Sean Ulmer, executive director of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, and board member for the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA), has some suggestions for fun activities for all ages. Most take place in the cool comfort of air conditioning.

He also reminds us that his organization, the Museum of Art has free admission all summer long, so plan to catch their current exhibits.

Remember, www.culturalcorridor.org is the place to check out thousands of events for all ages. The Museum of Art is at www.crma.org.

2017 will be the final year for the Irish District Music and Arts Festival in Northeast Cedar Rapids, but that doesn’t mean the festival is ending. Next year, it will be renamed in honor of the new College District neighborhood that now encompasses the area.

Perry and the Pumpers and New Orleans’ Honey Swamp Band headline this festival, which raises funds to provide cash grants to emerging musical artists to help develop their careers.

Tickets are $10 in advance through midnight June 15, $15 at the gate.

Details at www.irishdistrictfest.com.

The public libraries in Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Hiawatha present bestselling authors in a free reading and signing event each year in the “Out Loud” author series.

June 16, it’s poet and Newbury Award-winner Kwame Alexander. June 23, Debbie Macomber, whose books have spent 990 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists.

Admission is free, but pre-registration is recommended at www.metrolibrarynetwork.org.

The University of Iowa Theatre program presents Oscar Wilde’s classic farce, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” June 15-25. A comedy set against the backdrop of the rigid social structures of Nineteenth Century Britain, the play is both social commentary but also set up many of the comedic rules and structures that we see in plays, TV, and movies to this day.

Best of all, all tickets are free! Details at www.iowasummerrep.com.