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Iowa New Play Festival

Tuesday, May 5 to Friday, May 8, 2026 (all day)
Theatre Building
We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions written by MFA playwrights. Plus, there are readings daily from new, full plays written by MFA and undergraduate playwrights.
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5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

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Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the fourth presentation in this series of intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.

Tyler Hagy, conductor
City High Concert Choir

This concert is free and open to the...

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Iowa New Play Festival

Wednesday, May 6 to Friday, May 8, 2026 (all day)
Theatre Building
We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions written by MFA playwrights. Plus, there are readings daily from new, full plays written by MFA and undergraduate playwrights.
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Iowa New Play Festival

Thursday, May 7 to Friday, May 8, 2026 (all day)
Theatre Building
We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions written by MFA playwrights. Plus, there are readings daily from new, full plays written by MFA and undergraduate playwrights.

Clarinet Studio Recital 581

Thursday, May 7, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Clarinet Studio Recital 581

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I

Thursday, May 7, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I

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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Iowa New Play Festival

Friday, May 8, 2026 (all day)
Theatre Building
We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions written by MFA playwrights. Plus, there are readings daily from new, full plays written by MFA and undergraduate playwrights.
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Conduct Your Calm: Chair Yoga

Friday, May 8, 2026 2:00pm to 2:30pm
University of Iowa Main Library

Join us for a 30-minute chair yoga session set to orchestral music. Through gentle, seated stretches and steady breathing, you’ll relax your body and quiet your mind. Think of yourself as the maestro, conducting each movement and breath as your body creates its own beautiful music.

This session is suitable for beginners as well as those with yoga experience. Chairs will be provided. Advance registration is required for this free event and all are welcome.

Before or after yoga, take a look at the...

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Application Deadline: Small Important Project Grants

Friday, May 8, 2026 5:00pm
111 Church Street

This new Obermann Center program offers modest yet swift support for those portions of research and creative endeavors by UI scholars that are important toward advancing a project but do not have enough funding from other sources. We will grant 10 awards of $500 or less per academic year. Note that funds need to be spent by June 30 of each year.

Eligibility: Open to all University of Iowa faculty and staff researchers

Graduate students: Note that the Graduate College offers Small Grants for the...

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Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II

Friday, May 8, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Residency Program Recital II

This concert is free and open to the public.

9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero Screening

Monday, May 11, 2026 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
May 11: Join us for an exclusive screening of 9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

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

Des Moines MSW Info Session

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Des Moines.
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Public Observing Night - Van Allen Observatory

Friday, May 15, 2026 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Van Allen Hall

Please join the University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy department as we use the Van Allen Observatory and small telescopes to tour the spring sky. To attend this Astronomy observation session, follow the signs in Van Allen Hall to the east elevator to reach the roof.

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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 9 a.m. Commencement Ceremony

Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:00am
Carver-Hawkeye Arena

Doors open one hour and 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony. No tickets required.

Select College of Liberal Arts and Sciences majors will be recognized. - List of majors recognized at 9 a.m. ceremony.

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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 1:30 p.m. Commencement Ceremony

Saturday, May 16, 2026 1:30pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena

Tickets are not required. Doors will open one hour and 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.

Select College of Liberal Arts and Sciences majors and all University College graduates will be recognized at the ceremony. - List of majors recognized at 1:30 p.m. ceremony.

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Theatre Arts Graduation Celebration

Saturday, May 16, 2026 7:00pm
Theatre Building

The Department of Theatre Arts holds its own graduation celebration on the final Saturday of the spring term. The departmental celebration is scheduled at a different time than the commencement ceremonies for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Graduate College, so students can attend both their collegiate ceremony and this celebration if they so choose. Students graduating in the spring semester, or at the end of the summer or fall terms, are invited to participate.

The ceremony...

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