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The Englert Presents Track Zero | Kassa Overall, with Tahjia Brantley promotional image
The Englert Presents Track Zero | Kassa Overall, with Tahjia Brantley
Friday, September 29, 2023 7:30pm
Northside Outside

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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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...

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Podcast: Museum Confidential Live
Sunday, September 24, 2023 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join us for a live podcast session at the Stanley with Museum Confidential: The Podcast.

Host Jeff Martin will be in conversation with a panel of guest speakers including editor of In a Time of Witness, Derek (DK) Nnuro (Curator of Special Projects, Stanley Museum of Art), Lauren Lessing (Director, Stanley Museum of Art ) and contributing writers from In a Time of Witness.  

The conversation will explore the ideas behind the conception of the catalog, how it merges visual and literary arts and...

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In a Time of Witness Readings and Reception
Saturday, September 23, 2023 1:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Hear some of the celebrated contributors of In a Time of Witness read from their poems, short stories, and essays with the artworks that inspired their writing.

Reception with light refreshments to follow.

Beyond a traditional museum exhibition catalogue, this unprecedented interdisciplinary project features 31 writers—alumni of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, International Writing Program, and Literary Translation Program—who contributed original literary responses to artworks they chose from the...