Friday, 28 Feb 2025
ISU AfterDark
Students are invited to the Memorial Union from 9pm-1am to participate in a variety of FREE late night activities
Saturday, 01 Mar 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Cereal Bowl Week
Paint a bowl for your morning staple or late-night snack. When you pick up your bowl after firing, we will throw in a single-serve cereal box to get you started.
Concert: Campus and Concert Bands
Adults: $7 and students 18 or younger: $5. Tickets can be purchased at the door prior to the performance.
Sunday, 02 Mar 2025
Concert: Iowa State Singers
The Iowa State singers, one of the most highly regarded choirs in the nation, is led by Dr. James Rodde. Come and enjoy beautiful music sung by the choir.
Performing Arts Series: Ballet Des Moines
Ballet Des Moines presents "See the Music (Hear the Dance)," a mesmerizing performance featuring choreography by artistic director Tom Mattingly. The performance opens with a world premiere collaboration between Ballet Des Moines and the acclaimed Aizuri Quartet playing the haunting strains of Philip Glass' String Quartet No. 5. World-class artists bring the soaring piece to life with Mattingly's choreography.
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+.
Concert: ISU Symphony Orchestra
Concerto winners will perform with the Symphony Orchestra, a full-size orchestra led by distinguished faculty, performing major symphonic, choral and operatic repertoire. This premiere ensemble is drawn entirely from the student body, and proudly includes representation from across the colleges.
Junior Recital: Andrew King
Watch Andrew King perform his junior recital on bass trombone!
Monday, 03 Mar 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Containers & Canisters Week
Find the perfect vessel for your loose change, pens, plants, candy, crayons, jewelry, keys, coffee beans, craft supplies, things you want to hide, or things you need to keep track of.
Art Write Now with the Ames Writers Collective
"Art Write Now" invites writers of all levels to showcase the powerful connection between visual art and creative writing. Through this program, participants will explore how art can serve as a writing prompt--evoking emotions, triggering memories, and sparking conversations. Participants will draw inspiration from the exhibitions at the Christian Petersen Art Museum to create and publicly share their creation.
Tuesday, 04 Mar 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Containers & Canisters Week
Find the perfect vessel for your loose change, pens, plants, candy, crayons, jewelry, keys, coffee beans, craft supplies, things you want to hide, or things you need to keep track of.
Artist Lecture: Will Wilson and the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange Series
As an Indigenous artist working with both historic and contemporary processes in photography, Will Wilson (Dine) is endeavoring to recreate a contemporary vision of Native North America.
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 Mar 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Containers & Canisters Week
Find the perfect vessel for your loose change, pens, plants, candy, crayons, jewelry, keys, coffee beans, craft supplies, things you want to hide, or things you need to keep track of.
Concert: Jazz Night
Performances by ISU's jazz ensembles. Tickets available at the door.
SUB Comedy Night w/ BT Kingsley
BT Kingsley is an LA based comedian who tours the nation with the likes of comedy lengends Don "D.C" Curry, Matt Rife, and Nate Jackson. His first stand-up special, Next Level, is available on Comedy Central, produced by Kevin Hart. This event is FREE and open to everyone! Doors open at 7:30pm for the 8pm show.
Thursday, 06 Mar 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Containers & Canisters Week
Find the perfect vessel for your loose change, pens, plants, candy, crayons, jewelry, keys, coffee beans, craft supplies, things you want to hide, or things you need to keep track of.
Dragons & Rayguns: Book Reading with Iowa Poet Laureate, Vince Gotera
Vince Gotera will be reading from Dragons & Rayguns, his collection of speculative poems--science fiction, fantasy, and horror--that deals with the love affair between a tiger and a dragon, new artificial biological organisms called xenobots, the mythical Filipino sea dragon Bakunawa, cultural figures like H.G. Wells and Jimi Hendrix, among other topics.
Dragons & Rayguns: Book Reading with the Iowa Poet Laureate
Vince Gotera is the Poet Laureate of Iowa and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Northern Iowa, where he taught for almost 30 years. He was editor of the North American Review (2000-2016) and Star*Line, the print journal of the International Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (2017-2020). His poetry awards include a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Global...
ISU Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
This heartfelt Tony-Award winning musical follows a group of wonderfully unique and impassioned adolescents as they compete for the bee championship. Featuring a fun and feisty score, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a joyful night of comedy and quirk that celebrates the pursuit of victory and the gift of being true to oneself. Advisory: Adult content.
Concert: Gully Boys & Skating Polly (punk/ugly pop)
Don't miss the Gully Boys and Skating Polly coming to the M-Shop on March 6!
Friday, 07 Mar 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Containers & Canisters Week
Find the perfect vessel for your loose change, pens, plants, candy, crayons, jewelry, keys, coffee beans, craft supplies, things you want to hide, or things you need to keep track of.
Concert: Iowa State Singers with Waukee High School Choir
Join us for a special collaborative concert, featuring the Iowa State Singers and Waukee High School's A Cappella Choir!
ISU Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
This heartfelt Tony-Award winning musical follows a group of wonderfully unique and impassioned adolescents as they compete for the bee championship. Featuring a fun and feisty score, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a joyful night of comedy and quirk that celebrates the pursuit of victory and the gift of being true to oneself. Advisory: Adult content.
Saturday, 08 Mar 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Containers & Canisters Week
Find the perfect vessel for your loose change, pens, plants, candy, crayons, jewelry, keys, coffee beans, craft supplies, things you want to hide, or things you need to keep track of.
Concert: Treble Choirs
ISU's three treble choirs -- Cantamus, Lyrica, and the Iowa State Singers -- will perform.
ISU Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
This heartfelt Tony-Award winning musical follows a group of wonderfully unique and impassioned adolescents as they compete for the bee championship. Featuring a fun and feisty score, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a joyful night of comedy and quirk that celebrates the pursuit of victory and the gift of being true to oneself. Advisory: Adult content.
Sunday, 09 Mar 2025
Concert: Iowa Statesmen
The Iowa Statesmen are a lively tenor and bass choir, directed by Dr. James Rodde. Come hear their beautiful voices!
Artist Josh Simpson and Astronaut Cady Coleman Discuss Science, Art, and Space Exploration
NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, a veteran of two shuttle missions and a 6-month Space Station expedition, is the author of "Sharing Space." Josh Simpson is a contemporary glass artist who uses old techniques to hand-shape fanciful planets.
ISU Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
This heartfelt Tony-Award winning musical follows a group of wonderfully unique and impassioned adolescents as they compete for the bee championship. Featuring a fun and feisty score, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a joyful night of comedy and quirk that celebrates the pursuit of victory and the gift of being true to oneself. Advisory: Adult content.