Event Series Laughter Club

Laughter Club

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

Wednesdays, 3-3:45 pm Location: Room 311 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Leader: Michelle Buhman Anyone can laugh for no particular reason. Laughter helps to relieve the effects of stress. It is energizing, healing, and brings out our best self. When we laugh together we feel lighter and renewed. Come and experience the Laughter Club! Sessions are...

Event Series Laughter Club

Laughter Club

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

Wednesdays, 3-3:45 pm Location: Room 311 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Leader: Michelle Buhman Anyone can laugh for no particular reason. Laughter helps to relieve the effects of stress. It is energizing, healing, and brings out our best self. When we laugh together we feel lighter and renewed. Come and experience the Laughter Club! Sessions...

Mindfulness Meditation: Developing a Personal Practice

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

Tuesdays, Jan 16 - Mar 5, 6-8 pm Location: Zoom Register online or call 319-356-5220 Instructor: Christine Allen 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 it’s happening in an open, nonjudgmental,...

$90
Event Series Device Advice

Device Advice

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

Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm Location: Iowa City Public Library Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 pm Location: Senior Center, 1st Floor Lobby UI student volunteers are available to offer guidance on all things technology-related, so bring your devices and your questions.

You Can Draw (Yes, You Can!)

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

Tuesdays, Mar 5 - May 14, 9:30-11:30 am Location: Room G07 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Instructor: Garth Conley Learn about observation and drawing what you see rather than what you think you see. This class explains how to see things as basic shapes and turn those shapes into drawings, how light works and how...

$60
Event Series Iowa City New Horizons Band

Iowa City New Horizons Band

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

Tue, Thu, Jan 16 - May 16, 9:30-10:30 am Location: Assembly Room Did you enjoy making music earlier in life but things happened and you had to stop playing? Or have you always wanted to play with a band? The Iowa City New Horizons Band (ICNHB) provides opportunities for chronologically gifted adults to refresh old...

Author Reading by Cheryl Walsh

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

Monday, Mar 4, 1-2 pm Location: Hybrid (Room 302 & Zoom) Register online or call 319-356-5220 Cheryl Walsh is the author of Unequal Temperament, a story of weather, music, art, and what it means to be a family. Writing this novel involved learning about meteorology, harpsichords and Baroque tuning systems, 20th-century opera, aural physics, oil...

Event Series Family Folk Machine

Family Folk Machine

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

Sundays, January 14th - May 12th, 2:00-4:00 pm Location: Assembly Room The Family Folk Machine’s spring program features songs of inclusion, welcome, and working for social justice; and we will present a concert at the Englert Theatre on Sunday, May 12. To join us, please email jean@familyfolkmachine.org. You can also drop-in to our first rehearsal,...

Death Café

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

Fridays, Mar 1, Apr 5, 2-3 pm Location: Iowa City Senior Center, Room 307 Facilitators: Michelle Buhman, Craig Mosher   Wednesdays, Mar 20, Apr 17, 1:15-2:15 pm Location: Ranshaw House, 515 Community Dr, North Liberty Facilitator: Mary McCall   A Death Café is a safe place for people to talk about death in order to...

Slow Flow Yoga

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

Mondays, Fridays, Mar 1 - Apr 29, 9:15-10:15 am Location: Room G13 Register online or call 319-356-5220 Instructor: Christoph Weismayer This class starts with a slow flow warm-up and then slows down to study a few poses in greater detail with optional prop use. Then a few poses to re-energize and we conclude with passive...

$8

Event Series Device Advice

Device Advice

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

Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm Location: Iowa City Public Library Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 pm Location: Senior Center, 1st Floor Lobby UI student volunteers are available to offer guidance on all things technology-related, so bring your devices and your questions.

Event Series Reading with Tai

Reading with Tai

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

January-February, Thursdays, 3:45-4:45 pm Location: Room 311 of the Iowa City Senior Center Led by: Tai Caputo Join City High student Tai Caputo as she continues reading aloud from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, a compelling nonfiction book about Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line, known as HeLa, that came from Lacks's...