Thursday, 14 Apr 2022
Caterpillar Club
Join us outdoors weekly for our popular Early Childhood Development program featuring stories followed by nature exploration and activities. Best for children ages 2-5 with an adult.
First Amendment Days: Feast on the First
Free food, fun and festivities of the five freedoms. A carillon concert of freedom-themed music will be performed at 11:50 a.m. A First Amendment Days event.
Nature at Noon: Finding and Conserving the Endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bee in Central Iowa
Join us as we welcome David Stein, the Watersheds and Wildlife Program Coordinator at Prairie Rivers of Iowa, for an open talk about finding the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee and what it means to conserve that endangered species.
Drop In Craft: String Art
Hammer nails into a board and use lines of thread to make geometric patterns, curves, and shapes. We have lots of designs to choose from or create your own!
Drop-In Craft: Painted Flowerpots
Simple, fun, and in-season, terra cotta pots are an easy surface to paint on. Choose from small pots to start an herb garden, to medium containers for indoor plants, and larger pots for outdoor flowers.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Spring Planters Week
Our pots are both charming and functional vessels for your indoor plants. From little pots for baby succulents to larger ones for more established plants, find a fun way to show off your greens.
Tusubila Crafts Group Basket Sale
Baskets are made by women in Kamuli, Uganda, and sales support their families with food, school fees, and other needs. Sponsored by The Uganda Alliance Club.
Softball vs. Texas Tech
Iowa State vs. Texas Tech. Schedule updates and weather delays are available on the team social media accounts and the athletics website.
Lecture: First Amendment and Content Creation
"Attention All Content Creators: You Should Care About This First Amendment Session," Jeffrey Hunt, Parr Brown Gee and Loveless; and Julie Roosa, ISU adjunct assistant professor and First Amendment specialist. If you create content that is published online, in print, in audio, anywhere, a Supreme Court case called New York Times v. Sullivan affects you. A First Amendment Days event.
Charcuterie Workshop
Hands-on instruction led by Jennifer Behnke and the Culinary Food Science Club. Participants will learn food safety tips and take home a booklet with recipes, charcuterie board ideas, and templates. Each participant will make their own personalized charcuterie board. Registration required; seating is limited.
Reflections on Preservation from a Queer Public Historian
Franklin Vagnone, President of Twisted Preservation Cultural Consulting, will illustrate his experimental Public History work that often questions accepted professional best practices. Preservation, conservation, public history, sculpture, contemporary art happenings, and queer & marginal narratives all are a part of Twisted Preservation's Practice.
Cyclone Cinema: West Side Story
Cyclone Cinema is presented by the Student Union Board and showcases a variety of film genres, screening a different movie every weekend Thursday - Sunday during the semester. Sunday film screenings are in open caption format. All other screenings can be open caption as well, as long as the request is made to the staff prior to the movie starting.
Performance: Cyclone Voice
Cyclone Voice is ISU's premier, annual singing competition that highlights the vocal talents of Iowa State students. This year's main event host will be singer/songwriter and actor Jesse McCartney The multi-Platinum selling artist has dropped numerous albums to great acclaim and performed everywhere, from global headlining tours to Presidential performances for both George W. Bush and Barack Obama.