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Apr
22
1:00 PM13:00

Earth Everyday on the Pentacrest

Join us on the Pentacrest for EARTH EVERYDAY, a community celebration including PS1’s own participatory EARTH DAY COLOR GUARD!

We’re aiming to joyfully celebrate Earth Day by creating an installation of and performance with flags made by artists and other community members of all ages. You’re invited to join flag-making workshops at PS1 (free, all welcome):
Thurs April 13, 2-4p
Sun April 16, 12-3p
Tues April 18, 7-9p

or make your own Earth Everyday flag at home (see instructions below) and bring it to the Pentacrest between 1-4p on April 22, Earth Day.

At 1:45, 2:45, and 3:45 that afternoon, you’re invited (but not required!) to join in group movement with your flags, Color Guard-style!

There are lots of other great activities as part of this collabration with the UI Office of Sustainability and the Environment — check out the lineup at: https://sustainability.uiowa.edu/earth-everyday-celebration

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Apr
13
to Apr 18
Workshop

Earth Everyday flag-making workshops

We’re aiming to joyfully celebrate Earth Day by creating an installation and performance with flags made by artists and other community members of all ages, on the Pentacrest, Sat. April 22, 1-4p.

Want to get construction advice, need materials, or make your flag in community?

Join drop-in flag-making workshops at PS1 Close (538 S Gilbert) — free, all welcome!
Thurs April 13, 2-4p
Sun April 16, 12-3p
Tues April 18, 7-9p

We’ll have materials, construction tools, advice, and fun! All (ages, abilities) welcome!

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Bread & Puppet: The Apocalypse Defiance Circus @ Mercer Park
Oct
2
2:00 PM14:00

Bread & Puppet: The Apocalypse Defiance Circus @ Mercer Park

Big Washer Woman with Crowd: Raphael Royer, 2022.

at Mercer Park
performance followed by an informal talk-back
 rain location: Scanlon Gymnasium at Mercer Park

The Circus is coming to town!!! We are thrilled to host world-renowned, Vermont-based Bread & Puppet Theater on their fall tour with their latest production, Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Apocalypse Defiance.

The show, says founder and director Peter Schumann, is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation, not only the hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily sacrificed pandemic victims but our culture’s unwillingness to recognize Mother Earth’s revolt against our civilization. Since we earthlings do not live up to our earthling obligations, we need resurrection circuses to yell against our own stupidity.”

After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli and host a talk-back moderated by Genevieve Trainor.

The company’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.

Audience members should bring their own chairs or blanket for seating, as well as sunscreen.

This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts, Oasis Street Food, and Bluebird Diner.
Thanks also to the City of Iowa City Parks Department for providing space and assistance with logistics!

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