Events

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features 10-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone!

Tickets
Tickets for the Ten-Minute Play Festival are available in the Theatre Building lobby one hour before show time. Admission is free, but you must obtain a...

JACK Quartet Concert No. 1

Thursday, February 25, 2027 7:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

The JACK Quartet—a new-music ensemble with a long history of teaching, coaching, and performing at the University of Iowa—opens Fifty for the Future with a wide-ranging set of selections from the project.

Elixir Quartet

Friday, February 26, 2027 5:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

The Elixir Quartet has been assembled for the Fifty for the Future celebration by University of Iowa cello faculty member Jamie Clark. She has brought together three of her longtime collaborators from across the country.

JACK Quartet Concert No. 2

Friday, February 26, 2027 7:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

JACK Quartet returns Friday evening for a second Fifty for the Future program—pulling the catalog's wider range into focus.

Student Master Class with Kronos Quartet

Saturday, February 27, 2027 12:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

The Kronos Quartet will work with students from the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa, Preucil School of Music on pieces from Fifty for the Future.

Room 1078

Saturday, February 27, 2027 2:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

Room 1078 is a working ensemble founded at the University of Michigan in 2015, now led by University of Iowa DMA alum Hanna Rumora.

Parataxis Quartet

Saturday, February 27, 2027 5:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

Parataxis Quartet, led by cellist, music theorist, publisher, and Iowa City resident Joshua DeVries, lives up to its name. “Parataxis” is a literary term describing clauses set side by side without conjunctions. DeVries built the quartet around the principle.

UI Dance Company Concert

Saturday, February 27, 2027 7:30pm

Space Place Theater

UI Dance Company, the resident repertory and touring company of the Department of Dance, presents a concert of works under the direction of Jenn Pray.

Kronos Quartet Concert No. 1

Saturday, February 27, 2027 7:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

Over five decades, Kronos Quartet has commissioned more than a thousand works, premiered them on stages—including Hancher stages—across six continents, and reshaped contemporary music's sense of what four string players can do. Fifty for the Future is a powerful and provocative expression of that work.

Kronos Quartet Family Concert

Sunday, February 28, 2027 1:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

Kronos Quartet has been doing concerts for young listeners for years, revealing how four string players can sound like almost anything.

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, February 28, 2027 2:30pm to 4:15pm

Stanley Museum of Art

Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece.

Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen and adult writers in all genres are welcome.

Write at the Stanley meets every fourth...

Iowa Percussion, Jean-François Charles + Will Yager, Dimma Sax Quartet

Sunday, February 28, 2027 3:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

Audiences travel through three of Hancher’s spaces for performances by Iowa-based musicians. The format is part concert, part architectural tour, and each set brings a different texture: percussion ringing through the lobby's open volumes, a low-end duo with electronics in the club space, and a saxophone quartet in the behind-the-scenes backstage transfer area.

Kronos Quartet Concert No. 2

Sunday, February 28, 2027 7:00pm

Hancher Auditorium

Kronos Quartet—the endlessly innovative ensemble that commissioned 50 diverse works to expand how musicians and audiences think about the string quartet—closes the Fifty for the Future adventure with a program featuring eight composers and music drawn from the project catalog and beyond.

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, March 2, 2027 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Bowen Science Building

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Urinetown The Musical

Friday, March 5, 2027 8:00pm

Theatre Building

In a town where water is scarce thanks to a 20-year drought, the government tries to remedy the problem by charging people for the “privilege to pee”! Urinetown dares to question greedy capitalists and idealistic socialists alike by employing sharp satire and a score playing homage to, and occasionally spoofing, classic musical theater conventions.

Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano

Saturday, March 6, 2027 3:00pm

Voxman Music Building

Kenny Lee, Cello
Ilia Radoslavov, PianoKenny Lee, Director of Orchestral Studies, and guest pianist Ilia Radoslavov of Illinois Wesleyan University present an evening featuring the complete sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms, with the addition of the composer's First Violin Sonata.Program:
Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 78 (originally for violin and piano)
Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert can be viewed via...

Urinetown The Musical

Saturday, March 6, 2027 8:00pm

Theatre Building

Urinetown The Musical

Sunday, March 7, 2027 2:00pm

Theatre Building

Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour

Monday, March 8, 2027 11:00am to 12:00pm

Carver Biomedical Research Building

Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!

This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.

Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, March 9, 2027 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Bowen Science Building

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Levitt Lecture with Eugene Robinson

Tuesday, March 9, 2027 7:30pm

Hancher Auditorium

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Night at the Museum: March 2027

Thursday, March 11, 2027 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Stanley Museum of Art

Once a month, the Stanley hosts events designed to introduce the museum to University of Iowa students through engaging and creative activities. Nights at the Museum events occur on Thursday nights when the museum is open late. These events are planned and developed with the assistance of the Campus Engagement Coordinator, a student employee who works with museum staff to engage student audiences. Information about past Nights at the Museum can be found here. Attending student events also...