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Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium promotional image

Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026 (all day)
Iowa City Public Library

Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research will bring together scholars, community leaders, and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and problem-solve challenges faced by rural communities...

Symbiosis Duo

Friday, March 27, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Symbiosis Duo

Gail Robertson, euphonium
Stacy Baker, tuba
Kazuo Murakami, piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

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The Music Man

Friday, March 27, 2026 7:30pm to 10:15pm
Hancher Auditorium

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for...

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Dance Thesis Concert: Tori Lefler

Friday, March 27, 2026 8:00pm
Space Place Theater

This site-specific performance will feature works choreographed by graduate student Tori Lefler from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.

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The Music Man

Saturday, March 28, 2026 2:00pm to 4:45pm
Hancher Auditorium

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for...

The Music Man promotional image

The Music Man

Saturday, March 28, 2026 7:30pm to 10:15pm
Hancher Auditorium

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for...

Dance Thesis Concert: Tori Lefler promotional image

Dance Thesis Concert: Tori Lefler

Saturday, March 28, 2026 8:00pm
Space Place Theater

This site-specific performance will feature works choreographed by graduate student Tori Lefler from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.

The Music Man promotional image

The Music Man

Sunday, March 29, 2026 2:00pm to 4:45pm
Hancher Auditorium

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize — this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for...

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #5

Sunday, March 29, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #5

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public.

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UI Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

UI Symphony Orchestra

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public.