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Iowa Summer Music Camps feature nine free performances
Published: 2013.05.17 | By Christopher Clair | 8:49 AM
Published: 2013.05.17
By Christopher Clair
8:49 AM
Top high-school musicians from throughout the Midwest and other parts of the United States are converging on the University of Iowa for the 2013 Iowa Summer Music Camps. The camps, which run June 9-28, will include nine free concerts. Story
 

Symphony Band to share bill with Iowa Honor Band

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2013.02.11 | By Christopher Clair | 08:20 AM

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert by the UI Symphony Band and the Iowa Honor Band (composed of the state's top high school musicians) at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union. Story

Poet Palmer to read from his work Feb. 15

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2013.02.08 | By Christopher Clair | 10:00 AM

The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop will host a free reading by poet Michael Palmer at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House. Story

Ten Minute Play Fest opens Feb. 14

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2013.02.08 | By University Communication and Marketing | 09:56 AM
10 minute play festival logo

The Ten Minute Play Festival, featuring eight plays written by University of Iowa undergraduate students, will be showing at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 14-16, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building. Story

Solar Artworks director to give guest lecture Feb. 8

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2013.02.08 | By University Communication and Marketing | 09:41 AM

Nacho Zamora—entrepreneur, curator of public art, and director of the Solar Artworks Project based in Dubai—will give a guest lecture at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in Room 240 of Art Building West on the University of Iowa campus. The lecture is free and the public is welcome to attend. Story

Foster, Porter to read from 'Understanding the Essay'

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2013.02.04 | By Christopher Clair | 11:41 AM

Patricia Foster and Jeff Porter, faculty members in the University of Iowa Department of English and the Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from their new book, "Understanding the Essay," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the UI Writing University website. Story

Pianist Roberta Rust performing at UI

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2013.02.04 | By Christopher Clair | 08:27 AM
roberta rust

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by pianist Roberta Rust at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. The program will feature works by Mozart, Claude Debussy, Enrique Granados, John Cage, and George Gershwin. Story

Art on the move

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2013.02.01 | By Wendy Moorehead | 10:40 AM

The limestone sculpture located on the grounds of the flood-damaged Hancher Auditorium will be moved northeast to the site of the new Hancher. Story

Excelsior! Trio to perform Feb. 13

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2013.02.01 | By Christopher Clair | 10:36 AM

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by Excelsior! Trio at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the University Capitol Centre recital hall. Story

'It still doesn't quite seem real'

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2013.02.01 | By Christopher Clair | 10:32 AM
ayana mathis during interview footage recording

The telephone rang, and with four words, writer Ayana Mathis was transported from a Paris vacation to a whole new world: “This is Oprah Winfrey.” The Writers' Workshop alumna's first novel was selected for Oprah's Book Club 2.0; her interview with Winfrey will air on Super Bowl Sunday. Story

Folk recognized for memoir, 'Science on the Far Horizon'

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2013.01.31 | By Laura Zeman | 12:21 PM

Edgar Folk, Ph.D., UI professor emeritus of molecular physiology and biophysics, has published his memoir, "Science on the Far Horizon," which chronicles his more than seven decade scientific career. Folk pineered the field of environmental physiology and has been an influential member of the UI Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics since 1953. Story

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