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Spring Opera: Fierce by William Menefield

Saturday, April 27, 2024 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
FIERCE MUSIC BY WILLIAM MENEFIELD LIBRETTO BY SHEILA WILLIAMS DIRECTED BY WILLIAM MENEFIELD Friday & Saturday, April 26 & 27 / 7:30 p.m. Hancher Auditorium / Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating Co-Produced by the University of Iowa School of Music, Performing Arts Production Unit, and Hancher Auditorium. TIckets: Adults $20, Youth & Non-UI Students $10, UI Students $5.
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Jane Smiley at the Iowa City Public Library in conversation with IPR's Charity Nebbe

Sunday, April 28, 2024 2:00pm
Iowa City Public Library
Please join us at the Iowa City Public Library for a special afternoon event with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley, who will read from her new novel, Lucky. She will be joined in conversation by Iowa Public Radio's Charity Nebbe. Lucky is a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times. "Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just 6 years old, her Uncle Drew took her to the...
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Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, April 28, 2024 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen and adult writers in all genres are welcome. Write at the Stanley meets every fourth...

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