Arts and culture organization CSPS is looking to raise around $120,000 by the end of 2022 to maintain operations as the group waits for the IRS to reinstate its tax-exempt status, which it lost last year after not filing three years of tax returns.
Revival Theatre stages soul-stirring musical at CSPS Hall
For several years, “The Color Purple” has been on the wish list for Revival Theatre Company in Cedar Rapids. The show opens Friday for a two-week run at CSPS Hall.
At the High School Improv Super Bowl, high student improv students will take audience suggestions and turn them into stories. The event starts at 6 p.m. today at CSPS Hall.
Singer-songwriter Dick Prall, former owner of Dick’s Tap & Shake Room in Cedar Rapids, returning to CSPS with new music.
Folk star Lucy Kaplansky will perform at CSPS in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, March 26
Gangstagrass, which will perform Sunday at CSPS in Cedar Rapids, is reminiscent of Fishbone, an underheralded band with an eclectic sonic palette, which has been an entertaining and engaging live act for more than a generation.
New Mexico string band Lone Pinon bringing its blend to CSPS stage
Jim Miller will lead CSPS effective immediately after Taylor Bergen stepped down from the role at the helm of the iconic group to focus on his own business. Miller takes over as the group awaits the reinstatement of its 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status.
Irish Christmas in America will present a spirited Celtic show, filled with traditional song, dance and colorful stories, when they kick up Christmas with a return trip to CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids on Friday night, Dec. 3, 2021.
Chicago blues artist John Primer and his band, The Real Deal, will bring their traditional sounds to the CSPS stage in Cedar Rapids on Friday night, Nov. 26.
“One Year After: The Derecho Remembrance Exhibit” at CSPS hall through Oct. 10. Exhibit shows Aug. 10, 2020, derecho’s impact through images from Gazette photojournalists, community contributors
Shawn Holt and the Teardrops playing free concert Friday on NewBo City Market Yard.
Mayor Brad Hart left a voicemail for CSPS’ executive director, Taylor Bergen, saying that holding a now-canceled event for candidate Amara Andrews would be a violation of the group’s 501c3 status and that it “signficantly damages any possibility of CSPS getting any hotel-motel tax funds from the city in the future.”
The not-for-profit wants to lease the space to a third-party operator in an effort to streamline its focus on the arts
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