SCOPE Productions, AEG Live, and Iowa Public Radio are proud to present a performance by David Sedaris at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union on the University of Iowa campus.

Jane Gilmor, graduate of the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, will sign copies of the new catalog of her work, "I'll Be Back for the Cat," from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, in the Times Club Café in Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa Center for New Music will present a Composers Workshop, with a free concert slated for 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 28, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Numerous musicians will join the Iowa Brass Quintet for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall. The performance is free and the public is welcome.

The final weekend of the University of Iowa International Writing Program fall residency will open with a free panel discussion, “Images of America,” at noon, Friday, Nov. 2, in the Iowa City Public Library.

"The Fossil Guy" series continues at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, with “Twilight of the Dinosaur Age." The free public programs are geared toward elementary-age children and are held in Macbride Auditorium.

The continuing struggle for “a new birth of freedom” following the American Civil War will be the topic of a presentation by Hal S. Chase Thursday, Nov. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in the Senate Chamber of the UI Old Capitol Museum. The event is free and open to the public.

Salgado Maranhão, leading Afro-Brazilian poet, songwriter, and winner of Brazil’s highest literary award (the Academy of Letters Prize), will present his newly translated collection, "Blood of the Sun," with American translator Alexis Levitin at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5, in a free Prairie Lights reading streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Hancher will present Brian Stokes Mitchell, a Tony Award-winning actor and vocalist—and Glee guest star—on Friday, Nov. 2 at the Riverside Casino & Golf Resort Event Center.

L. Michael White, Ronald Nelson Smith Professor of Classics and Religious Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins at University of Texas at Austin, will visit the University of Iowa campus Oct. 22-24 as an Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Bret Anthony Johnston, the University of Iowa’s first Frank N. Magid Visiting Writer in Residence, will read from his work at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 1, 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.

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William LaRue Jones, will perform works by Richard Strauss, Benjamin Britten, Patrick Harlin, and Felix Mendelssohn in a free concert featuring faculty pianist Uriel Tsachor at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.