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Iowa Arts Fest Application Process Now CLOSED
All applications for the 2008 Iowa Arts Festival Juried Arts Fair were to be postmarked by March 1,...
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2008 Jazz Film Festival
CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT THE SUMMER OF THE ARTS JAZZ FILM FESTIVALWarm up this winter with...
Summer of the Arts
Welcome to the City of Iowa City's Summer of the Arts, where you can find information about The Iowa Arts Festival, The Iowa City Jazz Festival, The Friday Night Concert Series, The Saturday Night Free Movie Series, and The Landlocked Film Festival. These five great Iowa City traditions joined together under the umbrella organization called Summer of the Arts. Now, we are better able to bring you the FREE, FAMILY-FRIENDLY, FUN events that you have come to enjoy over the past 25+ years.
NEW for 2008! The Landlocked Film Festival, which enjoyed a great first year in 2007, has joined Summer of the Arts and will become our third major summer festival in 2008. The Iowa Arts Festival is scheduled for June 6-8, 2008, the Toyota-Scion of Iowa City Jazz Festival will be held July 4-6, 2008 and the Landlocked Film Festival will be held August, 21-24, 2008. Add to these great festivals the Friday Night Concert Series running from May - September, and the Saturday Night Free Movie Series from June - August, and your summer will be hot...and cool!
Schedules for our events and festivals are officially online. Click on the link below to see our headliners!
Friday Night Concert Series presented by the Iowa City Press-Citizen
Saturday Night Free Movie Series presented by M.C. Ginsberg
Toyota-Scion of Iowa City Jazz Festival
Landlocked Film Festival - Schedule announced in JUNE!
Friday Night Concert Series
Founded in 1991, The Friday Night Concert Series is a FREE, family-friendly event held on the Pedestrian Mall in downtown Iowa City. The event features live music performed by local bands each and every Friday night from the middle of May to early September (excluding the first…
Saturday Night Free Movies
Founded in 2005, The Saturday Night Free Movie Series is a FREE, family-friendly event held in downtown Iowa City. The event features musical entertainment, short films by local filmmakers and a feature movie on the University of Iowa Pentacrest.
Iowa Arts Festival
The Iowa Arts Festival is a weekend-long, free community celebration featuring over 115 visual artists, a music festival, a culinary expo, and a variety of creative and educational activities. Voted "Favorite Festival" by the Iowa Press Citizen.
Iowa City Jazz Festival
Founded in 1991, The Iowa City Jazz Festival is a FREE, family-friendly event held in downtown Iowa City. The event features live music performed by both local bands and internationally acclaimed recording artists. The festival has won numerous awards throughout the years...
Landlocked Film Festival
Landlocked Film Festival is Iowa City's International Film Festival. The 2007 festival debuted as the largest film festival in Iowa featuring over 60 films from around the world on five screens. This year the Landlocked will showcase the best films by independant filmmakers along with workshops and panel discussions.
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