Tonight
Rumba Classes
Thursdays • August 15, 22, 29 • 6:30pm
Winterset City Park, South Shelter
Lace up your dancing shoes and learn how to Rumba! These are free dance classes and you don’t even have to bring a partner.
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This Weekend
Movie in the Park: The Sandlot
Friday • August 16 • Dusk
City Park North Shelter
Gather up your lawn chairs, blankets and bug spray and bring the family out to the city park tomorrow night for a classic outdoor movie. If you haven’t yet introduced your kids (or grandkids) to The Sandlot, this is the perfect opportunity to unveil this class
Deadpool & Wolverine
August 16 & 17, 7:00pm • August 18, 2:00pm
The Iowa Theater
Deadpool’s peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from an existential threat. Rated R, 2 hr 7 min
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Farmer’s Market
Saturday • August 17 • 8:00 – Noon
Monumental Park (next to the library)
Yoga at the Bridge
Saturday • August 17 • 9:00am
Cutler-Donahoe Bridge in City Park
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The Promised Land
Sunday • August 18 • 5:30pm
Sunday Movie Club at The Iowa Theater
In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen)—a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero—sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. He seeks to start farming crops, build a colony in the name of the King, and gain a noble title for himself. This beautiful but forbidding area also happens to be under the rule of the merciless Frederik De Schinkel, a preening nobleman who realizes the threat Kahlen represents to his power. Struggling against the elements and local brigands, Kahlen is joined by a couple who have fled the clutches of the rapacious De Schinkel. As this group of misfits begins to build a small community in this inhospitable place, De Schinkel swears vengeance, and the confrontation between him and Kahlen promises to be as violent and intense as these two men.
The 2023 film is in Danish, Swedish, German, & Norwegian with English subtitles. Total running time is 2 hr 7 min.
The screening is part of the Iowa Theater’s Sunday Movie Club, which offers once-a-month opportunities to view thought-provoking films. Membership costs $75 per year for the 12-movie series, but anyone can attend by purchasing a ticket for $8. Sunday Movie Club screenings include a brief, optional discussion following the credit roll. The book-club-like conversations are variously facilitated by theater staff, board members, and club members.
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Next Week
Youth Fishing Night
Tuesday • August 20 • 6:00-7:30pm
Cedar Lake
Kids of all ages are welcome to join the Madison County Conservation for their youth fishing nights. Bring your own pole or borrow one of theirs (supplies limited). Bait is provided. All kids must be accompanied by a licensed adult. Fishing licenses are required for anyone age 16+.
Grease
Wednesday • August 21 • 7:00pm
Way Back Wednesday at The Iowa Theater
Experience the friendships, romances and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. Welcome to the singing and dancing world of “Grease,” the most successful movie musical of all time. A wholesome exchange student (Olivia Newton-John) and a leather-clad Danny (John Travolta) have a summer romance, but will it cross clique lines? 1978, Rated PG, 1 hrs 50 mins
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Meet the Huskies
Friday • August 23 • 5:00 meal, 6:00 introductions
McGaffin Field, WHS
Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast
Saturday • August 24 • 7:00 – 11:00am
American Legion Hall
Celebrate the beginning of the school year, or the conclusion of summer, with a big stack of pancakes and a side of community support!
Tending Iowa’s Land Community Discussion
Saturday • August 24 • 3:00 – 5:00pm
2155 Burr Oak Ave, Winterset
This is the last of 4 Community Discussions around the book, Tending Iowa’s Land, edited by Cornelia F. Mutel. In a straightforward and friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions, that benefit agriculture as well as our human and wildlife residents. This discussion will focus on the “AIR” section of the book with featured guest Jennifer Bradley, Air Permit Engineer
The event is free and no registration required; a hike will follow the discussion. Copies of the book can be found at Winterset Public Library.
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Coming Soon
Auditions for: The Enchanted Bookshop
Tuesday & Wednesday • August 27 & 28 • 7:00
The Winterset Stage at Madison County Music Co.
The Winterset Stage will hold auditions for their next play, The Enchanted Bookshop, on August 27th and 28th. Actors do not need to prepare anything; readings will be provided at auditions and they welcome actors of ALL experience levels—even beginners! In fact, they love welcoming newbies to the stage (either new to the theater, new to the community, or both!)
During the day, A Likely Story may look like any other used bookstore. But at night, it’s a place where magic happens. That’s when the characters inside the books come alive.
Six of those characters—Dorothy Gale, Robin Hood, Pollyanna, Sherlock Holmes, Heidi, and Tom Sawyer—long to help Margie, the scatterbrained owner, save her struggling store. But they’re not allowed to leave the building or be seen by human eyes. So when a pair of smugglers comes looking for a stolen necklace hidden inside one of the books, the characters are torn. Should they warn Margie and risk disappearing forever? Or can they find a way to defeat the crooks without being seen?
Featuring additional appearances by such beloved literary characters as the Queen of Hearts, Long John Silver, and Doctor Dolittle, this charming comedy celebrates the joy of reading in a fresh, fun-filled way.
Evening Under the Stars
Saturday • September 14 • 5:00pm
Madison County Conservation at
The Warehouse on 2nd – on 2nd Ave between Jefferson & Green
The Madison County Conservation Board invites you to join them for an evening of fun and conservation at their annual Evening Under the Stars fundraiser. In additional to local food and beverages, live and silent auction, and the opportunity to support Madison County Parks this year’s event will include a glass blowing demo, monarch butterfly release, and entertainment by The Lemon Family Band! Get your ticket by the end of this weekend today and get $10 off! (Valid through 8/18 only).
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