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Below is a list of upcoming free events planned in Kansas City for the next month.
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"One Long Moment"
Dates: Dec. 4-31 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Digital Labrador, 125 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

A collection of photographs shot primarily in Europe, but includes photos taken in and around Kansas City by Tom Manning. The title, like the images, captures the quiet balance and stillness visible in so many of these fine prints. ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
First Fridays in the Crossroads Arts District
Dates: First Friday of Every Month | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Crossroads Arts District, Kansas City, Mo.

Join the thousands that explore the galleries and shops in the Crossroads Arts District for one of the nation's largest art walks. ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Major Events,Special Events
Blue Monday Jam: Dennis Winslett
Dates: Nov. 16 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: The Blue Room, 1600 E 18th St, Kansas City, Mo.

The traditional jam session will be led by local saxophonist Dennis Winslett. Come down, bring your axe and sit in with the band - or just swing by to take in one of Kansas City's best jam sessions....
Admission: Free
Type: Free Events,Kansas City Jazz
"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
Kevin Sink Photography Holiday Show
Dates: First Fridays, Nov. 6 & Dec. 4 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Kevin Sink Photography Gallery, 1817 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

A sampling of Kevin's latest landscape images and botanical close-ups will be on display. Stop by to take advantage of some of the best holiday specials we have featured in more than 20 years in business! Books, notecards, posters and fine art print...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Holiday Activities,Special Events
Mythmakers
Dates: Fri., Nov. 20 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Paragraph Gallery, 23 E12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Featuring work by some 14 artists and collaboratives, Mythmakers embodies the youthful, make-your-own-fun, do-it-yourself-and-together spirit of the Kansas City art scene. Organized by artist/curator Megan Mantia, the densely packed exhibition will...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Brian Ruskin Band
Dates: Wed., Nov. 4 & 25 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Phoenix Jazz Club, 302 W 8th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Live Jazz with the Brian Ruskin Band....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Kansas City Jazz
Let's Paint TV
Dates: Nov. 17-24 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Urban Culture Project Space, 21 E 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Begun as a public access television show in Los Angeles and now a YouTube sensation, Let's Paint TV stars John Kilduff, who paints, blends drinks, answers phone calls, and completes a variety of other tasks--all while wearing a suit and running on a...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events
Jonathan Borja, flute
Dates: Wed., Nov. 11 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Diastole, 2501 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo.

Doctoral Lecture-Recital with Patricia Higdon, piano and Sophia Tegart, flute "Mario Lavista: A Composer's Voice Through His Flute Music"
LAVISTA: Game
LAVISTA: Lamento a la memoria de Raúl Lavista
LAVISTA: Danza de las bailarinas de Degas
...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
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
Retroactive
Dates: 11/20/2009-11/20/2009 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Raglan Road Irish Pub & Restaurant, 170 E 14th St., Kansas City, Mo.

80's Tribute Band...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
The Rent
Dates: Fri., Nov. 13 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Raglan Road Irish Pub & Restaurant, 170 E 14th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Variety Dance Band...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
"Ecstatic Resistance"
Dates: Nov. 13-16 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Grand Arts, 1819 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

A group show curated by Emily Roysdon. The exhibition and correspondent events include several commissioned works by Sharon Hayes, My Barbarian, Jeanine Oleson, A.L. Steiner, and will host performances and symposia by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Dean Spade ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater
Dates: Sat., Nov. 14 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: La Esquina. 1000 W 25th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Please join My Barbarian and local participants at La Esquina for the performance of Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater, Co-presented by Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project and Grand Arts. ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Theatre
"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
Kansas City Symphony presents "TubaChristmas"
Dates: Fri., Dec. 4 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Lyric Theatre, 1029 Central St., Kansas City, Mo.

Among the downtown events going on at holiday time, one of the most unique is TubaChristmas, where many dozens (we hope hundreds this year!) of tuba and euphonium players come together to play Christmas carols and celebrate the season.
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Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Music & Dance
"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
Jeremiah Ariaz "Frontier "
Dates: Dec. 4-Jan. 7 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: La Esquina, 1000 W 25th St., Kansas City, Mo.

The exhibition features a new three projection video installation, Frontier, which was filmed in rural Kansas. Shot by three cameras aligned side by side, the piece presents a panoramic view of open sky and prairie, amidst which the artist attempts...
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
Holiday Truck Show
Dates: Sat., Nov. 21 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Blue Gallery, 118 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Featuring functional textiles by Joscelyn Himes.
...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Holiday Activities
Best Little Arts & Crafts Show
Dates: Nov. 21-22 | Location: East | Venue: Sermon Center, 201 N. Dodgion, Independence, Mo.

Shop for arts, crafts, seasonal decorations and more with over 120 vendors and concessions. ...
Admission: Free
Type: Free Events,Special Events
Victorian Christmas and Piano Recital
Dates: Sun., Dec. 6 | Location: East | Venue: Battle of Lexington & Oliver Anderson House, 1101 Delaware St., Lexington, Mo.

The Friends of the Anderson House will host a Victorian Christmas in the Anderson House. Pianist Spencer Hutson from the UMKC Conservatory will provide a recital at 1:30 pm....
Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special 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
"Nativities From Around the World"
Dates: Nov. 14-Dec. 23 | Location: East | Venue: Community of Christ Temple, 201 W River Blvd., Independence, Mo.
Unique and handcrafted nativities and creches from around the world on display....
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Holiday Activities