Photo Credit: Bill Adams
The Scene
There's nothing quite like the Mission Creek Festival which combines literature and music with community events in a number of unique venues across downtown Iowa City. The nearly week long event has a focus on quality, independent-minded sounds, words, and events and strongly believes that intimacy is key to the experience.
2018 Artist Lineup
- ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI
- ALGIERS
- ANCIENT POSSE
- BASSEM YOUSSEF
- BRANDON TAYLOR
- BSTAR
- BUILT TO SPILL
- CAKES DA KILLA
- CARRIE BROWNSTEIN + ROXANE GAY + AMBER TAMBLYN (IN CONVERSATION)
- CATHY LINH CHE
- CJ RUN
- COLLIDESCOPE
- COUNTERFEIT MADISON
- CURRENT JOYS
- DANA T
- DEB OLIN UNFERTH
- DESSA
- DOROTHY, A PUBLISHING PROJECT
- ELIZABETH MOEN
- EXTRAVISION
- FEEL FREE
- FORKLIFT, OHIO
- GORDI
- HAFIZAH GETER
- HANIF ABDURRAQIB
- HELENE ACHANZAR
- HORSE FEATHERS
- HORSE LORDS
- HOT TANG
- IOWA YOUTH WRITING PROJECT
- JACK LION
- JAMILA WOODS (READING + PERFORMANCE)
- JESUS CARRASCO
- JULIEN BAKER
- KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH
- KUNDIMAN
- LAMBDA LITERARY
- LAUREL HALO (LIVE + DJ SET)
- LIDIA YUKNAVITCH
- LINA MARIA FERREIRA CABEZA-VENEGAS
- LYZ LENZ
- MARGARET GLASPY
- MELODY GEE
- MISSION: BEAT
- ONO
- PAUL CARY
- PEANUT RICKY & THE FIENDS
- PLACK BLAGUE
- PSALM ONE
- PURCHA$E
- QUINTA BRUNSON & FRIENDS
- S CAREY
- SANDRA ALLEN
- SARAH VIREN
- SISTER WIFE
- SQUIRREL FLOWER
- STEPHEN IRA
- THE BELIEVER
- THE IOWA REVIEW
- THE RUMPUS
- THE WEEPIES
- TWO DOLLAR RADIO
- VIDA
- WILLIAM JOHNSON
- WYE OAK
- XYLOURIS WHITE
- YOUNGER