Mother’s Day is upon us! Whether it’s your mom or favorite motherly figure, the mother of your kids, or just a friend with Big Mom Energy, make this the weekend you take ’em out to all the cool stuff that’s happening this weekend! There’s folkjord, the newest exhibit opening this weekend at the NCSML; musician, artis and ritual maker Lyndsey Scott’s event at PS1 Close House, celebrating all things that make up a mother, good and bad, and a Mother’s Day farmers market in Kalona. Riding solo this weekend? Drop by CSPS and check out roots musicians the Claudettes or dazzle at the Smoke & Mirrors Ball at the Ideal.
The Award Winning Iowa Hip Hop Showcase is coming to Cedar Rapids, IA. This will be the showcases first time in Cedar Rapids and will be showcasing artists from all across Iowa.
The prints in the exhibition celebrate the similarities of major known or unknown sights in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, to places around the world, including Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Join us second Saturdays this summer for informal workshops designed to get your creativity flowing by having fun trying a new technique, medium, or material!
Prepare to be spellbound…at THE SMOKE & MIRRORS BALL!! We have gathered performers from around the country to deliver a magical evening of fluidity, acceptance and love.
Wielding a one-of-a-kind, piano-powered roots-pop sound, the Claudettes merge earthy blues and soul with pop hooks and punk spirit, writing an intriguing new chapter in American roots music.
“Mother’s Day” brings with it a potpourri of Feels. Come sing songs that celebrate earth mama, anchor fierce forgiveness, ripple out unconditional nurture, and also honor the loss that Love entails.
Forty years ago, volunteers pulled off the first Iowa Arts Festival. Summer in Iowa City has never been the same
by Kembrew McLeod, May 9
What started 40 years ago as a volunteer-led labor of love is now a downtown Iowa City institution: the Iowa Arts Festival. Back in the summer of 1983, Joyce Carroll and Kristin Summerwill helped organize a multi-day event on the Ped Mall that brought together artisans, visual artists, poets, local musicians such as Greg Brown and Dave Moore, and a variety of performers (jugglers! puppeteers! dancers!) — all under the banner of ArtsFest ’83.
Theater Review: ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ from Coralville’s City Circle Theatre Company
by Saunia Powell, May 10
Before now, I wasn’t familiar with the 1992 Tony award winner for best play, Dancing at Lughnasa, or its playwright Brian Friel, who has been called “Ireland’s Chekhov.” I also must admit that I’ve attended Coralville’s Center for the Performing Arts and its resident theater company, City Circle’s productions, far less than some of the other theaters in the corridor.
