The Gilded Pear Gallery is currently presenting not just one, but two artists in simultaneous solo shows. In the 2nd floor gallery, it’s “Fiber Optics” from Kristina Fjellman. The Minneapolis-based artist tells us she enjoys how your perception of her airy, 3-dimensional sculptures can change based on light, viewing angle, and even air currents in …
Two exhibits at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art celebrate Black history and culture, from Iowa artists. “Carl Van Vechten, Man About Town” displays the photographs Van Vechten took during the Cedar Rapids native’s years observing and chronicling the musicians, actors, and writers of the Harlem Renaissance. “Freedom’s Daughters” is a collection of new paintings …
Orchestra Iowa presents “Magical Movie Moments: John Williams” Feb. 19 and 20 at the Paramount Theatre. Tim Hankewich explains that Williams has written not just music that is great for movies, but great in and of itself. The orchestra will perform all your favorites from Star Wars, Superman, and more, along with some lesser-known gems. …
Mirrorbox Theatre returns to in-person shows with a world premier, “Cycle Play,” Feb. 17-27 in Theatre Cedar Rapids’ Grandon Studio. Founder. Cavan Hallman is excited not just about this play, but about the recently completed capital campaign to fund a permanent space for the theatre, in Cedar Rapids’ Time Check neighborhood. Playwright Megan Tabaque and …
The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale has two big events in the coming weeks. Their sole fundraiser of the year, the Mardi Gras Gala, will be at the Czech Museum Feb. 26, and the Chorale pays tribute to the many composers who call, or have called Cedar Rapids home, in their next concert, March 5 at …
The Iowa City Community Theatre returns to live, in-person performance with “The Triangle Factory Fire Project,” opening Feb. 11. Director Michelle Payne-Hinz says the play is drawn from the actual news stories and court testimony after the devastating 1911 fire in a New York City clothing factory, which resulted in increased safety standards for workers, …
Ernie Schiller’s Rebuild Nepal Foundation makes its first trip in years to bring money and school supplies to children in Nepal at the end of April. Nepal has never fully recovered from a devastating 2015 earthquake, and the pandemic pushed recovery efforts back even further. Joining Ernie on the trip are several students and families …
Adam Knight and Mat Smart have been friends and collaborators since college, and now they’re working together on simultaneous world premieres: the first performance of Mat’s new play, “Eden Prairie, 1971” and the debut of Riverside Theatre’s brand new performance space, in the Crescent building on the Iowa City Ped Mall. “Eden Prairie, 1971” runs …
