Friday, 31 Jan 2025
ISU AfterDark: Hypnotist Brian Imbus and Actor & Musician Jerry Trainor
Students are invited to the Memorial Union from 9pm-1am to participate in a variety of FREE activities including Hypnotist Brian Imbus (9pm) and a Conversation with Actor & Musician Jerry Trainor (11pm) in the Durham Great Hall
Saturday, 01 Feb 2025
ISU Keyboard Day
Join us for ISU Keyboard Day on Saturday, February 1, 2025! This event is FREE and is intended for high school juniors and seniors to showcase the Department of Music and Theatre Keyboard program here at Iowa State. Students will participate in interactive studio classes and sessions highlighting keyboard major courses led by our esteemed faculty, providing students the opportunity to learn from and experience our teaching firsthand.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Into the Woods
Adventure into the forest of bisque to find lots of woodland animals like rabbits, hedgehogs, owls, and deer. Discover mushrooms, leaves, and wildflower-themed pieces, and if you look close, spot a tiny gnome or fairy house.
M-Shop Kickoff Concert
Come over to the M-Shop for a FREE spring semester kickoff concert TONIGHT! Bands TBA - check back soon! TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Sunday, 02 Feb 2025
Performing Arts Series: Menopause 2, The Musical
"Cruising Through 'The Change'" is a hilarious and heartfelt look at the joys of menopause and friendship -- plus hot flashes, mood swings, and memory lapses! Take a trip of self-discovery, backed by a new soundtrack of toe-tapping parodied hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s. For these four ladies, menopause was not the end, but the beginning of a beautiful friendship where love conquers all, and friendships never fail.
Argentine Tango Drop-In Lessons
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance. Classes meet every Sunday and drop-ins are welcome. Purchase a dance punch card and attend as often as your schedule allows. Open to ages 18+.
Monday, 03 Feb 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Sweet Treats Week
Paint a special container for all those sweet treats - a candy dish, mug for hot chocolate, cookie tray, or a cupcake dish. Pieces will be fired in time for Valentine's Day pick-up.
Tuesday, 04 Feb 2025
Winter Bee Nesting: Pollinator Habitats with Dr. Amy Toth
How do bees stay cozy and warm through the long Iowa winter? Learn all about bees and their foraging and nesting habits with Dr. Amy Toth, professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology. This program is in conjunction with the newly planted New Perennial Movement Sample Garden in the Anderson Sculpture Garden.
34th Army Band Woodwind Ensemble
Watch the 34th Army Band Woodwind Ensemble perform in the lobby of Simon Estes Music Hall! No livestream.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Sweet Treats Week
Paint a special container for all those sweet treats - a candy dish, mug for hot chocolate, cookie tray, or a cupcake dish. Pieces will be fired in time for Valentine's Day pick-up.
Open Mic Night
ISU students - are you looking to impress your fellow Cyclones with your singing, comedy, chainsaw juggling, or other talents? Then don't miss Open Mic Night at the M-Shop! (No chainsaw juggling, please)
Wednesday, 05 Feb 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Sweet Treats Week
Paint a special container for all those sweet treats - a candy dish, mug for hot chocolate, cookie tray, or a cupcake dish. Pieces will be fired in time for Valentine's Day pick-up.
Comedy Night w/ Shannon Fiedler
SUB Comedy Night w/ Shannon Fiedler
Thursday, 06 Feb 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Sweet Treats Week
Paint a special container for all those sweet treats - a candy dish, mug for hot chocolate, cookie tray, or a cupcake dish. Pieces will be fired in time for Valentine's Day pick-up.
Curator's Tour: In the Woods
Join University Museums' curator, Alison Ranniger, for an engaging tour through the Christian Petersen Art Museum's newest exhibition, In the Woods by Jeanine Coupe Ryding.
Friday, 07 Feb 2025
Youth Matinee Series: Barjche Entanglement
"Barjche Entanglement: A Labyrinth of Shared Space." Experience the expressive beauty of Iowa State's annual modern dance performance with dances by students, guests and faculty as they explore stories past and present. Presented by Iowa State's Orchesis I Dance Company.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Sweet Treats Week
Paint a special container for all those sweet treats - a candy dish, mug for hot chocolate, cookie tray, or a cupcake dish. Pieces will be fired in time for Valentine's Day pick-up.
Performance: Barjche
Orchesis I Dance Company presents "Barjch? 2025 Entanglement," a labyrinth of shared space. Experience the expressive beauty of Iowa State's annual modern dance performance with dances by students, guests and faculty as they explore stories past and present.
Concert: Rocky Athas (blues)
Rocky Athas, known by critics and fans as "The Texas Tornado," "The Malice from Dallas," "The Young Eric Clapton," and "The Last Great Bluesbreaker Guitarist," possesses an arsenal of punishing guitar riffs and catchy hooks that have opened every door.
Saturday, 08 Feb 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Sweet Treats Week
Paint a special container for all those sweet treats - a candy dish, mug for hot chocolate, cookie tray, or a cupcake dish. Pieces will be fired in time for Valentine's Day pick-up.
Concert: Cyclone Honor Band
This concert features two outstanding high school honor bands as part of our 49th annual Cyclone Honor Band Festival. Our superb conductors are Dr. Wesley Broadnax and Mrs. Linda Huck.
Performance: Barjche
Orchesis I Dance Company presents "Barjch? 2025 Entanglement," a labyrinth of shared space. Experience the expressive beauty of Iowa State's annual modern dance performance with dances by students, guests and faculty as they explore stories past and present.
Sunday, 09 Feb 2025
Artful Etiquette: Exploring Museums
Visitors to the Christian Petersen Art Museum are invited to learn about museum etiquette and some tips to help navigate a museum. Learn what to expect when visiting a museum while getting tips on how to interpret what you see. Dress up as an art critic or your favorite artist-- the best costume will win a prize for Best-Dressed!
Argentine Tango Drop-In Lessons
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance. Classes meet every Sunday and drop-ins are welcome. Purchase a dance punch card and attend as often as your schedule allows. Open to ages 18+.
Monday, 10 Feb 2025
Valentine's Day Pop Up Art Sale
Choose from a variety of adorable succulents and cacti planted in pottery from The Workspace, and personalize your plants with charming tiny animal add-ins. Complete your gift with a beautiful, marbled paper Valentine's Day card created by local artist Rhonda Scott.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Miniatures
Short on space, or just like tiny things? We have adorable animals, trinket dishes, little boxes, small bowls, and other miniatures that are quick and easy to paint.
Tuesday, 11 Feb 2025
Valentine's Day Pop Up Art Sale
Choose from a variety of adorable succulents and cacti planted in pottery from The Workspace, and personalize your plants with charming tiny animal add-ins. Complete your gift with a beautiful, marbled paper Valentine's Day card created by local artist Rhonda Scott.
Paint Your Own Pottery: Miniatures
Short on space, or just like tiny things? We have adorable animals, trinket dishes, little boxes, small bowls, and other miniatures that are quick and easy to paint.
Brooklyn and Basilicata: Locating Modernity in Joseph Stella's "Tree of My Life"
This talk will explore how Stella's paintings and personality are deeply linked and how the changing Italian landscape of the 1910s and 20s complicates our understanding of the artist's experience in the country of his birth.
Performing Arts Series: Voces8
The 2023 Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble inspires people through music and shares the joy of singing. Touring globally, the group performs an extensive repertoire both in its a cappella concerts and in collaborations with leading orchestras, conductors and soloists. Versatility and a celebration of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble's performance and education ethos which is shared both online and in person.