EDITORS’ PICKS: March 2021
EVENTS: March
OPEN CALLS!
March 2021
Iowa City Community Theatre will hold virtual auditions March 5 and
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6 for The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, which will be performed via Zoom April 9-11. Contact director Will Asmus to submit a recorded audition (Williamasmus@gmail.com) or visit iowacitycommunitytheatre. org to sign up for a slot. Casting call for feature film shooting in central and eastern Iowa summer, 2021. Zoom auditions March 6 and 7, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. To reserve an audition spot, contact marc.bauer6@gmail.com. BIPOC actors encouraged to audition. RHCR Theatre is seeking 8-10 minute plays for no more than six actors for its April production, Zoom Into Spring. Skit(s) are due to RHCR at deidra@rhcrtheatre.com no later than Friday, March 12th at 8:00 p.m. Visit facebook.com/RHCRTheatre for theme considerations. RHCR Theatre will hold online auditions for Zoom Into Spring on Saturday, March 20 at 5 p.m. Please register via Facebook, @RHCRTheatre. Call for artists: Applications are due March 29 for artists interested in submitting a concept for a mural in the Czech Village/New Bohemia district of Cedar Rapids. Email monica@crmainstreet.org for a copy of the RFP. The mural is intended to honor the historic hard-working residents of the district, now an arts hub but previously a working class neighborhood.
SATURDAY, MARCH 6,
Osmotic Radiance: the PS1 Art Auction
Public Space One
(publicspaceone.com), 12 p.m., Free The annual Public Space One
art auction is coming up this month. The 2020 auction is the last event I can remember attending, pre-COVID, so it holds an extra special place in my heart. Even with online-only bidding, things are sure to get wild with the phenomenal selection of artists and pieces involved. This year, the theme is Osmotic Radiance, and the auction features over 50 contributing artists. Bidding runs online Saturday, March 6-Saturday, March 13; work will be on view at the Chauncey Building in downtown Iowa City starting Friday, March 5, if you’d like a better look. On Saturday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m., a virtual closing reception will be streamed from the PS1 gardens. Get your hands on some fantastic local artwork!
Deadline extended! The Center for Afrofuturist Studies is seeking contributions for Let ‘Em Know We Watchin’, a broad survey of stories of the Black experience, “especially the stories that would be considered too minor to tell.” This re-thinking of documentation and presentation is open to creatives and non-creatives alike. Submissions due April 1; visit afrofuturist.center for details. Casting call for The Bridge, an upcoming short film shooting in the Cedar Rapids area in August. Featuring the talents of dir. Adam Orton, writer-producer Courtney Ball and dir. photography Ben Handler. Roles for a variety of backgrounds, including several Middle Eastern. See listing on backstage.com or contact courtney@flowmedia.com. The LGBTQ Iowa Archives and Library is accepting proposals for month-long gallery shows of visual artwork from LGBTQ-identified Iowans. Contact current curator India Johnson at thread.librarian@ gmail.com to express your interest. Visit lgbtqiowa.org/gallery for
Visual art events throughout the month
more information.
Friday, March 5 at
Tuesdays at 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 21 at
Iowa City Poetry is calling for readers and hosts for their summer
5 p.m.
Dive In with the
1 p.m.
reading, Iowa City Poetry al Fresco. A series of socially distanced,
Virtual reception/
Stanley, Stanley
Art in the
outdoor readings will occur every half hour from 5-8 p.m. on Saturday,
artist gallery talk:
Museum of Art
Afternoon:Julia
May 1 (rain date: May 8) outside businesses and residences in the
Aunna Escobedo,
(stanleymusem.
Lohrman Audlehelm,
Northside neighborhood. Interested poets should visit iowacitypo-
Mount Mercy
uiowa.edu)
Artifactory
etry.com to fill out an application. If you would like to host a reading,
University (mtmercy.
(artifactory.
please contact Lisa Roberts at iowacitypoetry@gmail.com or David
zoom.us)
artsiowacity.org)
Duer at dduer72@gmail.com.
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