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Iowa City New Horizons Band

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

Iowa City Senior Center, Assembly Room & Rooms 305, 309, 311 Instructor(s): University of Iowa Music Education Register 319-356-5220 Tuesdays, Thursdays, January 17 - May 11, 8:15 - 10:30 am No Fee   The Iowa City New Horizons Band provides opportunities for older adults to play musical instruments. The band performs under the direction of...

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Poetry Reading Circle

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

Iowa City Senior Center, Room 307 Instructor: Joi Haskins Register online or call 319-356-5220 Wednesdays, January 18 - February 22, 4:00-5:00 pm No Fee   Let's read poetry together! The class will discuss poems brought in by the instructor, in addition to poems students would like to share. Poets to be read include Rita Dove,...

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Mindfulness 101: Changing Your Relationship to Stress

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

Location: Zoom Register online or call 319-356-5220 Instructor: Christine Allen Tuesdays, January 31 - March 28, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm No Fee   Practicing mindfulness meditation, which involves paying attention to your thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and environment, has been shown to improve overall well-being. Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening as...

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The Art of the Short Story

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

Iowa City Senior Center, Room 308 Instructor: Sara Luzuriaga Register online or call 319-356-5220 Thursdays, January 26 - March 9, 2:00-3:30 pm Membership Required, No Fee   This six-week-long craft course in fiction writing will introduce key elements of short stories. Each participant will build toward a final short story project through weekly writing exercises,...

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Opioids, Overdose Response & Naloxone

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

Instructor: Carrie Hough No Fee The opioid epidemic has claimed thousands of lives in the U.S. This training explores what opioids are how they work, and also explains how to identify an opioid poisoning/overdose and respond with naloxone, the life-saving medication that can reverse an overdose. Participants in the training may sign up to receive...

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Winter Sing-Along

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

Dust off your holiday voices and join us for a come-one, come-all sing-along. We'll celebrate the songs of the winter season with gusto, vim, and verve as we fill the air with sounds of familiar tunes and melodies, guided by Jon Ranard on the piano. It's the perfect way to celebrate the official first day...

Voices of Experience Concert

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

Returning after a 2-year hiatus, the Voices of Experience, the Senior Center's mixed-voice choral ensemble, will proudly share songs and music from many different styles in a concert open to all. Please join us in the Assembly Room to hear sounds from the Big Band Era, folk songs, sacred classical selections, lively music from the...

S.S.R.O Reader’s Theater Performance

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

S.S.R.O. (Senior Standing Room Only), the Senior Center's reader's theatre troupe, will return after a 2-year hiatus to share an entertaining program of humor, cleverness, and fun. Relive the hilarity of George Burns and Gracie Allen, laugh at the radio antics of Lucille Ball in "My Favorite Husband," and revisit some of S.S.R.O.'s Greatest Hits...

SoundReach Choir Concert

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

SoundReach Choir is a performance group for adults with various cognitive and physical disabilities, under the direction of music therapists from West Music. Their concert theme this fall is "Colors of the Rainbow." SoundReach is designed to provide a structured community music experience for those who may not have other opportunities to join a performance...

Death Cafe

Iowa City Senior Center 28 South Linn Street, Iowa City, IA

Death Café Friday, August 5, 2:00-3:00 pm Location: Room 302 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Hosts: Michelle Buhman amd Craig Mosher A Death Café is a safe place for people to talk about death in order to make the most of life. New people are encouraged to join anytime. This is not a bereavement support...