The Iowa Dance Festival happens across two weekends this year. It opens April 28 & 29 at Filmscene in Iowa City, with the Iowa International Screendance Festival. Keynote speaker Marta Renzi will lead a discussion of the films that will be presented. Screendance brings the audience up and close and personal with the dancers, as …
The Bur Oak Land Trust enters its 40th year of preserving natural spaces in Eastern Iowa. Director Tammy Wright says the organizations has a lot of fun events and opportunities for individuals and families to get away from screens and experience the natural resources of our area. If it would just stop snowing, that is!
Rebecca Larkin of the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA) runs down the list of events for the weekend. Find out more about these and hundreds of others on ICCA’s website, www.culturalcorridor.org.
Iowa City Community Theatre presents “A Man of No Importance” April 20-29. It’s a lesser-known work musical with tunes by Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens, famous for “Ragtime.” Set in a 1960s Irish amateur theatre, it’s the sweet story of a man coming to terms with his sexuality in a community and time not known …
Please pardon Orchestra Iowa’s Tim Hankewich for being just a tad jittery this week, as he takes the stage with world-renown pianist Emanuel Ax for three performances, April 12-15. It’s a landmark event for Orchestra Iowa, which Emanuel chose out of all the orchestras in the country to come for free to perform and clinic. …
Red Cedar Chamber’s Carey Bostian first worked with harpist Katherine Siochi when she was just thirteen and a student at Iowa City’s Preucil School. She went on to win the 2016 USA International Harp competition and is regarded as one of the world’s leading young harp players. Katherine comes home to perform “HarpStrings” with Red …
April is Holocaust Remembrance Month, and in Cedar Rapids, the David and Joan Thaler Holocaust Remembrance fund brings a Holocaust speaker to the area each year. This year, Michael Bornstein and his daughter Debbie Holenstat will give several presentations April 16-18. Bornstein survived the Auschwitz death camp while just a four year-old child. He and …
Riverside Theatre presents “Ears of a Beatle” April 13-29. Patrick Du Laney plays a veteran FBI agent tasked with figuring out a way to get outspoken ex-Beatle John Lennon out of the country before Richard Nixon runs for re-election. Helping, or perhaps hindering him is a new recruit, who has more in common with their …
