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The Spoken Word Englert Holidays at Poet’s Perspective Beer Series the Englert A Q&A WITH THREE NEW BEERS, EUFORQUESTRA, ANDREA GIBSON BREWED SPECIAL FOR FESTIVAL OF CAROLS, AND PAGE 10 THE ENGLERT - PAGE 18 THE NUTCRACKER - PAGE 32 MY LAGOS MY WAY

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lagos_coleco_bscene_8-5x11.indd 1 1/29/2015 2:06:05 PM Welcome to The Englert Theatre

We are standing here on a gorgeous cliff staring out onto a wide expanse of the unknown.

As I write this, I am looking out onto the unknown and it feels intriguing, it feels exciting. Depending on when you read this we will either be preparing to embark on or already have experienced the adventure that will now be known as Witching Hour. Witching Hour is a new program — a festival actually — that we are presenting as part of the Englert’s fall season. In partnership with Little Village and in collaboration with our friends from Seed Here Studio, Mission Creek Festival, and FilmScene we are launching this two-day event November 6 - 7. Witching Hour will cross the wires between a big think festival and a deeply entertaining conference. Its charge is to explore and engage the unknown through performance and discussion. We will see new works from artists and thinkers as well as hear talks on creative process — the actual experience of creating something: an idea, a novel, a business, a song. We hope this new experiment feels right at home in Iowa City, a town that rewards both innovation and reflection.

But why the need for another event in a place that brings us a summer full of festivals and a multitude of programs throughout the rest of the year? For me, I feel like we spend a lot of time seeking out known answers in our programming: I like football so I watch football games, I like a poet’s work so I go to her readings, I appreciate a band so I buy tickets to their concerts — these are excellent ways to spend my time but it’s also important to periodically engage in events that offer new questions rather than predictable answers. How often do we step out into a night of culture and not already have a precise idea of what we’re going to get? In my early twenties, when I lived in San Francisco, I used to go to rock clubs without knowing anything about the bands or I would join a friend at a house show in a basement in Berkeley or Oakland knowing nothing — only that I would see something, indulge in some uncertain experience with a community of people around me. Some of those shows were really bad but some of them were amazing and, more than simply entertaining me, they coerced me into MY LAGOS MY WAY conversations with my peers and the new friends I’d make in these strange, wonderful places. I was alive, I was engaging in society, I felt like I was part of something.

Iggy Pop passionately discussed the power of music in a 1977 interview with Peter Gzowski. He said “that music is so powerful that it is quite beyond my control… when I am in the grips of it, I don’t feel pain either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I am talking about? Have you ever, have you ever felt like that?” I think I have. In basements, in opera houses, in movie theaters, in backyards, in coffee-shops I have felt that rush, that wonderful feeling of hearing and seeing something new, of being whisked off the assembly line and dashed across a plane of new thought. I hope we can get to this place with Witching Hour. I hope we can spark revelation. It is not lost on us that we are asking for you to trust us to spend (or have spent) two days exploring the unknown in downtown Iowa City but we truly hope you will join us: there will be artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, astrophysicists, magicians, and thinkers sharing ideas and performing new work in our downtown spaces: The Englert Theatre, FilmScene, Gabe’s, The Mill, Iowa City Public Library, Motley Cow, and more. One- and two-day passes will be available and some events will be free and open to the public. Community passes will be available to purchase and we will work with local service organizations to get those passes in the hands of interested people who, at this time, might not have the resources to afford them. This is an event for our whole community to experience and we all deserve the opportunity to be surprised.

Sincerely, Andre Perry

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lagos_coleco_bscene_8-5x11.indd 1 1/29/2015 2:06:05 PM THE SPOKEN WORD POET’S PERSPECTIVE

Q&A WITH ANDREA GIBSON – PAGE 10

IN ROTATION: MUSIC

WHAT’S NEW ON ANDRE PERRY’S LISTENING QUEUE – PAGE 14

FALL FRIENDS DINNER

A NIGHT OF GOOD FOOD WITH GOOD FRIENDS – PAGE 16

ENGLERT BEER SERIES

INTRODUCING THREE NEW BEERS, BREWED SPECIAL FOR THE ENGLERT – PAGE 18

“HOMER DILL’S UNDEAD”

ESSAY BY INARA VERZEMNIEKS – PAGE 22

WITCHING HOUR FESTIVAL

ARTISTS ENGAGING THE UNKNOWN– PAGE 30

HOLIDAYS AT THE ENGLERT

EUFÓRQUESTRA, FESTIVAL OF CAROLS, AND THE NUTCRACKER – PAGE 32

SAVOR THE FRIENDS OF ENGLERT HISTORY OF AUDIE NCE SEASON THE ENGLERT COMMISSIONS THE ENGLERT GUIDELINES PAGE 28 PAGE 39 PAGE 54 PAGE 62 PAGE 64

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The Englert Theatre | 4 Thank you to our 2011 Capital Campaign supporters

Since reopening in 2004 after a massive renovation and a grassroots fundraising effort, The Englert Theatre has welcomed over 365,000 attendees.

A true success story, the renovated Englert has hosted over 2,500 performances over the past decade, including local and nationally-known live music, comedy, theater, dance, movies, readings, and community endeavors. All of this unfolds in our beautiful venue, located in the heart of downtown Iowa City’s cultural district. In preparation for the centennial of this national historic landmark, we conducted a capital campaign to consolidate our mortgage and better secure a stable future. We would like to honor our major donors below.

Please contact us if you are interested in supporting The Englert Theatre: Katie Roche, Development Director [email protected] or call 319-688-2653 x107

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These Premier Season Sponsors helped make tonight’s event possible. Thanks to their generous support, the Englert is able to bring the best locally and nationally known performers to the Iowa City/Coralville area.

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The Englert Theatre | 6 Douglas & Linda Paul Gallery

This inviting space is home to exhibits from local artists. Photo by Bill Adams The gallery is open Monday - Friday 12 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Looking for a venue to host a private party, reception, meet-and-greet, corporate gathering, staff appreciation, or other special event? The second floor Douglas & Linda Paul Gallery is an inviting space featuring art exhibits from local artists that can accommodate groups of up to 50 people.

For more information, pricing, and availability, contact Production Manager Tori Morgensai at [email protected]

Our new addition to the gallery space. The Englert bar is open during most ticketed events. Photo by Bill Adams.

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Eco Lips’ lip balm is handcrafted in Cedar Rapids. It’s a family business that uses organic and fair trade ingredients. Its lip balms can be customized, We love our from the base ingredients to the flavors to the color of the tube itself. Sounds pretty great volunteers already, doesn’t it? But here’s the thing you probably don’t know about Eco Lips. Its CEO, Chloey Shriver? She’s 11. All of the ushers for tonight’s performance As in, 11 years old. Her dad, Steve, used to be Eco are dedicated volunteers. Lips’ CEO. (Now he’s just the president.) Please thank them on your way out! Chloey earned her corner office with an idea: My Eco Lips, the world’s first create-your-own customizable lip balm. Chloey believes we were all born creative, and should never, ever stop creating. If you are interested in volunteering at the Englert Theatre Why shouldn’t that apply to lip balm, too? At the contact [email protected] for more information. Englert, we agree that creativity is pretty special— and we like to share it with the people we love. That’s you. The Englert runs on sharing, on heart, on community. In 2010, the community came together to save our historic theater. We honor that gift onstage by bringing you art that speaks to you, moves you, and connects you with others in your community. We honor your gift offstage by partnering with local people and businesses that we know run on sharing, on heart, and on community, too. Like Eco Lips. In the past three years, Chloey’s family’s company has generously provided natural, organic Eco Lips balm for every performer that crosses the Englert stage. Like Chloey says: We should never, ever stop creating. Eco Lips creates fantastic lip balm. Our performers create exceptional art. And our community creates connections. We just try to provide the space to let it all happen. PARTIES HAPPEN HERE IT ALL HAPPENS HERE

Rent the Englert theatre or gallery for your next event or conference. For pricing and more information, email Tori at [email protected]. lives out loud. It didn’t feel entirely different know something terrifies me and to do it from the way one might write a song, and anyway. A few years ago I made the decision I was really taken with how engaged the to start being vocal about that experience audience was, how actively they listened. I with the audience. To say throughout the had never witnessed art that expected and show, “I’m so scared right now”, or to present Q & A with needed audience energy and engagement to really any emotion I’m having at the time. thrive and I was really moved by what that Anxiety and sadness worsen the more we Andrea Gibson was creating. try to hide it. Give it permission to exist out loud, and it often softens, becomes tolerable. I BY Nora Heaton You've said in previous interviews that the find any difficult feeling I’m having becomes process of creating a poem for you begins less difficult with expression, so in a way the with the sound, that you know the sound stage is the perfect place to be. of a poem before you know the words. Can you talk about that? How does a poem Your poem, "The Madness Vase/The come into being for you? The emotion Nutritionist," implores people who feel births the sound and the sound forms the suicidal to stay and live. Do people often words, but the words almost always come last tell you they agreed to hold on longer when I write. In the beginning of creating a after hearing that poem? How does that piece I’m running around my house making feedback affect you? People have said sounds, that to an outsider would sound that, yes, and it is moving always, and for as really strange. Not to get too out there, but many times as I have heard it I have probably in some ways I’m searching for whatever expressed it an equal amount of times to vibration in me feels most important to another artist. Art is medicine. It keeps many spend time finding words for. So I’m looking of us alive. It’s where we recognize our own for that in myself, and when I find it, the voice in another’s voice and are reminded words eventually come. that we aren’t in this alone, reminded that there is always somewhere a greater beauty that eternally has our backs.

As a spoken word artist, how do you recognize the connection with your audience during a performance? How do Andrea Gibson is not gentle “The emotion births the you nurture it, and how do you like the with their truths. It is this raw fearlessness audience to nurture it? I come up with that has led them to the forefront of the sound and the sound a tentative set-list before each individual spoken word movement — the first winner forms the words, but the show, but I can’t ever know which poems I’m of the Women’s World Poetry Slam — Gibson words almost always actually going to read until I step on stage has headlined prestigious performance and get familiar with the vibe of the people in venues coast to coast with powerful readings come last when I write.” the audience. Do they seem sad, comfortable, on war, class, gender, bullying, white excited, anxious, curious?? I’ve really got privilege, sexuality, love, and spirituality. to get into the room, make eye contact, and Their work has been featured on the BBC, feel into what I can read truthfully and Air America, C-SPAN, Free Speech TV and authentically in each moment. Spoken word in 2010 was read by a state representative You've spoken before about your personal is awful when it isn’t sincere, and there are in lieu of morning prayer at the Utah State experience with depression and anxiety. poems I can read honestly one night but not Legislature. Now, on their fifth full-length You also have a job that involves you the next. album “Flower Boy” and their second book getting on stage and being intensely The Madness Vase, Gibson’s poems continue vulnerable with a crowd of strangers. How What would you like people to be inspired to be a rally cry for action and a welcome mat do you reconcile that? How does writing to do/say/think/feel after your show? I’d at the door of the heart’s most compassionate and performing help you in that struggle? love people to leave the show inspired to write, room. Ya know, I don’t know many performers who inspired to get active in their communities, have been performing as long as I have who inspired to treat each other kindly, inspired How did you start writing spoken word still get as much stage anxiety as I do. I literally to speak up, and inspired to listen with an poetry? I discovered poetry slam in Denver tremble for the first 10 minutes I’m on stage, open heart. in 1999 and fell in love. At that point I started but there is something that is continuously writing with my ear focused on how a poem healing about braving into that space, to

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In late September, a few members of the Mission Creek Festival team headed east to Champaign-Urbana to check out the annual Pygmalion Festival. Placing an emphasis on music, literature, and DIY crafts, Pygmalion shares quite a bit of common ground with our own Mission Creek Festival back here in Iowa City. It is quite instructive to observe as an audience member how a festival works. We took copious notes and also saw several amazing performances. For this issue’s column, here is a list of highlights from Pygmalion Festival.

Ride Strand of Oaks Sylvan Esso

Highly regarded as one of the best shoegaze The brainchild of songwriter Timothy In an era of bands built on the basic elements bands of the ‘90s, Ride occupies a more Showalter, Strand of Oaks has refined itself of beat-makers and singers, Sylvan Esso have focused, less diffuse soundscape than into a classic 4-piece that crosses wires made themselves distinct. Whereas Chvrches contemporaries My Bloody Valentine. between poignant folk lyricism and Crazy or Purity Ring might lean towards increasing In their expansive, 90-minute set at the Horse-worthy rock jams. The core of their bombast-more impassioned stage theatrics festival they highlighted their ability to set revolved around material from 2014’s and bigger light shows-Sylvan Esso have blend fuzzy atmospheres with incredibly HEAL, a record that spoke in memoiristic placed their focus on teasing out a welcome catchy hooks, creating a riveting sound best strokes of Showalter’s fractured childhood in intimacy in their performances. Despite described as “noise pop”. The guitar screeches Goshen, Indiana and his uneasy adulthood the digital elements which often get better encompassed coherent melodies and the on the road. It is a heartfelt album, bittersweet when they get louder, Amelia Meath and songs proved dexterous as they shifted in its backward gaze and assertive claims in Nick Sanborn exact a considerable amount of between verse-chord familiarity and melting the power of rock ‘n roll. In the live setting control-it sometimes feels like they could be psychedelia. For the uninitiated, start with the sound is ferocious, marked by Showalter playing these songs in your living room. Such their 1990 release Nowhere. and bandmate Carter Tanton’s traded guitar precision places them in a category alongside lines. The Blow, but make no mistake, Sylvan Esso have a taste for catchy pop music as evidenced on their self-titled debut from last year.

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In between the music we also caught up with several writers. Amidst a crowded field of novelists, essayists, and poets, Mission Creek alum, Jac Jemc broke through as the highlight. With two books on revered indie press Dzanc Books, Jemc read a story that highlighted her ability to weave surrealist musings around down-to-earth characters. Seek out her latest collection of stories, A Different Bed Every Time. Fall Friends Dinner By Nora Heaton

At any Englert performance, you’ll find artists and art lovers on- stage, off-stage, and in the audience. At the Englert’s 3rd Annual Fall Friends Dinner, they were all brought together. In a warm, rustic atmosphere, guests and friends dined together on the Englert stage, where they enjoyed good food and drink, good artistic work, and good company. “This dinner has a great feeling of The Fall Friends Dinner includes a meal togetherness, a warm feeling that stays prepared by Chef David Wieseneck of the with you,” said Katie Roche, the Englert’s Motley Cow Café, desserts by Jamie Powers of Development Director. “It’s a celebration Deluxe Cakes and Pastries, and cocktails and between friends who love arts and culture wine by Cedar Ridge Winery. and the important role that the Englert plays “The Englert Theatre is the heart of Iowa in our community.” City’s cultural life,” Wieseneck said. “It is an honor for me to participate in the Englert’s mission to include all of the arts, including food and cooking.”

This year’s dinner continued the Englert’s tradition of intimate pop-up performances. After dinner, guests enjoyed a blues guitar performance by Dustin Busch, who played original songs and covers of old favorites. Local entrepreneur Simeon Talley spoke passionately about the Iowa Fashion Project, which seeks to prove that innovative fashion exists and thrives in Iowa. An impromptu comedy set by Megan Gogerty closed out the evening with laughter and good spirits.

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husky grain notes and American hops. Englert Beer Series “Backpocket is excited to pair up with The Englert Theatre to create a beer that By Aly High ties back to the rich history of Iowa City pre-Prohibition brewing and the role the Englert family originally played in the The Englert Theatre has brewmasters while also taking a special riots that marked its end,” said Backpocket partnered with three local breweries to look at the Englert’s history and place in the brewmaster and co-founder Jacob Simmons. brew three original beers — inspired by our community. “The Englert and Iowa City brewing are both past, present, and future — to be released “The Englert family’s deep connection enjoying a renaissance, something that calls from October 2015 through April 2016. The to Iowa City’s late 19th century beer scene for a beer in celebration.” Englert Beer Series will feature original helped set the tone for this exciting project,” In January, Lion Bridge Brewing Company brews from Backpocket Brewing Company, said Perry. will release Local Talent Robust Porter, Lion Bridge Brewing Company, and Big The Englert Beer Series will begin with inspired by our mission today of serving as Grove Brewery. What better way to explore Riot of '84 Pre-Prohibition Lager from a conduit between local and national scenes. the history of our theatre than through the Backpocket Brewing Company released “Sometimes it’s a national act on stage, rich history of craft beer? in mid-October, reminiscent of the beer but the machinations of the Englert are run “It’s all about connecting with your likely made by John Englert (a leader in the by local people who are passionate about the community in fun and interesting ways,” local German Beer Mafia) at Iowa City’s local arts scene whether they be employees, said Andre Perry, Englert executive director. first brewery. Inspired by Englert’s hand donors, or volunteers,” said Quinton “By collaborating with these local breweries, in inciting the Beer Riots of 1884, this McClain, Lion Bridge Brewing Company we can showcase the skills of these Iowan precocious beer has both aroma and flavor of head brewer. “I think it’s good to shine a

The Englert Theatre | 20 | Editorial The edible Family spotlight on the people behind the scenes.” Finally, Big Grove Brewery will look to the future in time for Mission Creek Festival with Quantum Finish Hybrid-Style D oubl e I PA , a funky beer aged in Cedar Ridge barrels with seasonal Print citrus fruit. Quantum Finish will honor our institution’s four main eras: the Vaudeville stage, the local cinema, our reopening, and who we hope Radio to become: a launchpad for community engagement, statewide collaboration, and original, commissioned works. “Big Grove is excited to be working with the Englert, because Television we not only want to support Iowa institutions, but we also enjoy bringing the philosophy of beer to the people who enjoy the arts,” said Head Brewer Bill Heinrich. “Being a part of this broader culture is what Big Grove stands for.”

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He watches as Dill sets about transforming tired exhibits— the warthog heads staring blankly from By Inara Verzemnieks mahogany plaques, the kangaroos with sad skins manged by time, the owls that listlessly grip boring brass T-bars; watches Without Homer Dill, there Local hunters approach him to preserve as he banishes bottles of pickled things, could be no story. their kills, and before long, he has built a groups displays according to habitat, trains From the yellowed newspaper clippings we flourishing taxidermy business while still students in his newly launched laboratory of learn that he arrived in Iowa in 1906, hired by a teenager. He goes through the motions “Taxidermy and Plastic Art.” the museum “after winning a high reputation in high school, but can “think of nothing Art. That’s the key word for Dill. in the East.” Dill is a naturalist who also else but taxidermy.” We can only imagine He insists that taxidermy, conceived of happens to be a highly trained taxidermist; what his classmates must have thought of and displayed as art, “can reach where books a skilled observer who understands each him, this brooding boy, his own saucer eyes seldom go to the improving of men’s minds species, its behaviors and movements and hidden behind spectacles, always hurrying and helping them to higher conceptions physiology, but also, master of a skill that away as soon as the bell rang to spend his and new appreciations of nature and her falls somewhere between butcher, tanner, free time forearm-deep in the belly of an manifold and marvelous worlds.” At last, upholsterer, artist, and resurrectionist—a elk, dropping guts in buckets. His parents, convinced, Nutting approaches him about man able to wield a gun and a knife, gut and for their part, are “concerned,” beg him to transforming the birds of Laysan into art. skin, administer the proper potions, capture consider engineering. Dill—Your obedient servant—Dill, the still life, sew the perfect, binding stitch. Instead he writes to William Temple with his dreams of helping man to higher Dill does not stuff animals. He transforms Hornaday, director of the New York conceptions—Dill, who can still recall the them. Zoological Park and one of the most famous saw-whet owl in his hands—of course, he naturalist-taxidermists of his generation. accepts. Hornaday is clearly impressed, because he Special thanks to Inara Verzemnieks and The invites the teenager to come apprentice with Iowa Review for allowing us this excerpt. “One reaches Nutting, a him in New York. For the next two years, Dill Verzemnieks’ piece can be read in its entirety thousand miles away in spends his days making plaster casts of dead jaguars, monkeys, and manatees. At night, he Iowa, who just happens studies drawing at the Pratt Institute of Art. to be looking for a new When Hornaday needs someone to mount head taxidermist. ” his own personal collection of animals, or the big-game trophies of his famous friends, such as Teddy Roosevelt, he turns to Dill, Dill who will later give his first son the middle name of Hornaday, in honor of his mentor. Shall we transform him, then, back into Dill returns to Maine, where he becomes a child, roaming the docks of Gardiner, the state taxidermist, and where his greatest Maine, where ships from ports around the achievement seems to have been the world anchored then, and trading those transformation of Wapiti, “a great male elk,” ships’ sailors “snitched cookies, boiled eggs, who “died in the zoo at the Soldiers’ Home.” and apples for lizard skins, feathers, and His ambition strains. “It is not technique and whales’ teeth.” When he is about ten, a friend method that makes a taxidermist superior,” lends him a copy of Practical Taxidermy and he will write, many years later, “but rather, a Home Decoration; Together with Practical God-given gift of keen insight and a feeling Information for Sportsmen by Joseph H. for outline and form as nature has given it to Batty. 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Fall 2015 | 29 SAVOR THE SEASON USE LOCALLY GROWN AND PRODUCED GOODS FOR YOUR SEASONAL TABLE

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If you’re anything like us, when cool weather hits, Over the past several months, our Executive butternut squash gets whipped up into soup on the Chef and team of butchers have put the regular. It’s hard to go wrong, but this fresh finishing touches on an endeavor to bring our Moroccan-inspired flavor profile using cilantro, customers a local beef option that falls in line cinnamon, cumin, and ginger topped with pomegranate arils has us stocking up on all with our long-standing commitment to quality. the varieties of winter squash in preparation. We have long been proud to provide our FOR FULL RECIPE, VISIT OUR BLOG: customers with a high-quality selection of http://www.breadgardenmarket.com/breadgarden-healthy-living Certified Angus Beef, but we are very pleased to now offer the same quality, sourced much closer to home. The scope of our efforts differs from some of our competitors in that our meat cases will be stocked with ONLY local Angus Beef--nothing comes from outside Iowa state lines and nothing below our standard of excellence.

Our meat department now proudly boasts a completely local selection of Certified Angus Beef raised by family farmers right here in Iowa. From NY Strip Steaks to Ground Beef, all our selections are sourced from Iowa Premium’s family farmers within 150 miles of the Tama, IA facility. It’s the best Angus beef you can get, update the plate... raised by Midwestern families you can trust. A LOCAL SLANT MAKES THE CHEESE PLATE A FRESH PARTY CENTERPIECE Go Local Forgo pairing We certainly would never turn our noses up at Let go of the limiting idea that each cheese needs to something creamy and French on our cheese plate, be paired with something specific. Yes, the flavor but great local options abound as well. A hard nuances of each cheese are highlighted when paired cheese, a soft cheese, something aged, and with a complimentary accent, but we prefer to mix and match to find what we like. If you’ve filled the something blue fill out a good selection. may we suggest? plate with lots of flavors, textures and a few different Milton Creamery Prairie Rose and Maytag Blue Cheese. cheeses, chances are, you’ve done it right. Skip the Sparseness Keep it Simple Pass on the perfectly arranged cheese plate for one Use a handcrafted cutting board as the base for your overflowing with goodies. Fill in the nooks and cheese plate. Something simple and beautiful on it’s crannies with all sorts of treats (fresh and dried fruits, own elevates but doesn’t overpower the presentation. nuts, local honey and cured meat, olives, etc.) for an We like local artisan Nels Ostedgaard’s boards for abundant and decadent layered look. BREAD GARDEN MARKET • 225 S. LINN STREET their simplicity as well as their functionality. BREAD GARDEN MARKET • 225 S. LINN STREET 319.354.4246 • WWW.BREADGARDENMARKET.COM try: Some Honey and La Quercia Prosciutto 319.354.4246 • WWW.BREADGARDENMARKET.COM SAVOR THE SEASON USE LOCALLY GROWN AND PRODUCED GOODS FOR YOUR SEASONAL TABLE seasonal spotlight: top quality, now local BUTTERNUT SQUASH IOWA PREMIUM BEEF

If you’re anything like us, when cool weather hits, Over the past several months, our Executive butternut squash gets whipped up into soup on the Chef and team of butchers have put the regular. It’s hard to go wrong, but this fresh finishing touches on an endeavor to bring our Moroccan-inspired flavor profile using cilantro, customers a local beef option that falls in line cinnamon, cumin, and ginger topped with pomegranate arils has us stocking up on all with our long-standing commitment to quality. the varieties of winter squash in preparation. We have long been proud to provide our FOR FULL RECIPE, VISIT OUR BLOG: customers with a high-quality selection of http://www.breadgardenmarket.com/breadgarden-healthy-living Certified Angus Beef, but we are very pleased to now offer the same quality, sourced much closer to home. The scope of our efforts differs from some of our competitors in that our meat cases will be stocked with ONLY local Angus Beef--nothing comes from outside Iowa state lines and nothing below our standard of excellence.

Our meat department now proudly boasts a completely local selection of Certified Angus Beef raised by family farmers right here in Iowa. From NY Strip Steaks to Ground Beef, all our selections are sourced from Iowa Premium’s family farmers within 150 miles of the Tama, IA facility. It’s the best Angus beef you can get, update the plate... raised by Midwestern families you can trust. A LOCAL SLANT MAKES THE CHEESE PLATE A FRESH PARTY CENTERPIECE Go Local Forgo pairing We certainly would never turn our noses up at Let go of the limiting idea that each cheese needs to something creamy and French on our cheese plate, be paired with something specific. Yes, the flavor but great local options abound as well. A hard nuances of each cheese are highlighted when paired cheese, a soft cheese, something aged, and with a complimentary accent, but we prefer to mix and match to find what we like. If you’ve filled the something blue fill out a good selection. may we suggest? plate with lots of flavors, textures and a few different Milton Creamery Prairie Rose and Maytag Blue Cheese. cheeses, chances are, you’ve done it right. Skip the Sparseness Keep it Simple Pass on the perfectly arranged cheese plate for one Use a handcrafted cutting board as the base for your overflowing with goodies. Fill in the nooks and cheese plate. Something simple and beautiful on it’s crannies with all sorts of treats (fresh and dried fruits, own elevates but doesn’t overpower the presentation. nuts, local honey and cured meat, olives, etc.) for an We like local artisan Nels Ostedgaard’s boards for abundant and decadent layered look. BREAD GARDEN MARKET • 225 S. LINN STREET their simplicity as well as their functionality. BREAD GARDEN MARKET • 225 S. LINN STREET 319.354.4246 • WWW.BREADGARDENMARKET.COM try: Some Honey and La Quercia Prosciutto 319.354.4246 • WWW.BREADGARDENMARKET.COM Passes: $25 Friday or Saturday only $45 Two Day Available at the Englert Box Office or www.witchinghourfestival.com

November 6-7 • Iowa City • A New Festival Exploring and Engaging the Unknown

Witching Hour, a new festival, seeks to explore and engage “the unknown” through performance and discussion. Discussions (in the afternoon) will feature artists, writers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and other thinkers discussing their creative processes and paths to innovation via lectures and moderated Q&As. Performances (at night) will reflect a range of disciplines, including but not limited to music, comedy, literature, film, and dance. The goal is to bring together our community to enjoy new art, to learn about the different ways we make things, to talk to each other, and to be inspired. Nate Staniforth Margo Jefferson

Nate Staniforth has built a career on astonishment. As a magician, his work in illusions depends on people’s delight in and hunger for the unknown. This amazement when faced with the unknown, he says, is what draws us to magic. Nate is an Ames native now living in Iowa City, but he travels internationally to perform for over 30,000 people each year. He starred in the Discovery Channel’s “Breaking Magic” series in 2014, and his weekly YouTube series has been seen by almost a million viewers. He also lectures about the philosophical underpinnings of his work with magic, most famously in his widely popular TEDx Talk from 2011, “Creating Astonishment.” He is also writing a memoir about his adventures as a magician, Here is Real Magic, with Bloomsbury Publishing. The book will hit bookstores in 2017. Cornelia Lang Margo Jefferson is a former New York Times theater critic and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. In her career, she has also taught at Columbia University and New York University, edited at Vogue and Newsweek, and contributed to The Nation, Harper’s, Ms., and Grand Street, among others. She holds a Bachelor’s In her day-to-day life, Cornelia Lang investigates the center of the Milky Way galaxy. degree, cum laude, from Brandeis University She is an astronomer and astrophysicist, and joined University of Iowa faculty in 2002 as a and a Master’s degree from Columbia professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. University. Cornelia’s research seeks to understand the energetic phenomena that happens in Her acclaimed book, On Michael the Milky Way’s center—for instance, how stars form, how stars and gas interact, and how Jackson, examines the complexities of magnetic fields play a role. Since we cannot see any visible light from the galactic center, the enigmatic performer’s music, life she and her graduate and undergraduate students do their research using radio and X-ray and persona. Her new book, Negroland: telescopes. A Memoir, was published this year. In it, Cornelia grew up in the Midwest and has done research at institutions all over the Margo writes with candor about her life as country, including the University of California, Los Angeles, where she got her PhD. part of Chicago’s Black upper class.

The Englert Theatre | 32 Jon Mueller PHOX

Originating from Baraboo, WI, the band members of PHOX have since formed an American sextet creating an alternative form of folk/indie pop blend with beautiful tones and rhythm. Members Matt Holmen (guitar), J. Sean Krunnfusz (bass), Monica Martin (lead vocal), Dave Roberts (drums), Matteo Roberts (keys), and Zach Johnston (guitar and banjo) recorded their EP, Confetti, in 2013, and instantly received praise from all audiences. The success following their release lead them to Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon to record their first album, PHOX. Since releasing their album, PHOX has continued to capture listeners with their folk-pop mixes. Drawing inspiration from Feist, Sufjan Stevens, and countless others, the members of PHOX will do nothing shy of sooth your soul. After performing at festivals such as Eaux A Magnetic Center is the culmination of Claires, Bonnaroo, Sasquatch, and Coachella in 2015, their appearance at the Witching Hour years of work and focus on time, repetition, will only continue their streak of connecting with listeners. ritual, communication, expression, endurance, emotive action and movement Doomtree by drummer and percussionist Jon Mueller. The preparatory work revealed often deeply complex and personal responses from audience members from over 25 cities in the US and Canada. Within a 40 minute solo performance of percussion and voice, using a hand- made Arabic bass drum and looped wordless vocals, Mueller conjures world music and sound while remaining very particularly other worldly. Drawing from minimalism and a variety of musical Doomtree is a genre-defying super group hailing from the Minneapolis area, made up and non-musical disciplines, including of rappers Cecil Otter, P.O.S., Mike Mictlan, Dessa, Sims, and producers Lazerbeak and Paper meditation, trance, and physical stamina, Tiger. With their sometimes funny, usually aggressive lyricism and infectious beats, it’s not Mueller’s solo performances have baeen difficult to see why music authorities like Pitchfork, NPR and Rolling Stone have praised described by audiences as resilient, intense, Doomtree’s rebellious nature. VH1 said the group has “the aggressive energy of a punk act and meditative. The aim of Mueller’s solo with just the right amount of hip-hop swagger.” performance is to engage an audience in Since the release of their first album Doomtree in 2008, the group has released a new listening practice by creating a variety of album about every three years—No Kings in 2011 and All Hands in early 2015. The break input both recognizable and not, understood between albums gave each member time to work on their solo projects. As individuals, the and not, which causes a unique experience in artists of Doomtree have collectively released upwards of 50 albums and EPs. The distinct each individual. styles of Doomtree’s individuals combine to create a menacingly beautiful sound unlike any For the Witching Hour festival, other group in the industry. Mueller will also be giving a talk about “the unknown” in his work. Both the talk and A special thank you to our festival sponsors: performance celebrate the beginning of a multi-volume publication of recordings, text, images and ongoing performances titled, A Magnetic Center.

Preview | Fall 2015 | 33 Holiday Preview Photo by Bill Adams By Nora Heaton

Nutcracker Festival of Carols… Home for the Holidays The Nutcracker, the beloved Christmas The Englert Theatre’s annual Festival of After a killer holiday show last year, the Iowa ballet classic, will come to life again on the Carols includes something for everyone. City favorite Eufórquestra will return to Englert stage this year by performers from This year’s show on December 8 includes the Englert stage on December 18 with for a the Nolte Academy of Dance on December Metromix Chorus, The Skipperlings, the UI Home for the Holidays show. Proceeds from 4–6. The enchanting tale of Clara and her Swing Dance Club, Family Folk Machine, the concert will benefit the Crisis Center of nutcracker-turned-prince, their battle with Old Capitol Chorus, and a reading of ‘Twas Johnson County’s Food Bank. the evil Mouse King, and visit with the Sugar the Night Before Christmas. The musicians of Eufórquestra have Plum Fairy, will captivate audiences of all Englert Development Director Katie long been a staple of Iowa City arts culture, ages. Roche says the Englert works hard to make and that didn’t change when they relocated The production also features a live sure the holiday themes in the festival are to Fort Collins, CO in 2008. Their music was orchestra consisting of local musicians, inclusive. The festival has always included described in AllAboutJazz.com as “an ever- conducted by Carey Bostian. Christmas music, but in the past four years, evolving sound that has been influenced “It really is a yearlong effort to bring the show has expanded to include more by music from all over the world with an this production together,” said Leslie Nolte, Hanukkah songs, winter music, and songs emphasis on funk, pocket, and groove.” founder and artistic director of Nolte with themes of peace, family, and joy. Eufórquestra guitarist and vocalist Academy. “But each season, when the lights Family Folk Machine is a regular in the Mike Tallman says the band can’t wait to go up on opening night, we are reminded festival’s line-up. The choir’s director, Jean come home. what it is all about: Creating joy. Littlejohn, says the performers look forward “To be on stage at the Englert feels like to the Festival of Carols. you’re simultaneously experiencing and Friday, Dec. 4 - Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015 “It’s really fun for the Family Folk creating part of Iowa City’s history,” he says. Admission: $16 Youth (12 and Under) Machine to share the Englert stage with “It’s a thrill and an honor for our band.” $22 Senior and Student other local performers,” she says. “Having $28.50 Adult Reserved Seating several different groups perform creates a Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 special type of community feeling.” Admission: $15 Advance Jean, who is also a parent, says her kids $20 Day of Show General Admission love the festival’s sing-alongs and dancing, and of course, the treats at the end.

Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 Admission: FREE and open to the public Eufórquestra

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Tropical monsoons! Giant squids! Adventure on the high seas! (Suitable for all ages!)

November 6—22 THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams

Both dreamlike & shatteringly real, this iconic American classic examines a family on the edge of the abyss.

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The Englert Theatre was sad to hear that Scott Streff, 64, of Iowa City passed away peacefully under hospice care on Wednesday, September 16 at Windmill Manor in Coralville. Scott is lovingly remembered as an Englert volunteer and a major donor to the “Save the Englert” campaign whose generosity inspired many to give in the early days of the campaign. “One of our favorite memories of Scott was when he ushered for one of the first performances after the theater reopened in 2004,” remembers long time volunteer and former Englert board president Tom Rosenberger. “He went to Ewers men’s store and brought several ties back to the theater to make sure that the one he purchased looked good with the upholstery of the seats.” Originally from Alton, Iowa, Scott studied European music at Briar Cliff University and later went on to graduate from the University of Iowa with studies in voice and piano. Scott was a gifted singer and pianist and served as a board member for the Iowa City Chamber Singers. Scott was a big supporter of the arts, classical music, and progressive causes. As a mail carrier he often credited the United States Postal Service for “paying him to exercise for 30 years.” One of the stairways in the theater has a plaque that bears his name and we’ll think of him each time we get our exercise climbing the stairs. He will be dearly missed.

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Friends of the Englert | Fall 2015 | 43 Josh & Jennifer Gersten Alan & Kris Nagel Cynthia Schmidt Joann Goerdt Loras & Karen Neuroth John Shaw James Harris Mary New Shive-Hattery Architecture Engineering Colin D. Hennessy Polly & Armond Pagliai Susan Shullaw Katherine & Dwight Keller Scott Palmberg Southgate Development Jen, Ted, Arlo & Mae Knights The Perry Foundation Claire Sponsler & Jeff Porter Dan Leary & Janine Martin Tami & Greg Pollari Susan T. Strauss Nancy S. & John P. LePeau Luke & Tammia Prottsman Dick & Joyce Summerwill Michael & Shelly Maharry Neil & Nancy Quellhorst Gail & Dan Swartzendruber Tom & Deb Markus Nancy Romine Bruce Tarwater & Ruth Bradley Lynette L. Marshall & Jeffery L. Ford Tom & Carol Rosenberger Marty & Cindy Tunning Scott McDonough Jim & Janet Ross C. Jerry Waddilove John Menninger Julia Ross Bruce & Dedi Walker Jim & Christine Walters Cities are known for their performance venues. The Joe Wegman Englert Theatre is a wonderful part of the identity Steve & Victoria West of Iowa City. There are very few venues in the world Ryan and Amanda West of this quality, and almost none in the Midwest. Whitedog, Inc. Performers will come here because of this theatre Christopher & Anne York – we did, and we ended up living here and raising Mark & Laurie Zaiger our family here. The word continues to spread. The Englert Theatre is special, and it deserves your $100 to $249 support. Anonymous Best, Randy & Roxi Adams Steve Tannen & Deb Talan, The Weepies Zach & Charity Adams Rick & Linden Aerts

The Englert Theatre | 44 Sheri Albrecht & Steve Carriger Bear Dharma Clan Jennifer & David Bronder Carol Alexander Bil & Cindie Beaumont Susan Brown & Gary Gussin Doug & Ann Allaire Steve & Gwen Beck Carolyn Brown & Jerry Zimmerman Robert Amrine Debbie Beermann & David Van Dusseldorp Carl Brown Steven W. & Robin A. Anderson Linda & Doug Behrendt Alicia Brown-Matthes Gary & Nancy Anderson Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Bender Drs. Renee Buchanan & Jason Sifford Richard & Sunday Antrim Richard & Melissa Berman Charley Buck & Patricia Rossmann Agnes Apicella P. E. & Sherri Bethke Mike Buckman The Appliance Barn Valerie Davine Bills & David Bills Ginny Buresh Steven & Mary Aquilino Nancy Bird Robert & Mary Rita Burns Melissa Arey Susan Birrell Richard & Ann Burton Ronald & Connie Arispe Linda & John Black Doug & Julie Busch Kate Aspengren & Kelli Grey Peter Blank William & Barbara Buss Gary Aurand & Tonya Peeples Martin & Susan Blind Helen & Bill Byington Peter & Vicki Bachman Roger & Kitt Boldt Jeanne Cadoret Phillip Bafunno Barbara Booth & Tom Carlisle Pam & Jim Cantrell Martha & Richard Bailie Becky Boscaljon Richard & Ellen Caplan Dan & Pam Bair Steve & Amy Michael Carberry Jeanne & Craig Bancroft Peg Bouska J. David & Alexandria Carey Ed & Ethel Barker Jo & Steve Bowers Ryan and Megan Carnahan Nancy Barnes Willard & Susan Boyd Charles Carroll & Lois Geist Rhonda & John Barr David Bozaan Robert Chadima Brooks Bartenhagen Randy & Sue Braverman Michael Chibnik Daniel P. Bartlett Jeff & Sara Braverman Gene & Betsy Chrischilles Patrick Bauer & Christine Luzzie Steve Breese Joe Christopher Lisa Baum Joseph D. Brisben Terry Clark Becky Baumgartner Andy Brodie Alice & JP Claussen

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The Englert Theatre | 46 Of the venues we travel to for entertainment, I feel fortunate that The Englert Theatre is an easy drive from the Quad Cities. From the welcoming gentleman who opens the door to the polite people who seat you to the quality performers heard through a finely tuned sound system, a good evening of entertainment can be expected. This little theatre with a big heart has become a friend which we willingly support so that we can continue to experience the kind of music and performances we enjoy. Being considered a Friend of the Englert is a an honor and choice I have made to help a theatre I love continue to do great work.

Mark Zaputil, Davenport, Iowa Friend of the Englert since 2011, Iowa Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame Inductee 2014

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The amount of creativity contained within the Iowa City area is astounding. Musicians, artists, writers, photographers, and more are abundant within the Corridor, adding to the flavor of this Midwest oasis of art and culture. The Englert Theatre wanted to highlight this talent and began offering collaborative opportunities to local artists, commissioning projects to commemorate Englert milestones, our ever-supportive community, and the city we call home.

Iowa City Song Project In celebration of its 100th birthday in 2012, The Englert Theatre commissioned 31 Iowan musicians and bands to write and record songs inspired by Iowa City. The result is the Iowa City Song Project, an album as diverse and cutting edge as the city itself. The album contains a spectrum of music from roots-rock to the avant-garde, bringing together a community of artists in a unique musical experience. Give it a listen at https://soundcloud.com/englert. CDs and LPs are available for purchase at the box office. Englert at 100 Englert at 100 showcases Iowa City-based photographer Sandy Dyas’ celebration of the Englert’s centennial year. Her photos document Englert show days from bus arrivals to post- performance loadouts. Dyas was given full access behind the scenes, capturing performers warming up in the dressing rooms and Englert staff working their offstage magic, creating an artistic documentation of the theater’s identity. An Illustrated Century by Josh Carroll Local artist Josh Carroll was commissioned to create a comic book documenting a century of Englert Theatre history including its 1912 Vaudeville origins, movie theatre heyday, and performing arts center reincarnation. This richly-illustrated timeline provides an engaging w ay t o c on ne c t w it h t he p a s t a n d t r a c e t he j o u r ne y of Io w a C it y ’s l a s t r e m a i n i n g h i s t or ic t he at e r. Poetry by Dora Malech In 2014, the Englert celebrated its 10-year anniversary as a nonprofit. Celebrations included special performances, dinners, and commissioned work from poet and former Iowa City resident Dora Malech. The Englert commissioned Malech to write original poetry for the anniversary, celebrating the theme of gratitude. Without the efforts and continuing support of the community, the Englert wouldn’t exist as it is today, and we are forever grateful to our donors, sponsors, patrons, and volunteers. Artist-In-Residence 2014 - Nat Baldwin The Englert believes in supporting emerging and working artists and has created an Artist- in-Residence Program to allow artists time to work on their projects while experiencing and engaging with the Iowa Creative Corridor. Bassist/composer Nat Baldwin of the rock band Dirty Projectors was the first resident hosted in February 2014. Baldwin’s residency included substantial time for him to work on new compositions as well as to engage with the Corridor community by conducting a songwriting workshop with students from Tate High School and visiting area cultural institutions with local artists.

CDs, LPs, Illustrated Century books, and photography are available for purchase at the box office and at select shows.

The Englert Theatre | 56 “the thing i love about music is all the different people i get to meet. it’s great to talk to the lifelong musician or the kid

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The Englert Theatre | 58 Upcoming Events

Doomtree The Dandy Warhols Part of Witching Hour, a new festival November 20 / 8pm / $25 reserved November 6 / 9:30pm / $25 one-day seating pass / $45 two-day pass Portland-based neo-psychedelic band Both the catchiest and densest The Dandy Warhols will debut on our album in the group’s catalog, All stage with The Shivas. The Dandys Hands adeptly walks a tightrope of topped the charts with “Bohemian immediately memorable hooks and Like You,” and are currently touring in-depth lyricism that rewards repeated listens. The result is with Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia Live at the Wonder, recorded equally worthy of up-to-11 trunk-rattling drives as it is late-night at The Wonder Ballroom. headphone sessions. Iris DeMent Margo Jefferson November 21 / 8pm / $28 in advance / Part of Witching Hour, a new festival $32 day of reserved seating November 6 / 7pm / FREE and open to Sponsored by West Music the public It was by pure chance that Iris DeMent The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for opened the book of Russian poetry criticism, Margo Jefferson was for sitting on her piano bench to Anna years a theater and book critic for Akhmatova’s “Like A White Stone.” Newsweek and The New York Times. Her As she read, though, a curious sensation swept over her. “I didn’t writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York feel like I was alone anymore,” remembers DeMent. “I felt as if magazine, and The New Republic. She is the author of On Michael somebody walked in the room and said to me, ‘Set that to music.’” Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School So she did. of the Arts. Her newest work Negroland: A Memoir was published by Pantheon in September of 2015. The Nutcracker December 4 - 6 / $16 - $28.50 The Bluegrass Ball feat. Sponsored by Hills Bank & Trust The Travelin’ McCourys Company November 11 / 8pm / $25 reserved Nolte Academy & The Englert Theatre seating / Co-presented with Majestic Live are proud to present a unique and No other band today has the same highly entertaining version of the credentials for playing traditional beloved Christmas classic, The and progressive music. As the sons of Nutcracker. No holiday is complete without a visit to Clara’s house bluegrass legend Del McCoury, Ronnie where her beloved Uncle Drosselmeyer presents the magical gift of McCoury on mandolin and Rob McCoury on banjo continue their The Nutcracker. father’s work—a lifelong dedication to the power of bluegrass music to bring joy into people’s lives. Gaelic Storm February 14 / 7pm / $35 reserved Andrea Gibson seating / Sponsored by Micky’s Irish November 18 / 8pm / $15 reserved Pub seating / Co-presented by True After nearly two decades and more Endeavors than 3,000 live shows, Gaelic Storm “Andrea Gibson’s work is at once — the chart-topping, multi-national deeply haunting and profoundly Celtic band — is looking sharper than inspiring. Her words cut so sharply ever with their latest release, Matching Sweaters. The new album and completely they cannot be shaken. mixes traditional Irish music with modern influences, creating a To call her one of the best poets is a gross understatement. She is a sound that’s as wide-ranging as the band’s own audience. rare artist who forever changes those who experience her poems.” — Carlos Andrés Gómez, author/actor

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The Englert Theatre | 60 Fall 2015 | 61 The History of the Englert

The face of the Englert circa 1912

The Englert Theatre first opened and his partner Nate Chapman to oversee its doors on September 26, 1912. William operation of the Englert, but Nate died in Englert and his wife Etta built the theater 1925, leaving his wife Dora with two small to rival the finest stages and movie houses children, Ansel, age 10 (destined to be a local throughout the Midwest. Replacing a livery District Court Judge and later involved in the stable that originally stood in the location, Englert’s management) and Marvin, age four. the Englert brought Vaudeville touring acts Dora retained a partnership with Blank, and to Iowa City, where townspeople and students her brother, Al Davis, became manager of the filled its 1,071 seats. In addition to live stage Englert, a position he held until he retired. A acts, the Englert also boasted high quality woman ahead of her time, Dora was always projection equipment for showing three-reel involved in the operation of the theater. films. In later days, Dora’s great-grandchildren Two storefronts were originally housed in Nathan, Katherine, and Barbara Chapman, the building: a barbershop where the elevator would hear Dora tell the story of witnessing is now and a candy store in the area that is the massive February 13, 1926 fire that now the box office. The Englert family lived nearly destroyed the Englert. Historical on the second floor of the theater building accounts place both Dora and Etta at the and provided rooms for the performers on scene, watching in horror and barking the third floor. In 1920, William Englert died instructions at firemen as the blaze tore of a cerebral hemorrhage in his bedroom, through the roof. The fire caused $125,000 now the Englert offices, at only 46 years old of damage to a building that cost $60,000 Following William’s death, Etta enlisted to build in 1912. Etta Englert and her new A.H. Blank (Central States of Des Moines) husband, James Hanlon, in cooperation with

The Englert Theatre | 62 A.H. Blank and Dora Chapman, immediately Englert as a community cultural center. worked to rebuild the Englert, tapping into They began the “Save the Englert” campaign the prevailing tastes of the 1920s. During to raise the funds necessary to renovate the this era, large and ornate movie palaces were theater to its former grandeur. being built in cities across the United States, Hundreds of local businesses and and Iowa City would not be surpassed. individuals contributed countless hours The new Englert operated for decades as and millions of dollars to bring the theater a joint venture. Etta Englert Hanlon and her back to life. Their contributions are forever second husband continued to reside in the recognized on the large Capital Campaign building, while Dora Chapman and Al Davis plaque in the Englert lobby, on the nameplates managed the theater in conjunction with on the seats of the theater, and on numerous A. H. Blank. Years later, Blank and Central plaques around the building. States of Des Moines, in partnership with the Finally, on December 3, 2004, a Chapman family, operated the theater and community’s dream became a reality when supervised its division into two small-screen The Englert Theatre reopened for its first live theater spaces in the 1980s. performance in more than 60 years. Today, By 1999, the managers of the Englert The Englert Theatre stands as a testament to finally decided to close the theater and sell all who believed in its recreation. the aging building. It was purchased by a bar owner who had plans to turn it into a nightclub. Not wanting to see the theater disappear, a group of concerned citizens persuaded the City of Iowa City to purchase Nate & Dora Chapman the theater and hold it in trust until funds around 1920 could be raised. For the next five years, this group of citizens mobilized to purchase the theater from the City of Iowa City and rebuild the

History | Fall 2015 | 63 Audience Guidelines In the age of lightning-fast entertainment that allows movies, music, and more to be downloaded in an instant to a smartphone, consumers may not be aware of how their technology and behavior can affect the concert- going experience for fellow audience members and for the performers themselves. The following guidelines need to be respected in order for all patrons and artists to have an enjoyable and safe experience. Please be courteous to those around you.

If you need assistance during the show, please go to your nearest volunteer usher. If addi- tional assistance is needed, the usher will find the appropriate person to help you further.

Please arrive on time. We know parking downtown can be a hassle and our will-call lines can be long. Please allow extra time for travel, parking, and finding your seats. If you arrive late, we may ask you to wait until an appropriate break in the show to get you to your seats.

Do not have conversations, even whispering, during the concert or event. This will distract performers as well as fellow audience members. If your child becomes restless, frightened, or loud, please take him or her to the lobby.

Silence all cell phones, pagers, watches, and other devices. Don’t text, tweet, blog, or surf the web. The glow from your device is distracting. You are here to enjoy the show, so please give the show your attention!

Keep feet, bags, and children out of the aisles. Blocking the aisles is against the fire code.

Pay attention to venue rules and posted notices. Many shows do not allow photography or record- ing. Flash photography is never allowed. If we ask you to stop, please do so.

Pay attention to the vibe of the show. If the crowd gets up and starts dancing, join them. Please don’t try to do a one-person show for your own entertainment. We will ask you to sit down.

Respect the supporting act: You never know where they are going in the future. If you really dislike the music, take a walk or check out our current gallery exhibit on the second floor. Please be polite.

Patrons are never allowed on stage. Not before the show, during the show, or after the show.

Grounds for removal: If our staff finds you are not adhering to the above guidelines, we will give one verbal warning requesting that you change your behavior. If you continue to disregard the guidelines, we will request that you leave the premises. Being removed from more than one event will result in being banned from Englert-presented events for at least one calendar year.

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AW WELT AMBRISCO INSURANCE, INC. 20 LITTLE VILLAGE CREATIVE SERVICES 39

BEADOLOGY 52 M.C. GINSBERG 2, 67, 68

BLANK & MCCUNE A-TEAM 56 MCDONOUGH STRUCTURES 12

BREAD GARDEN MARKET 28-29 MIDWESTIX 12

BROWN ST. INN 52 THE MILL 50

CARPENTRY BY CHRIS 52 MOTLEY COW CAFÉ 40

CEDAR RIDGE WINERY 58-59 NEW PIONEER FOOD CO-OP 42

THE CENTER 24 NODO 35

CHAIT GALLERIES 15 NOLTE ACADEMY 13

CHERYL MARKS ESTATE SERVICES 21 OASIS FALAFEL 21

CITY REVEALED MAGAZINE 17 OLD CREAMERY THEATRE 43

CLINTON STREET SOCIAL CLUB 46 ORCHESTRA IOWA 37

CORALVILLE CENTER PAGLIAI’S PIZZA 20 FOR PERFORMING ARTS 21 PREUCIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC 20 COUNTRY STONEMASONS 47 RIVERSIDE THEATRE 35 DELUXE 48 R.S.V.P. 25 DEVOTAY 34 SCATTERGOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL 25 DISCERNING EYE 49 SKOGMAN REALTY 36 DUBLIN UNDERGROUND 50 SURROUNDINGS 25 EDIBLE IOWA 19 TAXES PLUS 21 EXPRESS LIMOUSINE SERVICE 12 TEXTILES 20 EYE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS, LLP 41 THEATRE CEDAR RAPIDS 45 FILMSCENE 51 TOYOTA SCION OF IOWA CITY 51 GOODFELLOW PRINTING 44 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HANDS JEWELERS 11 COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION 53

HILLS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY 35 THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF ART 25

IOWA ARTISANS GALLERY 15 THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PENTACREST MUSEUMS 35 THE IOWA REVIEW 12 WENDELL JOHNSON SPEECH KCCK JAZZ 88.3 27 AND HEARING CLINIC 34

LENSING FUNERAL & CREMATION SERVICE 21 WEST MUSIC 55

LITTLE VILLAGE 33 WILLOWWIND SCHOOL 21

Fall 2015 | 65 Staff of the Englert CHARITY ADAMS ACCOUNTANT IOANNIS ALEXAKIS AUDIO & LIGHTING ENGINEER CLAIRE BARRETT PRODUCTION ASSISTANT/HOUSE MANAGER PETE BECKER ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER/MONITOR ENGINEER ALEX BODY PRODUCTION ASSISTANT / AUDIO ENGINEER JEFF CRONE LIGHTING DESIGNER JESSICA EGLI ASSOCIATE PATRON SERVICES MANAGER BREEANA GLENN BOX OFFICE STAFF PETE HAMMOND HOUSE MANAGER NORA HEATON STAFF WRITER ALY HIGH MARKETING DIRECTOR NIC KRAFT ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER/AUDIO & LIGHTING ENGINEER AUSTIN MARSHALL GRAPHIC DESIGNER KYLE MILLER CUSTODIAN TORI MORGENSAI PRODUCTION MANAGER NOLAN PETERSEN BOX OFFICE STAFF CRAIG OWSLEY BOX OFFICE STAFF BEN PELZER BOX OFFICE STAFF ANDRE PERRY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ANDY PILKINGTON BOX OFFICE STAFF KATIE ROCHE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR ALEXI SCHLESINGER CONCESSIONS ASSOCIATE CODY SCHLADER PRODUCTION ASSISTANT / AUDIO ENGINEER SARAH SHONROCK PATRON SERVICES MANAGER KENT SMITH HEAD USHER

Front of House Services NOAH ANDRYS ,BILL ARMENTO, MATTHEW BAUER, SHELBY BEARROWS, JOE DEMEREST, AMY DONOVAN, MADISON DOREN, ERIN DURIAN, ASH EASTHAM, ANTHONY FLORES, AARON HALL HOLMGREN, JIM KELLY, LEXI MATTHEWS, ALISON MCGOFF, DAVE MOORE, VICTORIA PETERSON, PETER RHOMBERG, DAN STOLLEY Board of Directors MONICA MOEN PRESIDENT TIM MCDOUGALL VICE PRESIDENT JENNIFER RICHMAN SECRETARY JASON WAGNER TREASURER WALLY CHAPPELL PAST PRESIDENT

JB BARNHOUSE NATE KAEDING POLLY MORRIS PAUL BURNS MUNEERA KAPADIA ANNA MOYERS STONE KATIE COATES SELBURG JIM KELLY VICKIE SHARP MAGGIE CONROY RICHARD LOULA AARON SWARTZENDRUBER WENDY FORD SCOTT MCDONOUGH MIKE TSCHANTZ MARK GINSBERG SCOTT MCGILL RYAN WEST NELLIE HERMANSON JOSEPH MORELAND NICK WESTERGAARD

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