You might think that all the big holiday events are over, as we head in to the weekend before Christmas. Not so! Dawn Jones from Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA) is in with a list of last-minute activities, perfect to give yourself a little break or to give visiting friends and family a taste of …
Kick your holiday off with a bang and attend “Miss Gloria Hardiman Presents ‘A Blue Christmas,’” Dec. 22 at The Mill in Iowa City. Featured performers include Iowa Blues Hall of Fame member Robert “One-Man” Johnson, The Tanya English Band, Hal Reed & The Mississippi Journey, and Gloria Hardiman herself, a former Alligator Records artist. …
In the Sixties and Seventies, no community had a closer relationship with the U.S. Space Program than Cedar Rapids. The company known at that time as Collins Radio (now Collins Aerospace) had the contract to develop the communications technology NASA used for the Apollo project. Neil Armstrong’s famous “One Small Step” speech was transmitted to …
Tim Hankewich from Orchestra Iowa spends most of his summers planning for Holiday Spectacular, the symphony’s big holiday show, featuring not just his orchestra, but the Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale, Discovery Chorus, Espressivo Strings, The Mighty Wurlitzer organ, and special guest vocalist Lynne Rothrock. Dec. 15-16 at the Paramount Theatre. Tickets at the Paramount Box …
Combined Efforts Theatre is the region’s only visual and performing arts company that specializes in collaborations between artists with and without disabilities. The group also runs a writers group, which led Ken Gayley, Ph.D., a UI professor of Astronomy and physics to write the play “Zwicky’s Air,” which explores both the secrets of the universe …
The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale presents Handel’s landmark work “Messiah” in its 2018-19 season. But not all at once. Instead, the Chorale will break the work up into the seasons we associate it with. Part 1, which celebrates The Nativity, will be the centerpiece of “Holiday Handel,” Dec. 8 at First Lutheran Church in Cedar …
Iowa City’s Extend The Dream Foundation operates Uptown Bill’s, a coffee shop, performance hall, and meeting space named for Bill Sackter, a disabled man who moved to Iowa city with his guardian, screenwriter Barry Morrow, in the late 1970’s. Morrow told Bill’s story in a TV movie starring Mickey Rooney. Saturday, December 8, the Foundation …
RHCR Theatre presents “Christmas Memories” Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at Whipple Auditorium at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. Director and MC Matt Ford has recruited a group of singers to perform and share their own holiday memories including Tracie Hodina Van Pelt, Tracy Price, Oscar Ritchie IV, Jay Burken, Jennifer Boettger, Brian Anderson, Alicia …
