The Green Room: Dessa Englert Theatre — Monday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. The Green Room is returning to the Englert Theatre this fall. The six-week lecture series, which kicks […]
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Hot Tin Roof: Prompt for the Planet
Prompt for the Planet is a call to action sent out by the nation’s first Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, to the emerging generation of leaders and innovators. The prompt asks young people to decide what is worth fighting for in response to growing concerns over climate change, poverty, global conflict, health access, education equity and so much more.
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Livestream: The Green Room presents Lisa Lucas on Monday, Sept. 25
At the Englert, on Sept. 25 at 7 p.m., Lisa Lucas will anchor a night that focuses on literature and its unique role in shaping homes that wonder about the mysterious and tolerate differences. As an added bonus, Kiese Laymon will provide a reading before her lecture. Mallory Hellman, director of the Iowa Youth Writing Project, will kick the evening off.
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Jane Elliott, the teacher behind the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, is still fighting
Jane Elliott, 85, has spoken out against racism since April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. Elliott worked as a third grade teacher in an all-white classroom in Riceville, Iowa. She had considered performing the experiment before, but decided she needed to enact it that Tuesday. She divided her class into two groups, treating them differently based on the color of their eyes — the birth of her famous Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise.
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Livestream: The Green Room presents Zach Wahls on Monday, Aug. 28
The Green Room presents: Zach Wahls and Shelter House The Englert Theatre — Monday, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. Livestream: Little Village Mag on Facebook Iowa City native Zach Wahls […]
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The Green Room: Breaking down barriers and connecting ideals and actions
Breaking down barriers between university students and the wider community, and between ideals and action is the goal of the Green Room, an upcoming lecture series at the Englert Theater.
