Dream Divas
2018-08-18 15:45 - 16:20 (America/Chicago) | Main Stage – Soul & Blues Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Flip Squad
2018-08-18 16:20 - 16:45 | Main Stage – Soul & Blues Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

African Singers and Dancers
2018-08-18 16:45 - 17:00 | Main Stage – Soul & Blues Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Da Team
2018-08-18 17:00 - 18:00 | Main Stage – Soul & Blues Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Jay and Family Fusion
2018-08-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Main Stage – Soul & Blues Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Damani Phillips Band
2018-08-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Main Stage – Soul & Blues Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

2018 Free Movie Series
2018-08-18 20:00 - 23:00, 2018-08-25 20:00 - 23:00 | Outside Macbride Hall, 17 N Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Black Panther
2018-08-18 20:20 - 22:30 | Outside Macbride Hall, 17 N Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
PG-13; 134 mins; 2018
Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan
In one of the latest installments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne of the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake.

The Front Page Band
2018-08-18 21:00 - 22:30 | Main Stage – Soul & Blues Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

DJ Freeze
2018-08-18 22:30 - 23:30 | Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Hip Hop Show
2018-08-18 22:30 - 23:30 | Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

2018 Friday Night Concert Series
2018-08-24 18:30, 2018-08-31 18:30 | Iowa Avenue, 105 Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Shade of Blue
2018-08-24 18:30 - 21:30 | Chauncey Swan Ramp, 415 E Washington St,, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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Shade of Blue

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2018-08-25 20:20 - 23:00 | Outside Macbride Hall, 17 N Clinton St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
PG-13; 150 mins; 2017
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Carrie Fischer, Mark Hamill
In this thrilling latest edition of the worldwide sensation, Rey (Daisy Ridley) has finally found the last of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), and begins her training. Meanwhile, General Leia (Carrie Fischer) leads the Resistance in a desperate escape from the First Order. With time running out on both ends, all involved must put their faith in the force and look for hope both old and new.

Younger, Anthony Worden, and Otros Outros
2018-08-31 18:30 - 21:30 | Iowa Avenue, 105 Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About:

Younger
Anthony Worden
Otros Outros

The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
2018-11-11 19:00 - 21:00 | The Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Summer of the Arts and Iowa City Pride have partnered to bring you an exciting theatrical event, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, written by and starring James Lescene. This performance is a fundraiser for both organizations.
You can purchase tickets at The Englert Theater box office, or online. Consider buying a student ticket to make this play accessible to community youth!
Lecesne is an actor, author, screenwriter and LGBTQ+ rights activist who co-founded the Trevor Project, which provides crisis and suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth.

Gift Wrapping Fundraiser at Coral Ridge Mall
2018-12-20 15:00 - 22:00 | Coral Ridge Mall, 1451 Coral Ridge Ave., Coralville, IA, 52241, United States
Summer of the Arts volunteers will wrap your presents on December 20, from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm at Coral Ridge Mall. Donations highly encouraged-help us keep our programming free for everyone!

WinterFest 2019
2019-01-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Iowa River Landing, Iowa River Landing, Coralville, IA, 52241, United States
Join us in Coralville for WinterFest! Our booth will feature an art project!

Live Entertainment:
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Coralville United Methodist Church Bell Choir
1:30 – 2:15 p.m. I.C. Girls’ Choir
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Native American Drumming
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Music 4 Life
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Magician Rick Eugene
WHERE: The Iowa River Landing: Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Johnson County Historical Museum, Iowa City Area Association of Realtors, Backpocket Brewery, and Vesta.
PARKING: Please use the south Marriott surface lot. Parking is FREE if this lot is used.
COST: FREE! Thanks to our generous sponsors. We do ask for a canned food donation for the Coralville Community Food Pantry.
SPONSORS: City of Coralville, Iowa City Area Association of Realtors, RE/MAX Affiliates, and Country Gentleman’s Horse & Carriage Service

City High AND West High Jazz Ensembles
2019-05-17 18:30 - 21:30 | Northside Market Place, Market Street, Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Sponsored by: West Music

About: The City High Jazz Ensemble is the premier big band in the City High Jazz program. The band maintains an extensive performance calendar as they perform for concerts at City High, other performances in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids corridor area, and jazz festivals in Iowa and Illinois. The City High Jazz Ensemble performs for the following events: the City High 4th Ave. Show Choir Winter Show, the City High Jazz Showcase (this year’s guest artist was trombonist/bari saxophonist Michael Dease) and the KCCK Corridor Jazz Project (this year’s guest artist was Kolbe Schnoebelen from the University of Northern Iowa). In addition, the band performs at the Liberty Jazz Festival, the Coe College Jazz Summit, the Jazz In The Meadows Festival (in Rolling Meadows, Illinois), the SEIBA District Jazz Festival and the Iowa Jazz Championships.

Contact Information:
Web: https://www.cityhighband.com/
Other links: https://www.facebook.com/CityHighBands
https://www.instagram.com/cityhighbands/
https://twitter.com/CityHighBands

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About: Iowa City West High School has three jazz bands with over 70 students involved. The Jazz Ensemble is a consistent participant in the Iowa Jazz Championships and regularly places in the top 8 4A bands in the state of Iowa. The jazz bands prepare four concerts throughout the year performing a wide variety of styles and genres of music. Recently, the jazz bands have performed at the Southeast Polk Jazz Invitational, LIberty Jazz Festival, Coe College Jazz Summit, Jazz in the Meadows, SEIBA Jazz Festival, and the Iowa Jazz Championships.

Contact Information:
Web: https://www.iowacityschools.org/Page/16912
Other links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwRtssvIlkU

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Annie Savage and the Savage Hearts
2019-05-24 18:30 - 21:30 | Ped Mall Stage, 210 Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Sponsored by: RSM US

About: The Savage Hearts are a fiery stage act that feature in a spicy tribute to the unsung women of classic country and bluegrass music. Featuring Iowa’s prodigal daughter-returned from Colorado’s Front Range, Annie Savage and members of local favorite Flash in a Pan, the band’s drill-it-to-the wall lady-vocals and bombastic instrumentals blended with just the right amount of saucy “been there done that” stage banter has audiences laughing and crying at the same time! Virtuosic instrumentals soar above vocals that are hotter than the punch of a ghost pepper in the middle of a hot flash. The Savage Hearts have recently appeared at Folk Alliance International, the IBMA World of Bluegrass and throughout the US and Canada. They are celebrating their second album release this summer and you too can be a part of the action at www.thesavagehearts.com!
Opening for The Savage Hearts are the students of Liberty High School’s alternative string ensemble, Liberty String Theory. Directed by Annie Savage and Craig Klocke, these students are going beyond the normal orchestral experience in search of “Total World Domination Through Vibrating Wooden Boxes”. They recently performed with Peter Rowan, Laurie Lewis and New Orleans’ Don Vappie at Seattle’s Wintergrass Festival and they have a busy schedule of gigs this summer. Comprised of high school students who also learn the tricks and trade of the real life music industry through touring and promoting their work, the Liberty String Theory will be joined this evening by local bluegrass outfit Dillon’s Furrow. For bookings, contact Ms. Savage at savagefiddler@gmail.com.

Contact Information:
Web: https://savagefiddler.com/savfiddy/the-savage-hearts/
Other links: https://www.facebook.com/thesavagehearts/?eid=ARA4lhK57jYy3BLv3pv6Ju-oPhbVQjzZjgeajglsGoZWe2XbwrPdZV1gvOiDL-n_iINZZguHGYVWHBxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScqfVdB2pUE

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Iowa City Carnival Parade
2019-05-31 17:30 - 18:30 | Downtown Iowa City, Linn St., Dubuque St., Clinton St., Iowa Ave., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
The kick off to the Iowa Arts Festival begins! The 2019 Community Carnival Parade includes Mini-Dance Displays, a Flotilla of Bicycles and a Hamilton Flash-Mob!
We’ll gather at the Carnival Parade tent in the U.S. Bank parking lot, Washington and Linn Streets, starting at 4:30pm. Wear a costume/Bring a costume/Borrow a costume from us!
Parade starts at 5:30pm.
At 6:15 p.m. the Hamilton Flash Mob performance will occur at the Main Stage on Iowa Avenue/Clinton Street

Carnival Flash Mob
2019-05-31 18:15 - 18:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States

Winterland
2019-05-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Specializing in the Grateful Dead’s catalog and sound from 1969 through the late 1970s, Winterland pulls you back in time to a place where the Dead’s rhythm and blues, folk and country roots were still deeply embedded in their music even as they explored the wild and experimental outer reaches of psychedelic rock. More importantly, though, Winterland channels the music of the Grateful Dead with uncanny authenticity, a sublime fidelity to the Dead’s musicianship, tonality and, in particular, emotional relationship with the audience. Walk into any given Winterland show and witness firsthand: every face is radiant, reflecting the elation of sharing — with the band and with each other — the pure, innovative, beautifully complex music of the Dead. This interconnectedness, which breaks down the barriers between people and music and allows everyone to become collaborators in an elusive web of fleeting, living art, represents an essential unity of musical experience. In other words, what Winterland has attained has proven to be a microcosm of the feat that the Grateful Dead of the late ‘60s to the late ‘70s achieved and escalated to a full-fledged cultural phenomenon. It is a thing of subtle and wily magic, not to be missed.

Contact Information:
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Other links: https://www.facebook.com/winterland73/

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Solera Quartet, "Dark Side of the Moon"
2019-05-31 21:00 - 22:30 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Acclaimed by critics as “top-notch, intense, stylish, and with an abundance of flare and talent” and “one of the foremost young string quartets,” the Solera Quartet has quickly gained a reputation for their fiery musical expression, poetic sensibility, entrepreneurial acumen, and exceptional dedication to social initiatives. In collaboration with the non-profit organization Project: Music Heals Us, the Soleras’ Prison Residency Project brings interactive, thoughtfully-conceived chamber music concerts into incarcerated communities across the United States.
Member Meagan Brus is an Iowa City native. Comfortable both on the operatic stage and in concert, Ms. Brus’ career has included performances in the United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Germany, and Japan. Ms. Brus has been the soprano soloist in a myriad of musical styles, ranging from Alessandro Scarlatti’s opera, Venere, Amore e Ragione to Bizet’s Carmen, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Erwartung, as well as a classical arrangement of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
Her May 2014 performance of Carson Kievman’s Fairy Tales prompted Greg Stepanich of the Palm Beach Arts Paper to write, “Brus… was remarkable as the Dandelion Woman. Brus’s performance was a tour de force in every way, with fresh, fierce power in abundant supply, a rock-solid command of an exceedingly difficult part, and an ability to hold onto her audience through some thorny terrain.” Ms. Brus holds degrees from both the Manhattan School of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Contact Information:
Web: http://www.soleraquartet.com/welcome
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Iowa City Community Band
2019-06-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: The Iowa City Community Band is a volunteer organization, approved and sanctioned by the city of Iowa City. Our concerts in Iowa City and Coralville parks during June and July include a mixture of marches, music from Broadway musicals, and old favorites and sometimes feature a guest soloist. Concerts are either in the afternoon on Sunday or early evening during the week – select the “Concerts” tab above for current dates, times, and locations. The band also plays concerts at various venues in the Iowa City area, including Arts Fest in downtown Iowa City, Ice Cream Social in Upper City Park in Iowa City, Coralville Thursday Night Concert Series, and Coralville’s Fourth of July Celebration. We have also performed at events in area towns such as North Liberty Fun Days and West Branch Friday Night Concert Series. The ICCB also presents a winter holiday concert in the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City .Members of the ICCB come from all walks of life in the Iowa City area, ranging from high school students through retirees. Our conductor is Rob Medd, Director of Music, Iowa City West High. The ICCB has performed continuously since 1982. Our concerts are free to the public.

Contact Information:
Web: http://www.iccband.org/iccbConcerts.html
Other links: https://www.facebook.com/ICCBand/

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After School Specials
2019-06-01 11:00 - 11:30 | Family Stage, 210 S Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Sponsored by O’Brien Family McDonald’s

About: The After School Specials have been rocking such local venues as the Mill, Java House, UAY, and the Arts Fest since 2009. Originally created as a one-shot project for a yearly talent show, the band grew over the next few years into three, separate, performing entities comprised of 3rd graders, 4th graders, and 5th-6th graders who are enrolled in Shimek’s before and after school program. The band now performs an eclectic mix of classic rock, 90’s alternative, and modern pop songs, lead by local rockers, Matt Larson and Claire Thoele.

Contact Information:
Web: http://www.shimekbasp.com/
Other links: https://www.facebook.com/shimekbasp/

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New Dawn
2019-06-01 11:00 - 11:45 | Linn Street LIVE Stage, 258 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
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About: New Dawn plays the songs that you grew up loving! Whether it’s The Rolling Stones, Boston, Journey, Bruce Springsteen, or Bon Jovi, New Dawn has you covered. This talented group of Iowa City classmates will have you tapping your feet and dancing along to the music. New Dawn looks forward to making you smile this summer at Art’s Fest, Iowa City Farmer’s Market (June 19th), Johnson County Fair (July 21st), Coralville 5th Street Social (August 10th), and Regina’s Family Fun Festival (August 16th). See you on June 1st at the Linn Street Live stage!

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Other links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTL4Bl26GU

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Threads Dance Project
2019-06-01 11:30 - 12:00 | Iowa Healthcare Main Stage – Iowa Arts Festival, 16 N Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
About: Threads seeks to be a national organization that betters humanity through dance, education, and outreach by creating dances that touch on themes of human connectedness, promoting dialogue, understanding, and acceptance of all individuals and celebrating the human spirit through dance performance, arts education, and community-building.

Contact Information:
Web: https://www.threadsdance.org/
Other links: https://www.facebook.com/threadsdanceproject/

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