This Weekend

Put Your Garden to Bed

Friday • November 17 • 6:30pm
Winterset Public Library

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The Marvels

Friday & Saturday • November 17 & 18 • 7:00pm
Saturday • November 19 • 2:00pm (this showing presented with captions)
The Iowa Theater

Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. However, unintended consequences see her shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with two other superheroes to form the Marvels. Rated PG-13, 1 hr 5 min

Holiday Hop

Saturday • November 18 • 8:30am – 2:30pm
See locations below

For many Winterset residents, the annual Holiday Hop—and not Black Friday—is the official start of the holiday shopping season! ‘Hop’ from location to location for a variety of offerings. To learn more about what is available at each location, visit their FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/697425705648087

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Reading with Rover

Saturday • November 18 • 9:00 – Noon
Winterset Public Library

BINGO

Sunday • November 19 • 2:00
Winterset Lions at VFW Hall (on 3rd St, behind the Library)

Try your hand at scoring some extra cash for the holidays, enjoy the company of your neighbors and support the Winterset Lions at the same time! Based on what I could find on their FB page, I think cards are 50¢ each, and the jackpot for this week is up to $125!

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Past Lives

Sunday • November 19 • 5:30pm
Sunday Movie Club at The Iowa Theater

The movie “Past Lives” premiered in January this year at the Sundance Film Festival. A surprise hit from a first-time director, the film opened in only four theaters but within six weeks had grossed over $8 million. The film follows the relationship between two childhood friends over the course of 24 years as they grow apart and live different lives. Praised by both audiences and film critics, one reviewer wrote, “Past Lives” is a glorious date movie . . . a movie for every occasion.”

The principal characters, Nora and Hae Sung, are close friends as adolescents in Korea. When Nora’s family emigrates to Toronto, the young people lose contact. Twelve years later, at 24, they rediscover each other on Facebook, but are unable to get together. Another twelve years go by, and Nora is married and living in New York. Hae Sung is single, and the old friends are finally reunited. The question the film raises, “What if . . . ?” is one many people ask themselves as they lead their lives, choose one path over another, one relationship over another.

Sunday’s screening is part of the Iowa Theater’s “Sunday Movie Club” series, which offers a thought-provoking, outside-the-mainstream film once a month on the third Sunday. Doors open at 5:00, with a start time of 5:30. The running time for “Past Lives” is one hour, forty-five minutes. The film is in English, with some (subtitled) Korean. Viewers are invited to hang around after the credits roll to share their thoughts about the film during a brief, optional discussion. The Iowa Theater’s programmer Rebecca Fons will be in Winterset for this month’s screening and will facilitate the discussion.

Next Week

Lion’s Soup Supper

Monday • November 20 • 5:30 – 7:00pm
New Bridge Church, 1305 W Jefferson

Take the night off from cooking at the 22nd Annual Lions Club Soup Supper next Monday. The menu will include potato, vegetable beef, and creamy chicken noodle soups, plus chili and possibly some new recipes. There are no tickets necessary, just bring a free will donation.

You can also bring along your clean, dry plastic bags (or any plastic wrapping/film) to be recycled into benches. (There’s one in front of Covered Bridge Realty on the west side of the square.) The Lions also collect and repurpose used hearing aids and complete eyeglasses.

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Simple Silkscreen

Tuesday • November 21 • 5:00pm (ALSO Friday • November 17 • 1:00)
Winterset Public Library

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Wednesday • November 22 • 7:00pm
Way Back Wednesday at The Iowa Theater

Easily excitable Neal Page is somewhat of a control freak. Trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife and kids, his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, and his sanity begins to fray. Worse yet, he is forced to bunk up with talkative Del Griffith, whom he finds extremely annoying. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.  1987, Rated R, 1 hr 33 min

Community Thanksgiving Dinner
(Dine-in, Carry Out, or Delivery)

Thursday • November 23 • 12:00
First United Methodist Church

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Festival of Lights

Friday • November 24 • 5:00 – 7:00pm
Downtown Winterset

The day after Thanksgiving, celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season in downtown Winterset! Merchants will have lighted and live action window displays starting at 5:00pm. Venture into the warm, cozy stores on the square to find unique gifts for everyone on your shopping list! The lighted parade will start at 7:15pm with everyone’s favorite jolly ol’ elf on the last float of the parade. There will be a table on the courthouse lawn to write a letter to Santa. See “Elf” at the Iowa Theater following the lighted parade—FREE admission with the donation of a non-perishable food item for local food pantry.

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Elf

Friday • November 24th • 8:15pm (after the parade)
The Iowa Theater
Free with the donation of a non-perishable food item

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Small Business Saturday

Saturday • November 25th
#ShopLocal in Winterset!

Coming Soon

It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Show

Thursday, Friday, Saturday • November 30, December 1 & 2 • 7:00pm
Sunday • December 3 • 2:00pm
The Winterset Stage at the Iowa Theater

Tickets are now on sale for The Winterset Stage’s next production: It’s a Wonderful Life. This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.

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Winterset Community Band Concert

Sunday • December 3 • 4:00pm
Winterset High School, Henry Miller Auditorium

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Holiday Tour of Homes

Saturday • December 9 • 11:00 – 6:00
Benefiting CRISP

Tickets are now on sale for the Christmas Tour of Homes and 100% of the ticket sales go to CRISP. The mission of CRISP is to guide families to resources that will enhance the well being of children and families. They work to ensure greater family stability and ready to learn children. A few of the programs that the Tour of Homes will help fund include: School supplies for kids, Winter Wear 4 Kids, and Christmas for kids. Other programs they assist include help with utility/rent payments and working closely with The Paw Pantry to provide additional food source for families. When you purchase your ticket you will get to tour 7 amazing homes AND help CRISP fund their programs.

Tickets can be purchased at: Spoons Full of Sugar Boutique, Pine Creek, Madison County Mercantile, Re:Home, Madison County Chamber, Madison County Realty and Salon 107.

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