A FREE Community Collaborations Event
Presented in partnership with Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA), featuring a post-show panel with Lark Birdsong, Dr. Shelley Lucas, and Dr. Kären Mason
Click the 7pm showtime below to RSVP
This March Madness season, celebrate basketball history with the Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA)! In partnership with FilmScene and the Bijou Film Board, join us for clips from the 1979 film Dribble (also known as Scoring), 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.
Having lost what little community support they once had, the Des Moines Vixens, an abysmally bad and extraordinarily unlucky women’s professional basketball team, appear headed for extinction. Their prospects brighten, however, when the Vixens’ new leadership, a florist and his dope-smoking son, use the profits from their new cash crop (marijuana) to develop the team. Still, if they want to remain in town, the female cagers must prove themselves against a military men’s squad.
