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Class or Discussion
Signature Event
Thursday, September 26, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Gwendolyn Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, leads a discussion of its 2...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Where do we draw the line on free speech? On its tenor? On its subject matter? Have we taken political correctness too far, making individual Ameri...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Prosperity in Kansas City is, alas, lagging. Here’s your chance to weigh in on how it should move. Attorney John Murphy of Shook,...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City is awash in red as the Chiefs approach a new season of super-sized possibilities. But have they cut corners on player character? Whither b...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We’re all writers now through email, texts, Facebook posts, and countless other avenues. Drawing from her new book Writing to Persuade:...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Writer and director Doug Roland joins in a screening and discussion of his groundbreaking short film Feeling Through...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Less than one week after taking office, new Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas joins veteran KMBC television news reporter Mi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
What does film tell us about our fascination with and perception of the moon? University of Missouri-Kansas City film studies professor Mitch...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 25, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
He has been the face of Kansas City for eight years. Now, as Sly James completes his second and mandatory final term as mayor, he loo...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 6, 2019
11:00am
In Person
Kansas City engages in educational, cultural, and commercial exchanges with a dozen sister cities across the globe, in part through the annual Kans...