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Arts & Culture
Signature Event
Sunday, July 31, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
From its early days as a cowtown – a jumping-off point to the West and shipping center for meat and wheat – Kansas City not only grew into a Midwes...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The 2016 Art in the Loop Project: Connect, a curated outdoor exhibition staged in partnership with the City of Kansas City, Missouri,...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Henry F Hoit designed many of Kansas City’s most iconic commercial and residential buildings, including the Kansas City Power & Light Building, th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided.
They ha...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
On the eve of the 12th annual KC Fringe Festival – an 11-day performing and visual arts extravaganza spread across multiple Kansas...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Elmer Boillot and Jesse Lauck designed houses in the Coleman Highlands, Sunset Hills and Country Club District neighborhoods, including The Walnuts. T...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Mark English was a top magazine illustrator for more than four decades, his work appearing in TIME, Sports...
Signature Event
Monday, June 27, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 26, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 23, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The book we know as the First Folio wasn’t given that title by the two Shakespeare colleagues who posthumously published his plays in 1623. Its for...