THE WEEKENDER
Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium
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Get ready to get active! Exile Brewing is having their 6th annual Lemon Trail Ride and the Des Moines Botanical Gardens is inviting you to their Spring Ephemeral Hike for a beautiful walk through Brown Woods Forest Preserve. This is just the start of many opportunities to walk, run or bike with the community. If you prefer to watch others breaking a sweat, enjoy some of the nations top track and field athletes at Drake relays or catch the moves of the university’s Black sororities and fraternities battle it out with a step show. Top Pick: DJ AD3 presents a ReggaeDub night at Platform. It’s warm out and it’s time to move!
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Des Moines Botanical Garden
Bringing Birds to Your Backyard
Apr 27 – 5:30pm
Bringing Birds to Your Backyard
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Platform
AD3 ReggaeDub
Apr 27 – 9:00pm
Join us for a specially curated night by DJ AD3. The history of dub and reggae will blend together in a show that’s sure to make you feel the love.
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Drake University
Drake Relays
Apr 28 –
Non-Law classes suspended for Drake Relays at 1:50pm on Friday, April 28th.
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The Varsity Cinema
Joyland
Apr 28 – 7:00pm
As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.
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Drake University
Drake Relays Concert
Apr 28 – 8:00pm
Drake University’s largest student-run event of the year will take place on Friday, April 28, at 8 p.m.
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Storyhouse Bookpub
Storyhouse Bookpub Indie Bookstore Day Extravaganza
Apr 29 – 10:00am
Complete a Central Iowa IBD Passport to enter to win a bundle of bookish swag.
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Beaverdale Books
Celebrate Indie Bookstores with Passports and Prizes!
Apr 29 – 10:00am
Celebrate shopping local and support central Iowa indie bookstores!
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Exile Brewing Company
Lemon Trail Ride 2023
Apr 29 – 10:30am
Join us for our SIXTH annual Lemon Trail Ride on Saturday, April 29th.
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Des Moines Botanical Garden
Spring Ephemeral Hike
Apr 29 – 1:00pm
Spring Ephemeral Hike
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Drake University
NPHC Step Show
Apr 29 – 7:30pm
Join the Black Alumni Association and National Pan-Hellenic Council for the step show on Saturday evening.
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xBk Live
Widow7 EP Release Show
Apr 29 – 8:00pm
xBk & First Fleet Concerts presents WIDOW7 with MCHNZ, BACKHAND BLUE, & ELISION
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Des Moines Civic Center
Invisible Wonders
Apr 30 – 6:30pm
In photographer Anand Varma’s hands, a camera is not just a tool to capture what he sees—it’s a way to illuminate the layers of beauty and complexity that are otherwise hidden from our naked eye.
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Drake University
Underrepresented Composers Recital
May 1 – 7:30pm
Recital featuring strings & chamber works from historically underrepresented composers.
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Gas Lamp Des Moines
Reggae Mondays at Gas Lamp
May 1 – 9:00pm
Open Mic hosted by: The Sheet
Every Monday 8pm-12am
21+ Event | No Cover
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Book Review: ‘Accidental Sisters: The Story of My 52-Year Wait to Meet My Biological Sibling’ by Katherine Linn Caire
by Sarah Elgatian, Apr 25
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I try to imagine myself learning, at age 52, that I have a sister. I think about my own sister and how important that relationship is to me. I think about how much life there is in 52 years — how much identity is formed, how awkward it becomes just making friends as an adult — and I can’t imagine it. Surely it would be confusing and scary and thrilling, but what would that even mean?
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Nature photographer Anand Varma brings bees, birds, bats and parasites into focus for National Geographic
by Isaac Hamlet, Apr 25
Honeybee populations have been declining for more than a decade. To keep one of nature’s most prolific pollinators alive and busy, the USDA has been mixing mite-resistant bees and bees kept by commercial beekeepers. |
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