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"Settlement"
Dates: Aug. 14, 2009-Mar. 28, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
At some point, the organic curves of nature invariably run up against the hard edges of humanity. Whether seen as progress or destruction, that encounter becomes a signpost of the pioneer spirit in humankind and marks a contrast between the manufact...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"The Poetics of Space"
Dates: Apr. 10, 2009-Apr. 11, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
Inspired by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's book La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), this exhibition features photographs from the Kemper Museum's permanent collection that focus on the spatial dynamics of our architectural ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Volunteer Voices"
Dates: Dec. 11, 2009-May 9, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
For this exhibition, volunteers at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art were asked to select “that's my favorite work” from the Museum's collection. The result, Volunteer Voices: Selections from the Collection of the Kemper Museum, draws together s...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Signature Series: Imani WInds
Dates: Sat., Mar. 27 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, White Recital Hall, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.
Since 1997, this Grammy-nominated ensemble has taken a unique path, carving out a distinct presence in the classical music world with its dynamic playing, culturally poignant programming, genre-blurring collaborations, and inspirational outreach pro...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
"Gestures, Fields and Rising Suns"
Dates: Apr. 17, 2009-Jun. 6, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
Drawn from the Kemper Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition comprises works by a handful of artists who shaped the postwar American aesthetic of the 20th century. Early modernists such as Hans Hofmann and John Marin were pivotal in the deve...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Master Class: John Sampen, saxophone/composition
Dates: Thu., Mar. 25 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, RM 521, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.
As one of America's leading concert saxophonists, John Sampen is particularly recognized as a distinguished artist in contemporary literature. He has commissioned over eighty new works, including compositions by Babbitt, Bolcom, Cage, Rands, and Rze...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
"Note By Note: The Making of Steinway L1037"
Dates: Sat., Mar. 27 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: St. Teresa’s Academy, 5601 Wyandotte St., Kansas City, Mo.
This film by, Ben Niles, follows the creation of a Steinway Concert Grand from forest floor to concert hall. See the actual piano from the film and hear it played by Kansas City's best pianists.
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Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
"Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race"
Dates: Mar. 16-Jun. 10 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
An exhibition on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Deadly Medicine" examines how Nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help leg...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Ian Davis: Faith in the Future"
Dates: Feb. 26-Jun. 19 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Kemper at the Crossroads, 33 W. 19th St, Kansas City, Mo.
In Ian Davis's paintings, masses of men—all identically dressed in business suits—stand in ambiguous formations. These mysterious narratives painted on canvas place them variously beside a dam, waiting in a packed auditorium or milling about a galle...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Single Sundays Happy Hour
Dates: Sun., Mar. 21 | Location: Northeast | Venue: Houlihans, 8660 Boardwlk Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Single Sunday's are a collaboration of Happy Hours held each and every Sunday at venues throughout the Kansas City Metro.
These events cater to Singles that want to experience a fun atmosphere, meet other singles in their area and enjoy the venu...
Admission: FREE
Type: Dining & Nightlife,Free Events
Karen Davis Project
Dates: Mar. 26-27 | Location: Northwest | Venue: Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa, 777 NW Argosy Pkwy., Riverside, Mo.
Listen to live music on the Casino Bar Stage each Friday and Saturday night. Must be 21 to enter Casino floor....
Admission: FREE
Type: Dining & Nightlife,Free Events
Lonnie McFadden
Dates: Wed., Mar. 24 | Location: Northwest | Venue: Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa, 777 NW Argosy Pkwy., Riverside, Mo.
Listen to live music at Crazy Olives each Wednesday night....
Admission: FREE
Type: Dining & Nightlife,Free Events
Music from Around the World
Dates: Thu., Mar. 25 | Location: Southeast | Venue: Symington Elementary, 8650 Ruskin Wy, Kansas City, Mo.
Imani Winds will present "Music From Around the World" to students at Symington Elementary school as part of its UMKC residency, which also includes a concert on the Conservatory's Signature Series and an on-campus masterclass....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance