Hancher and the Joffrey Ballet enjoy a robust artistic collaboration, and the sold-out performances slated for March 7 and 8 in Iowa City build on that legacy.

The musicians of The Nile Project will participate in a robust residency in Iowa City that will culminate with a March 11 concert.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts and Cape Town’s Artscape Theatre Center, in partnership with the UI International Writing Program, will present Book Wings South Africa, a unique collaborative theater initiative. This free production will be staged at noon Tuesday, March 10, in Theatre B at the UI Theatre Building.

Blue Zones Project Iowa City announces the University of Iowa has been named a Blue Zones Worksite with more than 4,000 employees taking the pledge to be healthy. The university will celebrate the designation from 2 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent with The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle, presented "A Deeper Black: Race in America” to a packed Englert Theatre on Feb. 25. Coates also participated in a community conversation featuring a panel of UI faculty, students and staff, and an Iowa City Council member.

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The vibrant Pacifica Quartet will play music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Ran in a concert Friday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Riverside Recital Hall, culminating a week-long residency. University of Iowa's Hancher presents the concert in collaboration with the UI String Quartet Residency Program.

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, an associate professor in the American Studies Department and African American Studies Program at the University of Iowa, writes a guest column about homelessness prior to the showing of "The Homestretch," a documentary that follows three homeless teenagers, that will be shown Tuesday, Feb. 24, at FilmScene.

The Iowa Department of Transportation is a world leader in some winter road maintenance techniques, UI engineering professor and international road salt expert Wilfrid Nixon told ninth-graders at Prairie Point Middle School.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will co-present "La Maleta" with the Englert Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at the Englert in downtown Iowa City. This poignant story of social justice and inclusivity is told through the vivid imagination of a young girl.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present "Luck of the Irish" by UI Playwrights Workshop alumna Kirsten Greenidge. This production will be on stage at 8 p.m. March 5-7 and 11-14, and at 2 p.m. March 8 in the David Thayer Theatre of the UI Theatre Building.

The University of Iowa is presenting "A Deeper Black: Race in America," a lecture by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent with The Atlantic and author of “The Beautiful Struggle,” on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Englert Theatre. At the conclusion of the lecture, Coates will moderate a community conversation.