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Pen before shovel: Adele Vanarsdale helps UI design its future

Friday, September 22, 2023
As the university navigates its 10-year facilities master plan, Adele Vanarsdale, director of campus project planning, talks about her experience at Iowa, the holistic and purposeful vision for campus, and the pleasure of working for the university whose sports teams she grew up rooting for.

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Live from Prairie Lights | Patricia Foster in conversation with Darius Stewart

Thursday, September 28, 2023 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Patricia Foster will read from her new collection of essays, Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by author Darius Stewart. In Written in the Sky, Patricia Foster presents a double portrait of place and family, a book of deeply personal essays that interrogate the legacy of racial tensions in the South, the constriction of caste and gender, and the ways race, class, and white privilege are entwined in her family story. After interviewing girls at...

Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Friday, September 29, 2023 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Jazz Repertory Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A30242 This concert is free and open to the public.
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The Englert Presents Track Zero | Kassa Overall, with Tahjia Brantley

Friday, September 29, 2023 7:30pm
The James Theater
Track Zero is The Englert's new concert series that presents burgeoning, diverse, and boundary-pushing artists in Iowa City. Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions. On his first two studio albums Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz and I Think I'm Good, Kassa layered virtuosic drumming, meticulous production techniques, and...

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6 projects that may affect your campus commute

As the fall semester gets underway, here are six ongoing projects that may affect travel around campus. Please remember to use caution when driving or walking near construction areas and allow extra time to reach your destination.

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