MusicIC 2012, Iowa City’s summer classical music festival, returns for a second year with a week-long series of concerts and other events June 10-16. This year’s festival includes more musicians, a concert and scavenger hunt for families, and an ambitious attempt to theatricalize one of the concerts.

The University of Iowa Center for New Music will host the Third Annual Composition Festival, an event of the Exchange of Midwestern Collegiate Composers (EMCC), with four free public concerts Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14.

The life and legacy of Bill Sacker will be celebrated on what would have been his 99th birthday Friday, April 13.

Sister Spit, described as “a legendary, raucous, and rowdy performance gang,” will visit Iowa City Monday, April 16, with a free performance from 7 to 9 p.m. at Public Space One, sponsored by University of Iowa’s student and community-based group TransCollaborations.

Jennifer duBois, an alumna of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, at 7 p.m. Monday, April 9, at Prairie Lights bookstore and on the Internet at www.writinguniversity.org.

West Wind Education Policy and the Bijou Cinema will screen a documentary about American teachers at the University of Iowa Bijou Cinema at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3. The film will be followed by a panel discussion including teachers-in-training at the UI College of Education.

Judith Linhares, a visiting artist in the painting and drawing area of the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, will present a free lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

Jennifer duBois, an alumna of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from her novel A Partial History of Lost Causes at 7 p.m. Monday, April 9, in Prairie Lights Books and at www.writinguniversity.org.

Neuroscientist André Fenton will give a lecture titled “Erasing, Tracing, and Harnessing Memory” at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, in Shambaugh Auditorium in the University of Iowa Main Library.

The University of Iowa will celebrate Iowa's most famous artist and faculty member, Grant Wood, with the Grant Wood Biennial Symposium, Grant Wood Today, April 13 and 14 in Art Building West and the Black Box Theater of the Iowa Memorial Union.

A partnership between the Bijou Cinema, Campus Activities Board, and the Englert Theatre offers movie lovers the shared experience of seeing a film with others who love movies—at the stroke of midnight, no less.

Veteran, actor, and writer Benjamin Bush will read from his new memoir at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2, in a free Prairie Lights reading streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website www.writinguniversity.org.