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Arts & Culture
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Returning to Kansas City on the heels of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s 25th anniversary season, national Shakespeare authority...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 4, 2017
7:30pm
In Person
When Johann Sebastian Bach’s choral compositions turn to love, it’s in a theological sense. Love of God. Love for one’s neighbor. But the sentiment is...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The 2017 Art in the Loop Project: Cue!, a curated outdoor exhibition staged in partnership with the City of Kansas City, Missouri, an...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 8, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from The Cow...
Signature Event
Friday, October 6, 2017
5:30pm
In Person
Make the Central Library your family-friendly First Friday launch point, taking in a new gallery exhibit and enjoying some Old West reading and roping...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Amy Sherald has seen her art evolve from autobiographical to more socially relevant, “exploring identity and the roles of race and ge...
Signature Event
Monday, August 21, 2017
10:00am
In Person
Kansas City gets a prime view of the celestial event of a lifetime – the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 17, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 10, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City photographer and instructor Reed Hoffmann offers a tutorial on photographing the rare, spectacular total solar eclipse...
Signature Event
Friday, August 4, 2017
5:30pm
In Person
The Central Library again makes a place on First Friday for the entire family. Among the offerings: exhibits featuring Kansas City-area Jessic...