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Submit by April 1, 2006 (no fooling) “Iowa City’s Best Third Place Contest” honors and celebrates one of our area’s best venues for nurturing the ties that bind us in community—the Iowa City area’s “Best Third Place.” Send us a letter or letters describing in detail why your nominee (public place or a private establishment) is Iowa City area’s best third place. The winner will be featured in the April issue of Little Village, appear as a guest on WSUI’s “Talk of Iowa” program focusing on the third place and the creative economy and receive other prizes. Please send nominations to “Best Third Place Contest,” c/o Little Village, P.O. Box 736, Iowa City, IA 52244 little-village@usa.net. Little Village, Iowa Project on Place Studies at UI, Standing By Words Center, Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance and WSUI-AM. |
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April 24-25, 2006 The 2nd Annual Iowa Conference on the Wild - This “concourse” will ask attendees to confront themselves, each other, and our society in general regarding how we have lost the “wild” in Iowa specifically and our society generally, and how we can bring it back into our imaginations, our values, our actions, and our land. An e-mail discussion list will help begin the conversation before the conference, and all are invited to articipate. Keynote Speakers will be Bill McKibben and Stephanie Mills. Get details on our site. Located at the Richey Ballroom, Iowa Memorial Union, The University of Iowa. Co-sponsored by The Iowa Project on Place Studies at The University of Iowa, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, The Standing by Words Center, The Ice Cube Press and INHF's Agrestal Fund.
There was a limited edition chapbook for this event with Bill McKibben and Stephanie Mills. To find out more and if any are still available please click here |