Monday, July 15, 2024 -1:00pm to 2:00pm Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C Join us every Monday from 2-3 pm for a program featuring items we make! This Monday we will be painting Shrinky Dinks! 每周一下午2-3点和我们一起手工创作！ 本周活动我们将绘制热缩片工艺品。 ¡Únete a nosotros todos los lunes de 2 a 3 pm para un programa destacando los artículos...
Monday, July 15, 2024 -3:30pm to 5:00pm Teen Center Create your own one-of-a-kind tattoo using our Cricut Design. All supplies will be provided for this event and no experience is needed. If you need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this event, please contact the Library. This event is open to the public.
Charles Holdefer will read from his new collection of stories, Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic. "Did the Russians invent baseball? Is there a connection between Babe Ruth’s cross-dressing and Gertrude Stein’s secret mission to New York? What does history tell us about what lies beyond heaven? From the American heartland to Hiroshima, to...
Zashed (Arkansas Metallic Hardcore), Thought Wrong (Iowa City Hardcore), and Tearaway (Des Moines Hardcore) DOWNSTAIRS @ the Oasis Stage
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 -1:00pm to 2:00pm Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C Elementary-age kids are invited to join us each Tuesday at 1:00 to learn a little bit about a fun skill or hobby that maybe they haven’t tried before! We have experts from the community here to teach you the basics! Today...
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...
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Melissa Mogollon will read from her coming of age comedy, Oye: A Novel. “Funny and smart, Oye grapples with the messy inheritance of intergenerational trauma and how it manifests in the everyday conversations with the people we love. Mogollon has written a beautiful book.”—Claire Jimenez “Heartbreaking and humorous, mature and mischievous, Oye feels like home in delicious and furious ways....
Grinnell College assistant professor of English and Iowa Writers’ Workshop grad Santiago Jose Sanchez will read from their debut novel, Hombrecito. They will be joined in conversation by novelist Claire Lombardo. Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant’s complex relationships with his mother and his motherland. “Hombrecito is a gorgeous novel of the in-between, the waiting...
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
Show Starts @ 10:30 Dance floor opens up after.
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...
Thursday, July 18, 2024 -6:30pm to 8:00pm Digital Media Lab Register9 of 10 registered Make a 3D piece of art using folded paper and the library's Cricut! You'll have your choice of using this ready-made toadstool design or customizing your own design from scratch by attaching any shapes to the circular opening on each sheet. The end...
