Iowa City’s Witching Hour festival, now in its fourth year, announced schedule details today. With them, tickets to many individual shows on the schedule go on sale. As always, all events at the Iowa City Public Library will be free and open to the public.
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Early bird tickets on sale for 2018 Witching Hour festival
Excited already for this year’s Witching Hour, sight unseen? Specially priced early bird tickets are now available for the 2018 Witching Hour festival. If you already know that you don’t want to miss whatever’s on tap for this year, snag your passes now for only $40.
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part four: Creativity and culture
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part three: Forging a path forward
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part two: Think globally, act locally
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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DJ Spooky’s ‘Explorer I Remix’, featuring sounds made by Van Allen radiation belts, will premiere at Witching Hour
DJ Spooky’s new Explorer I Remix emerged from a collaboration between this visiting artist and a group of University of Iowa scientists, musicians, librarians and archivists. It will celebrate the 60th anniversary of a satellite launched in 1958 used to discover Earth’s radiation belts (known as the Van Allen belts in honor of UI scientist James Van Allen).
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Beach Fossils mull over today’s insane times in their dreamy new album ‘Somersault’
The Brooklyn-based shoegaze band, performing in Iowa City next week, have traded urban escapism for political commentary in their lyrics. Witching Hour audiences can expect the Beach Fossils to “go off the rails” during their live show.
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Witching Hour — Track by track, part one: American Politics and Race and Gender in America
Excited for Witching Hour this weekend but not sure where to start? The curators of the Witching Hour festival have arranged a series of tracks to guide your steps and highlight the hope at the heart of the festival: that encountering the unknown within particular, relevant issues will inspire individuals to become more innovative in their questioning and creating.
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Photos: Witching Hour delights, informs many during second annual festival
There was plenty to explore during the first day of the Witching Hour. The festival returns in its sophomore year and once again opened with a diverse collection of discussions, including Jason Sole’s From Prison to PhD: A Journey of Pain, Promise, and Protest, in which Sole discussed his path from gang life, through prison, to becoming a […]
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Interview: Will Duncan on solitude and solace
Will Duncan: Workshop — The Art of Doing Nothing Englert Theatre — Saturday, Nov. 5 at 11 a.m. Will Duncan: Lecture — Lessons Learned from Three Years of Silence Iowa City Public Library — Saturday, Nov. 5 at 3 p.m. Will Duncan is an author and meditation teacher, who has recently founded the Sofia retreat […]
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Interview: The three faces of Jason England
Witching Hour: National Anthem: The Sociopathic Nature of Racial Discourse in American Sports Englert Theatre — Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. Tickets available here Writer and University of Iowa Rhetoric Department faculty member Jason England has been a consistent voice in the arena of race and politics in American athletics, and those of us […]
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Interview: Jen Kirkman heads back to IC for Witching Hour
Jen Kirkman Englert Theatre — Saturday, Nov. 5 at 9 p.m. Jen Kirkman is an award-winning author, stand-up comedian and authentically kind and funny human being. Hot off the heels of the release of her Netflix special I’m Going to Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), Jen will be in Iowa City, performing her stand […]
