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Calendar event - Hancock County Mobile Museum
- Sep 29, 2022 to Oct 1, 2022
- 132 Main Avenue South, Britt, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, History, Exhibits, History on the Move
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Housed in a custom-built Winnebago, “Iowa History 101: Iowa’s People & Places” explores 13,000 years of Iowa history with 56 artifacts from the State Historical Museum...
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Sioux City International Film Festival
- Sep 30, 2022 to Oct 2, 2022
- Sioux City, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Film/Media, Film Festivals
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Launched in 2005, the Sioux City International Film Festival (SCIFF) is the longest continuously running shorts festival in Iowa. Festival organizers, all volunteers, make film selections from...
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Goldie Field Trip: Storytime in Owl’s Head Neighborhood
- Oct 1, 2022
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Featured, History, Children
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Program is now full. Join the Wait List.
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Guided History: Owl’s Head Neighborhood
- Oct 1, 2022
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, History, Preservation
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Abbie Gardner Sharp Cabin Open House
- Oct 6, 2022
- 74 Monument Drive, Arnolds Park, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, History, State Historic Sites
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What makes the Abbie Gardner Sharp Cabin Historic Site special? Do you have memories of the site to share? How we do a better job of telling the site’s story?
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Des Moines 48 Hour Film Horror Project: Filming Weekend
- Oct 7, 2022 to Oct 9, 2022
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Film/Media, Film Festivals
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Get Ready for A Spooky Challenge! ...
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Halloweenapalooza Film Festival
- Oct 7, 2022 to Oct 8, 2022
- Ottumwa, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Film/Media, Film Festivals
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Halloweenapalooza is Iowa’s only horror film showcase created by horror filmmakers for horror fans. The annual film festival takes place each October in Ottumwa and features vendors, celebrity...
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Mobile Museum - Black Hawk County
- Oct 8, 2022
- 203 East Tower Street, Dunkerton, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, History, Exhibits, History on the Move
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Housed in a custom-built Winnebago, “Iowa History 101: Iowa’s People & Places” explores 13,000 years of Iowa history with 56 artifacts from the State Historical Museum...
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Iowa History 101: Rural Free Delivery, Parcel Post and Responses to Mail Order Commerce in Iowa, 1897-1915
- Oct 13, 2022
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, History, Education
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Join Public Historian Sarah Johnson for a spirited debate on how the U.S. Post Office Department's extension of Rural Free Delivery in 1897 and Parcel Post in 1913 changed...
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Des Moines 48 Hour Film Horror Project: Premiere Screenings
- Oct 14, 2022
- Copper Creek Cinema 1325 Copper Creek Dr, Pleasant Hill, IA 50327, Pleasant Hill, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Film/Media, Film Events, Film Festivals
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Come see the winners of this Spooky Challenge! ...
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MediaMasters Greenlight Grant Boot Camp Part One: Story Development
- Oct 22, 2022
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, State Grants, Arts, Professional Development, Film/Media, MediaMasters
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Iowa History 101: Iowa's Naturalists: B.O. Wolden and Conservation in the Aldo Leopold Era
- Oct 27, 2022
- Zoom
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, History, Education
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Join Amie Adams to learn about B.O. Wolden (1886-1968) and other early Iowa naturalists. Together, we will consider what those who experienced the radical alteration of...
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History Mystery: Live from the Museum Vault
- Nov 5, 2022
- Zoom
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, History, Children, Museum
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Join museum staff on Zoom for a virtual version of the popular History Mystery program on Saturday, November 5. This live program encourages children (ages 8-12) and their...
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Iowa History 101: The Education and Training of Seven African American U.S. Army Officers for World War I and its Aftermath
- Nov 10, 2022
- Zoom
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, History, Education
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Join Bernard Harris, Ph.D., in a detailed analysis of little-known facts uncovered from archives and museums concerning Fort Des Moines, Iowa, in 1917, when the...
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MediaMasters Greenlight Grant Boot Camp Part Two: Business Development
- Nov 12, 2022
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Featured, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, State Grants, Arts, Professional Development, Film/Media, MediaMasters
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