This weekend’s all about the local, the indie and the weird. Head over to the Floodwater Comedy Festival to support local and visiting comics as well as local charitable causes, or separate your brainlobes with Xiu Xiu and ghOstMiSt at Trumpet Blossom Cafe. Top pick: Spend your Saturday afternoon at the James Theater to catch Maiya and the Wilted, Iris Mae and more at a showcase to support trans youth!
The Weekender is sponsored by:
Big Grove Brewery & Taproom
Floodwater Comedy Fest
Apr 26 – Apr 29 – 11:30am
Floodwater Comedy Festival is an annual festival with a cause that could only happen here in Iowa City. We can’t wait for you to join us.
Cornell College, The Plumb-Fleming Black Box Theatre
Peter and the Starcatcher
Apr 27 – 7:30pm
Patrick DuLaney will direct the Tony Award-winning play is based on the best-selling novels, which upend the century-old story of how a miserable orphan boy becomes the legendary Peter Pan.
Join KCCK in collaboration with Kirkwood’s Culinary Arts and Hospitality Arts Departments for an evening of food, wine, beer and music to benefit KCCK’s Jazz Education Programs.
A showcase to show young trans siblings that there are people out there who love and support them! $10 suggested donation; all proceeds go to the Trans Mutual Aid Fund.
Make your Mondays just a little bit brighter at Riverside Theatre. Join Kathleen Johnson for an hour each week while we laugh and learn about the fundamentals of improv.
Comedic actor, producer and writer Rainn Wilson explores the problem-solving benefits that spirituality gives us to create solutions for an increasingly challenging world.
“I pray to the saints,” begins the Ruralists’ “pandemic album,” Trying. Then, later, with the strained tension of drawn out tones and stretched-then-resolving chords, album opener “HereNow” continues, “And I wait/on the word/on the whisper never heard/though I listen with all my might.”
