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Live from Prairie Lights | Robin Hemley - 'How to Change History'

Monday, July 14, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Former Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program director Robin Hemley will read from his newest book, How to Change History: A Salvage Project. Described as a grappling with "the individual’s navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories," How to Change History meditates on a range of media, from photos and historical markers to "incontinent dachshunds," and attempts to "restore, resurrect, and reclaim what might otherwise be lost" (robinhemley.com). Lia Purpura, author of ...

Live from Prairie Lights | Jared Joseph - 'Soft Lightning'

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum and current Iowa Summer Writing Festival instructor Jared Joseph will read from his newest book, Soft Lightning. Bench Editions describes Soft Lightning as "written almost exclusively in the first-person singular and plural, and stages a motley of narrators (or only one) who respond to one another or who do not, and if not, I wonder whether desire for interpersonal connection withers, or excruciates. There is no setting. See if you are in it." (bencheditions.com).Jare...

Recital: Neil Krzeski, piano

Friday, July 18, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Optional Recital: Neil Krzeski, pianoThis concert is free and open to the public.

Live from Prairie Lights | Karen Bender - 'The Words of Dr. L'

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Summer Writing Festival instructor Karen Bender will read from her newest book, The Words of Dr. L & Other Stories. Described by publisher Counterpoint Press as "speculative stories of parents and children, together and apart, surviving near-future dystopias that feel all-too-possible—and realities that can be even stranger," The Words of Dr. L is Karen's third short story collection and fifth book. Matthew Klam, author of the novel Who Is Rich?, praises The Words of Dr. L as "beautifully...

Live from Prairie Lights | Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo in conv with Bruna Dantas Lobato - 'The Tiny Things Are Heavier'

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo will read from her debut novel, The Tiny Things Are Heavier, and will be joined in conversation by local writer, translator, and professor, Bruna Dantas Lobato. Named a Best Book of 2025 by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, The Tiny Things Are Heavier follows Sommy, a Nigerian woman who comes to the United States for graduate school two weeks after her brother, Mezie, attempts suicide. Plagued by the guilt of leaving Mezie behind, Sommy struggles to...

Live from Prairie Lights | Anna Bruno in conv with Claire Lombardo - 'Fine Young People'

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum and current University of Iowa instructor Anna Bruno will read from her newest novel, Fine Young People, and will be joined in conversation with bestselling author and former Prairie Lights bookseller, Claire Lombardo. Described by publisher Algonquin Books as the story of a high-school senior investigating the death of a star hockey player at her elite Jesuit school, which uncovers "the rot" within the institution as well as the truth of her own past, Fine Young...
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Tony and Friends Chamber Music Recital

Sunday, August 31, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Tony and Friends Chamber Music RecitalAnthony Arnone, celloSuzanne Beia, violinKatie Wolfe, violinAnn Marie Hudson Brink, violaMike Center, celloThis concert is free and open to the public. 
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CNM Guest Artist Recital: Tim Gill, cello & David Gompper, piano

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
CNM Guest Artist Recital: Tim Gill, cello & David Gompper, pianoTim Gill, celloDavid Gompper, pianoThe event will feature 3 works from the 20th century for cello and piano, and a premiere of a duet by David Gompper.https://cnm.uiowa.edu/This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.This concert is free and open to the public.

24+24 Composers Concert

Sunday, September 14, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
CNM: 24+24 Composers ConcertThis concert is free and open to the public.
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Faculty Chamber Recital: Kozenko/Jakovcic/Lecuona Trio

Monday, September 15, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Faculty Chamber Recital: Kozenko/Jakovcic/Lecuona TrioLisa Kozenko, oboeZoran Jakovcic, violaRéne Lecuona, pianoThis concert is free and open to the public.
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Piano Sundays at Old Capitol: Réne Lecuona, Tammie Walker and Studios

Sunday, September 21, 2025 1:30pm
Old Capitol Museum
Piano Sundays at Old CapitolThis event will feature Réne Lecuona, Tammie Walker and Studios.Upcoming Piano Sundays at Old Capitol:November 2, 2025 | Doreen Lee and UI Collaborative PianistsMarch 1, 2026 | Ksenia Nosikova and StudioMay 3, 2026 | Alan Huckleberry and StudioThis concert is free and open to the public.

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert I

Sunday, September 21, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Center for New Music | Concert IMore concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.This concert is free and open to the public.

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #1

Sunday, September 28, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #1This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.This concert is free and open to the public.
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UI Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
UI Symphony OrchestraThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.This concert is free and open to the public.
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Johnson County Landmark

Thursday, October 2, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Johnson County LandmarkThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.This concert is free and open to the public.
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5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 1: From Polarity to Plurality

Monday, October 6, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 1: From Polarity to PluralityKenneth Tse, saxophoneJonathan Allen, tromboneJean-François Charles, live electronicsRamin Roshandel, sétarJhe Russell, spoken wordThis concert is free and open to the public.
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Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Jazz Repertory EnsembleThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.This concert is free and open to the public.

Guest Artist Recital: Hsaopei Lee, viola

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Guest Artist Recital: Hsaopei Lee, violaHsaopei Lee, violaMichael Bunchman, pianoThis concert is free and open to the public.
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Concert Band & Symphony Band

Thursday, October 9, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Concert Band & Symphony BandThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.This concert is free and open to the public.

Black Pop Music Ensemble

Friday, October 10, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Black Pop Music EnsembleThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.This concert is free and open to the public.
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Stereolab

Sunday, October 12, 2025 7:30pm
The Englert
TICKETS:Adults $35Student & Youth $10**Limited availability Part of Hancher's 53rd seasonIndie darlings of the 1990s — steeped in music of the 1960s — crank up their mesmerizing sound.In 2024, Stereolab released Switched On, Vol. 1-5 — which collected all of the band’s singles and rarities — and embarked on a world tour. That tour brings the band to The Englert for a rock concert featuring the hypnotizing rhythms and vocals that made the band innovative and influential. Whether you are a...

Brass Chamber Residency Program: Meridian Arts Ensemble

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Brass Chamber Residency Program: Meridian Arts EnsembleMeridian Arts EnsembleJon Nelson, trumpetMatthew Onstad, trumpetDaniel Grabois, hornFaustino Díaz Mendez, tromboneTom Curry, tubaThis concert is free and open to the public.
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UI Choral Collage

Friday, October 17, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
UI Choral CollageThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.This event is free and open to the public.

Red Cedar and Jamshid Jam: Global Consortium

Sunday, October 19, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Red Cedar and Jamshid Jam: Global ConsortiumMiera Kim, violinCarey Bostian, celloJean-François Charles, clarinets and electronicsRamin Roshandel, setarThis concert is free and open to the public.

Composers Workshop I

Sunday, October 19, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Composers Workshop IThis concert is free and open to the public.

Previous Workshops & Events

Office Workshops & Events

Looking In, Zooming Out: Community-Engaged Learning in the Big Picture

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

2:30 - 4:00p, virtual event via Zoom

In partnership with Iowa Campus Compact

Join us for an interactive workshop for anyone teaching a community-engaged course who is curious about how to introduce interdisciplinary, systems-level thinking, and/or local-global connections into their course design, assignments, and activities.  Participants will try on and explore a range of ideas and strategies, including:

  • How thinking about how toast is made can be a useful introduction to design-thinking practices and social innovation.

  • How to strategically use the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals to scaffold and contextualize conversations about local community partnerships and the purpose community-engaged learning more broadly.

  • How their own disciplinary orientation and approach might inform their understanding of local and global "wicked problems".

See recording of event here.

 


Making an Impact: A Student's Perspective on Community Engagement.
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
3:00-4:00PM  - Virtual event Via Zoom
Live Student Panel

 

Are you a student enrolled in a community engaged course or interested in starting a project with a community partner? Are you interested in learning what you can expect, from students who have already successfully completed a community engagement project? This workshop will explore the nuts and bolts of working with community partners from a student’s perspective. A panel discussion of students will explore the challenges and opportunities of community engagement and highlight examples of successful projects and partnerships. Join us for a discussion and learn more about how you can make an impact in your community.


Engaged Faculty Institute
January 8th - 25th, 2021 
Virtual Institute, Asynchronous + Live Zoom
In partnership with Iowa Campus Compact

 

Whether you are new to teaching community-engaged learning courses, or are a community-engagement expert, this Institute provides opportunities for everyone to learn best practices for community engaged teaching and learning. Traditionally offered in-person every spring semester, this year the Institute will be offered both over winter break and in the spring semester through an online, asynchronous format, followed by a synchronous Zoom workshop. The Institute will cover all aspects of teaching a community-engaged course, including:

  • Foundations and critical commitments to community engagement
  • Planning and Facilitation
  • Partnerships and Engagement
  • Learning Outcomes and Reflection
  • Assessment and Evaluation

Defining and Sustaining Community Partnerships
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
3 - 4 pm, virtual meeting via Zoom

 

Community engagement best practices encourage the development of sustained, long-term relationships and partnerships between campus and community. This workshop will explore how faculty and staff build community partnerships through service-learning and engaged research. A panel discussion of faculty, staff and community partners will explore the challenges and opportunities of community engaged teaching and research and provide tips on how to build successful, sustained partnerships.

See recording of event here.

 


Community Engagement for Inclusion and Justice
Thursday, October 15th, 2020
12 - 2 pm, virtual meeting via Zoom

 

hosted by the Office of Community Engagement in partnership with Campus Compact. Emily Shields, Executive Director of Iowa/Minnesota Campus Compact, will be co-hosting this event and will be referring to a few texts throughout the training:

  • Difficult Discussions - Facilitating Political Dialogues
  • Inclusive Teaching - How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
  • Partnership and Power - Community Partnerships Study
  • Re-imagining Engagement - Social Change Wheel 2.0
See recording of event here.

 

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Engagement & The Arts

"Writers Unmuffled" hosted by Michaeljulius, a Virtual Student Reading
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
6:30 pm, virtual webinar via Zoom

 

UI Arts Share, a program in the Office of Community Engagement, is presenting a virtual student Reading, Writers Unmuffled, Thursday, April 29th 6:30 p.m. During this Zoom event, five University of Iowa graduate student writers from a variety of genres (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and translation), will each give a five to eight minute reading and will field questions from the Zoom audience. Come join us as these writers allow their imagination to unmask for an evening of thought provoking readings!

 

See recording of this event here.

 


UI Percussion Arts Share Community Concert
Saturday, February 27th, 2021
3:00 pm, virtual via LiveStream

 

Iowa Percussion and the Iowa Steel Band will present a concert titled “All You Need is Love.” Originally a Valentine’s Day Concert, the program was rescheduled because of the late start of the Spring semester due to COVID.

 


"Writers Unmuffled" hosted by Michaeljulius, a Virtual Student Reading
Thursday, February 25th, 2021
7:00 pm, virtual webinar via Zoom

 

UI Arts Share, a program in the Office of Community Engagement, is presenting a virtual student Reading, Writers Unmuffled, Thursday, Feb. 25th 7:00 p.m. During this Zoom event, five University of Iowa graduate student writers from a variety of genres (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and translation), will each give a five to eight minute reading and will field questions from the Zoom audience. Come join us as these writers allow their imagination to unmask for an evening of thought provoking readings!

 

See a recording of this event here.

 


Fellow Talk Margarita BlushFeb, Grant Wood Art Colony
Monday, February 22th, 2021
7:30-8:30 pm, virtual via Zoom

 

My Voice: Creating Original Theatre Inspired by Personal Experiences and Fueled by Societal Issues 

Hosted by the Stanley Museum of Art

https://grantwood.uiowa.edu/event/63036


Writers Unmuffled, a Virtual Student Reading
Thursday, November 19th, 2020
6 - 7 pm, virtual webinar via Zoom

 

UI Arts Share, a program in the Office of Community Engagement, is presenting a virtual student Reading, Writers Unmuffled, Thursday, Nov. 19th 6:00-7:00 p.m. During this Zoom event, six University of Iowa graduate student writers from a variety of genres (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and translation), will each give a five to eight minute reading and will field questions from the Zoom audience. Come join us as these writers allow their imagination to unmask for an evening of thought provoking readings!

See a recording of this event here.
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