THE WEEKENDER

Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium
Take in a play, laugh the night away with some stand-up, enjoy some world-class jazz or take a stand for reproductive rights! So many opportunities to soothe your soul in DSM this weekend. Top pick? Head to the Slow Down for the inaugural Rook Room Prism Tabletop Club, a gaming gathering for LGBTQ board gamers.




Des Moines Botanical Garden

Native Plants for Your Backyard

Nov 3 – 5:30pm

Native Plants for Your Backyard


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Slow Down Coffee Co

Prism Monthly LGBTQ+ Game Night

Nov 3 – 6:00pm

Join The Rook Room for the launch of the Prism Tabletop Club, a monthly LGBTQIA+ board gaming meetup group celebrating the diversity in the gaming community.


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Iowa Center for Economic Success

The Story Of The East Village

Nov 4 – 12:00pm

Join us for the stories of Iowa entrepreneurs and small business owners making their mark in our communities.


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CAP Theatre

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

Nov 4 – 7:00pm

Getting to Know…Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella


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RAYGUN

The Author Afterparty: Kelly Barnhill and Antonia Angress

Nov 4 – 7:00pm

Storyhouse Bookpub presents The Author Afterparty with Kelly Barnhill and Antonia Angress on Friday, November 4 at 7pm in Raygun’s mezzanine.


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Tallgrass Theatre Co.

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

Nov 4 – 7:30pm

A play by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon.


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Teehee’s Comedy Club

Stand-Up Comedy: Joe Eames & Evan Hull

Nov 4 – 9:30pm

Stand-Up Comedy: Joe Eames & Evan Hull


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xBk Live

Support the Iowa Abortion Access Fund

Nov 5 – 3:00pm

Come hear an amazing line-up all for a free will donation at the door.


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Teehee’s Comedy Club

Robert Baril: Stand-Up Comedy

Nov 5 – 7:00pm

Robert Baril: Stand-Up Comedy


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Wooly’s

Magdalena Bay

Nov 5 – 7:00pm

Magdalena Bay at Wooly’s


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Gas Lamp Des Moines

Vision Video and Art Monk

Nov 5 – 9:00pm


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Caspe Terrace

Kirk Knuffke and Jesse Stacken

Nov 6 – 2:00pm

Jazz at The Caspe Terrace


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Hoyt Sherman Place

Create your own Dinosaur Drawing (kids)

Nov 6 – 2:00pm

Justin will help you create a Jurassic creature of your own design.


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xBk Live

David Huckfelt and Pieta Brown

Nov 6 – 6:00pm

[T]he power of song to speak love to power, to create an atmosphere in which we ponder what it means to be human….”


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Wooly’s

Stand Atlantic

Nov 7 – 6:00pm


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Willow on Grand

Iowa: Let’s Talk Reproductive Rights

Nov 7 – 7:00pm

A panel of subject matter experts on reproductive rights will help broaden our understanding of the issue.


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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT





Hinterland Music Festival announces three-day 2023 lineup featuring Bon Iver, Zach Bryan, Maggie Rogers

by Lily DeTaeye, Nov 1
On Tuesday morning, Hinterland Music Festival announced the lineup for its eighth festival to take place during the first weekend in August 2023. The 2023 festival will span across three days instead of the four-day lineup organizers tried in 2022.

Independent Iowa News, Culture & Events.