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Things to Do: Saturday
The Gazette
May. 20, 2023 5:30 am
Community
Marion Farmers Market Taube Park
Find fresh produce, meats, baked goods, flowers, handmade items and more.
When: 8 to 11 a.m.
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Where: Taube Park, 2200 31st St., Marion
Cost: Free admission
FAMILY FRIENDLY
Marion Community Kite Festival
Great American Kites will produce a colorful outdoor giant kite display. Bring lawn chairs or blankets. Outside food and drink are permitted.
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Baseball Diamonds at Lowe Park, 4401 Irish Dr., Marion
Cost: Free
FAMILY FRIENDLY
Baby Animal Days
Visit the sweetest baby animals at the farm. There will be baby goats, baby lambs, chicks, bunnies, ducklings, a calf, baby potbelly pigs, and more.
When: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Bloomsbury Farm, 3260 69th St., Atkins
Cost: $15.95
OUTDOORS
Practice Ancient Fire-Making
Learn valuable fire-making skills using a bow drill. Participants must be 15 years of age or older.
When: 12:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Unitarian Universalist Society, 2355 Oakdale Rd., Coralville
Cost: $25 to $95
MUSIC
Orchestra Iowa
Masterworks VI: Nordic Passage
Pianist George Li steps in for Garrick Ohlsson to join Orchestra Iowa and perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. A new work by Iowa-based composer Nancy Hill Cobb will be premiered.
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Paramount Theatre, 123 Third Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids
Cost: $17 to $58
FUNDRAISER/BENEFIT
Be an Instrument for Change
Inside Out Reentry Community hosts this benefit for people returning to the area after incarceration. Performing will be Pictoria Vark, Anthony Worden and the Illiterati.
When: 5 p.m.
Where: Riverside Festival Stage, Lower City Park, 200 Park Rd., Iowa City
Cost: Freewill donation