THE WEEKENDER
Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium
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Get out and get moving this weekend! Summer is just around the corner, and you can find teasers of it even now: Enjoy a patio drag brunch, experience the Salisbury House Garden Party or wander the Iowa Craft Brew Festival (June is, after all, Iowa Craft Beer Month!). Top pick of the weekend? It’s gotta be ’80s sax symbol Tim Capello at xBk Live on Friday, with not-to-be-missed local opener, Night Stories.
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The Weekender is sponsored by:
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Twisted Vine Brewery
Green Drinks — Des Moines
Jun 1 – 6:00pm
Each month Urban Ambassadors hosts Green Drinks, Des Moines to bring together like-minded sustainability people and community leaders.
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The Varsity Cinema
Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale
Jun 1 – 7:00pm
For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an amusement park nestled in the waters between the US and Canada.
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Des Moines Civic Center
2023 IHSMTA SHOWCASE
Jun 1 – 7:00pm
Feel the energy of hundreds of amazing student performers representing more than 80 participating Iowa high schools, as they share highlights from their award-winning school musicals!
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Des Moines Art Center
Exhibition Opening Celebration: “Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics”
Jun 2 – 5:00pm
Join us for the opening celebration of “Underneath Everything.”
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Wooly’s
PetRock: A Tribute To The Smooth Rock Of The 70’s
Jun 2 – 8:00pm
The 70’s were the best of times. Music was made by musicians, singers could sing, and rock was best heard live.
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xBk Live
Tim Cappello
Jun 2 – 8:00pm
Tim Cappello is an American musician, known primarily as a saxophonist, whose work can be heard on the Tina Turner tracks “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and “One of the Living”.
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Platform
This Shit is Bananas w/ Jimmy Jim
Jun 2 – 9:00pm
A Des Moines event with the intention of just plain fun!!!!
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Exile Brewing Company
Drag Brunch on the Patio: Celebrating PRIDE
Jun 3 – 10:00am
Hello June, Blue Skies and PRIDE!
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Mainframe Studios
GDT Presents Dance Workshops | Bhangra w/ Pooja Mayur
Jun 3 – 1:00pm
We invite you to come to learn from local artists the art of movement!
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Lauridsen Amphitheater
Iowa Craft Brew Festival
Jun 3 – 1:00pm
Enjoy a day full of unlimited samples of Iowa craft beer and cider, live music, local food.
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Salisbury House and Gardens
The Garden Party
Jun 4 – 11:00am
Join us for Salisbury House & Garden’s festive springtime fundraising event benefiting the Salisbury House Foundation.
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Whirlythings
Whirlythings presents 13th Annual Garden Art Show
Jun 4 – 12:00pm
See a unique variety of Iowa’s best artists in a relaxed Beaverdale garden setting.
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xBk Live
All Ages Drag Show
Jun 4 – 1:00pm
This event is in partnership with the DSM Queer Youth Resource Center.
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Des Moines Community Playhouse
Native Gardens
Jun 4 – 2:00pm
Pablo and Tania, an expecting couple, purchase a house next door to longtime community residents, Virginia and Frank.
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Beaverdale Books
Sandra Marchetti | Aisle 228
Jun 4 – 2:00pm
Aisle 228 is a book of poems about the Chicago Cubs and listening to baseball on the radio.
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Lefty’s Live Music
ACxDC, No/Mas, Knoll, Traffic Death, Cursed Existence
Jun 4 – 7:00pm
Presented by Black Heart Booking; 21+ show, 7 p.m.
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Book Review: ‘The Behavior of Words’ by Efe Duyan, transl. Aron Aji
by Sarah Elgatian, May 31
In the translator’s note, Aron Aji — director of MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa — gives some insights on his methodology and experience as both a reader and translator of Efe Duyan’s The Behavior of Words (White Pine Press, 2023). “Given the infamous incommensurability of English and Turkish grammars, the process often required forcing the natural Turkish syntax … on the English in order to foreground the physical direction of the verse and the gradual accretion of meaning.”
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