Evening With John Green

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

An Evening with John Green In Conversation with Kaveh Akbar for Everything Is Tuberculosis Join #1 internationally bestselling author John Green and Kaveh Akbar to discuss John’s new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. The pair will discuss the book, answer audience questions, and more. All tickets include an autographed copy...

$48

Drag Show @ Studio 13

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

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

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Sunday Funday: Q-Tip Dinosaur Bones

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

Sunday, March 23, 2025 -2:00pm to 4:00pm +  Storytime Room March is Women's History Month, and this week’s art project honors Mary Anning, a trailblazing paleontologist and fossil collector who made the groundbreaking discovery of the first scientifically described plesiosaur. At a time when women were excluded from the scientific community, Mary’s fearless contributions forever changed our...

Event Series Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

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

Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave...

Free
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Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka- A Kiss for the Absolute

Prairie Lights Bookstore

Join us for a special 6pm poetry and translation event co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Asian Studies department!  Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her fellow poet and translator, Yuki Tanaka will present the first collection in English of twentieth century Japanese surrealist poet Shuzo Takiguchi, A Kiss for...

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Women at Work: Nightshift

FilmScene (at the Chauncey) 404 E College St., Iowa City, IA, United States

Women at Work "An extraordinary work of oneiric imagination, punkish sensibility, and a requiem to women's labor in the hazy terrain of night work"—Elena Gorfinkel, Mubi Over the course of a single night shift, a West London hotel clerk (U.K. counterculture icon Jordan) plays mute witness to a nocturnal constellation of guests ranging from punk rockers...

$8 – $13
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Samira Mehta in conversation with Ari Ariel

Prairie Lights Bookstore

Scholar and essayist Samira Mehta will read from her book of blended memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, The Racism of People Who Love You. She will be joined in conversation by Ari Ariel.  What Kirkus Reviews describes as "Thoughtful meditations on identity" and what Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give, describes as "insightful, provocative,...

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Science on Screen: Fungi: Web of Life

FilmScene (at the Chauncey) 404 E College St., Iowa City, IA, United States

A Science on Screen® Presentation   Presented for the National Evening of Science on Screen! Including a pre-show presentation: Cool Mushrooms Grow in Iowa Too, Silly: Iowa’s Fungal Biodiversity, presented by Prairie States Mushroom Club "The script is full of cool wrap-your-brain-around-them facts, which makes it great for nature-loving kids."—Cath Clarke, The Guardian Come see FUNGI: WEB...

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Thru It All w/ TV Cop & Fishbait

Gabe's

THRU IT ALL, the pop punk trio from Tulsa, is coming to Gabe's on their tour! With special guests TV Cop and Fishbait 7pm Doors

$10
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Late Shift at The Grindhouse

FilmScene (at the Chauncey) 404 E College St., Iowa City, IA, United States

Wednesdays get weird at Filmscene at the Chauncey in Downtown Iowa City. Horror, Exploitation, Action, Bikers, Monsters, Cult, Slashers, Nudity! 30 Minute Trailer Reel Starts the Show See the upcoming line up of films, here