Duos Day is here! Don your favorite old Mission Creek festival T-shirt and get your tix here. Don’t sweat it if you want to catch Roxane Gay on Thursday and Noam Chomsky on Friday instead, though—Duos is available to stream until Sunday at midnight, so you can do it all!
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Johnson County Fairgrounds
Free Food Box and Vaccine Clinic Drive-Thru
Apr 29 – 3:00pm
Distributing 1200 boxes filled with a gallon of 2% milk, white cheddar cheese, yogurt, hot dogs, chicken drumsticks and three pounds each of apples, oranges, onions and potatoes.
A collaborative online reading of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ in English translation, including 213 total participants from 27 different states and seven countries besides the U.S.
Join the UICB community at the Oakdale Paper Research Facility for an afternoon celebrating Japanese papermaking. This coincides with the festival to the papermaking goddess held in Echizen, Japan.
Join the University Lecture Committee for a conversation with 2020-2021 Distinguished Lecturer: Noam Chomsky, sponsored by the University of Iowa Senior College.
Alicia Monee, powerhouse R&B artist and lead singer (“Lady of Soul”) for the Funk Daddies, joins Theatre Cedar Rapids for an evening of Motown favorites.
Murdered by her son Nero, Aggripina Minor is so unknowable that historians can’t even agree upon the pronunciation of her name. Get swept up as she struggles to tell her own story.
You’re invited to Iowa City Poetry al Fresco, an evening of open-air progressive readings in downtown Iowa City. Come out to enjoy poems from 32 talented writers reading at 12 different outdoor sites!
An irresistible animated feast about a young apprentice hunter who befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.
Calling all teen writers! Poet Amanda Gorman is prompting you to lend your voice to the earth and help document this critical moment in history through poetry, art and creativity.
To get warmed up for Duos, we asked readers to share a few of their favorite memories of past years’ Mission Creek Festivals—and we rounded up a few of our own.
“Black Moth Super Rainbow. It was the first time I ever heard them and been hooked eva since.” –Elly H.
“Mitski for sure. It was my first Mission Creek Festival! Afterwards we all gathered at Gabe’s to celebrate. Amazing experience.” –Dakota K.
“So many great shows over the years, but a few favorites would be Faust and Lawrence English.” –Austin S.
“I will never forget how much fun it was dancing with friends at The Mill for Thao & The Get Down Stay Down with Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, back in 2013. What a fun night! And I still listen to both bands, which I discovered because of Mission Creek Festival.” –Jen K.
“Hands down Kurt Vile at the Englert, ‘cuz he’s an outlaw, on the brink of, self-implosion” –Jason G.
“An impossible question! Kishi Bashi at The Englert was one of my all-time favorites, Dessa at Gabe’s, Gordi at The Mill!!” –Carl B.
Mitski at Mission Creek. Photo by Zak Neumann
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