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Book Babies
<p>Rhymes, fingerplays, songs and short stories designed to stimulate your infant's language development. We ask that there be a lap for every baby.</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-26 11:00:00 -0500
7/26/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
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Teen Movie--Captain Marvel
<p>Get outta the heat, watch a movie and eat popcorn: Captain Marvel gets caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. For Grades 7-12.</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-09 16:00:00 -0500
7/24/192:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Digital Media Lab Help
<p>Want to get some help starting a digital media project like scanning photos, editing a video, or converting a VHS? A staff member can help you get started with a project, troubleshoot hardware, or give you an orientation to the room. Stop in to get creative!</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-24 20:00:00 -0500
7/24/193:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Library-Community Writing Center SUMMER HOURS
<p>Adults and teens: get one-on-one help with your writing from University of Iowa writing tutors at the Library-Community writing center satellite in the Second Floor Training Lab. Resumes, applications, test prep practice, reports, creative writing of all types - anything is welcome. Walk-in 20 minute appointments are first come first serve.</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-24 18:00:00 -0500
7/24/194:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Star Trek Film Festival
<p>What better way to celebrate the ICPL's Summer Reading Program's theme "Universe of Stories" than with a Star Trek Movie Festival!</p><p>Noon: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn Directed by Nicholas Meyer, starring William Shatner<br>With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.</p><p>2:00pm Star Trek: First Contact Directed by Jonathan Frakes, starring Patrick Stewart<br>The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochran makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.</p><p>4:00pm Star Trek (2009) Directed by J.J. Abrams, starring Chris Pine<br>The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.</p> 2019-07-09 18:00:00 -0500
7/27/1912:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Stories in the Park at Wetherby
<p>Held in Wetherby Park 2398 Taylor Drive, Iowa City.</p><p>A preschool-age program where stories and picture books are combined with fingerplays, songs, and action rhymes.<br>The ICPL bookmobile will be on site and open for checkout. Library cards can be issued and updated.</p><p>Preschool Storytime is recommended for children who are 3 years old and up.</p> 2019-07-24 11:00:00 -0500
7/24/1910:30 a.m.Wetherby ParkIowa City -
Digital Media Lab Help
<p>Want to get some help starting a digital media project like scanning photos, editing a video, or converting a VHS? A staff member can help you get started with a project, troubleshoot hardware, or give you an orientation to the room. Stop in to get creative!</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-26 18:00:00 -0500
7/26/191:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Book Babies
<p>Rhymes, fingerplays, songs and short stories designed to stimulate your infant's language development. We ask that there be a lap for every baby.</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-26 14:00:00 -05007/26/191:30 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
English Conversation Club
<p>Want to practice your English skills in a fun and informal group? Join us Friday mornings to practice conversations skills, learn new expressions, improve your pronunciation, and meet new friends from around the world.</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-26 11:30:00 -0500
7/26/1910:00 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
StoryJAM
<p>StoryJAM is a music, movement, and stories program for children and their families. Designed to develop singing and music making as an early literacy skill, come prepared to move, shake, and sing as we take "Joy in Action and Music".</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-25 11:00:00 -0500
7/25/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Journey to the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy
<p>The Center of our own Milky Way Galaxy is vastly different than the place where the Sun resides (the "Solar Neighborhood"). The physical conditions are significantly more extreme in the Galactic center and detailed observations of our own nucleus provide us with a window into understanding other galaxies in the universe. In this talk, UI Professor Cornelia Lang will describe her own multi-wavelength observations and research that works to uncover the astrophysics of this unusual environment.</p><p>The program is part of the 2019 Adult Summer Reading Program</p> 2019-07-09 20:30:00 -05007/24/197:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
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World Wednesday: Greek Mosaic Art
<p>This year's Summer Reading Program theme is "A Universe of Stories." One way we can discover new stories around the world (and beyond) is to encourage cultural literacy. On Wednesdays, join us for an activity that will help us learn and understand something new about different world cultures.</p><p>One of the lasting artistic legacies from the ancient Greeks is the art of the mosaic. A mosaic is a picture made up of small pieces of glass, pottery, or small tiles. Thousands of small pieces of colored tiles are placed together so that all together they make up a picture. Often depicting pagan gods, people and animals, the Ancient Greeks were the first to use what is known today as tesserae or the many small pieces of marble, glass, or tile that comprise a mosaic artwork. This Wednesday everyone will have the chance to create their own mosaics in the style of Greek mosaic tradition!</p> 2019-07-09 14:00:00 -0500
7/24/191:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Special Access World Wednesday: Greek Mosaic Art
<p>This encore World Wednesday program is for intended for individuals with autism and their families to enjoy the library together in a neutral environment. A general audience World Wednesday program is at 1:00.<br>This year's Summer Reading Program theme is "A Universe of Stories." One way we can discover new stories around the world (and beyond) is to encourage cultural literacy. On Wednesdays, join us for an activity that will help us learn and understand something new about different world cultures.</p><p>One of the lasting artistic legacies from the ancient Greeks is the art of the mosaic. A mosaic is a picture made up of small pieces of glass, pottery, or small tiles. Thousands of small pieces of colored tiles are placed together so that all together they make up a picture. Often depicting pagan gods, people and animals, the Ancient Greeks were the first to use what is known today as tesserae or the many small pieces of marble, glass, or tile that comprise a mosaic artwork. This Wednesday everyone will have the chance to create their own mosaics in the style of Greek mosaic tradition!</p> 2019-07-09 15:30:00 -0500
7/24/192:30 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Willard L "Sandy" Boyd reads from his new memoir "A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier"
<p>University of Iowa legend Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd will read from and discuss his new book, "A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier", from University of Iowa Press. Sandy Boyd’s decades of service to the University or Iowa began in 1954, when he arrived as a law professor. He served as president of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981. He then served as President of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1981-1996. he returned to Iowa to teach in the College of Law in 1996, serving as the interim president of the College of Law between 2002-2003, then returned to teaching as the Rawlings-Miller Professor of Law.</p><p>His new memoir, interspersed with personal wisdom gleaned over more than six decades of service and leadership, encapsulates Boyd's shrewd yet optimistic view of the public university as an institution. At every stage in his life--in the U.S. Navy during World War II, while practicing law or teaching, and in leadership positions at Chicago's Field Museum and the University of Iowa-- Boyd relied on his principles of open disclosure, inclusiveness, and respect for differences to guide him on issues that matter.</p><p>This memoir provides a lens through which to examine our present situation, whether debating free speech on campus, the role of the arts and humanities in civil society, or the importance of funding for educational and cultural institutions.</p><p>This event is sponsored by Prairie Lights and the Iowa City Public Library. Copies of the book will be available at the event, and Professor Boyd will have a short signing at the end of the event.</p> 2019-07-09 16:00:00 -05007/28/192:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Digital Media Lab Help
<p>Want to get some help starting a digital media project like scanning photos, editing a video, or converting a VHS? A staff member can help you get started with a project, troubleshoot hardware, or give you an orientation to the room. Stop in to get creative!</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-29 20:00:00 -05007/29/196:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Stories in the Park at Wetherby: Dance Me a Story with Ballet QC
<p>A fun interactive dance program for people of all ages that encourages reading through the vehicle of dance.Turn on the music, grab a costume, do the hokey-pokey, waltz, jitterbug and much more!</p><p>A preschool-age program where stories and picture books are combined with fingerplays, songs, and action rhymes.<br>The ICPL bookmobile will be on site and open for checkout. Library cards can be issued and updated.</p><p>Preschool Storytime is recommended for children who are 3 years old and up.</p> 2019-07-09 11:00:00 -05007/24/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Chess Time at the Library
<p>Come learn to play chess or brush up on your skills.<br>Eric Vigil who is a Chess Grandmaster and the President of the Iowa State Chess Association will be teaching all ages the game of Chess and giving tips to those who know the game. </p> 2019-07-24 18:00:00 -0500
7/24/194:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Monday Matinee: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
<p>Mondays are for movies at the library! Come cool off all summer long with a family friendly movie on Mondays at 1:00. When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only Night Fury, he must seek "The Hidden World", a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first.</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-17 15:30:00 -0500
7/29/191:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Special Access Monday Matinee: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
<p>This encore Monday Matinee is for intended for individuals with autism and their families to enjoy the library together in a neutral environment. A general audience Monday Matinee is at 1:00.</p><p>Mondays are for movies at the library! Come cool off all summer long with a family friendly movie on Mondays at 1:00. When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only Night Fury, he must seek "The Hidden World", a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first.</p> 2019-07-17 17:00:00 -0500
7/29/193:30 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
SRP Kids: Martika, One Woman Circus Act
<p>Martika is an expert performer in the fire, sideshow, and circus arts. Impossible to pin down, her show contains diverse elements such as fire eating, sword swallowing, daring escapes, and more! During her visit, kids will have the opportunity to create their own unique circus routines to share using all kinds of fun circus props. You won’t want to miss this fun and interactive show that will delight all ages!</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-09 11:30:00 -0500
7/25/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
SRP Kids: Martika, One Woman Circus Act
<p>Martika is an expert performer in the fire, sideshow, and circus arts. Impossible to pin down, her show contains diverse elements such as fire eating, sword swallowing, daring escapes, and more! During her visit, kids will have the opportunity to create their own unique circus routines to share using all kinds of fun circus props. You won’t want to miss this fun and interactive show that will delight all ages!</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-09 13:30:00 -0500
7/25/1912:30 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Harry Potter Charades
<p>Act out characters and more from Harry Potter while your friends guess! The best team will get a Harry Potter prize. For Grades 7-12.</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-09 15:00:00 -0500
7/31/192:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Digital Media Lab Help
<p>Want to get some help starting a digital media project like scanning photos, editing a video, or converting a VHS? A staff member can help you get started with a project, troubleshoot hardware, or give you an orientation to the room. Stop in to get creative!</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-31 20:00:00 -0500
7/31/193:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Game on!: Just Dance!
<p>Tuesdays are for all kinds of games! From video games to trivia, stop by the Storytime Room on Tuesdays at 1:00 to find out what we're playing! Elementary age kids are welcome.</p><p>Now's your chance to show of your Just Dance moves as we dance along with our favorite Just Dance songs! Not a great dancer? No worries, you will learn some great moves from the game!</p> 2019-07-15 14:00:00 -0500
7/30/191:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
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SOAR & Special Access
<p>Join us for a Special Access Event in Partnership with the Iowa Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped as they present, Sensing the Cosmos!<br>This event will allow patrons to listen to various sounds of space, feel lunar craters, and touch the stars using books and other objects and more.<br>The On selected days, the Library will open one hour early for individuals with autism and their families to enjoy the library together in a neutral environment.<br>The library will also use natural lighting throughout the library to accommodate those with light sensitivity. </p> 2019-07-17 11:00:00 -0500
7/27/199:00 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Bilingual Concert with Eric Jacobsen
<p>Join us today for a very special bilingual concert with Singer-Songwriter, Eric Jacobsen! Eric has been educating children through music in English and Japanese for more than twenty years. He has been a part of the show Eigo de Asobo, airing on the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, NHK, since 2001. Come on by ICPL to learn some Japanese and sing fun original songs with Eric!</p><p>Join us for fun and early literacy enrichment!</p> 2019-07-15 11:00:00 -0500
7/27/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Stories in the Park at Wetherby
<p>Held in Wetherby Park 2398 Taylor Drive, Iowa City.</p><p>A preschool-age program where stories and picture books are combined with fingerplays, songs, and action rhymes.<br>The ICPL bookmobile will be on site and open for checkout. Library cards can be issued and updated.</p><p>Preschool Storytime is recommended for children who are 3 years old and up.</p> 2019-07-31 11:00:00 -0500
7/31/1910:30 a.m.Wetherby ParkIowa City -
Storytime
<p>This interactive storytime for all ages and stages combines books, rhymes, songs, and movement. Join us for fun and early literacy enrichment!</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-29 11:00:00 -0500
7/29/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Sunday Fun Day in Space: Straw Rockets
<p>The 2019 Summer Reading Program theme is a Universe of Stories, so we will be doing out of this world crafts on Sundays all summer long! Create a tiny rocket that can shoot up in the air! But instead of jet fuel, it uses air from your lungs. After you create your rocket, you can challenge other rocket-makers to see whose can go the highest! </p><p>Sunday Fun Days are designed for children and their families to enjoy together.</p> 2019-07-15 16:00:00 -0500
7/28/192:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Storytime
<p>This interactive storytime for all ages and stages combines books, rhymes, songs, and movement. Join us for fun and early literacy enrichment!</p><p><br></p> 2019-07-30 11:00:00 -0500
7/30/1910:30 a.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City