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Alumni Day 2026

Saturday, April 18, 2026 (all day)
Levitt Center for University Advancement
Once a Hawkeye, Always a Hawkeye
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29th Annual Powwow at the University of Iowa

Saturday, April 18, 2026 9:30am to 8:30pm
Field House
Celebrating Indigenous Culture and Iowa City's Native Community
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Uncle Vanya

Saturday, April 18, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker brings her observational prowess and razor-sharp wit to an intimate adaptation of Chekhov's beloved dark comedy. Written with the “goal of creating a version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way it sounded to Russian ears during the play’s first productions in the provinces in 1898,” Annie Baker’s Uncle Vanya captures the timeless longing, absurdity, and beauty of human relationships.
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Dance BFA Concert

Saturday, April 18, 2026 8:00pm
Space Place Theater

Free and open to the public.

This performance will feature works choreographed by Bachelor of Fine Arts students Evelyn Becker, Madison Burkhart, Ruby Gentzler, Claudia Jacobson, Allyson Meinders, Emily Pyburn, and Lindsey Wildman from the University of Iowa Department of Dance, plus one guest work performed by the BFA students.

Please be advised this performance includes haze and strobe lights.

Approximate run time is 90 minutes, including a 10-minute intermission.

PROGRAM
Practice of Return choreog...

MA Recital: Maxwell Gradisher, trumpet.

Sunday, April 19, 2026 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building

MA Recital: Maxwell Gradisher, trumpet.

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This event can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

This event is free and open to the public.

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Drawing Salon with Robert Caputo

Sunday, April 19, 2026 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery.

Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. Stools...

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Uncle Vanya

Sunday, April 19, 2026 2:00pm
Theatre Building
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker brings her observational prowess and razor-sharp wit to an intimate adaptation of Chekhov's beloved dark comedy. Written with the “goal of creating a version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way it sounded to Russian ears during the play’s first productions in the provinces in 1898,” Annie Baker’s Uncle Vanya captures the timeless longing, absurdity, and beauty of human relationships.

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #6

Sunday, April 19, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #6

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This 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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Live from Prairie Lights | Margaret LeMay - 'sample.spring'

Sunday, April 19, 2026 4:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Margaret LeMay will read from her new poetry chapbook, sample.spring. Prairie Lights owner and poet Jan Weissmiller says this about sample.spring:

"In these spare, acutely observant poems, Margaret LeMay describes the stress of living in a world so endangered it is hard to explain to a child. Her internal dialogue, with its syntax of sadness, is perfectly placed. The way the natural world enters this dialogue is imagistically exact and exacting. The poet’s perception expresses an existential...

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Center for New Music Ensemble Concert IV

Sunday, April 19, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

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The Center for New Music will premiere new works by University of Iowa student composers.

More 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.

It's all part of #NewWorkCity, the spring initiative by #PerformingArtsAtIowa to highlight new work created by our talented graduate students in...

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Pure Embracing - Emma Steele BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Monday, April 20, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
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March Forth - Acellus Lowe BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Monday, April 20, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Art Building West
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Playwrights Workshop Reading: A Thing for the Stage

Monday, April 20, 2026 5:30pm
Theatre Building

A Thing for the Stage
A Play in Three Acts (More or Less)

By Randy Jackson-Alvarenga

A theatre.
A company on the verge of implosion.
And one night that refuses to end.

What happens when the work we do haunts us, and the space refuses to let go.

Please be advised this play contains discussions of death and grief, ghosts and the afterlife, questions of identity and belonging, and the joys and pressures of a life in the theatre.

Part of Theatre Arts' Reading Series

Tickets:
Tickets for readings are free of...

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Pure Embracing - Emma Steele BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building