Thursday, 14 Apr 2016
Cyclone Voice featuring Jesse McCartney
Cyclone Voice is a singing competition that highlights the vocal talents of Iowa State students. This year's finale host will be singer-songwriter Jesse McCartney. Jesse is known for his hit songs "Beautiful Soul," "Leavin'," and "Body Language". Jesse will emcee the event and perform a few songs right before the winner is announced.
Friday, 15 Apr 2016
Friday Night PYOP: Garden Gnomes
We will show you the basics of Paint Your Own Pottery, and then we will fire it within a week for you to come pick up.
Saturday, 16 Apr 2016
Make Masks & Puppets for the All Species Parade
Ames' second annual All Species One Earth Parade will be held downtown on Saturday, April 23. Animal masks, costumes and puppets are encouraged, and The Workspace can help.
Dan + Shay
Critically acclaimed duo Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) hit No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart with their 2014 release Where It All Began. They are the only new country duo in Nielsen SoundScan recorded history to debut at No. 1. The pair has also impressively sold over 1.5 million digital tracks and over 372,000 album equivalents to date, which includes 117 million streams of their music.
Sunday, 17 Apr 2016
Make Masks & Puppets for the All Species Parade
Ames' second annual All Species One Earth Parade will be held downtown on Saturday, April 23. Animal masks, costumes and puppets are encouraged, and The Workspace can help.
Argentine Tango Practica
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance.
Monday, 18 Apr 2016
Documentary & Discussion: White People
"White People" is a first-of-its-kind documentary exploring whiteness and the intersection of race and immigration in an increasingly diverse America. It was produced, directed and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas as part of MTV's Emmy Award-winning Look Different Campaign. (41 min)
Tuesday, 19 Apr 2016
BBQ: Student Alumni Association
Renew or sign up for a 2016-17 Student Alumni Association membership and get a free lunch.
Arbor Day planting: Witchhazel Walk
The Graduate Student Horticulture Society is leading a planting day, including over 75 shrubs and trees along the sidewalk between Horticulture Hall and Osborn Drive. In addition to members of GSHS, volunteers from the undergraduate Horticulture Club and students in the Landscape Architecture program will participate.
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Deb Cassidy
Deborah Cassidy is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Wednesday, 20 Apr 2016
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Ross Parke
The final lecture of the Future of Healthy Families series features Hilton Endowed Chair Ross Parke. He will be joined by the series speakers via live web feeds. A reception and HDFS graduate student poster session immediately follows the lecture, 4-5:30 p.m.
Lucky Penny Necklace
Finals, graduation and spring weddings are coming up soon! Stamp LUCK into a penny and make it into a pendant or keychain.
Lecture: Food Regimes, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology
Eric Holt-Gimenez is the executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First. The organization was founded in 1975 by Joseph Collins and Frances Moore Lappe and promotes access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. Holt-Gimenez worked for more than two decades with small-scale farmers in Mexico and Central America and prior to joining Food First served as the Latin...
Lecture: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
James Gelvin is a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of "Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire."
Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival Comedy Troupe
Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival is Iowa State University's student comedy, improv group. Holding shows on some Wednesday nights, you can come and laugh to your hearts content at the Mojos, and with the Mojos.
Thursday, 21 Apr 2016
Lecture: The Press, the Presidency and the Campaign
Steve Thomma is Senior White House Correspondent and political editor for McClatchy.
The Future of Water: Assessing Sustainability from Space
Ronald Lecture Series in Environmental Conservation. Bridget Scanlon heads the Sustainable Water Resources Program and is Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin.