{"id":256,"date":"2024-04-08T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/?p=256"},"modified":"2024-04-08T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:29:45","slug":"what-is-mission-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/2024\/04\/08\/what-is-mission-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mission Creek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to talk a bit about Mission Creek, the music, arts, and writing festival here in Iowa City! I have the pleasure of running my magazine Ink&#8217;s booth at the literary magazine fair! I am also volunteering for the festival, as a social media assistant and selling merch for OSEES, one of the bands!<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers got free tickets to Thursday&#8217;s kickoff at Hancher, with a conversation and reading with Hanif Abdurraqib and performances by Neko Case and L&#8217;Rain. It was so much fun to listen to new music and write and find new artists to support.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, I filmed soundchecks for Indigo de Souza and got to meet them. They are an incredible band. I also got a tour of the Englert Theater!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, I help run the Ink booth and sell OSEES merch, as well as check out the other lit mags and publishers at the fair.<\/p>\n<p>Besides what I am doing, this three-day event includes way more bands and performances, author readings and signings, and more! It is a fun way to volunteer or get a feel of the Iowa City creative scene &#8211; there is always something for everyone!<\/p>\n<p>-Solenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! I&#8217;m going to talk a bit about Mission Creek, the music, arts, and writing festival here in Iowa City! I have the pleasure of running my magazine Ink&#8217;s booth at the literary magazine fair! I am also volunteering for the festival, as a social media assistant and selling merch for OSEES, one of the bands! Volunteers got free tickets to Thursday&#8217;s kickoff at Hancher, with a conversation and reading with Hanif Abdurraqib and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}