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Nurture Seeds and Soil
<p>Despite what our rushed society implies, late fall is a time to slow down and prepare for a long, rejuvenating winter rest.</p><p><br></p><p>During this class, we will explore the best practices for putting our gardens to bed and how these gardening activities can be applied to our lives for mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Seed-saving, weeding, mulching and cover-cropping will be practiced through fun, hands-on activities.</p><p><br></p><p>Organic methods will be learned; no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers will be discussed.</p><p><br></p><p>You are invited no matter your level of gardening experience. All are welcome.</p><p><br></p><p>Yummy snacks generously provided by New Pioneer Co-op.</p><p><br></p><p>CAN YOU LEAVE A LITTLE EARLY?</p><p>We realize the class may be a little late in the day. The first hour covers core concepts and the last half hour is hands-on practice. Please feel free to leave after the first hour if you need to get home.</p><p><br></p><p>THINGS TO BRING</p><ul><li>Clothes you don’t mind getting a little dirty</li><li>Gloves and a hat (optional)</li></ul><p>REGISTRATION</p><p>Sliding scale fee: $25 - $0, based upon your access to resources.</p><p><br></p><p>This class is a part of a 4-class series. There is a<strong> 20% discount</strong> for registering for the series. (See separate Series: Grow Magical Garden Memories registration.)</p><p><br></p><p>Backyard Abundance members receive a 10% discount.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.backyardabundance.org/membership" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Learn about Backyard Abundance membership</a>.</li></ul><p>INVITE FRIENDS AND FAMILY</p><p>We need a minimum of 10 attendees to host the class. Please invite friends and family to ensure the event happens as scheduled. We would love to meet your loved ones.</p><p><br></p><p>EDUCATOR</p><p>Taught by Fred Meyer, permaculture designer, Master Gardener and Grandma’s gardening apprentice. Fred’s years of gardening and garden design experience will help answer your questions about specific challenges and opportunities in your garden.</p><p><br></p><p>LOCATION</p><p>We meet at the Edible Classroom on the south side of the Robert A. Lee Community Center, 220 South Gilbert Street, Iowa City.</p><p><br></p><p>COVID-19</p><p>The event is held outside. Masks are optional. We will try to maintain 6' distancing.</p><p><br></p><p>SPONSORS AND PARTNERS</p><p>This class was developed in collaboration with many community partners using grant funding from the Johnson County Community Foundation and the Roy A. Hunt Foundation. It would not be possible without these sponsors and supporters. Please frequent these generous organizations to thank them for donations of time, materials and funds.</p><ul><li><a href="https://cfjc.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Johnson County Community Foundation</a></li><li><a href="https://rahuntfdn.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Roy A. Hunt Foundation</a></li><li><a href="https://www.icgov.org/?id=1082" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department</a></li><li><a href="https://100grannies.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank">100 Grannies</a></li><li><a href="https://www.earlmay.com/locations/iowa-city-iowa" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Earl May Garden Center</a></li><li><a href="https://www.extension.iastate.edu/johnson/master-gardener-program" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Master Gardeners of Johnson County</a></li><li><a href="https://www.newpi.coop/" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank">New Pioneer Food Co-op</a></li></ul> 2022-04-18 19:30:00 -0500
10/12/226:00 p.m.Backyard AbundanceIowa City -
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Craig Erickson Trio at Iowa Brewing Co.
<p>Cedar Rapids' own Craig Erickson Trio mixes styles and life influences into a stew of Blues, Rock, Funk, Jazz, and Fusion with a distinctive ‘70s influence similar to Cream, Hendrix, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter, and Tommy Bolin. </p> 2022-05-25 19:00:00 -0500
6/18/224:00 p.m.Iowa Brewing CompanyCedar Rapids -
Go Deeper Thursdays at Prairiewoods
<p>Go Deeper Thursdays emerged in the context of the global pandemic, or as Prairiewoods calls it, the PanDeepening. Our reflective and lively Thursday conversations opened us to spiritual deepening, providing a sacred space to share our PanDeepening awareness, a place where we explored venues for collective presencing and delving into the wider “We” space. As our journey meandered through topics associated with inter-breathing and collective consciousness, we embraced diverse resources for consideration. Through simple breathing meditations, poetry, practicing mindfulness, storytelling, re-languaging, listening to creation’s song and many small group experiences, we have been learning to read the collective and listen deeply to our emergent, inter-connected wisdom. In the process, we are becoming more expansive, more inclusive, recognizing our place in the wider “We.” Who is this “We” that we mean? It is wider than our own ego or individual selves, wider than our most intimate circles, our community, work, worship and social circles, and wider even than our human community. It is no less than the “We” of all creation. These conversations hosted by Prairiewoods via Zoom are facilitated by Ellen Bruckner and Laura A. Weber, Ph.D. The cost is $10 per month, and registration is required to get the Zoom link. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p> 2022-04-17 17:00:00 -0500
6/02/224:00 p.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha -
Go Deeper Thursdays at Prairiewoods
<p>Go Deeper Thursdays emerged in the context of the global pandemic, or as Prairiewoods calls it, the PanDeepening. Our reflective and lively Thursday conversations opened us to spiritual deepening, providing a sacred space to share our PanDeepening awareness, a place where we explored venues for collective presencing and delving into the wider “We” space. As our journey meandered through topics associated with inter-breathing and collective consciousness, we embraced diverse resources for consideration. Through simple breathing meditations, poetry, practicing mindfulness, storytelling, re-languaging, listening to creation’s song and many small group experiences, we have been learning to read the collective and listen deeply to our emergent, inter-connected wisdom. In the process, we are becoming more expansive, more inclusive, recognizing our place in the wider “We.” Who is this “We” that we mean? It is wider than our own ego or individual selves, wider than our most intimate circles, our community, work, worship and social circles, and wider even than our human community. It is no less than the “We” of all creation. These conversations hosted by Prairiewoods via Zoom are facilitated by Ellen Bruckner and Laura A. Weber, Ph.D. The cost is $10 per month, and registration is required to get the Zoom link. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p> 2022-06-16 17:00:00 -0500
6/16/224:00 p.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha -
Trevor's Birthday Bash
<p>The Ornery Octopus's staff member Trevor is celebrating his 22nd birthday this year! Come celebrate his birthday ALL WEEKEND LONG. (May 27-29) We will be giving away FREE popcorn and cotton candy. (While supplies last) We will also be having a daily raffle, and you could be the WINNER! Come visit us May 27-29 and help us celebrate Trevor's 22nd birthday!</p> 2022-05-12 18:00:00 -0500
5/27/2211:00 a.m.Ornery Octopus Surplus & LiquidationHiawatha -
A Virtual Author Event with Sulari Gentill
<p>Join Swamp Fox Bookstore on Wednesday, June 15 at 7 PM Central for a virtual author chat with Sulari Gentill. The event is free, but registration is required. Register at <a href="http://swampfoxbookstore.com/sulari?fbclid=IwAR0PLD166mwicwhbnVuqK1F5oDuIgy8Wyr2XpIDt3dH7F1ZhqxzXo5gsh4s" rel="nofollow noopener" tabindex="0" target="_blank">swampfoxbookstore.com/sulari</a></p><p>About Sulari Gentill<br>After setting out to study astrophysics, graduating in law, and then abandoning her legal career to write books, SULARI GENTILL now grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of Australia's Snowy Mountains. Sulari is the author of the Rowland Sinclair historical mystery series and the Ned Kelly award-winner After She Wrote Him. Her latest novel, The Woman in the Library, releases in June 2022.</p><p>About The Woman in the Library<br>Four strangers in a library strike up a friendship. One of them is a murderer. As they each share their stories, which one has something to hide?</p><p>The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers sitting at the same table pass the time in conversation. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just so happens that one of them is a murderer.</p><p>Award-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with The Woman in the Library, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.</p> 2022-04-15 20:00:00 -0500
6/15/227:00 p.m.Swamp Fox BookstoreMarion -
Chris Knight Live at the First Avenue Club in Iowa City
<p>The First Avenue Club welcomes back Chris Knight for an intimate acoustic performance on Saturday, October 8th. General Admission tickets (seats at a table with other guests) are $25. Reserved Tables are available. BBQ dinner (Pulled Pork or Pulled Chicken with Potato Salad and Cole Slaw) is available for $13/person and must be ordered with tickets. Doors for Dinner: 6:30pm. Doors for Non-Dinner guests: 7pm. Show is at 8pm.</p><p>Front Row Tables: SOLD OUT</p><p>Table for 4 with tickets: $100</p><p>Table for 6 with tickets: $150</p><p>Table for 8 with tickets: $200</p><p>General Admission (will be seated at table with other guests) : $25</p><p>BBQ Dinner: $13 (must be purchased at same time as tickets)</p><p>https://first-avenue-club.square.site/product/chris-knight/313?cs=true&cst=custom</p><p>“It’s hard to know how people are gonna react,” Chris Knight says of Almost Daylight, his ninth album and first new recording in over seven years. “I’ve written songs about a lot of different things going all the way back to my first record, and some folks still think ‘somebody kills somebody’ is all I write about. Maybe that’s why I was bound and determined to get these particular songs on this album. If people like them, then we’ll be fine. But I wasn’t gonna do it any other way.”</p><p>For the past 20 years, Chris Knight has only made music his own way. He’s released eight acclaimed albums, played thousands of electrifying live shows and built generations of fervent fans from Texas honky-tonks to Manhattan rock clubs. He’s been hailed as “the last of a dying breed…a taciturn loner with an acoustic guitar and a college degree” (The New York Times) and “a storyteller in the best traditions of Mellencamp and Springsteen” (USA Today). Bottom line, he’s hard-earned his reputation as one of America’s most uncompromising and respected singer/songwriters. And now with Almost Daylight, Knight delivers the most powerful – and unexpected – music of his career.</p><p>Almost Daylight is very much a Chris Knight album, familiarly featuring vivid pictures of rural characters, desperate men and hardscrabble survivors. At the same time it’s unlike anything Knight has done before, with formidable testaments to compassion, redemption and even straight-up love. It’s an album both tough and tender, as bare-knuckled as it is open-hearted. “I do think there’s a cohesiveness to this album,” Knight explains in his thick Kentucky rasp. “The title is key, I suppose. Through all these songs, you could find a theme about seeking shelter.”</p><p>Produced, mixed and mastered by Grammy-winner Ray Kennedy – best-known for his 30+ year creative partnership with Steve Earle as well as producing Chris’ Enough Rope (2006), Trailer II (2009) and Little Victories (2012) albums – Almost Daylight also sounds like no other Knight record, with scorching guitars by Georgia Satellites founder and two-time Knight album producer Dan Baird, rich background vocals by Chris Clark, Siobhan Kennedy and Lee Ann Womack, and deeper instrumentation than ever before. “Chris had been playing some of these songs on the road and started developing ideas before we got to the studio,” Kennedy says. “He and I talked about keeping the Appalachian factor with banjo, fiddle, harmonica and mandolin where it felt right. It was significant that Dan was involved, as he’s the man who can play guitar with the right feeling for Chris. The background vocals really brought the fire, and this lead to ideas for piano, Hammond B-3, accordion and Wurlitzer electric piano. Everything evolved from the performance of each song and I let the songs dictate what they needed in order to evolve into an album.”</p><p>“I was determined not to do any acoustic songs on this album,” Chris explains. “I wanted it all to sound edgy and raw, but to feel big at the same time. We kept trying different approaches until I felt we landed on what worked. The thing is, some of my songs might take a year of writing before I even think they’re ready for recording and I fretted about every one of these. I’ve never put a cover song on any of my records before, but there are two covers on this one. And I think it all fits together pretty good.”</p><p>The album opens with “I’m William Callahan”, a defiant roar fueled by equal parts pride, memories and searing guitar. “Crooked Mile” is classic Knight, a piercing take on outsiders bound by love, while the poignant “Send It On Down” is a plaintive plea for salvation. There are tales of small-town despair (“I Won’t Look Back”), ominous rural menace (“Trouble Up Ahead”) and melancholic break-ups (“Everybody’s Lonely Now”). Chris’ cover of Johnny Cash’s “Flesh And Blood” – which originally appeared on the Dualtone 2002 tribute album Dressed In Black – is a poignant interpretation of Cash’s ode to devotion. The plainspoken positivity of “Go On” is one of Knight’s most life-affirming songs, while “The Damn Truth” is a ferociously clear-eyed look at our current cultural divide. The title track might be the most unexpected Knight song of all, an unapologetic paean to the power of love. “That’s probably my favorite song on the album,” Chris says, “because it’s closest to the truth.” He then quickly adds with a laugh, “I’m killin’ people with love now.” The album closes with yet another surprise; a joyfully raucous duet between Knight and longtime fan John Prine on Prine’s 1973 classic “Mexican Home”. “I love that song, but it took me 15 years to find a way to do it,” Knight says. “I kept playing around, changing the vocal key and finally landed on the spot. I’ve been singing it my kitchen table for the last few years, and when we were down to the last song, I knew this should be it.”</p><p>With the release of Almost Daylight, this native son of Slaughters, Kentucky (population 238) is eager to get back on the road and perform these songs for the faithful. Meanwhile, the singer/songwriter who was originally inspired by the likes of Prine and Earle now finds himself influencing a new generation of artists who revere Knight’s idiosyncratic talent and attitude. “There’s all kinds of different ways to make music, but this is the way I chose to do it,” Chris says. “If I don’t have something worth saying I’m not opening my mouth, which is probably why I took seven years to make this album.” And for an artist who has always defied expectations, Chris Knight’s next chapter indeed feels like the dawn of a new day. “I haven’t suited everybody, but every time I get a new fan it tells me I’m doing something right,” he says. “I think my previous records have set a precedent, if only for me at the very least. I just want people to think this one stands up to everything else I’ve done.”</p><p><br></p> 2022-05-06 23:00:00 -0500
10/08/227:00 p.m.First Avenue ClubIowa City