The University of Iowa Center for New Music, housed within the UI School of Music, will present the Center for New Music Ensemble featuring guest composer Anthony Cheung from the University of Chicago at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program—coordinated by violist Elizabeth Oakes, lecturer in the UI School of Music—will present the Bartók Cycle by the Chiara String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6 and 7, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the All-University String Orchestra and the UI Chamber Orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra with the combined School of Music choirs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a jam session by jazz faculty members from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, at George’s, 312 E. Market St. in downtown Iowa City. The performance, part of a monthly series, is free and open to the public.

Iowa City artist Laura Young will show “The Devil’s Cloth,” paintings and works on paper, at the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s First Friday reception to be held from 5 to 7 p.m on Dec. 3 at hotelVetro, 201 S. Linn St. in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa Bicycle Advisory Committee invites UI faculty, staff, and students to join the Winter Warrior Challenge, a fun way to show that a bike commute is possible despite chilly temperatures, Dec. 1-20.

One of the world’s finest big bands will swing into the holiday season with two performances at West High School when University of Iowa's Hancher presents the Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis Saturday, Dec. 7, at 5 and 8 p.m.

This Thanksgiving, no one will be without a place to gather for good food, conversation, and the opportunity to give thanks. The University of Iowa is hosting a traditional Thanksgiving dinner Thursday, Nov. 28, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Old Brick. Though free and open to the UI community, advance registration is necessary, and volunteers are still invited to help.

The UI Department of Dance will present "The Work Between: Collaborative Performance 2013" at 8 p.m. Dec. 5-7 in Space Place Theater. The event features an interdisciplinary performance created through collaboration of student choreographers, musicians, composers, designers, and stage managers.

Poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

The performing arts component of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Project Art will present a concert of Middle Eastern and North African music by Salaam at noon Monday, Dec. 16, in the atrium of the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The performance is free and open to the public.