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…

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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 or special activities, short films by local filmmakers and a feature movie on the University of Iowa Pentacrest.

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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.

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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...

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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 and The Saturday Night Free Movie Series. These four 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.

Schedules for our events and festivals in 2009 are not yet online. For information on the events, please click on a link below!

Friday Night Concert Series presented by the Iowa City Press-Citizen

Iowa Arts Festival

Saturday Night Free Movie Series presented by M.C. Ginsberg

Toyota-Scion of Iowa City Jazz Festival

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