Temperatures are rising! With spring burgeoning, nicer weather and longer days come more reasons to get out and about. Maybe you’re inclined to look into this year’s Cedar Rapids Film Festival or Dreamwell Theatre’s latest production, ‘Angel Street.’ Or, you can check out comedian/novelist Sam Tallent or Iowa City Native Conor Hanick this weekend. Top Pick: The University of Iowa Center for the Book will be hosting a Japanese Papermaking Festival on the North Hall lawn this Friday, led by grad students Masami Igarashi and Hideaki Taki. Everyone’s invited out to celebrate the craft of hand papermaking!
The Weekender is sponsored by:
E105 Adler Journalism Building
Paper Artisan Talk and Q&A
Apr 13 – 6:00pm
Join the UI Center for the Book and UI International Programs in welcoming Masami Igarashi and Hideaki Taki to the university.
Join Czech Fullbright scholar Tomáš Jamník for a presentation that will highlight the life of Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík and his three visits to America.
CRIFF celebrates the fact that people with ties to Iowa are in the production industry everywhere! We’re showing films from anywhere and by anyone, all with an Iowa connection!
Writers’ Workshop alum Jane Roper will read from her timely and witty new novel The Society of Shame, one of the Washington Post’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year.
Dreamwell Theatre Presents: Angel Street, by Patrick Hamilton
Apr 14 – 7:30pm
Angel Street, by Patrick Hamilton is a psychological thriller twist on the classic detective story. It is a version of the play more commonly known as Gaslight—and the origin of the term ‘gaslighting’
Want to get to know people from across our community? Hypha Presents a series of storytelling gatherings, each built around a different theme that is of consequence to all of us.
Workers behind the scenes of Iowa’s biggest productions seek ‘voice, power and protection’ through unions
by Isaac Hamlet, Apr 10
IATSE is the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which has five locals in Iowa including Local 690 based out of Iowa City. Falk, who often works behind the scenes at Hancher and remains involved with IATSE, is the union’s former vice president. Falk stepped out of the role roughly around the time current Local 690 president Greg Wicklund assumed his own current title.
Debut albums are always about moving boxes, and Bella Moss’ debut album Midwestern Daydreams is full of them. Throughout, this seven-song set feels like a “summer’s surely over” album delivered here at the blustery start of spring.
