The concluding night of the 2017 Mission Creek Festival was hosted by the Englert, and as usual drew a full crowd. The closing acts face the daunting challenge of being […]
Mission Creek 2017
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Photos: Mission Creek Festival days five and six
The 2017 Mission Creek Festival rolled through the weekend and is now in the books. Saturday was Community Day and featured many free events, sponsored by Little Village. There were […]
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Review: Joy unfolded on stage at Englert and Blue Moose on Mission Creek Festival’s Saturday night
Mission Creek’s offerings last night provided attendees with three presentations of timeless joy.
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Photos: Mission Creek Festival day four
Day four of the 2017 Mission Creek Festival boasted The Cool Kids, Pieta Brown, DIIV, Tennis and more!
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An ephemeral night at Mission Creek as day four captures Dickie, DIIV and Pieta Brown
Amidst the bustle of a busy week of Mission Creek, Friday night’s musical possibilities included a night of pleasant music that seemed to emphasize ephemerality.
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Photos: Mission Creek Festival day three
The 2017 Mission Creek Festival hits the half way mark with the legendary Margaret Cho, Cloud Nothings, Mykki Blanco and plenty more!
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Review: Mission Creek night three at Gabe’s — Maiden Mars, Younger and Cloud Nothings
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On the third night of Mission Creek, Gabe’s featured a punk lineup that ended up showcasing the quality talent of the local Iowa City music scene. I had seen […]
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Photos: Mission Creek Festival day two
Day two of Mission Creek featured legendary Wu Tang clan member Ghostface Killah, Lake Street Dive’s Bridget Kearney, ambient musician Lawrence English, the annual Writers Of Color readings and more!
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Indie artists converge in town on Mission Creek Saturday
ICE CREAM Public Space One — Saturday, April 8 at 11 a.m. No, it doesn’t stand for “cash rules everything around me“. Over 50 independent vendors will congregate for the […]
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Review: Hexa pair with David Lynch to reexamine factories in a post-industrial age
Enter the soundscape of Hexa, an industrial and bodily-minded collaboration between musicians Lawrence English and Jamie Stewart (of Xiu Xiu). Hexa was first brought together to create an audial response to David Lynch’s “Factory Photographs,” as a part of the larger Lynch retrospect Between Two Worlds held at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art in 2015. Last night, April 4, 2017, was their first U.S. performance outside of California.
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Photos: Mission Creek Festival day one
Mission Creek Festival 2017 is off to a great start with Andrew Bird, Hexa, Preoccupations and more.
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Review: Mission Creek opening day events at Hancher
At 6 p.m. on April 4, Joe Tiefenthaler opened Mission Creek 2017’s Hancher component with a short statement about the enduring importance of the arts in terms of building what is essential within human communities. In addition to thanking sponsors, it was a necessary statement (given the current political backdrop in which the arts risk no longer being funded by the government), and a welcome invocation of the need to remind ourselves of the essential ingredient that the arts play in our experience of being human.
