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This March Madness season, celebrate basketball history with the Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA)! Join us at FilmScene at the Chauncey for clips from the 1979 film Dribble, a women’s basketball comedy filmed in Cedar Rapids and featuring the Iowa Cornets, who played in the professional Women’s Basketball League from 1978–80. A panel discussion will follow, featuring Lark Birdsong, the first women’s basketball coach at Iowa; Dr. Shelley Lucas, a sports historian who has written about the Cornets; and Dr. Kären Mason, IWA’s first curator, whose work collecting our women’s basketball materials laid crucial groundwork for these stories to be told.

All are encouraged to attend. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Kate Orazem in advance at katherine-orazem@uiowa.edu.