March Forth - Acellus Lowe BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

March Forth - Acellus Lowe BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Thursday, April 23, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Art Building West
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Chia Buddies: Create Your Own Study Buddy

Thursday, April 23, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Sciences Library
Design and decorate your own Chia Plant Buddy to take home with you! Free and open to all.



This drop-in crafting activity will immediately follow “Blooming Plants,” a workshop where local experts will talk about basic plant care.
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Campus Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, April 23, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Campus Symphony Orchestra

This 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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Uncle Vanya

Thursday, April 23, 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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Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival

Friday, April 24 to Sunday, April 26, 2026 (all day)
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
The Iowa City International Film Festival is a student-run experimental film festival hosted in Iowa City.
Pure Embracing - Emma Steele BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

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

Friday, April 24, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
March Forth - Acellus Lowe BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

March Forth - Acellus Lowe BFA Exhibition - School of Art, Art History, and Design

Friday, April 24, 2026 8:00am to 8:00pm
Art Building West

Recital: Jordan Marbach, saxophone

Friday, April 24, 2026 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA I Recital: Jordan Marbach, saxophone

Casey Dierlam Tse
Kian Hyatt

Concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled
Live from Prairie Lights | Readings from translations of the work of Kim Hyesoon: Jack Saebyok Jung for 'Lady No' & Cindy Juyoung Ok for 'The Hell of That Star'  promotional image

Live from Prairie Lights | Readings from translations of the work of Kim Hyesoon: Jack Saebyok Jung for 'Lady No' & Cindy Juyoung Ok for 'The Hell of That Star'

Friday, April 24, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Visiting Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Jack Saebyok Jung will read from his new translation of Kim Hyesoon's Lady No, and Cindy Juyoung Ok will read from her new translation of Hyesoon's The Hell of That Star.

Lady No is described by publisher Ecco Press as the following:

"In March 2014, Kim Hyesoon, the grand dame of contemporary Korean poetry, began to post anonymously on the online blog of Munhakdongne, a major South Korean publisher. Rather than use her own name, Kim Hyesoon’s chosen...

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Friday, April 24, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Based on the beloved tale by Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a sweeping, grand scale Disney musical featuring a cast of 40 singers and actors. The musical will be presented in an operatic theatrical style on the Hancher stage and will feature the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra.
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Uncle Vanya

Friday, April 24, 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.
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival promotional image

Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival

Saturday, April 25 to Sunday, April 26, 2026 (all day)
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
The Iowa City International Film Festival is a student-run experimental film festival hosted in Iowa City.

Senior Recital: James Kieser, piano

Saturday, April 25, 2026 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: James Kieser, piano

James Kieser, piano
Elizabeth Kerr, cello

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This event is free and open to the public.

Recital: Gavin Leech, Trombone, Rhiann Zulfer, Trombone, Dan Reiter Bass Trombone

Saturday, April 25, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Recital: Gavin Leech, Trombone, Rhiann Zulfer, Trombone, Dan Reiter Bass Trombone.

Gavin Leech, Trombone
Rhiann Zulfer, Trombone
Dan Reiter, Bass Trombone.

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.