THE WEEKENDER
Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium
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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.
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The Weekender is sponsored by:
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Theatre Cedar Rapids
The Spongebob Musical
May 11 – 7:30pm
Are you ready kids?
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NewBo City Market
ViceBox – NewBo Rock the Block
May 12 – 6:00pm
“Rock the Block” with ViceBox
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Arts IC | ArtiFactory
Gallery Reception
May 12 – 7:00pm
Foil Group Show
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Coralville Center for the Performing Arts
Dancing at Lughnasa
May 12 – 7:30pm
In an Irish town you’ve never heard of, meet five sisters you will never forget.
A haunting masterpiece and winner of the Tony Award for Best Play.
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Olympic South Side Theater
Iowa Hip Hop Showcase
May 12 – 8:00pm
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.
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The Lucky Cat Comedy & Events
Comedy: Mat Alano-Martin
May 12 – 8:30pm
Mat Alano-Martin has spent the last 13 years on the road telling jokes and sharing stories all across America.
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National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
folkjord
May 13 – Aug 13 – Tues. – Sat. 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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.
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Downtown Kalona
Mother’s Day Market
May 13 – 9:00am
Shop with or for the mother’s in your life this Saturday in downtown Kalona.
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PS1—Close House
All Ages Art: Rod Puppets
May 13 – 11:00am
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!
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The Ideal Social Hall
Smoke & Mirrors Ball
May 13 – 7:30pm
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.
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CSPS
The Claudettes
May 13 – 8:00pm
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.
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Gabe’s
Diet Lite w/Fishbait, Dolliver, Death Kill Overdrive
May 13 – 8:00pm
Diet Lite with Fishbait, Dolliver and Death Kill Overdrive
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Olympic South Side Theater
Deerskin
May 13 – 8:00pm
Rebel Writers Records and Bass’d Productions Presents:
Deerskin
Obeygrey
Grimwerx
Knwbody
Quincho
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PS1—Close House
Lyndsey Scott
May 14 – 4:00pm
“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.
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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. |
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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.
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