This after party at The James is in celebration of The Sun Magazine’s 50th anniversary. Join us for these featured keynote speakers, poets, and authors: Camonghne Felix Camonghne Felix is a poet, essayist, political strategist, and cultural worker. She is the author of Build Yourself a Boat, which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book […]
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of Minor Robberies, Vacation, and Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography. She lives in Austin, Texas…
Our annual Lit Walk series will present readings with Mission Creek Festival 2018 writers in retailers and venues around downtown Iowa City. Participating authors TBA. Enter the Litscape, our curated literary programming presented on Friday and Saturday. Featuring readings in retailers and…
Co-presented with SCOPE Productions. An indie duo from Rock Island, IL, Sister Wife has played their music from coast to coast and is gaining traction in the indie music community. With hints of rock, soul, funk, jazz, folk, and pop theres a lil something for almost any musical taste.
BStar has spent the past five years crafting an immersive sound composed of complex, mathy, stop-on-a-dime parts arranged within catchy, atmospheric grooves that fit in right alongside their best post-rock influences. Yet, they exist on their own plane, somewhere between the aggressive…
Ancient Posse patch their singular vision together from two very different backgrounds. In one corner, there’s Bergeron’s formative years occupied by listening to all the Thom Yorke, romantic composers, and IDM glitchiness he could fit between home school lessons and the countless hours of classical…
Annalibera is a music project based in the Midwest. In 2014 they released Nevermind I Love You on Sump Pump Records and loveil, a video/music work released on Night People…
Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, newly named a National Historic Landmark, and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, most recently Brown…
Good Morning Midnight began spontaneously, like a trip for ice cream or human combustion, when a record store in Iowa became sentient and began immediately devouring itself. The psychedelic folk music was gnashed to bits with every mouthful, the country records ended up smeared in dissonance from a stack of 90’s rock albums…
Our friends at Big Grove Brewery are once again opening their doors and taps to us at the Big Free Show at Big Grove curated by Mission Creek Festival. Lilly Hiatt returned with Trinity Lane on August 25th, 2017. The 12-song set was produced by Michael Trent of Shovels & Rope and engineered by Andy Dixon at Trent’s Studio Bees in Johns Island, SC…