Free Events

General Membership Meeting

Presented By: MidAmerica Pastel Society
Venue: Village Presbyterian Church
Hours: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Our general membership meeting will be held at Village Presbyterian Church,ÿ6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, KS 66208 at 7:00 p.m.

Northland Community Choir Season Start-up

Presented By: Northland Community Choir
Venue: Northland Community Choir
Hours: Monday, January 11, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Northland Community Choir will begin rehearsals for its Spring 2010 season on January 11. Membership is open to anyone interested in singing from High School age and beyond. The theme for this season is "Popular Music, from the Civil War up to the 1990's." For more information, check our website.

Ruel Joyce Recital Series

Presented By: Johnson County Community College
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Monday, April 05, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Ron Stinson, trumpet: Patricia Higdon, piano.
Polsky Theatre. Free, open to public.

Ruel Joyce Recital Series

Presented By: Johnson County Community College
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Monday, April 12, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Steven Elisha, cello; Larisa Elisha, violin.
Recital Hall.

JCCC Academic Theatre

Presented By: Johnson County Community College
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Thursday, April 22, 2010 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Antigone by Sophocles.
Thursday, April 22-Saturday, April 24
Polsky Theatre.

That Championship Season by Jason Miller

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Sunday, March 07, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

American Classics, the fourth season of the Script-in-Hand series presented by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, continues with That Championship Season by Jason Miller.

In this 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, four members of a championship basketball team reunite to spend time with their dying coach. They still look to their coach for guidance. Only now, the men begin to suspect that their coach was a bigot, a bully, and a fraud.

The series is sponsored by The Friends of the Kansas City Public Library.

Linda Maria Gigante: Resurrecting Dead Romans

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Linda Maria Gigante presents Resurrecting Dead Romans: Reconstructing the Lives of Slaves and Freedmen from Their Tombs and Epitaphs.

Gigante will discuss the role slaves played in Roman culture and what close examination of their tombs and epitaphs reveals about their lives. She will focus on a collection of 1st and 2^nd century CE epitaphs that were removed from nonelite tombs in Rome in the late 19^th century and have, since 1929, been in the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.

Resurrecting Dead Romans is the 2010 Edward J. Baker Lecture.

The event is funded by the Archaeological Institute of America and co-sponsored by the Classical and Ancient Studies Program at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.

Alan Dunlop: Teasing the Grid

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Renowned Scottish architect Alan Dunlop discusses the development of Glasgow as a city and its relationship to American cities.

Dunlop will trace the growth of Glasgow from medieval city to the Victorian age and the creation of the street grid. He will examine how Glasgow was influenced by the development of town planning in North America and, in turn, how it influenced great cities in the United States, most notably Chicago.

A partner in Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects, Dunlop is a gifted draughtsman and is responsible for a number of important buildings in Scotland.

Dunlop is the Victor L. Regnier Visiting Faculty Chair in Architecture at Kansas State University. The event is co-sponsored by the College of Architecture, Planning & Design at Kansas

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program: 6:30 p.m.

Courtney Martin: Barbie and Body Image

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Author Courtney E. Martin discusses the history of the iconic doll and the influence it has had on the self-image of American girls.

Barbie has often been criticized for promoting an unrealistic idea of body image. Martin grew up playing with Barbie dolls, despite the opposition of her feminist mother, and finds herself now “happy with my curves, convinced of my own intelligence, and unabashedly feminist.”

The event complements the Celebrating 50 Fabulous Years with America’s Favorite Doll exhibit at the Toy & Miniature Museum and is co-sponsored by the UMKC Women’s Center.

Jeff Miron: Obamanomics – Growing the Pie or Dividing the Pie?

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Libertarian economist Jeff Miron discusses the economic impact of the federal government’s 2009 stimulus package. Miron says because tax liabilities accompany any government spending program, last year’s stimulus package may not have expanded the output of the American economy, but instead simply redistributed the economy’s output.

Miron will explain how money was redistributed and offer an alternative plan that he says would promote economic expansion.

The event is co-sponsored by the Show-Me Institute.

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program at 6:30 p.m.

Tasha Alexander: Tears of Pearl

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Thursday, March 18, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Tasha Alexander is the author of four Victorian-era historical mysteries following the career of the fictional Lady Emily Ashton, whose exploits include tracking down stolen antiquities and investigating murders as an agent of the British Empire. In the latest installment, Tears of Pearl, Alexander explores a vividly depicted Constantinople in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire with particular attention given to its treatment of women.

She also wrote the novelization of the Oscar-winning film Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

This event complements the 2010 Adult Winter Reading Program.

Harzfeld’s: A Brief History of Petticoat Lane

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Sunday, March 21, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

In 1891, Siegmund Harzfeld and the Parisian Cloak Company introduced a new era of commerce and fashion to the residents of Kansas City. The ready-to-wear movement arrived at his flagship Harzfeld’s location along Petticoat Lane, which later expanded its reach through a regional network of satellite stores.

Joe and Michele Boeckholt trace Harzfeld’s fashions with archival photographs and memorabilia. They are authors of Harzfeld’s: A Brief History. They are both graphic designers living in the Kansas City area.

A Conversation with Margot Livesey

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Fiction writer and UMKC Cockefair Chair Writer-in-Residence Margot Livesey will discuss her work in a conversation with Angela Elam of KCUR 89.3 FM’s New Letters on the Air.

Livesey’s first book, a collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin Canada in 1986. Since then, she has published six novels including Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona, and The House on Fortune Street. Additionally, she has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Livesey is currently a distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College.

Of Livesey’s work, Alice Sebold once said “Every novel of Margot Livesey’s is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery.”

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program: 6:30 p.m.

Roy Morris: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Author Roy Morris discusses his book Lighting Out for the Territory, about how Samuel Clemens’ six-year journey from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Hawaii – with lengthy stopovers in Virginia City, Nevada, and San Francisco – resulted in his literary emergence as Mark Twain.

Morris describes how Clemens’ voyage coincided with a journey of self-discovery. The man who would become one of America’s favorite authors dodged Indians and gunfighters, received marriage advice from Brigham Young, and narrowly avoided fighting a duel.

The event is co-sponsored by Rainy Day Books. The book will be available for sale.

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program: 6:30 p.m.

Leigh Rubin: A Twisted Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Leigh Rubin discusses his new book The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes, a collection of the best cartoons from his 25 years drawing the one-panel cartoon Rubes.

Rubin will discuss his career as a cartoonist and use humor to emphasize the rewards of persistence and the fun of problem solving while celebrating the joy of creativity. His presentations seek to inspire attendees to add a little creativity to their own lives and to break their normal routine and think outside the box.

Nobody finds more fun and inspiration in dogs, cows, cats, kids, religion, weird and quirky people, and life in general than Rubin.

The book will be available for sale.

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program: 6:30 p.m.

John McPhee

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Monday, March 29, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee discusses his career and the writing life as part of the Writers at Work series.

McPhee began his writing career at Time magazine. Since 1965, he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has authored several books and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1999 for Annals of the Former World. He is a nonfiction writing instructor at Princeton University. Among his former students is Pulitzer Prize winner and current editor of The New Yorker David Remnick.

The event is part of the Writers at Work series organized by Kansas City novelist Whitney Terrell and co-sponsored by Chris Davis and the English Department at UMKC.

McPhee’s books will be available for sale.

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program: 6:30 p.m.

Bill Braniff: Understanding the Roots of the Terrorist Threat to the United States

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Bill Braniff discusses the terrorist threat faced by the United States and explains how close examination of the environments in which terrorist organizations operate is crucial to understanding the global Salafi-jihadi movement.

An instructor at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, Braniff will explain the roots of the al-Qa´ida ideology, as well as the political landscape and the theological context in which it operates.

The event is co-sponsored by the Hauptmann School for Public Affairs at Park University and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri.

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program: 6:30 p.m.

A Conversation with Joe Ratterman

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Library Director Crosby Kemper III leads a conversation on entrepreneurship with Joe Ratterman, president and chief executive officer of BATS Exchange.

Based in Lenexa, Kansas, BATS Exchange is one of the fastest growing equity markets in the United States with a team focused on fostering innovation and competition in the securities markets. BATS was founded in June 2005 at a time when market innovation and technology leadership were at risk due to over consolidation in the exchange industry.

Ratterman joined BATS as a founding employee and served as executive vice president and chief operating officer from 2005 to mid 2007.

He is also president and CEO of BATS Global Markets, the holding company for BATS Exchange and BATS Europe.

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program: 6:30 p.m.

Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo: Asia Fantasia

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Saturday, March 13, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

One half of the husband and wife team that makes up the national performance group Eth-Noh-Tec, Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, presents Asia Fantasia.

Growing up in the late ‘60s with a Japanese and Filipino American heritage, Kikuchi-Yngojo was provided with a rich cultural environment from which to explore the creation of an Asian American identity. His talent for Asian music, dance, and theater, along with his innate comedic ability merged with his social and political philosophy place him in the exciting art form of storytelling.

Friday Night Family Fun: Dianne de Las Casas

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Friday, March 12, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Award-winning author and storyteller Dianne de Las Casas presents an evening of singing, clapping, laughing, and of course, storytelling.

Inspired by her seventh grade English teacher, who would read aloud to the class every day, de Las Casas “fell in love with words both on paper and in the air.” De Las Casas adapts traditional folklore, adding fun audience participation, song, and of course, humor. Through the use of character voices, creative movement, animated facial expressions, and gestures, she creates a world of fantasy and enchantment.

Celebrate the Grand Reopening of the Newly Renovated Lucile H. Bluford Branch

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Lucile H. Bluford Branch
Hours: Saturday, March 06, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Ribbon cutting celebration featuring special guest Guion Bluford -- the nephew of civil rights pioneer Lucile Bluford and America’s first black astronaut in space -- and a host of local dignitaries

KC Currents School Board Election Panel Discussion

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Lucile H. Bluford Branch
Hours: Sunday, March 07, 2010 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

A panel discussion focusing on the April Kansas City School Board elections, hosted by KCUR 89.3 FM’s KC Currents, a magazine-style show covering Kansas City’s minority communities

Friday Night Family Fun: Singing Through History

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Friday, March 19, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Adam Miller performs Singing Through History, a collection of folk music classics.

Miller is renowned for his extensive repertoire of more than 5,000 traditional and contemporary folk songs. His highly entertaining performances at festivals and concert halls across the United States have won him fans of all ages.

A masterful entertainer who never fails to get his audience singing along, he has distinguished himself as one of the great interpreters of American folktales and folk songs.

Friday Night Family Fun: Max’s Family Band

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Friday, March 26, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Gary Negbaur returns with Max’s Family Band to perform his unique brand of music.

The band consists of Gary, a pianist, singer, and songwriter, and his wife, Yvette, a theater and cabaret singer. Inspired by the antics of their 3-year-old son, Max, the Negbaurs composed 15 songs for and about him that are relatable to children and parents alike.

Garry Noland and Cory Imig: Pitty Patt(rn)

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Artists Garry Noland and Cory Imig discuss the inspirations and ideas that informed the exhibit Pitty Patt(rn), curated by Sean Kelley, and on display at the Central Library until March 28.

Using a variety of media from acrylic paint to duct tape to National Geographic magazines, the artists challenge expectations of language, space, and everyday things.

Garry Noland has a BA in the History of Art. Cory Imig received her BFA in Fibers.

Reception: 6 p.m. • Program at 6:30 p.m.

Of Himes and Harlem Saturday Films

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Saturday, March 06, 2010 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

Saturdays at 1:30 p.m.

Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault

Chester Himes introduced a compelling black voice into detective fiction with his Harlem Domestic series of novels. After France awarded him its Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, Hollywood took notice and produced films based on his work that helped establish the blaxploitation genre.

This series complements the 2010 Adult Winter Reading Program.

Saturday Films

March 6 Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

March 13 Come Back Charleston Blue (1972)

March 20 Gordon’s War (1973)

March 27 A Rage in Harlem (1991)

Thin Man Mondays - Films

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Monday, March 01, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Mondays at 6:30 p.m.

Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault

William Powell evolved from silent film villain into a character actor – in the 1930s becoming a leading man (and a bankable star) with his depiction of Nick Charles in films based on stories by novelist Dashiell Hammett.

This series complements the 2010 Adult Winter Reading Program.

Monday Films

March 1 The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

March 8 Song of the Thin Man (1947)

March 15 The Canary Murder Case (1929)

March 22 The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

March 29 Evelyn Prentice (1934)

The Lens of Youth: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Presented By: Kansas City Public Library
Venue: Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Hours: Sunday, March 21, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

The Searching the Psyche through Cinema continues with the Oscar-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird, a story that unfolds through the eyes of a precocious tomboy who struggles with prejudice even as her father stands against racial persecution.

The post-film discussion will be led by psychoanalyst Sue Russell, Ph.D., and Dan Winter, executive director of the Western Missouri and Kansas ACLU. Co-sponsored by the Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center and UMKC.

Spring Training: Build and Flex Your Contemporary Art Muscles

Presented By: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Hours: Sunday, March 07, 2010 from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

In putting it all together, Curator of Education Beth Harris discusses and demonstrates strategies in gaining new perspectives and appreciation for contemporary art.

FInd out more about Spring Training: Build and Flex Your Art Muscles. ?

Meet Me at the Museum

Presented By: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Hours: Sunday, March 07, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Meet Me at the Museum has a new day! On the first Sunday of each month, join a Kemper Museum docent for a lively discussion and tour of the Museum's current exhibitions. No reservations required.

Scavenger Saturdays

Presented By: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Hours: Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Hone your art detective skills and discover something new about contemporary art at the Kemper Museum. The third Saturday of each month is Scavenger Saturdays for families. Children with adults may pick up a self-guided activity at the Visitor Services Desk and follow the clues on this "ART-astic" adventure. Once you finish the activity, one may pick up a take-home, art-making activity kit. No reservations are required.

Scavenger Saturdays at the Kemper Museum are made possible by the generous support of the R.A. Long Foundation.

Create Your Own Reality

Presented By: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Hours: Friday, March 12, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Do you have a collection of objects or items set aside for a project that has not been realized? Share with others; meet new friends; and start your creative engine. Light snacks and drinks are served.

At this special Create Your Own Reality, there will be a demonstration of a Gocco printer. Participants are welcome to create their own design and are to bring items on which to print on, such as fabrics or personalized cards.

FInd out more about Create Your Own Reality

Memories in the Making

Presented By: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Hours: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

In collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association, participants in this workshop create watercolor paintings inspired by a work of art on display at the Kemper Museum. Participants are encouraged to take part in the March 3 Immediate Memories tour, focusing on Volunteer Voices: Selections from the Collection of the Kemper Museum. During the workshop, a family member or friend may enjoy a beverage and treat from Café Sebastienne.

First Sunday Family Fun Day: Hurray for Hats

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, April 11, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Hats come in different shapes and sizes and can be worn stylishly or to wear while they are on the job. They can also be used to deflect the sun’s dangerous rays. Explore theses various colors, designs and uses of hats and First Sunday Family Fun Day April 11 at the Museum. Visitors can design their own hat to take home with them as well as discover different hats used on the job through matching games. Visitors can also try and master the “Capes for Sale” obstacle courses and listen to songs about hats from singer Emily Tummons in the StoryTarium.

• Design you own hat to take home

• Learn about different types of hats through matching games

• Try and master the “Capes for Sale” obstacle course
• Listen to hat songs with singer Emily Tummons

Community Curator: Elizabeth Rosin, Rosin Preservation

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Discover how photography and archival materials helps historians understand people, styles and technologies that shape our structures and environment with historic preservationist Elizabeth Rosin Tuesday, April 27 at Union Station. Rosin, of historic preservation consulting firm Rosin Preservation, will discuss the archival photographs of Corinthian Hall and explore how these photos play an important role in informing us about the construction and design of the Beaux Arts mansion.

Latino Writers Collective

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The Kansas City Museum is excited to be working with the Latino Writer’s Collective of Kansas City in 2010. The Collective is a group of Latino writers living and working in the Kansas City metropolitan area, helping each other hone and polish their works for publication. It’s mission is to foster an environment where the voices of Latino students, blue collar workers, professionals and homemakers can be heard, contributing their experience and vision to the larger Kansas City community.

Latino Writers Collective

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Museum Days at the Library: "How does your Garden Grow"

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Plaza Branch
Hours: Friday, April 23, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

The Long family had beautiful gardens at Corinthian Hall. Come design your own garden, plant some seeds, help “plant” our paper garden, and play plant themed games.

Monticello hosts: Working on the Railroad

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Monticello Community Historical Society
Hours: Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The month’s program is called “Trabajando en el Ferro Carril (Working on he Railroad),” presented by Gene T. Chavez, president of Chavez and associates, Kansas City, Kan. He will cover the role of Mexican workers in Kansas railroads. The program is sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council.

Museum Days at the Library "Gardens"

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Plaza Branch
Hours: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The Long family had beautiful gardens at Corinthian Hall. Come design your own garden, plant some seeds, help “plant” our paper garden, and play plant themed games.

Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival at Crown Center

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival at Crown Center
Hours: Sunday, June 20, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM

UNplaza Art Fair

Venue: All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Hours: Saturday, September 25, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

UNplaza Art Fair

Venue: All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Hours: Sunday, September 26, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Speaker Series at the Westport Library

Presented By: Westport Historical Society
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Westport Branch
Hours: Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Joe Mattox would like to share stories of “White People in Black History.” As the result of Joe’s research about street names and school names in Kansas City, he has collected stories of white people who affected the lives of black people. Joe is a volunteer at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center and teaches Communiversity classes on the role of black soldiers in the Civil War on the border between Missouri and Kansas.

Speaker Series at the Westport Library

Presented By: Westport Historical Society
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Westport Branch
Hours: Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Sharon Snyder from Independence, Missouri, will share the story of the McCoy House, 410 W. Farmer, and the early families who made this a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. The 1856 Greek Revival and Italianate style house was completed by William McCoy, a merchant and banker on property once owned by Samuel C. Owens, a merchant and Santa Fe trader. McCoy is not a close relative of John Calvin McCoy who platted Westport, but the two families may be connected by marriage and perhaps divided by religion. William McCoy served as the first mayor of Independence in 1849. Sharon will dress in costume and draw from original letters to portray Fanny Owens and Eleanor McCoy. She and her husband Brian have owned this National Register and Santa Fe Trail site since 1993 and often share their historic house with interested groups.

Speaker Series at the Westport Library

Presented By: Westport Historical Society
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Westport Branch
Hours: Saturday, May 08, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Caren Hall invites us to meet Madame Chouteau, one of the founders of Kansas City; Eliza Wornall, who survived the gruesome Battle of Westport during the Civil War; and Annie Chambers, a “madam” of the city’s earlier days. Caren is a life member of the Westport Historical Society and serves on its advisory board as well as being an actor and tour guide with her own travel company, Caren’s Charters.

KCYA Note By Note Screening & Mini Concert

Presented By: Kansas City Young Audiences
Venue: Kansas City Young Audiences
Hours: Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Please join us for an incredible opportunity to see the award-winning documentary:
Note By Note: The Making of Steinway L1037. This film by Ben Niles follows the
creation of a Steinway Concert Grand from forest floor to concert hall.

See the actual piano from the film and hear it played live by some of the region's best pianists!

The event is free but seating is limited so reservations are required.
Order your tickets here.

Immediately following the screening of the film you will have the unique opportunity to hear concert pianists, Maya Murthy, Kari Johnson and Kairy Koshoeva,
Community School of the Arts Teaching Artists, play the beautiful Steinway L1037!

This special once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is sponsored by:
Dr. and Mrs. K. Vasudevamurthy
Kansas City Chorale
Schmitt Music

Call 816.531.4022 or Click here for more information.

A Wellness of Inspiration

Presented By: Plaza Wellspring
Venue: Plaza Wellspring
Hours: Friday, March 26, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. A Wellspring of Inspiration: Artist Reception

Celebrate the creative talent of members of our Plaza Wellspring community, including Tina Blatter, Brownie Hayek, Richard Hayek, Sheila Jewell, Helen Lea, Bob Savino and Mary Ware. Enjoy the art work and the company of some of our painters, sculptors, dancers and musicians. Bring family and friends and discover something new.

JCCC Academic Theatre

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Sunday, May 02, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

JCCC Concert Band

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

JCCC Jazz Night

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

JCCC Chamber Choir

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Johnson County Chorus

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Sunday, May 09, 2010 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Arrow Rock Lecture with Dr. James Harlan

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Arrow Rock Missouri
Hours: Saturday, April 03, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Dr. James Harlan will speak on Frontier Landscapes, Rivers and People: Early 19th Century Missouri and the Boone’s Lick

Harlan is the senior research specialist and assistant program director for the Geographic Resources Center with the University of Missouri's Department of Geography in Columbia. He also is a Ph.D. candidate in the Fisheries and Wildlife Department at the University of Missouri.

Around 1816 and 1817, surveyors walked the area that would become central Missouri writing detailed accounts of the landscape and rivers. Harlan has read these thousands of handwritten notes and translated them into a set of maps that show everything from how many oak trees there were to the channels of rivers and streams. This lively presentation will introduce you to the landscape and rivers that welcomed Missouri’s frontier families.

The lecture, sponsored by the Friends of Arrow Rock and the Arrow Rock State Historic Site, is the third in the 2010 First Saturday Lecture Series conducted February through May in Arrow Rock. The final lecture in the 2010 series, Rediscovering the Tallgrass Prairie, is scheduled for May 1, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival at Crown Center
Hours: Saturday, June 19, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM

First Sunday Family Fun Day: Founder's Day

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, May 02, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Celebrate the birthday of Corinthian Hall and the founding of the Kansas City Museum at First Sunday Family Fun Day from noon-4 p.m. Sunday, May 2 at the Museum. Your family will play our Corinthian Hall bean bag toss game, play games about numbers, and design your own Corinthian Hall and much more.

• Play our Corinthian Hall bean bag toss game

• Pin the feather on Loula’s hat

• Design your own Corinthian Hall
• Play games using the number 100
• Have a special Founder’s Day treat
• Watch a film in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: Ann Brownfield, Director, Historic Garment District Museum

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Dolyna Art - Mixed Media

Presented By: Prairie Village Arts Council
Venue: Prairie Village Arts Council
Hours: Friday, April 09, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

· This exhibition includes artwork from the Dolyna Museum located at Dolyna, Ukraine, the sister city of Prairie Village, KS. In addition to these select pieces are a variety works by other Ukrainian artists, examples of folk art and handicrafts and pieces on loan from private collections. A reception will be held on April 9^th from 6:30-8:00 pm and a presentation on the exhibition will be at 7:30 pm. The exhibit will run through the month of April. R.G. Endres Gallery, Prairie Village City Hall, 7700 Mission Road, Prairie Village, KS.

Blue Springs Antique Road Show

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Dillingham-Lewis Musuem
Hours: Sunday, April 11, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Early Car Memorabilia: Exhibit by George Deel

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Dillingham-Lewis Musuem
Hours: Sunday, April 18, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Early Car Memorabilia: Exhibit by George Deel

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Dillingham-Lewis Musuem
Hours: Sunday, April 25, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

2010 B.F.A. Exhibition

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute
Hours: Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Artwork by 98 candidates for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Kansas City Art Institute will be on view in the “2010 B.F.A. Exhibition” from April 17 to May 15 at the H&R Block Artspace at KCAI, 16 E. 43rd St. A closing reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 14. In connection with the exhibition, art history and creative writing students will read from “Compendium 2010,” an anthology of their writings and images, at noon Friday, May 14.

With work installed throughout the Artspace — in the main gallery and also on the upper level — this invitational exhibition will include work from all departments at KCAI, including animation, art history, ceramics, creative writing, digital filmmaking, fiber, graphic design, interdisciplinary arts, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

Insiders Guide to the Arts in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area: A Panel Presentation

Presented By: Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities, YWCA of Greater KC, KC Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts
Venue: YWCA of Greater Kansas City Black Box Theater
Hours: Thursday, April 15, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities, Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants, and the YWCA of Greater Kansas City present an intimate evening with some of Kansas City’s leading artistic entrepreneurs, arts lawyers and grant providers in a panel discussion format. Learn more about how these individuals succeed, support and survive in Kansas City.

Panelists include-

· multidisciplinary artist

· legal advisor for artists starting their own businesses or marketing themselves

· prominent gallery director

· screenwriter/director

· arts grant manager

· performance artistic director

Three Galleries of New Artwork

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Saturday, May 08, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Mother's Day for Mother Earth

Presented By: StoneLion Puppet Theatre
Venue: Brush Creek Amphitheater at Theis Park
Hours: Sunday, May 09, 2010 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

Memorial Day Concert

Presented By: Olathe Civic Band
Venue: Veteran's Memorial Park
Hours: Monday, May 31, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
This concert marks the start of our playing season and takes place outdoors in Veteran's Memorial Park in the western part of Olathe. It is part of the City of Olathe’s official celebration to honor our brave veterans. Speeches, dedications and patriotic music played by the Olathe Civic Band are part of the tradition. All concerts are free and open to the general public.

Speakers Series: Kansans Remember World War II

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Shawnee Town's Museum Town Hall
Hours: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Dr. Rachel Goossen, a professor at Washburn University specializing in 20th century U.S. and women's history, will present reflections on life during WWII as recalled by Kansans who lived through the period.

Co-sponsored by the KS Humanities Council.

Museum Days at the Library: "Gardens"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, May 07, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Museum Days at the Library: "Houses"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, June 04, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Northeast Kansas City is bursting with culture! Come hear stories and listen to songs about some of the people you find living there.

Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys

Presented By: Lied Center of Kansas
Venue: The Lied Center of Kansas
Hours: Friday, August 20, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

First Sunday Family Fun Day: Longs Love Horses

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, June 06, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

R. A. Long and his family were devout lovers of horses. Mr. Long had his Carriage House built first before his home, Corinthian Hall, and his daughter, Loula Long Combs, became a world famous equestrienne. Explore this great passion of the Long family at First Sunday Family Fun Day from noon-4 p.m. Sunday, June 6 at the Museum. The Long family had a fondness for Hackney horses. Visitors can pet a Hackney pony and visit with members of The Carriage and Driving Society of Greater Kansas City. Visitors can also create a horse picture, or play horse bingo and win prizes and so much more.

• Visit with a Hackney Pony
• Learn about what it takes to take care of horse talking with members of the Carriage and Driving Society!

• Create a horse picture and learn about perspective at the same time.
• Play horse bingo and win prizes.
• Design your own horse mask
• Watch a film about horses in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: Charles Ferruzza, Restaurant critic, The Pitch

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Discover Kansas City Museum’s historic Music and Sound Collection with UMKC Marr Sound Archive Director and KCUR radio host Chuck Haddix at 6 p.m., Tuesday July 27 at Union Station.

"That's A Wrap"

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Barkley
Hours: Thursday, June 10, 2010 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Please join the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City for the 2010 ArtsKC Fund Campaign Celebration & Announcement of Results

5:00 p.m. Reception

5:30 p.m. Program

Featuring comments by

Kemper Museum Director and CEO

Rachael Blackburn Cozad

and a performance by

Inspiration Grant Recipient, Enrique Chi

10th Annual West 18th Street Fashion Show

Presented By: The Pitch
Venue: West 18th Street Fashion Show
Hours: Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
The West 18th Street Fashion Show is an annual fashion show in Kansas City, held at dusk on a Saturday night in June. Each year, the event organizers and a credentialed selection panel choose 18 designers from a large pool of applicants to be featured designers. It is a free event held outdoors in the middle of 18th Street in the Crossroads neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, on the block between Baltimore Avenue and Wyandotte Street. It is no coincidence that the event is held on 18th Street, which has become a hub of art and fashion in Kansas City.

Grand Arts presents Painting Séance, new works by Ryan Mosley

Presented By: Grand Arts
Venue: Grand Arts
Hours: Friday, June 04, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

19th Nervous Breakdown

Presented By: Eclectics Gallery
Venue: Eclectics Gallery
Hours: Friday, July 16, 2010 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Dark Shadows Gallery Opening

Presented By: Eclectics Gallery
Venue: Eclectics Gallery
Hours: Friday, October 08, 2010 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Summer Happy Hour - Reception for Ada Neidenthal

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Hours: Friday, June 18, 2010 from 1:00 AM to 2:00 AM

First Sunday Family Funday: Cultures of Northeast Kansas City

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, July 11, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Children’s games have evolved tremendously over the 100 years since the Long family moved into Corinthian Hall. Games have progressed from lawn darts, hopscotch and jacks to action figures and video games. Take a journey through the past 100 years and see how children’s games have progressed at the Museum’s August First Sunday Family Fun Day, from noon-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 1 at the Museum. Visitor’s will learn the rules and play hopscotch and jacks, play bocce and croquet on the Museum grounds and so much more!

Learn the rules to Hopscotch and Jacks!
Play croquet and bocce on the Museum lawn
Cool off with some 21^st century computer games in the Visitor Center
Listen to songs about rhymes and games with Emily Tummons.

Community Curator: Chuck Haddix, Marr Sound Archive Director, UMKC Miller Nichols Library

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

See beautiful decorative silver and examine the decoration and manufacturing of these silver flat, table and hollow wares at the Museum’s August Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, Aug.24^th at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Dr. Catherine Futter, the Helen Jane and R. Hugh "Pat" Uhlmann Curator of Decorative Arts at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, will explore a large selection of items from the Museum’s Silver Collection.

Shay Estes and Trio ALL

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 09, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Listen to smooth jazz and eclectic rock music from Kansas City area musicians as the Museum kicks off its second annual Fridays in July concert series, sponsored by the Historic Northeast Cultural Arts Commission.

Mike Miller and Trio JuJu

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 16, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Kansas City Youth Jazz Program

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 23, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Making Movies

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 30, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Museum Days at the Library: "Cultures in the Northeast"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, July 02, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Summer’s here and it’s hot outside! Come listen to stories to help you keep cool and make a fan to take home with you.

Award-winning journalist Jonathan Eig to discuss Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: National Archives at Kansas City
Hours: Thursday, July 15, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The National Archives at Kansas City will host award-winning author Jonathan Eig on Thursday, July 15, at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion on his new book Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster. Eig will be available to sign copies of his book after the discussion. A 6:00 p.m. reception will precede the event. In addition, attendees are encouraged to view the exhibition Mugged!: Facing Life at Leavenworth prior to the discussion.

Alphonse Capone moved to Chicago in 1920 without the notion that he would one day become America’s Public Enemy No.1. Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster dives deep into the world of the notorious crime boss. Get Capone not only details the fall of Capone, but his rise to control and how he maintained it. Eig traces Capone’s career from his beginnings as a small time Brooklyn hoodlum to his virtual control of the underworld in 1920s Chicago before he was thirty years old. Capone made a fortune bootlegging during Prohibition, eventually extending his reach to racketeering, gambling, and other mob-controlled activities. Ruthless in exercising his power, he evaded criminal charges for his actions, in large part because of the fundamental corruption of Chicago’s law enforcement. Capone would become a national celebrity, igniting the ire of President Hoover. Get Capone presents information that was found in newly discovered personal and government documents including new theories such as - did Capone really have anything to do with St. Valentine’s Day Massacre? Filled with astonishing new information that will change the familiar story, Get Capone offers a fascinating, riveting account of an iconic American figure.

Jonathan Eig is a former writer and editor for the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal and the former executive editor of the Chicago magazine. Eig is the author of two highly acclaimed New York Times best sellers, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. Luckiest Man won the Casey Award for the best baseball book of 2005, and Opening Day was selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated. He has appeared on The Daily Show with John Stewart, NBC’s Today Show, CNN, NPR, and frequently lectures across the United States. He currently lives in Chicago, half a mile from the site of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, with his wife and children.

OPEN STUDIOS AT PARTNERSHIP PLACE (LAST OPEN STUDIOS UNTIL SEPTEMBER!)

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: pARTnership Place
Hours: Friday, June 18, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The public is invited to visit the studios of the visual and performing artists in UCP’s Studio Residency Program at pARTnership Place, where they may meet the artists, view recent work and work in progress, and get a behind-the-scenes perspective on these artists’ working processes. Get an inside look into the emerging works of UCP Studio Residents Lori Bury, David Carlisle, Julie Malen, Elaina Wendt Michalski, Nicholas Naughton, Luke Rocha, and Aaron Storck.

COMMUNITY & LONELINESS

Presented By: Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project
Venue: Paragraph
Hours: Friday, May 21, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Community + Loneliness examines the conflict between desire for community and lifestyle and personal choices that undermine the fulfillment of this desire. The exhibition features artists whose work expresses a sense of loneliness stemming from isolation from or within a community, as well as works that speak to community identification and attempts toward community building. Artists are Miki Baird, Amy Casey, AJ Halbrook, Peregrine Honig, Amy Kligman, Michael Lopez, Hugh Merrill, Charlie Mylie, Jason Needham, Anne Pearce, Sean Semones, Drew Roth, Rachel Wetchensky, and Whoop Dee Doo.

COMMUNITY & LONELINESS

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Paragraph
Hours: Friday, June 18, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Community + Loneliness examines the conflict between desire for community and lifestyle and personal choices that undermine the fulfillment of this desire. The exhibition features artists whose work expresses a sense of loneliness stemming from isolation from or within a community, as well as works that speak to community identification and attempts toward community building. Artists are Miki Baird, Amy Casey, AJ Halbrook, Peregrine Honig, Amy Kligman, Michael Lopez, Hugh Merrill, Charlie Mylie, Jason Needham, Anne Pearce, Sean Semones, Drew Roth, Rachel Wetchensky, and Whoop Dee Doo.

VIVA LA VIDA: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY & LIFE

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: La Esquina
Hours: Friday, June 04, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Viva la Vida: A Celebration of Community & Life is a large group exhibition curated by Jenny Mendez, Director of Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery and Chairperson of the Guild of Latino Fine Arts (Azteca de Greater Kansas City). It features many dozens of artworks of far-ranging media, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs, textile-based and mixed media pieces, all of which represent responses to and interpretations of the exhibition’s title. Many works reflect participating artists’ connections to the Latino community in Kansas City and elsewhere.

Featured artists include Rodolfo Marron, Juan Moya, Jessica Manco, John Hernandez, Miriam Feingold, Israel Garcia, Adolfo Martinez, Alisha Gambino, Arzie Umali, Jason Sierra, Thomas Woodward, Dominic Murillo, Robert Tapley Bustamante, Sammy Persons, Darwin Arevalo, Luke Rocha, Susan Moveno, Elaina Wendt Michalski, Anthony Oropeza, Monique Salazar and many others.

River Market Regional Exhibition

Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

River Market Regional Exhibition

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

River Market Regional Exhibition

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Thursday, July 15, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

River Market Regional Exhibition

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

River Market Regional Exhibition

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

River Market Regional Exhibition

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Saturday, July 10, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
The 28th Annual River Market Regional Exhibtion runs from July 9, 2010 through August 7, 2010. Artists from Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma were eligible for this juried exhibtion. This year's juror was Barbara O'Brien, curator of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. 53 works of art from 31 artists will be on display. Award winners are:
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Marydorsey Waneless Joe Bussell Jean Wender Eric Nichols

In the Underground Gallery, Ken Konchel will be showing his abstract photographs in his show titled: Building Arrangements.

Story Time with Kathy McLellan

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Celebrating Women Artists of Color

Presented By: Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities, Inc.
Venue: Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities
Hours: Friday, July 09, 2010 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

As a part of Downtown Kansas City, Kansas Second Fridays Art Walks, Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities will be Celebrating Women Artists of Color. Come celebrate women through the visual arts, poetry, and music.

Among those featured:
Nedra Bonds
Bonnye Brown
Maria Boyd
Carolyn Chaperon
Wilma Dooley
Virginia Moore
Ernestine Owens
Nicolette Paige
Ada Shakir
Sherry Whetstone

First Sunday Family Funday: 100 Years of Children's Games

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, August 01, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Family histories are passed down in many ways, orally through songs and storytelling, or written, through poems and journals. Visitors will embark on a journey through their own family histories at First Sunday Family Fun Day from 12-4 p.m. Sunday, March 7. Families can learn and experiment with some of the different ways people have passed down their family histories, such as through oral histories and story quilts. Visitors can listen to story songs with singer Emily Tummons in the StoryTarium as well as create their own family history journal and start recording their family histories in the Museum’s Visitor Center.

• Create your own family history journal

• Design a unique cave drawing

• Construct a story quilt to tell your family story
• Learn how tattoos were used in some cultures to record events and show status

Community Curator: Dr. Catherine Futter, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Explore Kansas City’s deeply rooted history through classic postcards at Kansas City Museum’s September Community Curator Lecture. Northeast Kansas City historian, author and publisher of the Northeast News, Michael Bushnell, will track Kansas City’s development into an urban metropolis through the Museum’s Postcard Collection.

Museum Days at the Library: "Summ in the City"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, August 06, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Come hear stories and sing songs about different kinds of transportation. Make your own transportation creation using different shapes to take home with you.

Speakers Series: A Writing Life

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Shawnee Town's Museum Town Hall
Hours: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Kansas City Star columnist, Charles Gusewelle, will talk about life as a writer in the heartland.

Tumblin' Weeds

Presented By: Courtney Wasson
Venue: Hallmark Crown Center
Hours: Saturday, July 10, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM

Event #1

Presented By: Octarium
Venue: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Hours: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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Event #1

Presented By: Octarium
Venue: ArtsKC - The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Hours: Saturday, July 24, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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Art/Work Opening Reception

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Sunday, August 01, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Art/Work - Creativity from the Cube

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Sunday, August 01, 2010 from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Art/Work "On Stage" and Awards Program

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Copaken Stage
Hours: Friday, August 06, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The Westport Library Speaker Series for August

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Westport Branch
Hours: Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Dr. Westcott's topic will be GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 11 which was issued by Union Brigadier General Thomas Ewing, Jr. on 25 August 1863. The Order was issued following a guerrilla raid on Lawrence, Kansas, less than a week earlier and was designed to evacuate four western Missouri counties. Loyalists and non-loyalists alike had to relocate to military outposts near Independence, Harrisonville, Hickman’s Mills, Kansas City and Pleasant Hill.

Our distinguished speaker is an Associate Professor of History and Department Chair of Culture and Society at Park University in Parkville, Mo. Dr. Westcott was graduated from Avila College with a bachelor of arts in History in Secondary Education in 1988; the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a master of arts in History in 1994; and the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, with a doctorate in History in 2002.

He has presented many papers on topics related to Kansas and Missouri history at numerous local, regional, and national conferences. Most notably, General Order Number Eleven, The Trial of Tears Revisited, The Underground Railroad in Kansas, and O Thy Brothers and Sisters of Kansas have been applauded by many audiences.

Westcott is a lifetime member of the Mound City, Kan. Historical Society and the Lecompton, Kan. Historical Society. Recently, he accepted a seat on the board of directors of the Westport Historical Society. He has been a recipient of a Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship in New York City. Educational awards include the J.L Zwingle Award for Outstanding Teacher, Outstanding Faculty Award and two “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” recognitions

JoHo Story Teller

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Event: Story Teller Jo Ho @ the Museum

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Details: Join us for a morning of exciting tales performed by story teller, Jo Ho. This week’s theme is “Jungle Tales.”

Fee: FREE. Sponsored by Target.

Registration: Drop-in for families. Groups of ten or more must pre-register. Call (913) 715-2552 to register.

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, KS, 913-715-2550.

First Sunday Family Funday: Record your own history

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, September 05, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Kansas City Museum’s Corinthian Hall is one of Kansas City’s greatest landmarks. Learn about the Mansion and explore its secrets at the Museum’s October First Sunday Family Fun Day, Sunday, October 3 from noon-4 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will create their own stained glass creation, based on the beautiful stained glass windows inside Corinthian Hall. Families will also learn about and explore the different types of Greek column styles and find out how Corinthian Hall got its name, and so much more!

• Make your own stained glass creation

• Play unique animal games and puzzles

• Learn about different Greek column styles and find out how the Corinthian Hall got its name

• Listen to spooky stories in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: Michael Bushnell, Northeast Kansas City historian & Author

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

See a rare 1870s Belgian marionette, found in the Nantucket, Massachusetts attic of famed puppet master Tony Sarg, at Kansas City Museum’s December Community Curator lecture Tuesday, December 14 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Kansas City’s own master puppeteer, Paul Mesner, will explore the intricacies and creation of the marionette, donated to the Museum in 1963.

Corinthian Hall Lecture

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Central Branch
Hours: Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Join us for a lively conversation about one of Kansas City’s most beloved architectural and cultural icons. This wide-ranging discussion will explore the transformation of Corinthian Hall from the palatial residence of the Long family into Kansas City’s first history Museum. We’ll hear about the City of Kansas City’s ongoing restoration in light of how historic house museums, locally and nationally, are adapting to contemporary realities, with panelists Lisa Lee, director of the Jane Addams-Hull House in Chicago; Dennis Domer, associate professor at the University of Kansas and Lori Cox Paul, archival operations director, National Archives and Records Administration, Central Plains Region.

Latino Writers Collective

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, September 18, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Museum Days at the Library: "Getting from Place to Place"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, August 06, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Come hear stories and sing songs about different kinds of transportation. Make your own transportation creation using different shapes to take home with you.

Quilting: Now and Then

Presented By: Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities, Inc.
Venue: Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities
Hours: Friday, August 13, 2010 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Quilting: Then and Now
For more information about the artists follow these links:

Ned'Ra Bonds Sherry Whetstone Kim Eichler-Messmer

Quilting: Then and Now features three contemporary quilters of note from the Kansas City area: Ned'Ra Bonds, Kim Eichler-Messmer and Sherry Whetstone. The Exhibit will also have a historical poster show of Civil War quilts with anti-slavery themes. The 5:00 to 8:00 pm opening will give the public the opportunity to talk to the artists, as well as experience hands-on quilting activities lead by Ned'Ra and Sherry. Kim will have a second exhibit area in her studio adjacent to the gallery, in the Pressroom Studios. She will be on hand in her studio to discuss her work. With live music and refreshments, the opening should be an intriguing, educational and FUN event. Free to the public, please join us at 756 Armstrong, Kansas City, KS 66101. Email kariotisc@kvarts.org or call 913-371-0024 for more information.

Healthy Collection Care Habits: Exhibiting Museum Artifacts Safely

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: National Archives at Kansas City
Hours: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
LEARN HOW TO:

ü Examine artifacts to determine how the object is made, where it is stable/unstable and where it needs support for exhibition;

ü Protect artifacts on exhibit from slippage or and other movement due to vibration or visitor movement, and theft;

ü Choose the most appropriate materials for supporting and mounting artifacts on exhibit;

ü Use or modify ready-made supports; and

ü Design and construct custom-made mounts.

Workshop registration brochures are available on the League’s website. http://www.heritageleaguekc.org/pdfs/Heritage_League_Workshop_Brochure_2010.pdf

All Registrations due by OCTOBER 5, 2010.

Charlotte Street Foundation 2010 Visual Art Awards

Presented By: Charlotte Street Foundation and Grand Arts
Venue: Grand Arts
Hours: Friday, September 03, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Discussion with the Artists of the Charlotte Street Foundation 2010 Visual Art Awards

Presented By: Charlotte Street Foundation and Grand Arts
Venue: Grand Arts
Hours: Saturday, September 04, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Charlotte Street Foundation 2010 Awards Exhibition

Presented By: Grand Arts and Charlotte Street Foundation
Venue: Grand Arts
Hours: Thursday, September 09, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Awards Exhibition

Presented By: Grand Arts and Charlotte Street Foundation
Venue: Grand Arts
Hours: Saturday, September 11, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

JoHo StoryTeller

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Join us for a morning of exciting tales performed by story teller, Jo Ho. Today’s theme: Aesop’s Fables.

Fee: FREE. Sponsored by Target. Each family receives one free book to take home.

Registration: Drop-in for families. Groups of ten or more must pre-register. Call (913) 715-2552 to register.

ArtsKC Ripple Effect Inspiration Breakfast

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
Hours: Thursday, October 14, 2010 from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Fall Happy Hour featuring the work of Joe Bussell

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Hours: Friday, September 17, 2010 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Join us for an evening of cocktails, light appetizers and amazing art work!

Our featured artist for the evening, Joe Bussell, holds a BFA in Painting from the University of Kansas and MFAs in both Ceramics and Painting from Washington University in St. Louis. His exhibition record is extensive with solo and group shows through the United States and England. Bussell’s current series, “Scribble Play” engage the viewer in a conversation about pictorial, microbial, and astronomical space and the poetic connections in between.

Red Shift

Puppets for the Planet - a green art festival!

Presented By: StoneLion Puppet Theatre
Venue: Roeland Park Community Center
Hours: Saturday, October 09, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

First Sunday Family Funday: Secrets of the Mansion

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, October 03, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Discover the many ways people travelled 100 years ago, just as Corinthian Hall was being completed, at the Museum’s November First Sunday Family Fun Day Sunday, Nov. 7 from noon-4 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will play transportation matching games, create a model boat out of clay, use shapes to create a transportation method people used in 1910 and so much more!

• Use shapes to create a transportation method people used in 1910
• Play transportation matching games
• Build a model boat out of clay
• Watch a movie about Trains in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: Michael Raynor, Professor

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Latino Writers Collective

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Hallmarket: A Hallmark Artist Art Fair

Presented By: Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Venue: Hallmark Square
Hours: Saturday, October 02, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Hallmarket: A Hallmark Artist Art Fair is a celebration of creativity in honor of Hallmark's 100th year. Nearly 70 Hallmark artists, photographers, sculptors, designers, and photo stylists will display and offer their work for sale. This is the artists’ personal work, outside of their jobs with Hallmark. Purchases may be made by cash or check only, directly to the artist. The Hallmark Visitors Center and Kaleidoscope will be open during the event as well.

Museum Days at the Library: "Getting from Place to Place"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, September 03, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Fall is here. Listen to stories about the seasons and experiment with leaf printing.

Museum Days at the Library: "All About Fall

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, September 03, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Fall is here. Listen to stories about the seasons and experiment with leaf printing.

ArtSounds: Digital Honkbox Revival

Presented By: UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
Venue: Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall
Hours: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Featuring the works of Andrew Cole, Scott Blasco, and Brad Baumgardner and the choreography of Paula Weber.

Family Fun Day

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Join us for award-winning magician Keith Leff’s Halloween-themed magic show! Keith has appeared on numerous television shows and has been featured in several local newspapers and magazine features. His show is fun for the whole family.

Fee: FREE.

Halloween Fun!

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Sunday, October 31, 2010 from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Wear your costume for Halloween fun at the Johnson County Museum! Make a craft to take home. Halloween treats will be provided for kids.

Fee: FREE!

Down the Drain

Presented By: StoneLion Puppet Theatre
Venue: Roeland Park Community Center
Hours: Saturday, October 09, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Down the Drain

Presented By: StoneLion Puppet Theatre
Venue: Roeland Park Community Center
Hours: Saturday, October 09, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Chloë Hanslip- Violinist | Free Discovery Concert

Presented By: Harriman-Jewell Series
Venue: Folly Theater
Hours: Friday, October 15, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Now 22, British violinist Chloë Hanslip is already an established international artist of distinction. “[Hanslip] is likely to become the greatest violinist of her generation,” wrote Limelight’s Christopher Latham. Her recent recording of John Adams’ Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra entered the U.K. Classical Charts at number 2. Philip Clark, writing in Gramophone, concluded that “Playing like this should secure Chloë Hanslip’s reputation for life.” When she was just 11, Hanslip was a featured performer in a BBC presentation Masterclass, led by charismatic Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov. (In 1993, the Harriman-Jewell Series presented Vengerov in his American recital debut.)

"Young British violinist Chloë Hanslip, who is making quite a name for herself, will perform Oct. 15. People pay good money to hear the talented Hanslip perform in other cities, but the Harriman-Jewell series is presenting her free in one of its Discovery concerts."
Patrick Neas, The Kansas City Star

Use the "Get Tickets" link to print tickets at home now or call 816-415-5025 for assistance (limit: four tickets per household). Seating is first come, first served.

The intent behind the Harriman-Jewell Series Discovery Concerts is to introduce excellence and artistry to new audiences by eliminating a cost barrier. The free events begin at 7 p.m. (earlier than other evening performances) to better accommodate the schedules of families with children. Please tell friends about this free concert.

Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano no 8 in G major, Op. 30 no 3

Artist: Chloë Hanslip (Violin)

Szymanowski: Myths (3), Op. 30

Artist: Chloë Hanslip (Violin)

Stravinsky: Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano

Artist: Chloë Hanslip (Violin)

Saint-Saëns: Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1 in D minor, Op. 75

Artist: Chloë Hanslip (Violin)

Alessio Bax- Piano | Free Discovery Concert

Presented By: Harriman-Jewell Series
Venue: Folly Theater
Hours: Saturday, November 20, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant for 2009, Alessio Bax is universally praised for his lyrical playing and insightful interpretations. The Italian-born pianist has won the hearts of critics and audiences across the globe since taking first prize at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 2000. “Great music-making has the illusion of spontaneity—and a quality of ecstasy,” Scott Cantrell of the Dallas Morning News declared. “Start to finish, Mr. Bax sounded as if improvising the music on the spot. He went wherever its spirit, now tempestuous, now sublime, took him. If clarity was occasionally sacrificed to earthquake, wind and fire, so be it. But introspective music became an out-of-body experience… go-for-broke, blood-stirring playing like this was an experience to treasure.”

Use the "Get Tickets" link to print tickets at home now or call 816-415-5025 for assistance (limit: four tickets per household). Seating is first come, first served.

The intent behind the Harriman-Jewell Series Discovery Concerts is to introduce excellence and artistry to new audiences by eliminating a cost barrier. The free events begin at 7 p.m. (earlier than other evening performances) to better accommodate the schedules of families with children. Please tell friends about this free concert.

Program TBA

The Barstow School 2010 Fall Art Show

Presented By: The Barstow School
Venue: TBA
Hours: Friday, October 15, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Regional Used Book Sale

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Metcalf South Shopping Center
Hours: Thursday, November 04, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM

A “Friends of Library Member Only” Preview Sale will be held on Wednesday, November 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. which requires a current Friends of the Library membership card that may be purchased at the sale or at the Friends Used book stores located at Antioch and Blue Valley Neighborhood libraries.

According to Marsha Bennett, Community Relations Coordinator for Johnson County Library, this new sale be similar in size and scope of the Library’s Sizzlin’ Summer Used Book which was held in June at Metcalf South that raised over $83,000.00.

“We are delighted to offer another large regional book sale for the community,” Bennett stated. “There is definitely something for every age and interest. We estimate there will be approximately 100,000 items, all organized in easy to find categories. We have outgrown our space for quarterly used book sales previously held at the Antioch Neighborhood Library, so have moved to two semi-annual sales. Metcalf South offers a larger space and plenty of parking.”

According to Bennett this is a great community recycling event and a way to stock up on winter reading material. “Not only are items weeded from the library’s collection taken to the sale, but donations from the community make up about 60 to 70% of the items offered at the sale,” Bennett said. “Books and audiovisual materials are sorted by categories so people can easily find their area of interest or favorite authors. There are hardbacks, paperbacks, fiction and nonfiction, children’s books, as well as some audiovisual materials. The variety of items offered at this sale will certainly please everyone. And the prices are very affordable.”

Regional Used Book Sale

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Metcalf South Shopping Center
Hours: Friday, November 05, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM

Regional Used Book Sale

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Metcalf South Shopping Center
Hours: Friday, November 05, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Master Class, Dave Douglas, trumpeter/composer

Presented By: UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
Venue: Grant Hall Theatre
Hours: Saturday, October 09, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Two-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician Dave Douglas is arguably the most prolific and original trumpeter-composer of his generation. From his New York base, where he has lived since the mid 1980s, Mr. Douglas has continued to earn lavish national and international acclaim including prizes from such organizations as the New York Jazz Awards, Down Beat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, and the Italian Jazz Critics Society.

Chris Waage, bass trombone

Presented By: UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
Venue: White Recital Hall
Hours: Saturday, October 09, 2010 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Doctoral Recital
with Ron Steen, piano
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CASTÉRÉDE: Fantaisie Concertante
SPILLMAN: Concerto for Bass Trombone
TOSTI: Marechiare
PUCCINI: "Nessun dorma!" from Turandot
VERDI: "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from La traviata
DAVID: Concertino for Trombone in E-flat Major, Op. 4
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FREE

8th Annual Walk with Civil War Spirits

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Lone Jack Historical Society
Hours: Sunday, October 31, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Follow your spirit guide back through time on hallowed ground where men fought and died during the Civil War defending our liberties.
Search out the spirits of those who lived and died in the Border area. Listen to Rooster Cogburn, the man with "true grit" tell you how he lost his eye in the battle.
Visit with farmer Elmer Thayer as he explains why he answered Col. Shelby's recruitment call.

Was that another guide's lantern or a soldier's ghost gliding past that tree? Ohhh, was that the night wind, or a spirit's caress on your cheek?

Dress for the weather. The spirit walk and museum are free, but donations to the museum are appreciated.
The Lone Jack Historical Society is an all volunteer organization that manages the museum.

Bleeding Kansas and Guerrilla Warfare, 1854-1861

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: The Trailside Center
Hours: Sunday, November 07, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

First Sunday Family Funday: Transportation in 1910

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, November 07, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The holidays are a special time to sit back and celebrate the good times with family and friends. Come and help celebrate the winter holidays from various cultures around the world from noon-4 p.m. Sunday, January 9, during Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day at the Museum. Learn about the relationship between the poinsettia and Latin American cultures or the mythical Icelandic Yule Cat. Visitors will also make a Swedish paper heart and create a holiday cornucopia. Families can also watch a holiday film in the StoryTarium.

Build a holiday cornucopia

Create an Icelandic Yule Cat

Make paper poinsettias to give to a friend

Weave a Swedish paper heart

Watch a fun holiday film

Community Curator: Heather Paxton, The Independent senior research editor The Ball Gowns from Yesteryear

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Discover classic ball gowns from yesteryear at November’s Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, November 16 at Union Station. The Independent senior research editor Heather Paxton will explore past Kansas City Jewel Ball gowns in the Museum’s collection. The collection includes ball gowns worn by former chair women of the Jewel Ball, including high end dresses worn by notable chairwomen Enid Kemper and Clara Hockaday.

Community Curator: Paul Mesner, Founder and Artistic Director, The Paul Mesner Puppets Inc.

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Examine rare Horse ornaments from the Museum’s well-known Dyer Collection of Native American artifacts at Kansas City Museum’s Community Curator Lecture, Tuesday, January 25^th at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Artist and textile designer Jason Pollen, will investigate the ornaments’ decorative significance and cultural context of origin.

Corinthian Hall Centennial Celebration

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: UMB Building
Hours: Thursday, December 02, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Join us to celebrate the centennial of Kansas City's best-loved architectural icon, Corinthian Hall. There will be an elegant reception at the R.A. Long Building (now the UMB bank building at 10^th and Grand) from 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2. Enjoy striking views from one of our first “sky-scrapers” and celebrate the centennial of a historic architectural treasure. You’ll enjoy smooth jazz music, and a joyous performance of the Long Story of Corinthian Hall, by The Paul Mesner Puppets.

Neighborhood Holiday Open House

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, December 03, 2010 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Join the Friends of Kansas City Museum and the Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association at the Kansas City Museum’s Neighborhood Holiday Open House from 4-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3^rd. We’ll toast the holidays, listen to seasonal music from the musical group Ni Ceallaigh, presented by Northeast Arts KC, and welcome our Fairy Princesses.

Story Teller Jo Ho @ the JoCo Museum

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Event: Story Teller Jo Ho @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Details: Join us for a morning of exciting tales performed by story teller, Jo Ho. Today’s theme is Home Sweet Home.

Fee: FREE. Sponsored by Target. Each family receives one free book to take home.

Registration: Drop-in for families. Groups of ten or more must pre-register. Call (913) 715-2552 to register.

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, KS, 913-715-2550.

Family Fun Day

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, November 20, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010

Event: Family Fun Day @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Details: Join us each month for a fun day of learning for all ages. Tour the KidScape Exhibit and make a craft to take home.

Fee: FREE.

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Road, Shawnee, KS 66217 913-715-2550

Christmas at Lanesfield

Presented By: Lanesfield Historic Site
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, November 27, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Date: November 27 – January 2, 2011

Time: 1:00 – 5:00p.m. Tuesday – Sunday.

Event: Christmas at Lanesfield.

Details: Discover what Christmas meant to school children in rural Kansas at the turn of the 20th century. The restored one-room schoolhouse will be decorated for a 1904 Christmas. Join in on the festivities and make your very own Christmas ornament.

Fee: FREE!

Location: Lanesfield School Historic Site, 18745 S. Dillie Road, Edgerton, KS

913-893-6645.

Stone Lion Puppet Theater Presents Twas Etc

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Event: Stone Lion Puppet Theater Presents Twas Etc. @ the JoCo Museum
Time: 10:00 a.m
Details: Santa is off doing a practice run, so Mrs. Claus decides to get her friends together for a wacky storytelling session of Clement C. Moore's famous poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. A great show for all ages!

Fee: $3 per person; members $2 per person. Tickets sold on a first-come, first-served basis; space is limited. Advance registration is recommended. Call (913) 715-2575 to purchase tickets. Maximum of three children per adult. Children must be supervised at all times.

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, KS, 913-715-2550.

In-Progress New Play Reading: Honest

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Unicorn Theatre
Hours: Sunday, November 14, 2010 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

NEA Grant Workshop

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Central Library
Hours: Thursday, December 09, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

ArtsKC Holiday Happy Hour!

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: ArtsKC - The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Hours: Friday, December 10, 2010 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

JoHo Story Teller

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Join us for a morning of exciting tales performed by story teller Jo Ho. Today’s theme is Winterfest Around the World.

Fee: FREE. Sponsored by Target. Each family receives one free book to take home

Santa is Coming to Town

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, December 18, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Event: Christmas @ KidScape

Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Details: Santa visits KidScape from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Bring your camera and take a picture of your child with Santa! Craft activities will also be available in the Education Center from 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Fee: FREE.

Location: The Johnson County Museum 6305 Lackman Road, Shawnee, KS 66217 913-715-2550

Bizarre Bazaar

Presented By: Key, Betty Household
Venue: Lawrence Arts Center
Hours: Saturday, November 27, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

It’s Bizarre Bazaar time again! This is a grassroots event started several years ago by a small group of Lawrence artists. It has grown to include over 100 local artists from the surrounding communities, including Kansas City (and Betty Key) - and is now a yearly, highly anticipated, after-Thanksgiving event!

When: Saturday, November 27^th from 9:00 a.m.to 5:00 p,m.
Where: Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS 66044

This popular Lawrence tradition features original and unusual hand-crafted specialty items for all occasions. Some of these unique gift items include:

Ceramics
Glass
Fiber Art
Jewelry
Candles
Soap
Paper mache
Mixed media
Paintings
Photography
Much, much more!

Food and live entertainment all day long! This is a family event for all to enjoy. Come support local artists and experience the original works of a show unlike any other!

Free Admission, wheelchair accessible.

For additional information call: 785-841-2645 or 785-691-7941
Visit our website at www.bizbazart.com

First Sunday Family Funday: Winter Holidays Around the World

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, January 09, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

The Gilded Age, which spanned from 1870-1900, was one of the most dynamic, contentious and volatile periods in American history. America’s industrial economy boomed, creating great wealth and opportunities for businessmen, while leaving farmers and workers struggling to survive. Explore this important era in American history with the Kansas City Museum at First Sunday Family Fun Day, Sunday, February 6 from noon-4 p.m. Families and children will create art work inspired by Gilded Age music, build a bridge similar to the Brooklyn Bridge, and so much more.

Listen to examples of music from the Gilded Age and create your own work of art inspired by it!

The Brooklyn Bridge was built during the Gilded Age. Build your own bridge using the materials provided

Women used fans for more than a cool breeze. Make a fan and learn how fans were used to communicate messages to possible suitors

Look at images from the 1893 Chicago Exposition and learn about the connection between the Exposition and Corinthian Hall, home of the Kansas City Museum

Watch a film in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: David Jackson, Archivist, Jackson County Historical Society

Presented By: Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Explore the many inhabitants of the famed Gilliss House Hotel through its historic register at Kansas City Museum’s January Community Curator lecture Tuesday, January 25 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Jackson County Historical Society archivist David Jackson will discuss some of the hotel’s inhabitants, including George Armstrong Custer, and their journeys westward.

Museum Days at the Library: All About Horses

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Thursday, January 06, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Come learn about why different kinds of hats are worn. Is it for fun? Does it serve as protection? Is it worn at work or play? Find out the answers while we listen to stories and sing songs.

Preschool Storytime: Getting from Place to Place

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Come listen to stories about unique pets and make an animal craft to take home with you.

An Evening of Warming

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Grand Arts
Hours: Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Improbable Futures for Unpopular Places: An Evening with Rob Walker

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Grand Arts
Hours: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Forte Film Series - The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Presented By: Friends of Chamber Music
Venue: Tivoli Cinemas
Hours: Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Family Fun Day

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, January 15, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

JoHo Storyteller

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Today’s theme is Alaskan Adventure. Gear up in your parkas and mukluks for a winter journey to icy Alaska. Through stories, songs, interesting facts, and breathtaking photos, travelers will get nose to nose with the Eskimos, polar and katmai bears, Beluga whales, and the dog-mushing Malamutes and Siberian Huskies.

Fee: FREE. Sponsored by Target. Each family receives one free book to take home.

Registration: Drop-in for families. Groups of ten or more must pre-register. Call (913) 715-2552 to register.

JoHo Storyteller

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Story Teller Jo Ho @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Details: Today’s theme is Ms. Bookfinder’s Magical Bookmobile. Come along with me, in my magic bookmobile, chimes Ms. Bookfinder! Listeners will cruise through the shelves of great children’s authors such as Seuss, Kimmel, Carle, and more for a hilarious interactive picture book excursion.

Fee: FREE. Sponsored by Target. Each family receives one free book to take home.

Registration: Drop-in for families. Groups of ten or more must pre-register. Call (913) 715-2552 to register.

First Sunday Family Funday: Gilded Age

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, February 06, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Come and learn about Kansas City’s ground-breaking equestrienne Loula Long Combs at Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day, March 6 from 12-4 p.m. Visitors will explore Loula’s love of fashion and especially hats, by designing your own hat to take home and dressing your own paper doll. You’ll also get to pet and see one of Loula’s favorite types of horses, Hackney horses, and visit with members of the Carriage and Driving Society. All these great programs and so much more, all for free!

Loula wore some amazing hats! Design your own hat to wear home

Take a look at our Loula Long Combs paperdoll book, and dress your own paper doll.

Learn about horses from members of the Carriage and Driving Society

Watch a film about the Long family in the StoryTarium

Museum Days at the Library: Do You Like My Hat?

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, February 04, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Children have played with many different kinds of dolls over the years. Come and listen to stories about a few very special dolls and then create a paper doll of your very own.

Preschool Storytime: My Favorite Doll

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, March 10, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Children have played with many different kinds of dolls over the years. Come and listen to stories about a few very special dolls and then create a paper doll of your very own.

Blue Star Awards Ceremony

Presented By: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
Venue: Starlight Theatre
Hours: Thursday, May 26, 2011 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Untitled Document Starlight Theatre and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City are excited and pleased to present to Kansas City audiences the 2010-2011 Blue Star Awards Program. Heading into its ninth year, the Blue Star Awards Program is designed to recognize outstanding achievement in musical theatre production and performance among high school students.

KC Wind Symphony "The North and The South"

Presented By: Kansas City Wind Symphony
Venue: Village Presbyterian Church
Hours: Sunday, February 13, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Kansas City Wind Symphony Continues “A time Capsule”

The Kansas City Wind Symphony under the leadership of Dr. Phil Posey and Pat Setser will continue their 13^th Season “A Time Capsule” on Sunday evening, February 13, 2011, with a free concert at 7:00 o’clock at Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas. The free concert entitled “Looking Back – The North and The South” will feature a nostalgic look into our nation’s past. On this 50^th anniversary of publication, of Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Anne Mill Sizemore will read selected passages from the novel during music from the film by Elmer Bernstein. John Falkenstein will portray Abraham Lincoln during the performance of Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.” American contemporary composer Donald Grantham’s setting of tunes from the 1835 publication of “Southern Harmony” by William Walker will lend a further nostalgic note to the evening’s performance. Also included on the program is Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man”, Sousa’s “Fugue on Yankee Doodle”, Jerry Bilik’s “American Civil War Fantasy” and Morton Gould’s “American Salute.” Principal trombonist Lee Finch will read the “Sullivan Ballou Letter” from the Civil War era during the “Ashokan Farewell.” Stephanie Brown, violinist, and James Grimm, guitarist will provide the musical setting, followed by Calvin Custer’s arrangement for wind ensemble.

The Kansas City Wind Symphony was founded in 1998 by Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village Kansas, the second largest Presbyterian Church in the nation. Membership includes some of the heartland region’s finest professional and accomplished musicians along with numerous music educators who give of their time and expertise to perform the finest in wind band literature. In April of 2008 the group made its debut in Carnegie Hall in New York City as part of the “Ensemble Spotlight Series” by MidAmerica Productions. In March of 2011, The Kansas City Wind Symphony will join the Saint Louis Wind Symphony for a joint concert in St. Louis.

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For more information please contact Dr. Phil Posey at 816-507-2575

Book Signing at John Wornall House

Presented By: The Heritage League of Kansas City
Venue: The John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Friday, February 11, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Join author, Alison Henderson, author of the new book, “Harvest of Dreams” for wine, cheese and a discussion of her book. Alison will be available to autograph copies as well.

This is a free event, but, as always, donations are greatly appreciated!

Set in Weston, MO in 1866 (inspired by the Wornall House), “Harvest of Dreams” is a historical romance that follows the life of a young widow, Lisa McAllister.

From the dust jacket:
“Alone on her farm in the middle of a blizzard, young widow Lisa McAllister labors to give birth to her first child. Help arrives in the form of a stranger with a six-gun. Lisa has no reason to trust this man who makes a living by violence, even if he is on the right side of the law. Men and their guns have already claimed the lives of her father, brother, and husband, and she’s determined to protect her son at any cost. Jared Tanner, a security agent for the stagecoach, has been on his own since he was twelve. With Lisa and her baby, he’s finally found something worth fighting for – a family of his own. But a fresh wave of violence threatens to tear them apart. Can their new love survive?”

First Sunday Family Funday: We Love Loula

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, March 06, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Explore the artistry and patterns of quilts at Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day April 3. Quilters over the centuries have woven fabrics in beautiful quilts. Families will experiment with creating quilts with your own loom while also making your own wacky woven critter to take home. Visitors will also learn to weave paper into a decorative placemat, and so much more!

Make your own wacky woven critter to take home

Learn how to weave paper into a decorative placemat

Experiment with your own mini loom

Watch a film in the StoryTarium about quilt makers

Community Curator Program: Dr. Delia Cook Gillis, Center of AFricana Studies

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

League of Women Voters Collection

During this year’s municipal election cycle, investigate how The League of Women Voters of Kansas City, MO, Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties has educated voters about the political issues of the day at Kansas City Museum’s March Community Curator Lecture at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 at Union Station. Johnson County (KS) Public Library librarian Donna Lauffer will explore the League’s amazing history from working towards the passage of the 19^th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote, to its continuous investigation and education of political issues in a non-partisan forum. The Museum has a vast collection of the local League’s correspondence, minutes and publications dating from 1920 up to the 1990s.

Community Curator Program: League of Women Voters Collection

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Dr. Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator, Metropolitan Community College- Penn Valley

Changes in Styles in 20^th Century Wedding Dresses

Learn about changes in shapes, colors and textures of wedding gowns during the 20^th century at Kansas City Museum’s May Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, May 24 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Dr. Sheryl Farnan, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, will delve into the intricate details of bridal dresses from the Union Station Kansas City/Kansas City Museum exhibit Every Bride A Princess, exhibited in conjunction with the Diana: A Celebration exhibit at Union Station. The exhibit features eight bridal gowns and bridesmaids dresses dating from 1905-1984 worn by notable Kansas Citians.

Museum Days at the Library: My Favorite Doll

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, March 04, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

The Long family had beautiful gardens at Corinthian Hall. come design your own garden, plant some seeds, help "plant" our paper garden, and play plant themed games.

ArtsKC Spring Happy Hour

Presented By: The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: ArtsKC - The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Hours: Friday, March 18, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
BE OUR GUEST!

Join us for our Spring Happy Hour celebrating the works of Lorrie Boydston, Dale Jamieson, and Todd Peterson. Enjoy cocktails, light appetizers and beautiful art selected from our Now Showing Portfolio. Please RSVP by using the registration link below. This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Now Showing is designed to foster partnerships between individual artists and Arts Council business investor companies by providing opportunities for artists to display their work in corporate settings. The program introduces employees to metro-area artists, exposes artists to new audiences, and adds an element of inspiration and creativity to local businesses. Visual artists who reside in the Kansas City metropolitan area are invited to submit proposals to participate in Now Showing, a program of the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City. For further inquiries, please contact Kelly Seward at 816.994.9226 or by email at seward@artskc.org.

Puppets for the Planet

Presented By: Courtney Wasson
Venue: Southeast Community Center
Hours: Saturday, March 05, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Celebrate the Planet we Live on with ART

StoneLion Puppet Theatre for the fifth year is holding a series of puppet festivals celebrating our
planet with ART. Come have fun, create and learn how to help the planet we live on. On March
5 please join us at The Southeast Community Center for a day filled with dance, puppets, music
and interactive fun!

Featuring a brand new show by StoneLion Puppet Theatre,

Spelunk! - A wacky journey with a treasure-hunting adventurer exploring an underground cave complete with an ancient Indian treasure hunt, shadow puppets, and light up critters!

(StoneLion show times are at 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.)

Additional performances include Hip Hop Academy, Hula Hoop Art Performance with Surca
Noelle, our neighborhood children performing from The Dance Revolution along with area
Environmental groups, an Eco Game show, kids art and activities and fun for the entire
family….and it’s all FREE! Check out our recycled art sculpture in front of the community center;
“It’s in our Hands” by metal artist Glenn D. Lewis.

Hello Art: Sponsored by ArtsKC

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Arts Incubator of Kansas City
Hours: Friday, March 04, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM

ArtsKC - The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, is proud to sponsor Hello Art, a new membership organization created by the Arts Incubator or Kansas City. Hello Art hosts fun monthly events to help people explore Kansas City's visual arts scene.

We invite you to be our guest, Friday, March 4th for the full Hello Art experinence.

Thank you and we look forwardin to seeing you there!

Private Party &

Trolley Tour

Friday, March 4th

5:30 PM - 9:30 PM

5:30 PM

Drinks and Hors D'oeuvres

Hello Art Lounge

Arts Incubator Event Loft

115 W. 18th Street

Kansas City, MO 64108

6:15 PM

Private Trolley Tour

This tour makes multiple loops to local galleries, so you can tour at your own pace.

Please feel free to join us again after the tour in the Hello Art Lounge, or explore more galleries in the Crossroads Arts District!

This event is invitation only and we can only accomodate the first one hundred registered.

The 4th Downtown Art Annual...Kansas City Art Fair

Presented By: Howard Alan Events
Venue: TBA
Hours: Friday, May 20, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The 4th Downtown Art Annual...Kansas City Art Fair

Presented By: Howard Alan Events
Venue: Power & Light District
Hours: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM

The 4th Downtown Art Annual...Kansas City Art Fair

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Power & Light District
Hours: Sunday, May 22, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Who Does She Think She Is?- A Group Art Exhibit

Presented By: UMKC Women's Center
Venue: Event Space at Java Port
Hours: Friday, April 01, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Who Does She Think She is?

Presented By: UMKC Women's Center
Venue: Event Space at Java Port
Hours: Friday, May 13, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Starr Community Conversations-"Who Does She Think She is" Balancing Family Life with Creative Careers"

Presented By: UMKC Women's Center
Venue: KC Public Library, Plaza Branch
Hours: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Artist Salon: The State of Women in the Arts in Kansas City

Presented By: UMKC Women's Center
Venue: UMKC Chancellor's Residence
Hours: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

32nd Annual Herb & Wildflower Sale

Presented By: John Wornall House Museum
Venue: John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Saturday, April 30, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Wildflowers are from the Missouri Wildflower Nursery, owned by Mervin Wallace in Jefferson City, MO. Mr. Wallace, as well as our own gardeners, will be on hand to answer any questions. Ask how you can take advantage of special pre-order options and early shopping privileges by becoming a member of the John Wornall House Museum.

Artful Fool's Day First Fridays in the Crossroads

Presented By: Kansas City Young Audiences
Venue: Mid-America Arts Alliance
Hours: Friday, April 01, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Young Audiences Arts Festival

Presented By: Kansas City Young Audiences
Venue: Kansas City Power and Light District
Hours: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Dr. Cuppage presents “Medical Practices on the Western Trails” at the Historic Oxford Schoolhouse

Presented By: Historic Oxford Schoolhouse
Venue: Historic Oxford Schoolhouse at Ironwoods Park
Hours: Saturday, April 16, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

The docents of the Historic Oxford Schoolhouse will host an engaging and educational program on Saturday, April 16^th beginning at 10:00 am at the Historic Oxford Schoolhouse located in Ironwoods Park at 147^th & Mission Road, Leawood, Kansas 66224.

Drew Bodner will begin the lecture with an introductory overview about the Historic Western Trails that passed through this area. A comprehensive examination of the medical practices and medicines used on the Western Trails will be presented by Dr. Pete Cuppage.

After retiring from the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. Cuppage has focused his energies on his interests in medical history and the frontier medicines of the Western Trails. Cuppage will share his passion in period costume with his portable cabinet of medicines.

Puppets for the Planet

Presented By: StoneLion Puppet Theatre
Venue: Tony Aguirre Community Center
Hours: Saturday, March 26, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
StoneLion Puppet Theatre for the fifth year is holding a series of puppet festivals celebrating our planet with ART. Come have fun, create and learn how to help the planet we live on.

Tony Aguirre Community Center is this place to be March 26th!

StoneLion Puppet Theatre will be performing at 10:30 and 2pm. Additional performances include Mr. Stinky Feet- Jim Cosgrove, Hula Hoop Art with Surca Noelle, Eco Elvis, Copeira Martial Arts from The Guadalupe Center area Environmental groups, an Eco Game show, kids art and activities with the Ruiz Library, KC Grotto, Lakeside Nature Center, Door to Door Organics and more…. refreshments and fun for the entire family….and it’s all FREE!

Ruel Joyce Recital Series

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Monday, April 04, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Jazz Series

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Ruel Joyce Recital Series

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Monday, April 11, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Ruel Joyce Recital Series

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Monday, April 18, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Moonlight Serenade Orchestra

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Spring Fling & Floral Art Show

Presented By: Got Art Gallery
Venue: TBA
Hours: Friday, March 25, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Spring Fling & Floral Art Show

Presented By: Summit Art
Venue: Got Art Gallery
Hours: Friday, March 25, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

New Immigrants and the American Dream

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, March 26, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Grinter Place Quilt Show

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: TBA
Hours: Friday, April 29, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Grinter Place Quilt Show

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: TBA
Hours: Sunday, May 01, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Opening - Undergraduate College Student Exhibition

Presented By: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Friday, April 08, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Undergraduate College Student Exhibition

Presented By: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Venue: Kansas City Artists Coalition
Hours: Friday, April 08, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

First Sunday Family Funday: The Wonders of Weaving

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, April 03, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

In 1955, the world was blown away when the first Bomb Pop was invented on Independence Avenue. Today, the Bomb Pop is one of the most popular frozen confections ever created. Learn about the history of ice cream, snow cones, and the sweet tastes of summer at Kansas City Museum’s August First Sunday Family Fun Day, Sunday August 7 from noon-4 p.m. Children will play ice cream themed games, create ice cream art to take home and learn “cool” facts about these favorite treats. And the best part is, after all this excitement, they get to cool themselves with some cold treats.

·         Make your own serving of ice cream to sample

·         Play some of our ice cream themed games.

·         Why are they called "sundaes" and who invented the waffle cone? Come and learn these fun ice cream facts.

·         Create some fun ice cream art to take home

·         Try a yummy snow cone!

Founders Day

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, April 03, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

In May 1940, the front doors of Kansas City Museum of Science and History opened for the first time to visitors. Celebrate the 71^st anniversary of this special day at Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day Sunday, May 1 from noon-4 p.m. There will be activities and games galore for children and families to take advantage. Families can take a scavenger hunt around the Museum; learn about the equestrian history of the property from members of the Carriage and Driving Society of Greater Kansas City, and so much more!

Go on a Scavenger Hunt around the Museum and learn fun facts
Watch a film about the Long family in the StoryTarium
Spend some time with the horses that will be visiting the site that day
Play games and win prizes
Enjoy a special Founder's Day treat!

Community Curator Program: C. Stephen Metzler, past president, AIDS Service Foundation of Greater KC

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Explore the life of the famous Kansas City madam Annie Chambers and learn how her friendship with the Bulkley family, the founders of the City Union Mission, changed her life at Kansas City Museum’s June Community Curator Lecture June 28 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Rev. Dan Doty, CEO of the City Union Mission, will discuss how Miss Chambers befriended the Bulkleys and upon her death left her estate to help continue the Mission’s work. The City Union Mission recently donated three items owned by Annie Chambers, including a dresser, a bell and a framed picture.

Community Curator Program: Dr. Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Dr. Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator, Metropolitan Community College- Penn Valley

Hattie Carnegie Dresses

Learn about the delicate layers and textures of fashion designer Hattie Carnegie’s dresses at Kansas City Museum’s May Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, May 24 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Dr. Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, will delve into the intricate details of the famous designer’s dresses, including a 1933 wedding gown featured in the Union Station Kansas City/Kansas City Museum exhibit Every Bride A Princess, exhibited in conjunction with the Diana: A Celebration exhibit at Union Station. The exhibit features eight bridal gowns and bridesmaids dresses dating from 1905-1984 worn by notable Kansas Citians.

Advocacy Council

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Quality Hill Playhouse
Hours: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City will be hosting our quarterly Advocacy Council Meeting. An agenda for this meeting will be distributed via email to those who have signed up on Advocacy Council eNews mailing list. You can do so by clicking the Join Our Mailing List button at the bottom of your screen.

Museum Days at the Library: How does your garden grow?

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Thursday, May 12, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Where do you live? In a house or an apartment? Where ever it is, someone designed the building where you live. Come listen to stories about interesting houses, and then design your own building to take home with you.

A New You!

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Atlas Gallery
Hours: Saturday, April 30, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Inspiration Breakfast

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Studio Dan Meiners
Hours: Thursday, October 06, 2011 from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

May Day Celebration at Lanesfield

Presented By: Audrea Griggs
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, April 30, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011

Event: May Day @ Lanesfield
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Details: Join us for this celebration of Spring! Dance around the Maypole to live music by Matty Striker and Pope Loy. Make a May Basket. Enjoy free refreshments. Decorate your wagon or bike and parade it around the grounds. Crowd determines crowning of May King and Queen!

Fee: FREE.

Location: Lanesfield Historic Site 18745 S. Dillie Rd Edgerton KS 66021 913-893-6645

Stories of Immigration

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Thursday, May 05, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011

Event: New Immigrants and the American Dream Panel Discussion: Stories of Immigration

Time: 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Details: Join the discussion as area immigrants and first-generation panelists come together to talk about their personal experiences of immigration, and reveal the real people behind immigration and cultural myths. Ask questions and challenge your perceptions!

Fee: FREE

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, KS, 913-715-2550.

Story Teller Jo Ho

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Event: Story Teller Jo Ho @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Details: Today’s theme is Journey across the Sea. stories of immigrant children.
Fee: FREE.

Registration: Drop-in for families. Groups of ten or more must pre-register. Call (913) 715-2552 to register.

Family Fun Day with Magician Keith Leff

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011

Event: Family Fun Day @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Details: Join us for an amusing magic show from award-winning magician Keith Leff! Keith has appeared on numerous television shows and has been featured in several local newspapers and magazine features. His show is fun for the whole family!

Fee: FREE.

Location: The Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Road, Shawnee, KS 66217 913-715-2550

Little Blue River Art Fest

Presented By: White Oak Plaza
Venue: White Oak Plaza
Hours: Friday, June 10, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Little Blue River Art Fest

Presented By: White Oak Plaza
Venue: White Oak Plaza
Hours: Saturday, June 11, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Wholes. New Paintings by John Raux

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: BNIM
Hours: Friday, May 06, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
WHOLES
New paintings by JOHN RAUX

"There’s always another side to the way we view.
There’s always another way to view the side that we can see.
Within a side, stability grows with time and awareness.
Between multiple sides, mobility rests within space and willingness.
When we examine our view, it is often more insightful of who we are than what we can see.

My artwork is a balancing act that mimics my meditation. The paintings have two parallel circular sides emerging in tandem with one another. The colors and forms cross reference and play with the viewers memory as only one horizon can be seen at a time. The work is displayed in windows so that there is an external and internal view. During the opening and by appointment, the internal work can be seen. Over the course of the show, the paintings will flip and seemingly change sequence while revealing to the outside viewer the interior side of the work."

Local electronic group SanSalvador will be performing at the opening reception.
John will be presenting on "Creativity and Sustainability" during the closing on June 17th along with a tasting by Oddly Correct Coffee.

America: Now and Here Events - AC: KC Opening Reception

Presented By: America: Now and Here
Venue: Cocoon Gallery
Hours: Friday, May 06, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM

America: Now and Here Events - American Shorts: Outdoor Movie Night

Presented By: America: Now and Here
Venue: Third Eye Event Space
Hours: Saturday, May 07, 2011 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM

America: Now and Here Events - Community Yoga: Now and Here

Presented By: America: Now and Here
Venue: Leedy Voulkous
Hours: Sunday, May 08, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

America: Now and Here Events - Brown Bag Lunch - The Arts in Kansas City: Now, Here and Beyond

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Leedy Voulkous
Hours: Thursday, May 12, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

The Arts in Kansas City: Now, Here and Beyond

America Now & Here and ArtsKC –the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, invite local arts, civic and business leaders to join us for a thoughtful discussion around current conditions in the Kansas City arts c community and how to further cultivate a creative economy. Hear from our panel members:

Greg Carroll, Executive Director – American Jazz Museum

Kathleen Collins – President – Kansas City Art Institute

Jonathan Knecht - Vice President - Marketing & Creative Services - Kansas City Area Development Council

Cynthia Rider, Managing Director – Kansas City Repertory Theatre

Peter Witte – Dean – UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance

TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT AND BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH, CLICK REGISTER NOW BELOW.
*If you would like to have a lunch provided, please click the other registration option on the evite.

The Art Institutes International - Kansas City Spring Portfolio Show for Design

Presented By: The Art Institutes International - Kansas City
Venue: TBA
Hours: Friday, June 17, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

The Blue KC Spectacular Spectacular!

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
Hours: Friday, May 06, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

A spectacular start to your First Fridays!
View Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City’s 5th annual Art/Work exhibition, watch daring fire-eaters, and shop the Blue KC Arts Sale. All proceeds support the 2011 ArtsKC Fund!

Community Curator Program: Rev. Dan Doty, CEO, City Union Mission

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Learn about the pennant winning 1923 Kansas City Blues baseball team through a rare promotional photo card at Kansas City Museum’s July Community Curator Lecture, Tuesday, July 26 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Former Executive Director of the Society of American Baseball Research, Lloyd Johnson, will delve into the history of this iconic team and its many colorful players. The 1923 baseball team is considered one of the top 100 minor league teams of all time. Approximately 425,000 Blues fans christened the new Muehlebach Field that year, and the team didn’t disappoint, winning 112 games and bringing home the Junior World Series crown, defeating the Baltimore Orioles in a nine game series.

Trails 'N Tails: Campfire Breakfast

Presented By: Monticello Community Historical Society
Venue: Garrett Park
Hours: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Biscuits and gravy trail breakfast served

8-10AM $5 Adults $2 children 10 and under

FREE ADMISSION

Come hear about the early wagon trails in the area, pioneers getting started on their journeys to Oregon and the gold fields of California, the story of the Garrett stone house on the site and what may have happened in the area around the late 1800's. Meet a "Wild Bill" Hickok character, one of the first constables for Monticello Township.

Summer Concert Series: Brad Cox Sextet

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, June 10, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Follow jazz melodies on summer breezes at the Museum’s Summer Concert Series. For the third year, the Kansas City Museum and Northeast Arts KC will be entertaining summer guests with great Kansas City artists.

Alaturka is an intriguing combination of American jazz and classical Turkish music

Museum Days at the Library: All About Architecture

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, June 03, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Come learn about why different kinds of hats are worn. Is it for fun? Odes it serve as protection? is it worn at work or play? Find out the answers while we listen to stories and sing songs.

Museum Days at the Library: All About Architecture

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Thursday, June 09, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

America: Now and Here - The Arts in Kansas City: Now, Here and Beyond - Lunch Provided

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Leedy Voulkous
Hours: Thursday, May 12, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

The Arts in Kansas City: Now, Here and Beyond

Greg Carroll, Executive Director – American Jazz Museum

Kathleen Collins – President – Kansas City Art Institute

Jonathan Knecht - Vice President - Marketing & Creative Services - Kansas City Area Development Council

Cynthia Rider, Managing Director – Kansas City Repertory Theatre

Peter Witte – Dean – UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance

TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT AND HAVE A LUNCH PROVIDED FOR YOU, CLICK REGISTER NOW BELOW.
You will be asked to purchase a lunch for $10. This includes soft drinks or water and a choice of salad or sandwich and chips.
*If you would like to bring your own lunch, please click the other registration option on the evite.

Advocacy Council Meeting

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Blue Gallery
Hours: Friday, June 03, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City will be hosting our quarterly Advocacy Council Meeting. An agenda for this meeting will be distributed via email to those who have signed up on Advocacy Council eNews mailing list. You can do so by clicking the Join Our Mailing List button at the bottom of your screen.

Dark Matter presents Orbit

Presented By: Dark Matter
Venue: TBA
Hours: Sunday, June 12, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival

Presented By: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival
Venue: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival at Crown Center
Hours: Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival

Presented By: Kansas City Chalk and Walk
Venue: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival at Crown Center
Hours: Sunday, June 19, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Kansas City Chalk and Walk Launch

Presented By: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival
Venue: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Launch @ Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Hours: Saturday, June 04, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Kansas City Chalk and Walk Demonstration

Presented By: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival
Venue: Kansas City Chalk and Walk Launch @ Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Hours: Saturday, June 04, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Arts & Issues: A "Brand" New Kansas City

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: Central Exchange (Downtown)
Hours: Friday, June 03, 2011 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Great cities have great and unforgettable mottos. The “Mile High City”, the “City of Brotherly Love”, and the “Music City,” to name a few. But what about Kansas City? Is our modest Midwest mentality preventing Kansas City from proclaiming its fame?

For the past year, The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, The Downtown Council, the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association, the Kansas City Area Development Council, and the Arts Council of Kansas City have joined forces to create a new image for our great city. Meet representatives from each organization and find out the results of their combined creative efforts.

So, Chicago, keep your wind and New York, get some sleep! You’ll need it once Kansas City’s new image is unveiled!

Summer Arts Program

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Friday, June 03, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Johnson County Museum Summer Arts Program,
Fridays 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Drop-in arts program for kids 4-8 years old, registration not required. Weekly themes introduce kids to art processes and fun! $3 per child, $2 for Museum Members. June 3rd to July 29th, 2011.
Parents must stay with children. Dress for mess!

New Immigrants and the American Dream: Spotlight on Israel

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011

Event: New Immigrants and the American Dream: Spotlight on Israel @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Details: The Johnson County Museum continues its New Immigrants and the American Dream programming with a day of culture and diversity! Meet Lilach Nissim, the only Israeli emissary in Kansas, as she talks about her native country of Israel and its history, customs, and more. Stories, music, and fun for the whole family!

Fee: FREE.

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, KS, 913-715-2550.

The Art Institutes International - Kansas City Spring Portfolio Show

Presented By: Art Institutes International-Kansas City
Venue: The Art Institutes International - Kansas City
Hours: Thursday, June 16, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Independence Day at Lanesfield

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, June 25, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

The Kansas City Regional Cultural Plan Initiative

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: NeighborWorks America
Hours: Monday, June 13, 2011 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

The Kansas City Regional Cultural Plan Initiative

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: North Kansas City Community Center
Hours: Monday, June 20, 2011 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Community Curator Program: Lloyd Johsnon, Former Exectuive Director, The Society of American Baseball Research

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Mrs. Samuel Platt by George Caleb Bingham

George Caleb Bingham is famous for his historical pictures, but in his life he was equally celebrated as a fine artist. Learn more about George Caleb Bingham at Kansas City Museum’s August Community Curator, Tuesday, Aug. 23^rd at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Eric Swangstu, Associate Director of Admissions at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wash., will examine the Museum’s amazing portrait of Mrs. Samuel Platt. Mrs. Platt, whose maiden name was Emily Jane Miller, was born in Kentucky in 1832 and died in Independence in June 1965. Her husband was a carpenter and contractor who helped build the Independence jail, now a historic site. A reception will precede the presentation at 5:30 p.m.

Summer Concert Series: Alaturka

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 08, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Alaturka is an intriguing combination of American jazz and classical Turkish music

Museum Days at the Library: Do you like my hat?

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, July 01, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

It's hot outside, but it's nice and cool in the library! Come and hear stories about different ways kids cool off in the big city. Make and decorate a fan to take home with you.

Preschool Storytime: All About Architecture

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, June 09, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Quilts keep us warm at night, they decorate our walls, and they even tell stories. Come and learn about the importance of quilts through stories and activities.

The Kansas City Regional Cultural Plan Initiative

Presented By: Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Venue: The Gamber Center
Hours: Monday, June 27, 2011 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

First Saturday Reception and Olathe Gallery Open House

Presented By: The First Art Gallery of Olathe
Venue: ArtsKC - The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
Hours: Saturday, July 02, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

coLaboratory dreamcasting

Presented By: Raux, John Household
Venue: City Arts Project
Hours: Saturday, June 25, 2011 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Grinter Place Ice Cream Social

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Hours: Saturday, July 16, 2011 from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Community Curator Program:Eric Swangstu, Associate Director of Admissions, cornish College of the Arts

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Loula Long Combs Collection

Loula Long Combs defied the logic that only men were allowed and could succeed at driving carriages by becoming one of the most successful equestrians ever. Learn how Mrs. Combs became an icon and where she ranks with the other well-known ladies in Kansas City’s history at our September Community Curator Speaker Series presentation Tuesday, September 27 at 6 p.m. at Union Station.

First Sunday Family Funday: We All Scream for Ice Cream

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, August 07, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Families will be challenging each other to create artistic masterpieces as they discover the art of printmaking at First Sunday Family Fun Day Sunday, September 4 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Museum. Families will use printmaking techniques using fruits and vegetables, as well as blocking printing and stamping to create wonderful pieces of art to take home!

Experiment with different printmaking techniques using fruits and vegetables

Assemble your own journal and decorate it with stamps and ink

Create a collage using our flower stencils

Try out batik printing with some pastels and liquid watercolors

Watch a film in the StoryTarium

Summer Concert Series: Doug Talley Quartet

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, August 12, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Alaturka is an intriguing combination of American jazz and classical Turkish music

Museum Kids Summer Drop-Ins: Follow the Map to Kansas City Museum

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

This summer, drop in with your Museum Kids for games, music, stories and arts-and-crafts. Different historical themes will keep Museum Kids entertained and (don’t tell them!) they just might learn something.