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Sunday, May 1
Family Tour
Lisa Becker

2 p.m.
UI Museum of Art
Contact:
UI Museum of Art

Strings and Superstrings: Music & Physics
Inon Barnatan, Jack Liebeck
6 p.m.
Clapp Recital Hall
Contact: The Year of the Arts & Humanities

Sam Peckinpah's West: The Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Tom Thurman, Chris Offutt
8 p.m.
IMU, Bijou Theatre
Contact: The Year of the Arts & Humanities

Monday, May 2
Iowa New Play Festival: Introduction of Festival Guests
11 a.m.
Theatre Building, Room 172
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts


W.S. Merwin Q&A
1:30 p.m.
Shambaugh House
Contact: The Year of the Arts & Humanities

Iowa New Play Festival: Holy Schmidt reading
2 p.m.
Theatre Building, Room 172
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Iowa New Play Festival: Cell Cycle
5:30 & 9 p.m.
Theatre Building, E.C. Mabie Theatre
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

W.S. Merwin
8 p.m.
Main Library, Shambaugh Auditorium
Contact: The Writers' Workshop

Rene Lecuona & Ketty Nez, pianos
8 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

Tuesday, May 3
Iowa New Play Festival: Cell Cycle Roundtable Response
10 a.m.
Theatre Building, Room 172
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Iowa New Play Festival: The Humanities Division Reading
1:30 p.m.
Theatre Building, Room 172
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts


Iowa New Play Festival: The Extinction of Felix Garden
5:30 & 9 p.m.
Theatre Building, David Thayer Theatre
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Wednesday, May 4
Iowa New Play Festival: The Extinction of Felix Garden Roundtable Response
10 a.m.
Theatre Building, Room 172
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts

Iowa New Play Festival: Reading
1:30 p.m.
Theatre Building, Room 172
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts


Iowa New Play Festival: Hum
5:30 & 9 p.m.
Theatre Building, Theatre B
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts


Live from Prairie Lights
Steve Semken, ,Mary Swander, and Connie Mutel
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore

Simon Armitage
8 p.m.
Chemistry Building, Room 314
Contact: The Writers' Workshop

Thursday, May 5
Iowa New Play Festival: Abraham: I Am an Island Reading
1:30 p.m.
Theatre Building, Room 172
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts


Iowa New Play Festival: Waking Nicodemus
5:30 & 9 p.m.
Theatre Building, Theatre B
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts


Undergraduate Concert
8 p.m.
North Hall, Space/Place Theatre
Contact: Department of Dance

Anthony Cox, Bass
8 p.m.
Clapp Recital Hall
Contact: School of Music

Live from Prairie Lights
Alex Parsons
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore

Friday, May 6
Dan Knight
5 p.m.
UI Museum of Art
Contact:
UI Museum of Art

Iowa New Play Festival: An Experiment in Sainthood
5:30 & 9 p.m.
Theatre Building,
David Thayer Theatre
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts


Undergraduate Concert
8 p.m.
North Hall, Space/Place Theatre
Contact: Department of Dance

Live from Prairie Lights
Peter Pouncey
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore

Saturday, May 7
Iowa New Play Festival: How Do You Sleep at Night?
5:30 & 9 p.m.
Theatre Building, Theatre B
Contact: Department of Theatre Arts


Ames Piano Quartet
8 p.m.
Clapp Recital Hall
Contact: School of Music


Undergraduate Concert
8 p.m.
North Hall, Space/Place Theatre
Contact: Department of Dance

Sunday, May 8
The Wolfgang Ensemble
2 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

Monday, May 9
Live from Prairie Lights

Elizabeth Berg
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore

Tuesday, May 10
Live from Prairie Lights

Adam Mansbach
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore

Wednesday, May 11
The Role of Cultural Diplomacy in Winning Back Friends for the U.S.

Christopher Merrill
12 p.m.
Congregational Church, Rockwood Fellowship Hall
Contact: Iowa City Foreign Relations Council

Thursday, May 12
Book Arts in the Community: Flexagons

Emily Martin
1:45 - 6 p.m.
Kalona Public Library
Contact: Center for the Book

Sunday, May 15
Shin-Yi Yang, guzheng, John Manning, tuba, & Shari Rhoads, piano
8 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

Thursday, May 19
Live from Prairie Lights

Jim Fergus
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore

Friday, May 20
Live from Prairie Lights

David Bezmozgis
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore

Saturday, May 21
Book Arts in the Community: Papermaking
Marianne Kelsey
9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Contact: Center for the Book

Book Arts in the Community: Illuminated Letterforms
Cheryl Jacobsen
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Coralville Public Library
Contact: Center for the Book

Book Arts in the Community: Story and Structure
Julie Leonard
11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Paul Engle Community Arts Center, Cedar Rapids
Contact: Center for the Book


Dance Forum Spring Concert
8 p.m.
North Hall, Space/Place Theatre
Contact: Department of Dance


Sunday, May 22
Dance Forum Spring Concert
8 p.m.
North Hall, Space/Place Theatre
Contact: Department of Dance

Wolfgang Panhofer, cello
3 p.m.
Voxman Music Building, Harper Hall
Contact: School of Music

Tuesday, May 24
Live from Prairie Lights

Adrienne Miller
8 p.m.
Prairie Lights Bookstore
Contact: Prairie Lights Bookstore