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Iowa Disability Film Festival: This is Going to Be Big

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

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...

Trivia at the Den

St Burch Tavern 127 Iowa Ave, Iowa City, IA, United States

Calling all brainiacs! 🤓🧠 Christopher’s Bar Exam is partnering with St. Burch to host trivia in the Den every Thursday from 7-9 pm! It’s free to enter, and first place team will be awarded a $50 St. Burch gift card. Call up your most trivia-savvy friends, form a team, and we’ll see you there!

A. Kendra Greene in conversation with Inara Verzemnieks

Prairie Lights Bookstore

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...

Event Series Swing Dance Lessons & Social Dance

Swing Dance Lessons & Social Dance

The Masonic Building 312 College St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Join the Iowa City Swing Dance club to learn lindy hop! Thursday evenings include a beginner-friendly lesson, a social dance, and an intermediate lesson. The beginner lessons and social dance are open to all—regardless of experience. No dance partner or specialty shoes needed. Bring comfy attire, a water bottle, and your enthusiasm! Beginner Lesson |...

$5 – $10
Event Series Jerusalem Quartet

Jerusalem Quartet

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

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...

$10 – $30

Christopher’s Bar Exam @ Donnelly’s Pub

Donnellys Pub 110 E College St, Iowa City, IA, United States

Interactive pub quiz. Answer questions, compete in challenges, and win cash and other great team prizes!

Drag Show @ Studio 13

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

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

Event Series Book Babies Storytime

Book Babies Storytime

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

Tuesdays, 10:30am to 11:00am Storytime Room Join us 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. ¡Ven para Book Babies! Divirtámonos juntos cantando, leyendo...

Featured Featured Event Series Elusive Balance

Elusive Balance

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

“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...

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Iowa Disability Film Festival: The Tuba Thieves

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

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...

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HM Bouwman – Scattergood

Prairie Lights Bookstore

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...

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Pieta Brown

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

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....

$25