Cost: $5 for members of The History Center or the NCSML; $7 for non-members Join Mark Stoffer Hunter, historian at The History Center, for a walking tour of the historic New Bohemia neighborhood. Learn about the evolution of this unique Bohemian commercial district from the early 1870s through the present day. Mark will highlight the...
Tickets: $25 VIP Front Rows; $18 general admission; $10 student admission. Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Emil Viklický will return to offer concert-goers his unique and expressive take on Moravian Jazz, and this time he’s bringing two spectacular guests! Joining Emil will be double bass player Petr Dvorsky from the Czech Republic, and for the first...
Tickets: $25 VIP Front Rows; $18 general admission; $10 student admission. Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Emil Viklický will return to offer concert-goers his unique and expressive take on Moravian Jazz, and this time he’s bringing two spectacular guests! Joining Emil will be double bass player Petr Dvorsky from the Czech Republic, and for the first...
Cost: Free for students, regular admission for nonstudents. During World War I, the Czechoslovakians rode the Trans-Siberian Railways East across Russia. Between 1915 and17, 60,000 Czechs and Slovaks signed up to fight for the Russian Tsar against the Austro-Hungarian Empire who had held control of the Czech lands for more than a century. Students can...
Cost: Free for students, regular admission for nonstudents. During World War I, the Czechoslovakians rode the Trans-Siberian Railways East across Russia. Between 1915 and17, 60,000 Czechs and Slovaks signed up to fight for the Russian Tsar against the Austro-Hungarian Empire who had held control of the Czech lands for more than a century. Students can...
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: Free, registration required Our second Movin’ at the Museum this summer season will be African Dance with Suzanne Palmer from the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy. Feel the beat and get fit dancing the afternoon away! Session One: 1:00 p.m. Session Two: 2:00 p.m....
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: Free, registration required Our second Movin’ at the Museum this summer season will be African Dance with Suzanne Palmer from the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy. Feel the beat and get fit dancing the afternoon away! Session One: 1:00 p.m. Session Two: 2:00 p.m....
Join us for a fascinating exploration of the music in the opera Rusalka. Des Moines Metro Opera’s production highlights the 125th anniversary of Antonin Dvořák’s sojourn in Spillville, Iowa, where legend has it he was inspired to compose the opera upon observing a young woman swimming in the Turkey River. In Slavic mythology, a “rusalka”...
Join us for a fascinating exploration of the music in the opera Rusalka. Des Moines Metro Opera’s production highlights the 125th anniversary of Antonin Dvořák’s sojourn in Spillville, Iowa, where legend has it he was inspired to compose the opera upon observing a young woman swimming in the Turkey River. In Slavic mythology, a “rusalka”...