PATV Presents: Live from Prairie Lights with Cristina Henríquez
Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Cristina Henríquez will read from her novel, The Book of Unknown Americans. This extraordinary novel offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American. In what Michiko Kaukatani describes as the novel’s “choral structure — made up of first-person reminiscences from an array of characters from Latin American countries including Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Venezuela all of whom talk to us directly about their reasons for coming to the United States,” The Book of Unknown Americans gives voice to a population many people choose to avoid.
Henríquez is also the author of The World In Half, and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection.
Henríquez, whose father emigrated to the United States from Panama in the 1970s, is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Chicago.
Raw Video: President Obama in Iowa Bookstore
President Obama drops by the Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City to pick up some gifts for his daughters—and a pop-up book for his Press Secretary's son.
Ossian Foley reads at Prairie Lights. 3.25.14
Ossian Foley reads from his work Of: Vol 1 at Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa on March 25th, 2014.
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Live From Prairie Lights - Reading Aloud
Live From Prairie Lights with The Iowa City Senior Center's Reading Aloud Group shares a series of works by renowned poets.
Book TV: Lee Sandlin,Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Lee Sandlin recalls the beginnings of modern meteorology and the study of tornadoes throughout the American Midwest. The funnel clouds, given the moniker, Storm King by the region's early settlers, attracted scientists that included the United States' first meteorologist James Epsy. The author reports on several of the nation's most destructive tornadoes and the scientific gains made to inform the population of potentially dangerous storms. Lee Sandlin speaks at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa.
Book TV: Kembrew McLeod, Pranksters
Kembrew McLeod talks about our long history of pranking, going back to Benjamin Franklin. Prof. McLeod, a prankster himself, argues that pranks are part of a long tradition of social critique in the United States. He profiles pranksters like the Yippies, Alan Abel, ACT UP, WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), and the Yes Men. This event was hosted by Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa.
Renewable Energy Growing in Rural America
Beyond reduce, reuse and recycle are efforts to bring renewable power into play and chart a new way forward for energy security and a lower carbon footprint.
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Bennett Iowa Aurora Time Lapse 11/3/2015
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13 second exposures, North of Bennett, Iowa
Cyclone Recovery, Badger Prep, Old Capitol History
Lamenting the loss at Iowa State, looking ahead to Wisconsin, and some cool history about the Old Capitol Building in Iowa City
President Obama Speaks about Health Reform in Iowa City
President Obama visits the place where he first announced his plan for health care reform back in May of 2007, sharing with a large crowd the immediate effects of health reform for small businesses and families.
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History LiDAR
LiDAR reconstruction and fly-through of the MNH at the University of Iowa, completed by the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences.
A Day In Indy
Learn what the makes Indianapolis, IN the the perfect place to work and live.
Senator Bernie Sanders Calls Out Defense Contractors and Lobbyists - University of Iowa 2-19-15
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders calls out wasteful spending on military, fraud and government settlements from defense contractors, wants to make judicious cuts, and if president he would audit the Department of Defense - who can't keep track of where money is going. Question was asked by AFSC Governing Under the Influence volunteer. Full bird-dog report at Town hall meeting at University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA on 2-19-15 #WhoProfits
City of Literature (2012)
The oldest creative writing program in the country, and still regarded the best. More than forty Pulitzer Prize winners. North America's only UNESCO City of Literature. How did the midwestern college town of Iowa City, Iowa become the capital of creative writing in America? It's an unlikely story of literary ambition, academic innovation, and a promising young poet who became a cultural entrepreneur.
Featuring scholars, historians and artists, interwoven with noted authors discussing the writing life in ways hilarious and profound, City of Literature tells the story of a community of writers while providing a window into the creative process itself.
Iowa: a Prairie Lullaby - Composed and Performed by Scott Kirby
Scott Kirby performs one of his own piano compositions: Iowa: a Prairie Lullaby.
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A native of Ohio, Scott Kirby began his study of music at the age of six, and continued formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and Sylvia Zaremba at the Ohio State University. After obtaining an English degree from Ohio State University, Kirby moved to New Orleans and began his professional music career, as a street performer. In the following four years, he recorded the complete rags of Scott Joplin, and made his debut at all of the major ragtime festivals in the United States, as well as festivals in Belgium, France, Norway, New Zealand, and Hungary.
Kirby has served as Musical Director of the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, MO, and of the Rocky Mountain Ragtime and American Music Festival in Boulder, CO, as well as director of the San Juan Islands Ragtime Institute. His appearances include a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood in 1998, and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Kirby co-founded a record company (Viridiana Productions, L.L.C.), has made 25 recordings, and has composed over 150 original works for piano and other instruments. Admired by fellow pianists including George Winston, and hailed by Time Magazine as an ace pianist, CBS News' Charles Osgood agreed that ...Critics call Scott Kirby one of the best interpreters of ragtime music on the scene today.
Kirby's artistic passion grew to include to visual art, and in 2005, while living in France, he completed 75 paintings and 28 piano compositions, including The Prairie Devotionals, The paintings (belonging to a set entitled Visions of the Great Plains) and the new musical works set the groundwork for his new multi-media project Main Street Souvenirs. Kirby now lives in Sandpoint with his wife Marie-Dominique and two daughters Sara and Leah-Marie, and divides his time between composing, painting, performing and teaching.
Kirby has achieved a rarified status as a performer of ragtime and related American styles. Considered Today's best player of Scott Joplin's music (Trebor Tichenor, author of Rags and Ragtime), Kirby has appeared at every major ragtime festival in the U.S., plus events in Hungary, Norway, New Zealand, France, England and Belgium. His unique presentation highlights the worlds of Classic Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, and Blues, then expands to include the marches of John Philip Sousa, the songs of Stephen Foster, Latin-American styles, Afro-Cuban rhythms, European Romanticism, Rock & Roll and Original works ranging from the syncopated to the impressionistic. Kirby's sense of Americana is enhanced by his historical commentary, and also by his art work, a series of watercolors entitled Visions of the Great Plains, which he presents in either an accompanying exhibit or in a video presentation during the show.
Kirby also specializes in American and Pan-American musical traditions that span 150 years. From the inventive compositions of New Orleans genius Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Classic Ragtime, Cuban Danzas, Brazilian Tangos of Ernesto Nazareth and Creole styles from the Caribbean, to contemporary works by Kirby himself, the Pan-American umbrella is full of color and variety. Kirby weaves these styles together with historical and cultural background that shows the connections and cross-influences that have been occurring in the Western Hemisphere for hundreds of years, and have influenced not only American Popular Music, but also American Classical and Art Music composers.
Scott Kirby has composed over 150 works for solo piano and other instruments, which fall into several categories. The early works follow the example of Scott Joplin and the Classic Ragtime composers, but with a decidedly contemporary harmonic sensibility. Later, using Louis Moreau Gottschalk as a model, Kirby began to draw from a wider variety of Pan-American traditions, Latin-American rhythms, afro-caribbean syncopation, and European Romantic influence. This Terre Verde music naturally morphed into a new style that incorporated less syncopation but more distinctive melodic content - a new and highly romanticized Americana. Some of these works may even be considered rural impressionism, and many were directly inspired by the Great Plains and prairies of the heartland. Finally, the romantic sensibility, as well as Baroque, Classical, and even Pop Music influences, led into a Minimalist-Romantic language which draws heavily from the land-music connection, and from Kirby's own spiritual journey - one that (like his music) seeks truth in the process itself.
Pr. Obama on Health Care in Iowa (2)
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Iowa City Update: Police Community Forum
Iowa City Update is a weekly video featuring City of Iowa City projects, programs and events. Topics this week include a community forum with the police, a climate simulation event and more.
Police Community Forum - Don’t miss your chance to provide feedback and ask questions about the Iowa City Police Department
World Climate Simulation - Discover how you can participate in mock climate negotiations in honor of Earth Week.
Book Drive - Learn how you can donate children’s books to this worthy cause.
Spring Art Expose - Get the details on this springtime tradition that features paintings, ceramics, photography and more.
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President Obama at the University of Iowa 3/25/2010
President Barack Obama discussed health insurance reform during a speech on the University of Iowa campus Thursday, March 25, 2010.