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Art provides outlet for grief
Published: 2013.05.22 | By Christopher Clair | 10:47 AM
Published: 2013.05.22
By Christopher Clair
10:47 AM
A celebratory moment—the bestowment of the 2013 Yale Drama Series Award—is one that grew out of painful loss and honest conversation between a University of Iowa professor and a student (now alumna) of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Story
 

'Garland in His Own Time' available from UI Press

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2013.04.05 | By Christopher Clair | 07:00 AM
detail of Garland in His Own Time book cover

"Garland in His Own Time," edited by Keith Newlin, is now available from the University of Iowa Press as part of its Writers in Their Own Time series. In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life riled the nation’s press. Story

Students to perform 'Music Through the Centuries'

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2013.04.03 | By Christopher Clair | 08:38 AM

The University of Iowa School of Music will present “Music Through the Centuries,” a free concert of music for organ, harpsichord, and voice, at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 13, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. Students will sing a variety of solo vocal music from composers Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Bach, Boulanger, Faure, and Davidson. Story

'Esther's Town' a documentation of 'Anytown, U.S.A.'

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2013.04.03 | By Christopher Clair | 07:00 AM
esther's town book cover

"Esther’s Town" by Deemer Lee is now available from the Bur Oak Books series of the University of Iowa Press. Story

Symphony Band to perform April 11 in IMU

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2013.04.02 | By Christopher Clair | 10:36 AM

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Band, conducted by Mark Heidel, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union on the UI campus. Story

Hancher to co-present Mucca Pazza during Mission Creek Festival

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2013.04.02 | By Rob Cline | 10:32 AM
Mucca Pazza

The University of Iowa’s Hancher is co-presenting a concert by Mucca Pazza during the Mission Creek Festival. The unique band will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at The Englert Theatre, brining a unique sensibility to the stage—and beyond the stage—with a marching band meets rock band vibe. Story

Poets McCrae, Giménez Smith to read April 10

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2013.04.02 | By Christopher Clair | 10:27 AM

Writers' Workshop alumni Shane McCrae and Carmen Giménez Smith will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Michael Tyrell to read from his poetry April 12

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2013.04.02 | By Christopher Clair | 10:05 AM

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Michael Tyrell will read from his poetry at 7 p.m. Friday, April 12, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Hancher to present world premiere of 'The Broken Chord' by Working Group Theatre

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2013.04.02 | By Erin Donohue | 09:56 AM

'The Broken Chord' project was designed to collect, archive, and present the personal stories of those working on the front lines of memory and aging research and patient care, as well as those who are suffering from memory-related diseases. Story

Hancher and Working Group engage Alzheimer's patients with TimeSlips program

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2013.04.02 | By Martin Andrews | 09:55 AM

The University of Iowa’s Hancher is collaborating with Iowa City’s Working Group Theatre on an ambitious community engagement project that will culminate in the presentation of The Broken Chord, a new play that explores issues of memory. Story

Project Art to present free concert April 8

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2013.04.02 | By Christopher Clair | 09:47 AM

The performing arts component of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Project Art will present a performance of works by Felix Mendelssohn, P.I. Tchaikovsky, and Mikhail Glinka in the atrium of the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at noon Monday, April 8. The performance is free and open to the public. Story

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