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"All the World’s a Stage: Theater and Costume"

Dates: Jan. 20-Jul. 11 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.

In "As You Like It," William Shakespeare compared the world to a stage, human beings to actors and life itself to a dramatic play. In a reverse of this parallelism, we humans visit theaters where we watch actors imitate our life dramas in scripted p...

Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events

"Beneath The Surface - Excavating the Belger Collection"

Dates: Mar. 5-Aug. 6 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Belger Arts Center, 2100 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.

This exhibit will feature rarely seen works by Terry Allen, William Christenberry, Viola Frey, Jasper Johns, Creighton Michael, Ed Ruscha, Robert Stackhouse, Renee Stout, William T. Wiley, and Terry Winters. "Beneath The Surface" will run through Au...

Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits

"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

"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

"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,Free Events

"Expressions of Brush and Ink: Literati and Chan (Zen) Painting of China and Japan"

Dates: Jan.13-Aug. 1 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.

Choice of materials has fundamentally determined the aesthetic qualities of Chinese and Japanese painting. The traces left by the brush loaded with black ink used to form the image—brushwork—were the paramount criterion by which the quality of a pai...

Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events

"Fairy Tale Village"

Dates: Feb. 6-Apr. 25 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Children's tales come to life as you walk into a world of make-believe to interact with characters from favorite stories and rhymes. Relive the adventure of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," run safely inside the "Three Little Pigs" brick house, str...

Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits

"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,Free Events

"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

"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

"Ian Davis: Faith in the Future"

Dates: Feb. 26-Jun. 19 | Location: Downtown 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

"Interlaced Terrain"

Dates: Mar. 26-27 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, 30 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.

Reach...a movement collective inc. has been inspiring, entertaining, and moving its Kansas City and regional audiences for over ten years. Join the dancers, choreographers, performers and creators of Reach for "Interlaced Terrain", a performance loo...

Admission: $12-$15
Type: Theatre

"Memories of Korea"

Dates: Mar. 27-Dec. 31 | Location: East | Venue: Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, 500 W Hwy. 24, Independence, Mo.

This special exhibit recalls the region of Korean, the war and its legacy through the eyes and memories of people who lived and fought there as told through letters, diaries, photos, film and personal memorabilia. ...

Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors, $3 youth ages 6-15.
Type: Exhibits

"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. ...

Admission: FREE
Type: Free Events,Special Events

"Orchids & Ferns"

Dates: Mar. 13-May 9 | Location: East | Venue: Powell Gardens, 1609 NW US Highway 50, Kingsville, Mo.

Powell Gardens' exquisite orchid collection goes on display alongside a variety of woodland ferns in the conservatory. Visitors also can purchase their own orchids from Bird's Botanicals throughout the exhibit. ...

Admission: $9.50 adults, $8.50 seniors, $4 children 5-12.
Type: Exhibits

"Puppets: Depression thru Recession"

Dates: Sept. 10, 2009-Jul. 31, 2010 | Location: East | Venue: Puppetry Arts Institute, 11025 E Winner Rd, Independence, Mo.

Marionettes made by W.P.A artists working at the Nelson-Atkins museum from 1934 thru 1937. Ray Moore, Puppet Designer from TN marionettes and hand puppets and Needle-Felted puppets made by Pam Corcoran of WI....

Admission: $3 adults $1.50 under 16.
Type: Exhibits,Just for Kids

"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 First World War in Color: International Treasures from the National World War I Museum"

Dates: Sept. 1, 2009-Aug. 29, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W 26th St. Kansas City, Mo.

The color and drama of the Great War has been captured in "The First World War in Color: International Treasures from the National World War I Museum." The exhibition is located in the National World War I Museum's Exhibit Hall, an original 1926 bui...

Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors, $4 students, children under 6 are free.
Type: Exhibits

"The Orthostatic Tolerance"

Dates: Feb. 5-Apr. 3 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Grand Arts, 1819 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, Mo.

Grand Arts presents a new project by Bahamian-born, New York-based artist Tavares Strachan. This solo exhibition opens at Grand Arts on Friday, February 5th, 2010 with an opening reception from 6-9pm, and will be on view through April 3rd, 2010. T...

Admission: Free
Type: Exhibits

"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

"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,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

2010 Buffalo Funds N.A.I.A. Division I Men's Basketball National Championship

Dates: Mar. 17-23 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Municipal Auditorium, 301 W. 13th St., Kansas City, Mo.

The history continues with the 73rd Annual Buffalo Funds N.A.I.A. Division I Men's Basketball National Championship. The tournament attracts 32 teams from across the country, over 600 coaches and athletes and approximately 40,000 fans....

Admission: $5-$12
Type: Sports,Top Events

2010 NCAA Women's Basketball Regional Finals

Dates: Mar. 28 & 30 | Location: Downtown Area | Venue: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Catch the excitement of NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship when four teams descend upon Kansas City. Below is the schedule: Saturday, March 27 Open Practice - all four teams will hold practice sessions at Sprint Center. This eve...

Admission: $48 adults, $20 children for All-Session Passes.
Type: Sports,Top Events

Acoustic Duo

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 at Californos!...

Type: Music & Dance

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