Iowa Pop Art is once again presenting the city of Cedar Rapids with a lineup of eclectic artists, creators, and vendors for a First Thursday Pop Up at NewBo City Market.

“Moon of the Snow Blind” by Gary Kelley will be on view in Dresser-Robinson Gallery thru Sept. 19. This reception is free + open to all. Book signing with the artist at 5:30 p.m.

A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife’s murderer. Guy Pearce stars in director Chistopher Nolan’s breakout hit that scored Oscar nominations for screenplay and editing.

Tilly’s melancholy seems to have a strange power of attraction on everyone she meets in this Sarah Ruhl farce presented by Willow Creek Theatre Company.

Telekinetic Yet
w/ Acoustic Guillotine, The Shining Realm
at Gabe’s
7:30pm Doors
All Ages
$15 advance

Art Exhibit at Iowa Artisan’s Gallery featuring Mary Moye-Rowley.

an exhibition of screenprint and augmented reality experiences about facial recognition technologies

Live and outdoors at Brucemore: Arnold Lobel’s treasured characters hop from page to stage in a story of friendship and adventure!

A born and bred Chicago tenor player, Ben Schmidt-Swartz has had a prolific career as a saxophonist, woodwindist, composer and educator.

This season the market will follow social distancing guidelines and spread a purposefully decreased number of vendors out between First and Fourth Avenues SE and between First and Sixth Streets SE.

Riverview Music Fest is a new, one-day music festival featuring national acts and regional and local talent. The main stage will showcase dynamic musical talent, spoken word performances and more.

Unlimited beer tastings from 50+ Iowa breweries!

Ragged Records, Rozz-Tox and Midwest Writing Center present a Labor Day Weekend spectacular featuring Subatlantic, Centaur Noir, Tambourine, writing games and more.

Please join the International Writing Program (IWP) and the Literature Festival Berlin in their annual WorldWide Reading.

by Nicholas Dolan, Sept. 1

On March 13, 2020, five days after the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in Iowa, Anna Barker texted UNESCO City of Literature director John Kenyon, with her trademark triple-exclamatory enthusiasm: “Call me call me call me!!! I have an AMAZING quarantine book idea!!!” READ MORE >>

by Angela Pico, Sept. 1

Trasladaron a mi tía, que ya es coronel, de los páramos a la jungla. Un pueblo a tres horas de Bogotá. Tres horas lejos de nosotros, en un lugar donde se pega la ropa del sudor y las piernas se cubren de ronchas por los mosquitos. Cuando me dijeron que mi tía y mi primo Leo se iban a la base de la fuerza aérea en tierra caliente, me puse a llorar. Se me pasó cuando mi mamá me dijo que podíamos ir a visitarlos en vacaciones para disfrutar de la piscina de la base. READ MORE >>

by Emma McClatchey, Sept. 1

When I was a 10-year-old Girl Scout on a field trip to Maquoketa Caves, I joined a small fellowship of brave Juniors who decided to go as deep into one of the caves as we could. This wasn’t the gaping maw of the Dancehall Cave, but a smaller cavern (I think it was the Wye Cave) that got narrower and narrower the further we spelunked. READ MORE >>

by Genevieve Trainor, Aug. 31

As a Midwest interloper, I’d never heard the apparently ubiquitous story of the Spirit Lake massacre before encountering this new graphic novel. Of course, we had our own legends of “terrifying savages” back in New Jersey (look up the Jenny Jump House sometime if you’re interested in such things), so I know the drill: No matter how progressive the region now, there are always some lingering tales of poor innocent white settlers and the native populations that terrorized them. READ MORE >>

by Kent Williams, Aug. 27

I remember being at a Feed Me Weird Things show in Chris Wiersema’s back yard. Anthony Worden showed up, fashionably late, wearing a black-and-white polka dot shirt and huge round sunglasses. He looked like he was auditioning to be in the background of a D.A. Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back. READ MORE >>

by Izabela Zaluska, Aug. 26

A new mural inside the lobby of the Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris building highlights the couple’s lasting legacy in Cedar Rapids. The Linn County Public Art Commission began its search for artists in early 2020. Commission chair Sean Ulmer told Little Village then that the artwork could have references to the Harris family or the functions in the building. READ MORE >>

by Adria Carpenter, Aug. 26

The Iowa City Artists Registry, which the city’s Neighborhood Outreach division maintains as part of the Public Art Program, is intended to assist local artists by connecting them with the community as well as art organizations and venues. But since it went online in February, the registry is still struggling to get attention from both the public and local artists. READ MORE >>

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