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How to Defend Yourself

Friday, February 13, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building
In the immediate aftermath of an assault, a group of college students gather for a DIY self-defense class. This setting quickly becomes a space for channeling their anger, anxiety, trauma, confusion, and desire. In navigating these feelings, the group of strangers unites as a community and works to move forward together. Using humor and candor, Liliana Padilla’s How to Defend Yourself asks us to look beyond the labels of 'perpetrator' and 'survivor,' and to examine the complexities that abide in each of us.

Iowa Percussion Arts Share Concert

Saturday, February 14, 2026 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Percussion Arts Share Concert

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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How to Defend Yourself

Saturday, February 14, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building
In the immediate aftermath of an assault, a group of college students gather for a DIY self-defense class. This setting quickly becomes a space for channeling their anger, anxiety, trauma, confusion, and desire. In navigating these feelings, the group of strangers unites as a community and works to move forward together. Using humor and candor, Liliana Padilla’s How to Defend Yourself asks us to look beyond the labels of 'perpetrator' and 'survivor,' and to examine the complexities that abide in each of us.
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Curator Guided Tour of 'Orchestrating Community: The Public Service of Iowa Conductor James Dixon'

Monday, February 16, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library

Join co-curators Sarah Suhadolnik and Katie Buehner for a special guided tour of the current University of Iowa Libraries Main Library Gallery exhibition, Orchestrating Community: The Public Service of Iowa Conductor James Dixon. Admission is free, and all are welcome.

This event is part of the Iowa City Downtown District's Free Week 2026.

About the exhibit:

An Iowa native and a Hawkeye, conductor James Dixon (1928-2007) was instrumental in building orchestras at the University of Iowa, in the...

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Thursday, February 19, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building

By Undergraduate Playwrights

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, directed by Tony Meneses!

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features ten-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.

Tickets
Tickets for the Ten-Minute Play Festival are available...

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UI Symphony Orchestra with Liebermann & Kahane

Friday, February 20, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

A concert bringing composers and musicians together.

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra will perform a suite of murder ballads by Hancher’s composer-in-residence Gabriel Kahane—and Kahane himself will join the ensemble. In addition, composer Lowell Liebermann will be in attendance to experience the U.S. premiere of his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra Op. 145, written for and performed by UI Professor of Saxophone, Dr. Kenneth Tse, during the first half of the program.

Conducted by...

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Friday, February 20, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building

By Undergraduate Playwrights

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, directed by Tony Meneses!

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features ten-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.

Tickets
Tickets for the Ten-Minute Play Festival are available...

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Symphony Band Showcase Concert

Saturday, February 21, 2026 6:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Symphony Band Showcase Concert

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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Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Saturday, February 21, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violin
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello

The Del Sol Quartet residency is a UI String Quartet Residency Program / Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/ Obermann Center for Advanced Studies collaboration with support from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Endowment Fund

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This concert is free and open to the public, and sponsored in part by...

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Saturday, February 21, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building

By Undergraduate Playwrights

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, directed by Tony Meneses!

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features ten-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.

Tickets
Tickets for the Ten-Minute Play Festival are available...

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Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert

Sunday, February 22, 2026 1:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert

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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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Sunday, February 22, 2026 2:00pm
Theatre Building

By Undergraduate Playwrights

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, directed by Tony Meneses!

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features ten-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.

Tickets
Tickets for the Ten-Minute Play Festival are available...

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Gabriel Kahane

Sunday, February 22, 2026 4:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
The confines of “singer-songwriter” are too limiting to hold this artist and his searching work.

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

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.

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Isidore String Quartet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 1:00pm
Dey House
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hancher Auditorium, and the Iowa String Quartet Residency Program present the Isidore String Quartet for an intimate hour-long afternoon concert at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Frank Conroy Reading Room.