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Wedding Fair
Dates: Jan 11, Apr 5, June 7, Oct 4 | Location: Not Specified | Venue: Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, Mo.

Are you getting married or know someone who is getting married? Come to our wedding fair and meet local vendors who can help you create your dream wedding....
Admission: Free
Type: Special Events
"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
Easter Brunch
Dates: Apr. 4 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
A popular Kansas City Easter tradition combines elegant food in a lovely Italian-Style courtyard with priceless art in adjacent galleries. Strolling violin music accompanies the festivities....
Admission: $27 members, $30 non-members, $15 children 12 and under.
Type: Special Events
"Magnificent Gifts for the 75th"
Dates: Feb. 13-Apr. 4 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.

"Magnificent Gifts for the 75th" marks the culmination of the Nelson-Atkins' 75th Anniversary year. Featuring 130 of the nearly 400 gifts and promised gifts made in honor of this momentous occasion, the exhibition includes an extraordinary group of ...
Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors, $5 students
Type: Exhibits,Major Events
"Flourishing Patterns: Textiles from Persia and Europe"
Dates: Feb. 24-Aug. 22 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
In the 17th century, contact between Europe, the Middle East and Eastern Asia disseminated ideas, colors, patterns and textiles.
Although floral designs were widely made elsewhere, no other workshops could emulate Persian weaving. The Persian ar...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
Angela Hagenbach
Dates: Sat., Mar. 20 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Jardine's Restaurant & Jazz Club, 4536 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

This versatile Kansas City native sings everything from swinging, straight-ahead jazz and blues to sensual, rhythmic Latin Jazz with seemingly effortless agility. Her lush contralto spans a range of nearly three octaves, and her rich life experience...
Admission: $5
Type: Kansas City Jazz
"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
Mark Southerland presents Snuff Jazz
Dates: Sat., Mar. 20 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Jardine's Restaurant & Jazz Club, 4536 Main St, Kansas City, Mo.

Sons of Brasil
Dates: Thu., Mar. 18 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Jardine's Restaurant & Jazz Club, 4536 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

By incorporating the upbeat, samba-influenced styles of - you guessed it - Brazil into the Kansas City jazz template, the Sons of Brasil have created a sound that's anything but the usual. It's a taste of Rio that you just won't find anywhere else i...
Admission: $3
Type: Kansas City Jazz
Megan Birdsall
Dates: Wed., Mar. 31 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Jardine's Restaurant & Jazz Club, 4536 Main St, Kansas City, Mo.

Megan began singing Jazz in Kansas City in 2002 as a featured vocalist with Greg Richter and David Basse at The New Point. She soon became favored by many other KC notables including Dan Doran, Rob Whitsitt, and Mark Lowery. Later that year she fron...
Admission: $3
Type: Kansas City Jazz
"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
"Bus Stop"
Dates: Mar. 12-Apr. 4 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Spencer Theatre, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.
"Bus Stop" tells the story of the night a March blizzard traps eight strangers in a small cafe 30 miles west of Kansas City. A bus driver falls for the bus stop proprietress, a young local girl becomes fascinated by a professor running away from his...
Type: Theatre
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
Paul Mesner Puppets presents "Rhymes, Rap, Miss Mary Mack"
Dates: Apr. 12-17 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Clap along with Miss Mary Mack as she dances through the wonderful world of Rhymes and nursery Raps. Looking for 50 cents, she baby-sits the Jack Sprats' child who leads her on a merry chase to a bullring, the banks of Hanky Panky, and home again ju...
Admission: $9 adults, $7 children.
Type: Theatre
"Venice. 3 Visions in Glass"
Dates: Mar. 6-Aug. 5 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira and Laura de Santillana explores recent pieces by three of the leading artists working in glass today. Collaborating with workshops on the island of Murano, a historic glass-making center in Venice, these artists hav...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Exploring Egypt: 19th Century Expeditionary Photography"
Dates: Mar. 6-Jul. 18 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
"Exploring Egypt" will present recent acquisitions to the permanent collection of the 19th century photographic rediscovery of Egypt (1845-1860s). It is through these early photographs that people in the western world obtained their first view of th...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
Acoustic Duo - Shea van Winkle
Dates: Thu., Mar. 25 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City Mo.
Gather Your Friends to Enjoy Live Music, Good Eats, Good Drinks all at Californos!...
Type: Dining & Nightlife
"Green Whales"
Dates: Mar. 5-28 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.

Karen looks like a teenager but is actually a brilliant, albeit dateless, 38-year-old philosophy professor. Her wacky sister Joanna concocts a plan to find Karen's “perfect” match while navigating her own tenuous relationship. This bizarrely comic l...
Admission: $20-$30.
Type: Theatre
Mary Atkins Series presents: Kansas City Chorale
Dates: Sat., Apr. 17 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kirkwood Hall, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
The series concludes with a beautiful performance by the Grammy Award-winning Kansas City Chorale. The chorale, featuring 12 men and 12 women, is led by Artistic Director Charles Bruffy, one of the most admired choral conductors in the nation.
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Admission: $10 members, $15 non-members, $5 students.
Type: Music & Dance
Shay Estes Quartet
Dates: Fri., Mar. 19 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Jardine's Restaurant & Jazz Club, 4536 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.

Shay Estes draws from a large and varied musical pallet, from the standards of Tin Pan Alley to Brazilian and Afro-Cuban favorites to adaptations of pop/rock selections by Lennon/McCartney, Tom Waits, Radiohead and more. Shay's deliberate and person...
Admission: $3
Type: Kansas City Jazz
"Celebrating 50 Fabulous Years with America's Favorite Doll"
Dates: Nov. 14, 2009-Dec. 31, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Toy & Miniature Museum, 5235 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.

Fashion diva, career girl, and friend, Barbie® defines girlhood like no other doll. Celebrate her 50th birthday with a look back at her early years and learn how she became an international icon!...
Admission: $6 adults, $5 seniors and students, $4 for children 5-12.
Type: Exhibits
"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 Lecture: Choral Topics
Dates: Sun., Mar. 18 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: UMKC, Grant Hall 122, 5227 Holmes St, Kansas City, Mo.
Master lecture focus on choral toics by Maestro Flummerfelt....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
UMKC Graduate Fellowship Brass Quintet
Dates: Thu., Mar. 18 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, White Recital Hall, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.
Ensemble Series....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
11 O'Clock Jazz Band
Dates: Tue., Apr. 6 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.
Ensemble Series....
Admission: Tickets Required
Type: Music & Dance