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Below is a list of upcoming free events planned in Kansas City for the next month.
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Lalique Le Noir Trunk Show
Dates: Sat., Nov. 21 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Halls, 211 Nichols Rd., Kansas City, Mo.

Enjoy an expanded collection of unique and limited edition pieces, including many from Lalique's newest collection of pure, black crystal. Crystal Gallery....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
Orrefors & Kosta Boda Limited Edition Trunk Show & Engraving Event
Dates: Fri., Nov. 27 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Halls, 211 Nichols Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Our on-site engraver will personalize your purchase in flowing script, even adding gold or silver accents to make your gift extraordinary-a $30 value with our compliments. Make your selection from an expanded collection including special values and ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
Mary Jurek Appearance & Signing
Dates: Nov. 27-28 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Halls, 211 Nichols Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Meet Mary Jurek, who will sign your purchase of her hand-hammered stainless steel. Casual Tabletop....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
Irma Starr Ornament Signing
Dates: Sat., Nov. 28 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Halls, 211 Nichols Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Meet Kansas City artisan Irma Starr, who reproduces the Burnap collection of 17th Century English Slipware Pottery and holiday ornaments. Her works are featured at leading museum gift shops....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special 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
"From Shoals in Time"
Dates: Dec. 4-Jan. 20 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

This exhibit, featuring very rare and unique shells from the Philippines, reveals the unseen architecture and poetic symmetry of both land and sea shells. Through photographs, giant x-ray prints, and reconstructed "seascapes," the artist/collector ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
2009 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Exhibition
Dates: Fri., Nov. 13 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kansas City Art Institute, H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St., Kansas City, Mo.

The exhibition features new work by Kansas City based artists Dylan Mortimer, Jaimie Warren, and Andrzej Zielinski, who were each awarded $10,000 each earlier this year.
The Charlotte Street Awards recognize locally based artists who are creatin...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Pei-ju Wang, violin
Dates: Wed., Nov. 18 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.

Doctoral Lecture-Recital with Dan Velicer, piano
"The Violin Concerto by the Taiwanese Rachmaninoff: Tyzen Hsiao"
HSIAO: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 50
...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
David Dimmit, euphonium
Dates: Wed., Nov. 18 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.

Graduate Recital with Nabil Pettit, piano
SZENTPALI: Pearls
ITO: Fantasy Variations
FIOCCO: Arioso and Allegro
RACHMANINOFF: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
ARBAN: Variations for Trumpet on "Carnival of Venice"
...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Jessica Connor, clarinet
Dates: Fri., Nov. 20 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.

Master's Recital with Jiyun Chung, piano and Natalie Smith, flute; Mary Stahlhuth, oboe; Asa Ireland, bassoon
BRAHMS: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2
W. SMITH: Five Pieces for clarinet alone
BABIN: Hillalande...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Patrick Ketter, oboe
Dates: Sat., Nov. 21 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, 415 W 13th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Senior Recital...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Kari Johnson, piano
Dates: Sat., Nov. 21 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: New Hope Church of the Nazarene, 4330 North Oak Trafficway, Kansas City, Mo.

Doctoral Lecture-Recital "Classical Enlightenment and Sturm und Drang in the Second Piano Sonata of Joseph Martin Kraus"
KRAUS: Sonata for Piano in E Major, VB 196
...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
Yifan Wu, cello
Dates: Mon., Nov. 30 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Grant Recital Hall, 5227 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.

Junior Recital...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
"Jazz Community Carol Fest"
Dates: Sun., Dec. 6 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

Spectacular renditions of favorite holiday music, including both sacred and secular sounds!
...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities
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
Santa's Arrival
Dates: Nov. 27 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Santa Claus arrives in a horse-drawn carriage to kick off the holiday season. Sluggerrr®, K.C. Wolf, Perry Penguin, Tip from Crayola®, Casey the Bear and other costume characters help greet Jolly Ol' St. Nick. Join Santa as he enters the Crown Cente...
Admission: Free
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities,Major Events,Special Events
Musical Fun for Kids: Jim Cosgrove & Mr. Stinky Feet
Dates: Sat., Dec. 5 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Enjoy holiday music for kids and families on three Saturdays in December....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities,Music & Dance
Mayor's Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
Dates: Friday, Nov. 27 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

The 100-foot-tall Mayor's Christmas Tree, one of the nation's tallest, is the centerpiece for an illuminating holiday celebration. Enjoy fireworks that are choreographed to Christmas music. 7,200 white lights light up the Mayor's Christmas Tree. Thi...
Admission: Free
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities,Major Events,Special Events
"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
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
Frederic Chopin: A Voyage with Byron Janis
Dates: Nov. 12 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, J. C. Nichols Auditorium, 100 W 26th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Internationally renowned American pianist Byron Janis will conduct a talk and demonstration on the life and works of Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849). A respected authority on the celebrated composer, Mr. Janis will enthrall audience members with his kno...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
The Great War, The Great Movies presents "Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend"
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.

“The Great War, the Great Movies” Film Series: Gary Cooper Goes to War. Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1989). Documentary film on the life and career of the Hollywood icon; narrated by Clint Eastwood. Included are rare newsreels, home ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Theatre
The Legacy of the Great War: 90 Years On
Dates: Nov. 14 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W 26th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Dr. Jay Winter, Yale University, editor of and contributor to "The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On," will discuss this new co-publication of the University of Missouri Press and the National World War I Museum. This ground-breaking book inc...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
Michael Lasser & Company: Music of World War I
Dates: Nov. 28 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, J. C. Nichols Auditorium, 100 W 26th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Michael Lasser, along with performers Cindy Miller and Alan Jones, will present a lively concert of popular songs from World War I. Featuring patriotic, sentimental, and martial music of the period. Lasser, a Peabody Award-winning lecturer on Americ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
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