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Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...
Signature Event
Monday, September 19, 2016
6:30pm
Claude Monet intended his most famous series of paintings – of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny, France – as a means of “peaceful meditation....
Signature Event
Saturday, September 17, 2016
1:00pm
Are you a fashion designer or manufacturer? Do you love Kansas City’s rich Garment District history? The nonprofit organization Rightfully Sew...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
6:30pm
As co-founder and partner in the Santa Monica, California-based architectural firm Moore, Ruble, Yudell, John Ruble has collaborated on a broad spectr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:30pm
This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860.
The na...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 8, 2016
6:30pm
Iranian-born Siah Armajani is a leading figure in conceptualizing the role and function of public art, including its incorporation in...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
7:00pm
Gary Lezak is one of the most familiar and popular faces on Kansas City television, a six-time Emmy Award winner who has delivered im...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 18, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...