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NEA Big Read | Free Book Pick Up

Monday, January 20, 9:00am to Wednesday, February 12, 2025 5:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
The Stanley Museum of Art will launch its National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program on Jan. 20, 2025, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This event features a community wide reading of the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison. Pick up a free copy of Beloved at 12 pickup locations across Iowa City between Jan. 20 and Feb. 12, 2025.  Register here to pickup a free copy: https://uiowa.doubleknot.com/event/nea-big-reads-beloved-by-toni-morriso... An email confirmation must be presented to claim a book...
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Grant Wood Fellows Artist Talks & Panel | 2025

Thursday, February 6, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join the 2024-2025 Grant Wood Fellows artists for an evening of discussion about their work and research. The event will be accompanied by light refreshments. Panel members: Rush Baker IV (Painting & Drawing) Matthew Willie Garcia (Printmaking) Lyndsey Scott (Interdisciplinary Performance—Music) The Grant Wood Art Colony seeks to provide a creative home for the next generation of artists and continue Grant Wood’s creative advocacy in the School of Art & Art History and the Division of...

Guest Chamber Recital: JACK Quartet

Thursday, February 6, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Guest Chamber Recital: JACK Quartet This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://public.uni.dgicloud.com/ui/islandora/object/ui%3A31239 This concert is free and open to the public. 
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Iowa Director's Festival

Thursday, February 6, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
This year's Iowa Director's Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates.
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Far Away

Thursday, February 6, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted.
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Dutchman

Thursday, February 6, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Traveling on the city subway, everything seems innocent in the conversation between Clay and Lula, but things quickly escalate. Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka, a highly influential and provocative storyteller of the Black experience, examines the damage to and silence of the Black community — a cycle we seem doomed to repeat.
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Conversation with Emanuel Ax and Anthony McGill moderated by UI Benjamin Coelho

Friday, February 7, 2025 6:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Hancher favorites Emanuel Ax and Anthony McGill will engage in a special conversation at the University of Iowa School of Music, moderated by University of Iowa's own Benjamen Coelho.
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Iowa Director's Festival

Friday, February 7, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
This year's Iowa Director's Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates.
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Tom & Eliza

Friday, February 7, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Tom and Eliza are moving persistently toward the future in their own fantastically twisted journeys. Written by Celine Song — writer and director of the award-winning movie Past Lives — Tom & Eliza propels us on a journey from a first date to the end of life as we know it.
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And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens

Friday, February 7, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Having a “weakness for youth,” Candy’s romantic partner of 17 years has left her alone to manage her life as a respected landlord and drag queen. With her 35th birthday looming, Candy seeks out love in all the wrong places, willing to do anything to rekindle the love she lost.