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Below is a list of upcoming free events planned in Kansas City for the next month.
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"It’s Big: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National Archives and Records Administration"
Dates: May 22, 2009-Jan. 23, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: The National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
This exhibition will feature big documents, big events, big personalities, and big ideas from the region's history. Organized by the National Archives at Kansas City, "It's Big" features pieces of American history including: audio clips from the FB...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Worldly Luxuries: Repetition in Renaissance Textiles"
Dates: Aug. 26, 2009-Feb. 21, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Since photography's inception in 1839, children have been popular subjects for the camera. We look to pictures of children as collective memories of childhood itself—a phase of life to which we can never return. This exhibition explores our fascinat...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry"
Dates: Sep. 17-Nov. 29 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
The artwork by the Wyeth family, America's iconic art family, will be the focus of the exhibition WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry this fall at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Together, the artists of the Wyeth family-N. C. Wyeth, Andrew ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Wolfgang Laib: Without Place - Without Time - Without Body"
Dates: Sept. 26, 2009-Jan.17, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Wolfgang Laib is known for his Pollen Fields, Milkstones, Rice Houses, Ziggurats and more, and many world-wide exhibitions including a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in 2001 acknowledge his importance. "Without Place - Without Time - Without ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Major Events
"Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood"
Dates: Sept. 26, 2009-Feb. 21, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Since photography's inception in 1839, children have been popular subjects for the camera. We look to pictures of children as collective memories of childhood itself-a phase of life to which we can never return. This exhibition explores our fascinat...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Major Events
"Looking East"
Dates: Oct. 2, 2009-Jan. 1, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, 2020 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Featured artists include : Liu Hong, Sheng Qi, Yang Qian, Guo Wei, Gao Xiaowu, Huang Yan, Feng Zhengjie...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World"
Dates: Oct. 16, 2009-Feb. 19, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: American Jazz Museum, 1616 E 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
A photo exhibit featuring over 100 images of jazz greats including Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman as they traveled the world on behalf of the U.S. State Department. The photographs, which span the m...
Admission: Free
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Happy Hour @ Raglan Road
Dates: Sun.-Fri. | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Raglan Road Irish Pub & Restaurant, 170 E 14th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Every Mon - Fri. from 3-7 pm, enjoy half-priced appetizers. Drink specials include well, draft beers & house wines...
Admission: FREE
Type: Dining & Nightlife,Free Events
"Viata" Life in Romania, a photo essay by Andrea Nigh
Dates: Nov. 6-28 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Hilliard Gallery, 404 E 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
This show is simply called "Viata," the Romanian word for life. It is the best word to describe the Romanian people and their culture. In the face of poor living conditions and post communist regime, they are still a vibrant, happy and resilient peo...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Looking West"
Dates: Nov. 6, 2009-Jan. 2,2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
New Paintings of Land, Light, and Water...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Habitat"
Dates: Nov. 6, 2009-Jan. 2, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Photographs ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Mark Raynes "Celestial Peepshow"
Dates: Nov. 6-27 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: {:m Gallery, 2014 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Photography-An Erotic Look at the Moon...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Santa's Winter Wonderland
Dates: Nov. 8-Dec. 24 | Location: East | Venue: Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, 18001 Bass Pro Drive, Independence, Mo.
Enjoy a massive interactive play area where kids can write letters to Santa, make crafts, play in an arcade, watch operating running train sets and visit with Santa Claus. Also, each child can have their picture taken with Santa, and get a free 5 x ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities,Ongoing Events
Mu Phi Epsilon Recital
Dates: Sun., Nov. 8 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.
Join the Alpha Kappa chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon for their biannual recital.
...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Mark Cowardin's "From the Ground Up"
Dates: Nov. 8-Jan. 3 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, 5500 W 123rd St., Overland Park, Kan.
Within the space of home exists an environment where simple, everyday objects and architecture shape our social and individual identities via memory, functionality, nostalgia and symbolic ritual. Our collective understanding of this place is periodi...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Jazz Combo Concert
Dates: Nov. 9 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes, Kansas City, Mo.
Ensemble Series...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Kansas City Jazz,Music & Dance
Ruel Joyce Recital presents Jeff Harshbarger
Dates: Nov. 9 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Johnson County Community College, Yardley Hall, 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, Kan.
Voted Kansas City's Best Bassist by Pitch Magazine in 2007, Harshbarger has had a varied career. A prolific composer and bandleader in his own right, he has recorded and performed across the globe with such varied groups as Bobby Watson, Curtis Full...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Master Class: Madeleine Shapiro, cello
Dates: Mon., Nov. 9 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: James C. Olson Performing Arts Center 125, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.
Master Class...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Debra Taylor, trombone
Dates: Mon., Nov. 9 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Village Presbyterian Church, 6641 Mission Rd., Prairie Village, Kan.
WEBER/LAUBE: Romanza appassionata
VIVALDI: Sonata in A minor, Op. 14, No. 3/RV 43
PIRARD: Concerto for Trombone "States of the Soul"
TELEMANN: Sonata in B minor
SHOSTAKOVICH: Preludes, Op. 34
STOJOWSKI: Fantaisie
RABE: Basta
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Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Master Class: Debra Taylor, trombone
Dates: Mon., Nov. 9 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: James C. Olson Performing Arts Center 128, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.
Debra Taylor has been the Principal Trombonist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra since 1989. She teaches trombone and chamber music at the University of New Mexico. She is a member of the Southwest Jazz Orchestra, which is comprised of the regi...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Jason Wu Trunk Show
Dates: Nov. 9-10 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Halls - Plaza, 211 Nichols Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Spring 2010 Collection with informal modeling. Designer Collections on second level....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
Student Chamber Ensembles
Dates: Tue., Nov. 10 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.
BERGER: Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon in C Major
BOZZA: Trois pieces pour musique de nuit pour flute, hautbois, clarinette, et bassoon
WEBERN: Langsamer Satz, M. 78
LI: Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony
HINDEMITH: Kleine Kammermusik for W...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
ArtSounds: Intermedia
Dates: Tue., Nov. 10 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall, Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick St., Kansas City, Mo.
Madeleine Shapiro, cello
An evening presenting works for solo cello with a variety of media;
electronics, video, and spoken word. Recent pieces from Madeleine's Nature Project plus a Kansas City premiere....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
A Grimm Night at the Wornall House
Dates: Nov. 10-21 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: John Wornall House Museum, 6115 Wornall Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Come to the Wornall House to share wine, cheese, and Grimm's Fairy Tales told especially for ADULTS. ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events
Veterans Day Ceremony
Dates: Nov. 11 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, J.C. Nichols Auditorium, 100 W 26th St, Kansas City, Mo.
Veterans Day will be commemorated at this special ceremony. The event includes performances by the American Legion Band and speeches to honor the significance of this important day. The ceremony concludes at 11 a.m. – a symbolic time on this special...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events