Mission Creek est. 2005 |  | northside iowa city |
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| | | Hi! It’s been a minute. Welcome to the new Mission Creek newsletter. | TL; DR: We’re back/Save the date: Sat, Apr 25, 2026/Next show: Brìghde Chaimbeul on Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at Trumpet Blossom Cafe! |
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| | | Gratitude | We hosted our 20th Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City this past April. Thank you to everyone who came (or even thought about coming) to one or more festival events since that first wild experiment twenty years ago. We grew up with many of you these past two decades while some fans started coming out more recently. Either way, it’s been a remarkable journey. The three co-founders (Jeff, Tanner, me) are so, so thankful to all the community members, collaborators, artists, and friends who became part of the family. We love you. Thanks for giving us a chance and sticking around. |
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| | | Future Days | The 20th festival marked our final year of partnership with our friends at The Englert Theatre. We produced hundreds of readings, concerts, and happenings with their support for ten years. Thank you, Englert! | Looking ahead, we are building a new format for Mission Creek. We = me (AP) and Nina (from Brink; MCF literary director) with a whole crew of old and new partners helping us. Much has changed in our local culture over two decades. We have witnessed beautiful growth (Homes for FilmScene and Public Space One) and reckoned with devastating loss (Mourning our friend Chris Wiersema of Feed Me Weird Things, watching The Mill get demolished.) We’re trying to figure out where we fit in this new landscape and how we might continue supporting & inspiring our arts scene. | What remains constant: we will affirm and celebrate independent arts & culture in Iowa City. Please save the date for Saturday, April 25th, 2026. We are planning a new kind of celebration and look forward to seeing you there. More soon. (Wait, you want to see shows now?! Look below) |
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| | | Mission Creek Presents | Brìghde Chaimbeul - Fri, Nov 21 at Trumpet Blossom Cafe w. special guests Netochka Nezvanova (music) and Jessie Kraemer (lit) - Tix available here | | Haunting, entrancing, breathtaking, beautiful – this open-eared, understatedly virtuosic performer is transforming and creating new definitions for Scottish folk in the 21st century. | GET TIX |
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| Friends & Family | The Englert Team launched the Iowa City Songwriters Festival in September. Former ‘Creek producer (current Englert programming director) Brian Johannesen dreamed up the concept and the team rendered it real. The weekend welcomed beautiful weather and songwriters all over Iowa City. An incredibly smooth first-year festival. Keep a lookout for fall 2026 dates. | Nina Lohman’s Brink Literary opened their publishing imprint Brink Books earlier this year. Look for their release of Katie Bennett’s She Was Wild Grass in fall 2026. Pre-order here. | Zachary Isom and Taylor Dawson’s Reanimator Reading Series returns to Wild Culture this Thursday, November 13 at 7 p.m. It’s free. If you want to hear new work from local & visiting writers, go check it out. Also: an opportunity to buy chap/books. And, yes, a great NA menu of drinks at Wild Culture (as well as non-NA) | Finally, I’ve been working on a new project (at my day-job) with my friend & colleague Aaron Greenwald. We’re reaching for the edges of sound and it’s going to get wild. It’s called Stop/Time. Details drop next month. | | | Reanimator Reading Series returns to Wild Culture on Thursday, November 13 at 7 p.m. Readings plus experimental music to kick things off. Wild Culture is located at 210 N Linn St (btwn Market and Bloomington) in Iowa City |
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| | | | | Exit Strategies | Thanks for being here. If you want to get off this Mission Creek train, unsubscribe and know you can come back anytime! - AP |
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