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Past Events
Drive-in Bluegrass Concert!
Anyone missing live music? Join us for a drive-in concert on the farm!
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Reminiscent of the drive-in theaters of 50 plus years ago, the Bluegrass Herons and Straightback Chair will perform a drive-in concert of Bluegrass and Americana tunes and songs. While performing live and on-stage, the concert will be broadcast to your car radio, allowing you to remain in your cars while enjoying the show. Registration is required so we can make sure to have space for everyone. A donation of $10 a person is suggested to support these hardworking and delightful musicians. Parking will open at 1:30 pm. Public restrooms are available if needed. Saturday Sept 19, 2:00 -3:30 pm. |
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The Great Bluegrass Herons are a remarkable couple of couples who are both excellent and entertaining. Capable of summoning tears or knee slapping laughter, Jane and Mark Wilson and Paul and Julie Roberts have been performing together in 1991. |
Staightback Chair are a spunky bunch from Eastern Iowa. Stephen Hanson, Ursula Williams, Phil Thomas, John Raab and Steve Schott teamed up a few years ago to play bluegrass and “songs they like.” Come out and enjoy their tunes and harmony! Straightback Chair in Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-CFtRVGgpI |
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Farm to Table Meal and Poetry Reading
with Mary Swander Gather on the farm to eat fresh food and hear the poetry of Mary Swander, author, activitst and poet. Swander was the poet laureate of Iowa from 2009 - 2019 and founded the organization AgArts which "imagines and promotes healthy food systems through the arts." Cohosted by Geyer's Oven, the meal will begin with an appetizer board followed by a new kind of pie coming out of the oven - not pizza - but savory meat and vegetarian pies accompanied by fresh salads and a light dessert. It will be a fabulous meal!! $35, June 13, 2020 5:30 - 7:30 pm Register here. In the afternoon, just preceding this event, Mary Swander will teach a poetry writing workshop from 2:00 - 5:00 pm. Tickets for poetry workshop available here. 
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Fall Harvest Celebration
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Multi course, farm to table banquet on the farm.
Oct 19, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Table service and seating provided. Pre-registration required. Tickets $40. Register here. Cohosted by Land Alliance Folk School and Geyer's Oven 
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Sacred Stage Series
Summer 2019
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Speaking In and Out
Works on paper by Ida Short Inspiration from everyday, lived experiences of being women. Artist Presentation June 25, 7:00 pm Discussion and coffee following. This event is free. |
Ida Short experiments with different nontraditional printmaking techniques and with layering colors and textures, drawing inspiration from the women around her who tell stories about everyday lived experiences of being women. Originally from outside of Kalona, Iowa, Ida graduated from Goshen College, Indiana, in 2015 with a BFA in Studio Art. From there she moved to Oregon and was a studio member at Whiteaker Printmakers in Eugene, participating in member shows and the Emerald Print Exchange of 2018. Ida has recently relocated back to Indiana and has participated in juried regional art competitions as well as solo and combined shows. Currently Ida is working with Amy Worsham, who owns and operates Tympanum Press.
Images of Revelation Multimedia paper works by Martha Yoder Unveiling the timelessness and power of the book of Revelation. Artist Presentation July 16, 7:00 pm Discussion and coffee following. This event is free. |
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For 20 years, Martha Yoder has been visualizing concepts from the book of Revelation. Inspired by a study of the book that revealed its social, economic and political character, Yoder began creating augmented maps, wall pieces and weavings that demonstrate the timelessness and power of it’s content.
Martha Yoder grew up in Idaho between the high desert and the mountains. Her art training began at Bethel College in Kansas, where she received a BA in Art. Following graduation she married Darvin Yoder in Vientiane, Laos where they were teaching school. After their three children were in school she returned to graduate school at the University of Iowa where she did an MFA in printmaking. Her images during that time were gleaned from the drive through the Iowa countryside on her daily trips from their farm near Parnell to Iowa City. After working at the University of Iowa Museum of Art for twenty three years she resigned that position to accept an invitation to pastor her home congregation. She is now retired and concentrates her art on images inspired by the book of Revelation.
Martha Yoder grew up in Idaho between the high desert and the mountains. Her art training began at Bethel College in Kansas, where she received a BA in Art. Following graduation she married Darvin Yoder in Vientiane, Laos where they were teaching school. After their three children were in school she returned to graduate school at the University of Iowa where she did an MFA in printmaking. Her images during that time were gleaned from the drive through the Iowa countryside on her daily trips from their farm near Parnell to Iowa City. After working at the University of Iowa Museum of Art for twenty three years she resigned that position to accept an invitation to pastor her home congregation. She is now retired and concentrates her art on images inspired by the book of Revelation.
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An Inward Look
A weekend with multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter Sadie Gufstason-Zook: transferring experience into song. Sacred Stage, July 26, 7:00 pm. Discussion and coffee following. Free. Crafting an Honest Song: A Songwriting Workshop July 27, 2:00 pm. $30 Concert and Wood Fired Meal July 27, 6:30. Tickets $35 |
Sadie Gustafson-Zook is a versatile singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter whose pure voice and hummable melodies balance with blunt lyrics to create honest and serenely cheerful music. Oregon-born, Indiana-grown and Boston-based, Sadie has performed alongside Garrison Keillor on Prairie Home Companion in 2015, shared the stage with The Steel Wheels, toured with the Theory Expats, performing at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival in 2015. Sadie has won multiple awards for her original compositions and holds a master’s degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music from Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA and runs sound at historic folk venue Club Passim in Harvard Square. In September 2017 Sadie released her first original album, entitled “I’m Not Here.” Besides music Sadie enjoys drinking tea, touching dirt and listening to other people’s conversations.
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Creative Shape-Shifting Three dimensional works by Jean Graham Her creative journey: commitment to community, truth telling and grounding in the natural world. Artist Presentation August 3, 7:00 pm Discussion and coffee following. This event is free. |
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Jean Graham is a project manager with the City of Austin Art in Public Places program and was responsible for the first seven years of the People’s Gallery annual exhibition at Austin City Hall. Her work in the field of public art reflects a lifelong commitment to make art happen and to enhance the ways that communities connect with art. She began as an exhibiting artist, receiving an MFA from the University of Michigan, and her sculptures are included in public and private collections. After coming to Austin in 1990 she joined the curatorial staff at Austin Museum of Art where she organized, designed and curated exhibitions. Since 2001 she has managed art projects for the City, four of which have received national recognition. As an individual, she has spearheaded several community-based projects with her Austin neighborhood for which she received a Bank of America Local hero Award, a Spike Gillespie “Kick-Ass Award” and a People’s Choice Best Visual Artist award in the Best of Austin Chronicle 2008.
