Events
2011 Events
December
- 3UI Jazz Repertory Ensemble performs
- 8-10UI Department of Dance presents Grad/Undergrad concert
- 9Holiday Tubas
- 11UI Electronic Music Studios present new student works
- 12-19Exhibition features work of new art grads
- 16Park/Dunn recital will preview upcoming UI Symphony performance
- 17Dance Forum/UI Youth Ballet Winter Concert
November
- 3Johnson County Landmark performs at Riverside Recital Hall
- 3Ida Cordelia Beam Visiting Professor James Luna lecture
- 3-7 Dance Gala 2011
- 6Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka is a guest of the UI
- 8Guest Lecturer Patricia McGourty at the Thayer Theatre
- 8-10Conflict and Civility in Political Discourse: Where Is the Line? A Forkenbrock Series Symposium
- 9Iowa Brass Quintet will perform first brass quintet ever written
- 10University of Iowa's Maia Quartet to play final concerts this month
- 10-19University Theatre Mainstage presents Stick Fly
- 11Gupta UI lecture focuses on aquatic traditions in Indian Ocean
- 11Violinist Plum, a guest of the UI School of Music, performs
- 11-12Dance alumni return to the UI to teach, and to perform
- 13UI Afro-Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble performs
- 13Voice, organ and harpsichord concert will be presented
- 14Printmaker Szyhalski presents free lecture at the UI
- 15Hurricane Katrina lecture related to One Community, One Book 2011 selection
- 15, 16UI presents Band Extravaganza and Symphony Band concert
- 17Bassoonist Coehlo and pianist Huckleberry 'Dreaming in Colours' CD-release recital
- 17UI Jazz Repertory Ensemble performs Nov. 17 and Dec. 6
- 18University of Iowa's Maia Quartet to play final concert
October
- 02Orchid Ensemble performs at the UI as guest of the Center for New Music
- 03School of Social Work, Aging Studies Program will offer workshops on LGBT aging
- 5-8Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- 06UI art students to build big-wheeled titanium bike; bike-building lecture
- 06Johnson County Landmark performs jazz program with director John Rapson
- 07WorldCanvass to Focus on Art in India
- 07-16Theatre Arts Department presents Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
- 8Pianist Nosikova continues to celebrate the Liszt bicentennial in recital
- 9Esposito will perform music for two flutes with Bellavance
- 9Chamber Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, conductor
- 10New York Times religion columnist Samuel Freedman to speak on faith in journalism
- 11UI Concert and Symphony Bands will share performance with alumni conductors
- 11, 13Lectures by Richard Notkin, visiting artist in Ceramics
- 12Decline of European virtue ethic is topic of UI faculty lecture
- 14UI Kantorei and Women's Chorale share performance
- 15IWP and Theatre Arts present 'Global Express'
- 17Lecture by Randy Bolton, visiting artist in Printmaking
- 18-20Expert to speak on medieval manuscripts and the future of the book
- 20Artist Fish presents free lecture at the UI Oct. 20
- 20-23Gallery Series presents new 'Lysistrata' based on Aristophanes
- 21Distinguished English Department alumni discuss career paths
- 25Tim Hagle and Caroline Tolbert participate in Iowa Public Radio political roundtable
- 26Digital Humanities Pecha-Kucha
- 27-30Dance Gala 2011
- 27-30Department of Classics and The School of Music co-sponsor conference 'Re-Creation: Musical Reception of Classical Antiquity'
- 28-29UI School of Social Work to hold Strengthening and Valuing Latino Communities conference
- 28UI to present live documentary performance of 'Utopia in Four Movements'
- 28Ceremony celebrates new Media Research Lab in Adler Journalism Building
- 30JACK Quartet at Riverside Recital Hall
September
- 04Uriel Tsachor and Ksenia Nosikova lead off 'Piano Sundays'
- 05Uptown Bill's celebrates 10th anniversary with Labor Day events
- 06-10Exhibition of work by Sophie Radl, BFA student in Printmaking
- 06-10Exhibition of work by Ellen Siebers, MFA student in Painting
- 08Sudhindra Bose Lecture Series presents Congressman David E. Bonior
- 08Wonders of Chemistry demonstration at the Library
- 09University of Illinois official Avijit Ghosh to give lecture on higher education
- 10'Tinwomen' by Behany Jackson. A UI Theatre Public Reading
- 12-16Exhibition of work curated by Emily Barwick, MFA student in Sculpture
- 12-16Exhibition of work by Matthew Coziahr/BFA student in Printmaking and Brett Warden/BFA student in Photography
- 12UI art lecture will address interpretations of the architectural past
- 15UI Explorers Lecture focuses on Midwestern earthquakes
- 17-18UI School of Music hosts Cello Daze with two free public events
- 18Festival to feature fun with science, technology, engineering and math
- 19-23Exhibition of work by Sabryna Scheidt, BFA student in Painting
- 19 Annual Faculty Meeting
- 19“The Archaeological Exploration of Sikyon: A Comprehensive Approach to the Study of a Greek City-State,” lecture by Dr. Yannis Lolos, University of Thessaly
- 19-20Indian playwright Ramnarayan will speak Sept. 19 and 20 on UI campus
- 23WorldCanvass kicks off third season with "Comics, Creativity, and Culture"
- 24Balkanicus with Guest Artist Nickolai Kolarov
- 25Trumpeter Schendel presents UI faculty recital
- 26-30Exhibition of work by Nathan Wilson, BFA student in Painting
- 27"Ancient Rome and South Asia: Commercial and Cultural Exchanges," lecture by Dr. Sethuraman Suresh, Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC
- 28UI Symphony Orchestra opens 2011-12 season with pianist Lecuona
- 28Exhibition celebrates work of Tom Aprile; opening lecture September 28
- 29Bassist combines Mozart and stereo tape in UI guest recital
- 29"Exoticism and Dutch Culture in a Global Context, 1600-1650," lecture by Dr. Claudia Swan, visiting speaker in Art History
August
- 01New Faculty Orientation Schedule and Presentations
- 19 CLAS Open House
- 24Wang Jin Lecture: The new rural-urban-migrant divide and education inequality in China: Some policy implications
- 25-28Department of Theatre Arts holds auditions for fall production
- 28'Tony and Friends V' opens the School of Music season August 28
- 30Communication Studies-Department Seminar, Haiti’s Other Epidemic: Violence Against Women and Girls
- 31UI poets read at benefit event for former faculty member Dean Young
July
- 01Concert by UI Summer Music Camp ensembles
- 01-29Iowa Summer Writing Festival 'The Eleventh Hour' lecture series continues
- 02, 3, 6, 8-10Iowa Summer Rep 2011 stages evergreen musical I Do! I Do!
- 05, 07The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Iowa Summer Rep 2011
- 12-13Iowa Summer Rep 2011 stages evergreen musical I Do! I Do!
- 14-16, 21-23Iowa Summer Rep 2011 presents Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers
- 15-17This Iowa City festival is one for the books
- 17, 19, 20, 24Iowa Summer Rep 2011 stages evergreen musical I Do! I Do!
- 25-31Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado
June
- 01-4UI hosts Iowa Piccolo Intensive May 31-June 4, with three public concerts
- 09Marilynne Robinson, "The Workshop as Phenomenon" Keynote address to Writers' Workshop 75th Anniversary Reunion
- 14, 15, 17First week of UI Summer Music Camps features three public events
- 21, 23, 24Second week of UI Summer Music Camps features four public events
- 21-26, 28-30The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Iowa Summer Rep 2011
- 24-26'Music IC' festival program takes inspiration from novel, Bible and poetry
- 25UI jazz faculty member Rapson launches new CD
- 27Final week of UI Summer Music Camps features a concert by the jazz faculty
- 29UI Summer Music Camps concert by the Koplant No jazz progressive jazz electronic rock ensemble, featuring saxophonist Joel VanderHeyden
May
- 01UI Chamber Orchestra performs Milhaus, Beethoven and Schubert May 1
- 01-7Iowa New Play Festival provides a sneak peek at tomorrow's theater
- 02UI Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theater produces Donizetti's comic masterpiece 'Elixir of Love'
- 03UI benefit event will launch public fundraising for a new music building
- 03-14MFA exhibition is on view in Market-Dubuque Display Space through May 14
- 05UI Charles A. Hale Memorial Lecture May 5 examines Mexican police news
- 06UI Johnson County Landmark jazz band performs before heading to Brazil
- 06-7UI School of Music spotlights four choirs in two days
- 06WorldCanvass program features Italian art and culture
- 08UI Center for New Music presents new Composers Workshop works May 8
- 08-10UI co-hosts workshop for astronomers on proposed uses of world-class telescope
- 11An Evening of Operatic Duets
- 14Tricia Park, Iowa City native Conor Hanick, will present violin-piano recital
- 14, 15Dance Forum / UI Youth Ballet Spring Concert
- 15Thomas L. Davis Biennial Percussion Alumni Concert
- 31UI hosts Iowa Piccolo Intensive May 31-June 4, with three public concerts
April
- 01UI art alumni Pibal and Brant present April 1 lecture
- 01-2UI presents 'Art in Transition' symposium
- 01-2UI Department of Dance presents MFA Thesis Concert March 31 to April 2
- 01-2UI symposium will focus on future democracy of East Africa
- 01-3Performing Ethnicities Through Sport
- 05Annual tribute to women at the UI to be held
- 06Amy Schendel and guests present UI trumpet recital
- 07-10Labor rights events on campus will reflect on Triangle fire 100 years ago
- 07-10UI Gallery series production marks centennial of Triangle fire
- 10UI Sonia Kovalevsky Day encourages women to study mathematics
- 11UICHR to host premiere of documentary on 'honor killing' by CLAS's David Gould
- 12Guest artist de la Concha lectures at the UI
- 12Post-WW II Japanese-American prejudice topic of film
- 15-17University Theatres Mainstage presents Tony-winning musical 'Urinetown'
- 16Iowa Flute Festival, April 16, Riverside Recital hall
- 17Bassist Volkan Orhon will present free UI faculty recital
- 17Center for New Music Ensemble is joined by Maia Quartet and Norsworthy for April 17 concert
- 17Harpsichordist de Silva will present free recita
- 19Iowa Brass Quintet presents free concert
- 19UI School of Music presents Knific guest recital
- 20Trade between Asia and Latin America topic of UI lecture
- 21Art Building West architect Steven Holl will speak at the UI
- 21UI panel discussion focuses on Middle East, North Africa
- 21Verdi and Italian unification the topic of UI talk
- 21-22UI hosts 'The Big Sleep' screening, guest lecture April 21, 22
- 21-23Iowa Liszt Festival will include UI Symphony performance with Nosikova
- 21-24University Theatres Mainstage presents Tony-winning musical 'Urinetown'
- 22Delta Center offers workshop on learning in social contexts
- 24CNM presents concert by ensemble Peripherie
- 25UI hosts documentary 'Boys and Men Healing'
- 27Flutist Esposito presents faculty/guest recital at the UI
- 29School of Art and Art History ArtsFest combines culture and fun
- 29, 30UI Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theater produces Donizetti's comic masterpiece 'Elixir of Love'
- 30Maia Quartet slates Arts Share Community Concert for April 30
March
- 01Clarinetist Mead and faculty colleagues play music for clarinet and strings
- 01Peace Corps celebrates 50th anniversary with panel discussion
- 02Poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum reads from Harpo Marx book
- 03Artist Ashley Hunt performs 'Notes on the Emptying of a City'
- 03Maia Quartet performance Features Guest Violinist Robin Sharp
- 03Dancers In Company Home Concert
- 03-6Antigone 2.0 adapted by Carol MacVey and Jen Silverman
- 04UIMA film series continues March 4 with 'Venus in Furs: Sex in the New York Underground'
- 05Viola + One, Christine Rutledge, viola; Rene Lecuona, piano
- 05-7UI Department of Theatre Arts holds auditions for Iowa New Play Festival
- 06Composers Workshop presents free event
- 06Chamber Orchestra performance at 3 p.m.
- 06Arts Share/Community Foundation event features Dancers in Company and guest
- 06'Arab Voices’ author Zogby to speak on WorldCanvass Studio
- 06, 10Indian classical dance artist makes two public appearances
- 07 Popular blogger ‘Lance Mannion’ to speak
- 08UIMA film series continues March 8 with 'Flaming Lips'
- 08Pianist John Milbauer presents a guest recital at the UI
- 09Trombonist Mixdorf presents a guest recital at the UI
- 09Biological enhancements and ethics explored in UI lecture
- 10Andrew Parker, oboe, Alan Huckleberry, piano, to present a free recital
- 10-12Antigone 2.0 adapted by Carol MacVey and Jen Silverman
- 20‘Monterey Pop’ concert film to be shown in Macbride Auditorium
- 21Mathematics offers free talk on math in biology and medicine
- 21Cleveland Orchestra trombonist La Rosa will present free recital at the UI
- 21UI guest recital is performance of Schubert's 'Winterreise'
- 22Lecture by Adriane Herman, visiting artist in Printmaking
- 23 UI jewelry and metal arts guest Havener presents free lecture
- 24Parents and their children's communication skills is subject of free talk
- 24India’s shifting multilingualism addressed in UI talk
- 24-27Gallery series presents two Honors Week productions March 24-27
- 27UI Museum of Natural History will help ID rocks, fossils and oddities
- 27UI remembers Hervig, founding director of Center for New Music
- 28Iowa Writers' Workshop visiting faculty present reading
- 28History scholar to speak on North America as a migration region March 28
- 28Ceramicist Heidi Preuss Grew lectures at the UI
- 28Guest violinist Diana Seitz presents UI guest recital
- 29UIMA film series continues with 'Yoko Ono'
- 30Symphony Orchestra performance to feature Swanson as soloist
- 31UI Department of Dance presents MFA Thesis Concert March 31 to April 2
- 31Gallery talk focuses on Lil Picard Exhibition at IMU Black Box Theater
February
- 03John Manning presents music for tuba and piano
- 3-6University Theatres Mainstage presents Naomi Iizuka's 'Tattoo Girl' January 27-February 6
- 3-6UI Gallery series present Artigue's 'Salvage' February 3-6
- 06Old Capitol Museum’s annual 'Piano Sundays' concerts resume
- 07Pianist Shafer will present UI School of Music guest recital
- 08Free physics and astronomy demonstration show to be held
- 11, 12Darwin Day Celebration
- 11, 13UI events feature guest composer/organist Filidei
- 12Arts Share, Community Foundation team up for Iowa Percussion concert
- 13Songs of Fun and Foolishness: Katherine Eberle and students; Lynn Conway, piano
- 16UI Symphony Orchestra performs all-Russian program
- 16‘True tales’ of Don Luis’ adventures explained at Feb. 16 talk
- 16Good Humor: Caricature and Satire in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lecture by Nadine Orenstein
- 17 UI anthropologist explores how Native Americans adapted to climate change
- 17‘Origins of the Love Duet’ explored in opera lecture
- 17-19Fourteenth annual 10-Minute Play Festival features new student scripts
- 17-19UI Department of Dance presents Faculty/Graduate Concert
- 18Obermann fellows to present civic engagement projects
- 19UI conference will explore INdIA Winterim experiences
- 19UI Center for New Music presents international violin/erhu concert
- 19-20Iowa Summer Rep holds public audition for 2011 season at the UI
- 20Cellist Ransom will perform French music at the UI
- 20Swanson and Tsachor perform songs from the German Romantic period
- 21Metropolitan Opera Live lecture series continues with ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’
- 22-27School of Art and Art History exhibition
- 24-27UI Theatres Gallery production is a portrait of resistance
- 25UI Orchestra Invitational begins with public concert February 25
- 25Storr, Ida Beam guest of UI School of Art & Art History, presents lecture
- 26Iowa Honor Band to present a free performance
- 27Electric Music Studio: Flutist Rebecca Ashe will perform works for flute with mixed media
- 27Contrapunctus Brass Trio: Amy Schendel, trumpet; Bernhard Scully, horn; Todd Schendel, trombone
- 28Visiting sculptor Al-Hadid lectures at UI February 28
January
- 14Close of Classes: Winter Session 2010-11 Friday, January 14
- 17Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration opens January 17
- 18Classes for Spring 2011 Get Underway
- 19Free Film and Discussion: "Pushing the Elephant"
- 20'Live from Prairie Lights' 2011 spring schedule begins with two Iowa Writers' workshop grads
- 21Pianist Doppmann will present guest recital
- 21'How Long? Not Long': Reminiscences of a Mathematician at Iowa. Lecture and reception
- 27School of Music guest Johnson presents solo recital for flute and piccolo
- 27UI visiting artist Richard Rezac presents free lecture
- 27'Film After Noir' is theme of new UI film series
- 27UI presents first post-flood faculty art exhibition January 27 to March 6 at Figge
- 27-31University Theatres Mainstage presents Naomi Iizuka's 'Tattoo Girl' January 27-February 6
- 27-30 UI Opera Theater presents Verdi's 'La Traviata'
- 28Counterculture of the 60s and 70s explored on 'WorldCanvass'
- 29Milton Masciadri and Friends, Riverside Recital Hall
- 29Maia Quartet with School of Music Woodwind Faculty
- 30UIMA offers UI students free bus trip to Figge Museum in Davenport
- 31UI Honor Choir features regional high school singers