In these uncertain times, one thing is clear: Every new solution raises new questions.
Please view this webinar hosted by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs for Iowa artists, musicians, filmmakers, cultural organizations and creative businesses. It will help you navigate the new maze of grants, CARES Act funded programs, and other resources that have emerged amid the coronavirus pandemic.
This webinar also provides an update on state-funded cultural grants, including Iowa Arts Council grants and Historical Resource Development Program grants.
Webinar Panelists:
Chris Kramer
Director, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
Susan Kloewer
Administrator, State Historical Society of Iowa
David Schmitz
Administrator, Iowa Arts Council
Ryan West
Deputy Director, Iowa Workforce Development
Dave Caris
CEO, Community Bankers of Iowa
Sally Dix
Executive Director, BRAVO Greater Des Moines
Iowa artists, musicians, filmmakers, cultural organizations and creative businesses, join the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and Iowa Workforce Development this Wednesday at 11am for a special webinar to help navigate the new maze of grants, CARES Act funded programs, and other resources that have emerged amid the coronavirus pandemic.
There will also be an important update regarding state-funded cultural grants from the Iowa Arts Council, Produce Iowa, and Historical Resource Development Program grants from the State Historical Society of Iowa.
You read this correctly, Buzzed History is back! Join us for a night of thrilling history and delicious drinks.
Enjoy the popular tv show we reference closely but cannot name due to copyrights? So do we! That’s why we’ve brought you drunken tales and stories, told by those brave enough to tell them.
Do you have an exciting tale to share? This month’s theme and back by popular demand, is Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History. Anyone can sign up to speak, so start brainstorming your favorite historical tales.
This month’s Buzzed History’s featured cocktail is the Hanky-Panky. The Hanky-Panky was the brainchild of Ada Coleman known as Coley, who began as a bartender at the Savoy Hotel in 1903. It is a variation on the sweet martini, inasmuch as it calls for gin and sweet vermouth, but Coley’s secret ingredient was Fernet-Branca, a bitter Italian digestivo.
History Camp Iowa is a unique opportunity to spend a day with others from all walks of life who have a passion for history, from authors, teachers, genealogists, and students, to park rangers, museum volunteers, librarians, and individuals from other professions and backgrounds. This year’s camp is Feb 22nd at Drake University.
Hosted by Madison Ray
Admission is Free.
Monthly Theme: Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History
Wednesday Feb 19th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
GOOD EVENING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! It’s time for another No Shame Theater! It’s a weird sort of open mic / talent show where anything can happen. Come early if you’d like to sign up to perform and the event is FREE and open to the public to watch the chaos and talent.
There are only 3 rules to No Shame. Your performances must be original, you must not exceed 5 minutes, and you must not break anything – not yourself, not the space, not the audience, not the law.
No Shame Theater was designed with variety acts in mind. You may see comedy, poetry, circus acts, dancing, magic, performance art, story-telling and more!
So sit back, relax, tip your bartenders, and enjoy the show!
Christine Stewart and Paul Brooke will read poetry and discuss the relationship between the visual arts and writing.
South Dakota Poet Laureate Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of Postcard on Parchment (2008), Keeping Them Alive (2010), Untrussed (2016), and Bluewords Greening (2016), winner of the 2018 Whirling Prize. She is a Professor in the English Department at South Dakota State University.
Paul Brooke’s poetry has been published internationally in Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, and England in The Brobdingdagian Times, Litspeak, Magma, and Takahe, respectively. In the United States, his work has been featured in such journals as the North American Review, Rocky Mountain Review, International Poetry Review, Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, and the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature and the Environment.
Brooke’s books include Light and Matter: Photographs and Poems of Iowa (2008); Meditations on Egrets: Photographs and Poems of Sanibel, Florida (2010); Sirens and Seriemas: Photographs and Poems of the Amazon and Pantanal (2015) and Arm Wrestling at the Iowa State Fair (2018). He is completing Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal, which details the lives of the largest jaguars in the Americas. It is due out by Elsevier Press April 2020.
His photographs have been exhibited in Sanibel Island, Florida; Prairie City, Iowa; Des Moines, Iowa; and Ames, Iowa. Primarily a nature photographer, Brooke prides himself on getting superfine detail in his shots. His photography has taken him to Brazil, Costa Rica, Mongolia, and Nicaragua. For summer of 2018, he was awarded a two-week residency in Iceland to create Banished: Photographs and Poems of Iceland.
Dr. Brooke is a Professor of English at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he teaches Advanced Creative Writing, Introduction to Creative Writing, Environmental Literature, Diverse Voices, Plains Indians, and Literary Theory. He was trained as an undergraduate as an ornithologist and completed his Bachelors and Masters at Iowa State University and his Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Please join us for “From the Heart, It’s a Start, A Work of Art:” a conversation in which these eminent artists exchange ideas about art, race, culture and other topics in an informal setting. Discussion and Reception will follow.
Founded in 2014, River City Art and Music (RCAM) shares art and music news and information from around the world and promotes Iowa Creatives from all disciplines through Facebook, Instagram, and http://www.rivercityartandmusic.com. RCAM also provides opportunities for them to share their words, sounds, passions and works at regularly scheduled public events called Riverview Artist Salon.
Riverview Artist Salon (RAS) is a two hour, programmed event that includes spoken word, art advocacy, community outreach, creative showcase and a pop-up art show/exhibition. It’s Mission, to elevate the status of Creatives living in our city and state and provide a center for networking, public engagement, new ideas, personal development and artistic growth. Since 2017, eighteen Riverview Artist Salon’s have been held in Des Moines, Iowa.
RCAM and RAS are the passion projects of Founder, Valerie (Val) Van Horne, an Artist and Advocate for Iowa’s creatives and their communities.
