THE WEEKENDER
Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium
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It’s Mission Creek weekend, and there’s a ton of opportunities to catch the hottest local and national musicians, writers, and artists of the year. If you’re looking more low-key, take a date down to the IC FabLab tonight and craft yourself your new fave coffee receptacle, or refresh your wardrobe for spring at NewBo City Market’s Sunday Swap! Top pick: I.C.E. C.R.E.A.M. at Public Space One’s Close House, the sixth annual Mission Creek zine fair (it’s free to check out!)
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The Weekender is sponsored by:
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The Englert Theatre
Mission Creek Festival 2023
Apr 6 – Apr 8 –
Mission Creek Festival returns live and in-person on April 6–8, 2023, presenting an array of world-class and local artists and writers to celebrate the finest of music and literature. Various venues.
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Coralville Community Food Pantry
Food Pantry Grand Opening
Apr 6 – 4:00pm
It’s official: the new Coralville Community Food Pantry building is complete and open to the public.
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IC FabLab
Ceramics: Wheel Throwing
Apr 6 – 5:30pm
Learn pottery basics! This class will teach you about wedging your clay, centering, throwing, trimming, engobes/finishing, glazing, and firing.
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The Ideal Social Hall
Wine & Dine with Aidan Gray of Funkatude
Apr 6 – 6:00pm
It’s time for Wine & Dine!
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NewBo City Market
Thursday Night Trivia
Apr 6 – 7:00pm
Thursday Night Trivia is one of NewBo City Market’s premier Fall/Winter entertainment events!
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University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art
Grant Wood Fellow Talk: Kieron Dwayne Sargeant
Apr 6 – 7:00pm
The Fusion of African Retentive and Continued Trinbagonian dances and Contemporary American dance for the classroom and stage
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La wine bar & restaurant
Dave Helmer Trio
Apr 7 – 7:00pm
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Elray’s Live & Dive
Salt Fox
Apr 7 – 8:00pm
Indie-pop comes to Iowa City – for fans of Tame Impala, The Gorrilaz, Childish Gambino, and Cannons
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Theatre Cedar Rapids
The Play That Goes Wrong
Apr 8 – 2:30pm
By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
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Joystick Comedy Bar & Arcade
Jazzed Up Comedy
Apr 8 – 9:30pm
The best comedians around do their set accompanied by musicians!
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FilmScene—Chauncey
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T
Apr 8 – 10:00pm
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NewBo City Market
Sunday Swaps at NewBo City Market
Apr 9 – 11:00am
Swaps are a sustainable and cost-effective way to shop for new-to-you items! Each week, Sunday Swaps will have a different theme of swap items.
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The Lucky Cat Comedy & Events
Trivia @ Lucky Cat
Apr 9 – 5:30pm
Three rounds of ten questions each. One final question where you can wager any or all of your points.
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The Green House
Planty Hour – Plant Exchange & Happy Hour
Apr 10 – 6:00pm
Join us for our weekly plant-themed Happy Hour!
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Wayback tours: Simon & Garfunkel sang ‘The Sound of Silence’ but a blown speaker made Paul cry out
by Jay Goodvin, Apr 5
On Friday, it will be 55 years since Simon & Garfunkel played the University of Iowa Field House. Bill Rohret still remembers that night clearly. It was his first concert.
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Five questions with: Katherine Paul a.k.a. Black Belt Eagle Scout, bringing ‘The Land, The Water, The Sky’ to Mission Creek
by Isaac Hamlet, Apr 5
Black Belt Eagle Scout was scheduled to play the Mission Creek Festival that never happened.
It’s been three years since that 2020 appointment—at the time postponed and then, ultimately, canceled—but Katherine Paul, who also goes by KP and performs under the title Black Belt Eagle Scout, is at last making their way to Iowa City.
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