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Schumann Quartet plays Beethoven at Dey House
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 1:00pm
Dey House

Schumann Quartet plays Beethoven

Tuesday, Feb. 18 | 1 p.m.

Presented by Hancher and the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program

This event is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more. 

FREE & Open to the Public | Limited Capacity

 

During the hour-long free concert, the Schumann Quartet will be playing excerpts from their upcoming...

Jack Saebyok Jung: Reading
Sunday, February 16, 2025 8:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Jack Saebyok Jung studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as a Truman Capote Fellow. He is the author of Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus, forthcoming from Black Square Editions in March 2025, and a co-translator of Yi Sang: Selected Works (Wave Books, 2020), which received the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work in 2020. His poetry and translations have appeared in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, BOMB Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Th...

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Sundays with the Docents | Art by Indigenous Americans
Sunday, February 16, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art for our Sundays with the Docents tour where Stanley docents create unique tours to share with our audiences throughout the year.

In the Art by Indigenous Americans tour, Docent David Duer will look at some of the ways Native artists examine and express their cultural heritage.

The Muscogee poet and musician (and former U.S. poet laureate) Joy Harjo, in her poem “Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings,” offers words that serve as our tour theme: “Recognize...

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English Department VIEWS: francine j. harris Reading, Q&A, & Book Signing
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 6:30pm to 7:30pm
English-Philosophy Building

English Department VIEWS presents: poet francine j. harris reading, Q&A, and book signing. Books will be available for purchase. francine j. harris’ third collection, Here is the Sweet Hand, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tuft s Award. Originally from Detroit, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is Professor...