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EVENTS/EXHIBITS
20th Annual Spring Break Outreach, sponsored by Care of Poor People Incorporated, providing resources for the poor and homeless, noon-4 pm, 3244 Main, 816-920-6119, www.coppinc.com
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, exhibition on loan from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, free, March 16-June 10 – The National Archives at Kansas City, 400 W Pershing Rd., 816-268-8000, www.archives.gov/central-plains
Dino Lab, interactive paleontology exhibit, ongoing –
Science City Exhibit Gallery, Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., 816-460-2020,
www.unionstation.org
"Explore Evolution!"a free multimedia
exhibition that gives visitors the opportunity to understand and experience
how scientists conduct research on evolution, ongoing to 2007 –
University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research
Center, KU Campus, Lawrence, www.news.ku.edu
"Fascinatin' Rhythm," Annual Ballet Ball, start at $250, cocktails 6:30 pm, dinner 8 pm, dance after dinner, March 6 – Muehlebach Hotel, 12th & Baltimore, 816-531-7114, www.kcbguild.org
The First World War in Color: International Treasures
from the National World War I Museum, thru Sept. 1,
2010 – The National World War I Musuem, Liberty Memorial, 816-784-1918, www.theworldwar.org
Five Star Gala, Honoring Henry W. Bloch & Bloch Scholars Program, Metropolitan Community College, March 25 – Kansas City Marriott Downtown, 200 W 12th St., 816-759-1195, www.mccgala.com
"Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times," a new permanent
exhibition featuring artifacts and objects from the Truman Library
collection, ongoing – Truman Presidential Museum & Library,
500 W U.S. 24 Hwy., 816-268-8200, 800-833-1225 or www.trumanlibrary.org
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| “You Are Sharing the Load! A Hereditarily Ill Person Costs 50,000 Reichsmarks on Average up to the Age of Sixty,” reproduced in a high school biology textbook by Jakob Graf. The image illustrates Nazi propaganda on the need to prevent births of the “unfit.” From the Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race exhibition, March 16-June 10, National Archives at Kansas City (image courtesy United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) |
"Internal Documents," exhibit of sketchbooks, journals and diaries by local, national and international artists and writers, thru March 27 – The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, 816-753-1090, www.writersplace.org
Kansas-Nebraska Act Exhibit, original Act, and
It's Big exhibit, archive holdings from the region,
free, 9 am--5 pm, Tues-Sat., thru Jan.23, 2011 – National Archives
of Kansas City, 400 W Pershing Rd., 816-268-8000, www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city
Loula Long Combs: Kansas City's First Lady of the Show Ring,
horse show ring, $2.50, $2, ongoing – Kansas City Museum, 3218
Gladstone Blvd., 816-483-8300, www.kcmuseum.com
Mapping Missouri, exhibit thru May 29 – The National Archives of Kansas City, 400 W Pershing Rd., 816-268-8000, www.archives.gov/central-plains
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| Imperial German uniform from the exhibiti, The First World War in Color: International Treasures from the National World War I Museum, thru Sept. 1, 2010 |
New View Career Fair, 10 am-2 pm, March 24 – Metropolitan Community College-Longview, Recreation Center, 500 SW Longview Rd., www.mcckc.edu/longviewcareers
Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas, photography exhibit, thru March 7 – Central Library, 14 W 10th St., 816-701-3407, www.kclibrary.org
"Prairie Gold: Opportunity & Struggle, Douglas County
1820-1861", ongoing – Watkins Community Museum of History,
1047 Massachusetts, Lawrence, KS 785-841-4109
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| Wounded 1st Cavalry Division soldiers at an aid station outside Yongdong, July 25, 1950. Part of the Memories of Korea exhibition, Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, March 27-Dec. 31 (photo by U.S. Army, source, D.M. Giangreco, War in Korea: 1950-1953, Presidio Press, courtesy of the Truman Library & Museum) |
Puppets: Depression thru Recession, exhibit,
thru July 2010 – Puppetry Arts Institute, 11025 E Winner Rd.,
816-833-9777
"Treasures of the Desert and Winter Blooms," $7, $6, $3, thru March 7 – Powell Gardens, Kansas City's Botanical Garden, 1609 NW US Hwy. 50, Kingsville 816-697-2600, www.PowellGardens.org
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS Back to Top
"Abraham Lincoln and the Moral Character," presented by Pulitzer Prize winning author Daniel Walker Howe, 6:30 pm, March 4 – Plaza Library, 4801 Main, 816-701-3407, www.kclibrary.org
All Souls Forum, free, 10 am, – All Souls
Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, 913-381-7251, www.allsoulskc.org
"An Evening with Guion Bluford," America's first black astronaut, re-opening of the Lucile H. Bluford Branch Library, 6:30 pm, March 5 – Central Library, 14 W 10th St., 816-701-3407, www.kclibrary.org
Anti-Nuclear demonstration, 5-6 pm, every Wednesday
– entry to Kansas City Plant, operated by Honeywell for the
U.S. Dept. of Energy, 913-206-4088, www.kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com
Building Better Child Care, $18 per session, "Children with Special Needs," April 8; "Science for Young Thinkers," April 29 – University of MO Extension, 1106 W Main, Blue Springs 816-252-5051
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| Author John McPhee, Central Library, March 29 |
Colombia
Support Network of Kansas City, meeting about the increasing scope
of U.S.-sponsored operations in Colombia, South America, second Sunday
of each month – email for location, info@csnkc.org
or www.colombiasupport.net
Community of Reason, free, 1 pm, – Rm. 307,
Haag Hall, UMKC, 52nd & Rockhill Rd., 816-561-1866, www.communityofreason.net
The Harmonica Club of Greater KC. meeting & play-along,
6:30 pm, 2nd Thursday of the month – Wexford Place, "Stafford
Room," 6500 N Crosby, 816-790-3724, www.harmonicaclubkc.org
Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research, free public
lectures, Sun., 10:45 a.m.-1 p.m., Wed. & Fri., 7:15-9:30 p.m.
– 5916 E. 40 Hwy., 816-921-4066,
www.idmr.net
Jeff Miron, libertarian economist, "Obamanomics: Growing the Pie or Dividing the Pie?" 6:30 pm, March 16 – Plaza Library, 4801 Main, 816-701-3407, www.kclibrary.org
John McPhee, Pulitzer Prize winning author, 6:30 pm, March 29 – Central Library, 14 W 10th St., 816-701-3407, www.kclibrary.org
The Kansas City Pachyderm Club, weekly luncheon every
Tuesday, 11:45 am – Hoof & Horn Room, Golden Ox Restaurant,
1600 Genessee, 816-842-2866, www.kcpachy.com
Kansas City Radio & TV Legends. luncheon meetings,
ongoing, 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month – Dillingham Room,
The Golden Ox Restaurant, 1600 Genessee, 816-842-2866, 913-491-4000
Latino Writers Collective, free, 6 pm, March 20; April 17 – Kansas City Museum, 3218 Gladstone Blvd., 816-483-8300, www.unionstation.org/kansascitymuseum/
The Lens of Youth: To Kill a Mockingbird, "The Searching the Psyche through Cinema," film and panel discussion, 1 pm, March 21 – Plaza Library, 4801 Main, 816-701-3407, www.kclibrary.org
The ManKind Project of Kansas City, New Warrior Training Weekend, $400-$650, April 16-19 – Chihowa Retreat Center, 3553 Osage Rd., Perry, KS 785-749-2226, http://kansascity.mkp.org/
Mark Lee Gardner, author of To Hell on a Fast Horse, 6:30 pm, March 4 – Plaza Library, 4801 Main, 816-701-3407, www.kclibrary.org
Peace & Justice Activities: KC Iraq Task Force: 2 p.m., first Sunday of the month — Holy Family Catholic Worker
House, 913-334-7462; regular meetings every 7 p.m., Thursdays;
www.kciraqtaskforce.org
Peace Demonstrations, 4 pm, every Sunday, JC Nichols Fountain,
47th & Main, 5-6 pm, every Tuesday,63rd & Ward Parkway; every
Wednesday, 5 pm, Iraqi Anti-War demonstration, College & Quivira,
816-931-5256, 913-334-7462,
www.kciraqtaskforce.org
StoryTarium, films, lectures & other history-related
programming on local & regional history, free, 11 am, 1 &
3 pm, 12:30, 1:30 & 3:30 pm (Sundays), Tuesday-Sunday –
Kansas City Museum, 3218 Gladstone Blvd., 816-483-8300
Supporting Ourselves & Others at Risk, support group dedicated
to addressing the needs of women at increased risk for breast &/or
ovarian cancer, first Thursdays – Menorah Medical Center, Conference
Room A/B, 5721 W 119th St., 913-663-2100 or www.supportingthoseatrisk.org
Survivors of Suicide Support Group, open peer-to-peer
group with professional support, first Tuesday of every month –
Independence Regional Hospital, 816-373-8470
Westport Writer's Workshop, once a month on Saturdays –
call 816-753 8111 for the next meeting time and place
"Writing Jazz," lecture series, free, 7:30 pm, "Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit: Constructing Black Women's Conversion Narratives in Jazz," w/ Tammy Kernodle, March 9; "From Hepcat to Rebel to Heroin Fiend: The Jazz Trope in the Popular Imagination," w/ Paul Lopes, April 15 – Spooner Hall, KU campus, 1340 Jayhawk Blvd., 785-864-8860
TEEN ACTIVITIES Back to Top
Gear Up Tutoring, for grades 6-12, every Monday evening from
6-9 pm, parents must fill out a registration form – West Wyandotte
Library, 1737 N. 82 St., 913-596-5800 or www.kckpl.lib.ks
Homework Help & Coaches, Mon.-Thurs., 4-7 pm, Sun., 1-4
pm, weekly – Central Resource Library, 9875 W 87th St., 913-495-2400, www.jocolibrary.org/homework
Open Mic Night, every Tuesday, all ages, 6:30-7:30 pm –
Kansas City Young Audiences, 5601 Wyandotte, www.kcya.org
SOS (Synergy Services Street Outreach Team) Group, 3:30 pm, every Monday
– L.H. Bluford Library, 3050 Prospect, 816-701-3482; 4:30 pm,
every Friday – North-East Library, 6000 Wilson Rd., 816-701-3485
Teen Psychic Program, for grades 6 to 12, call for times –
KCK Main Library, 625 Minnesota Ave., 913-551-3280, www.kckpl.lib.ks.us
FAMILY/CHILDREN Back to Top
Deanna Rose Childrens' Farmstead, 12-acre park featuring gardens,
a one-room schoolhouse, Kanza Indian encampment and more – Deanna
Rose, 138th & Switzer, 913-897-2360 or www.opkansas.org/_Vis/Farmstead/
Half-Pint Space Show, pre-schoolers, kindergarteners,
12 pm, Thursday, ongoing – Gottlieb Planetarium at Union Station,
30 W Pershing Rd., 816-460-2020, www.unionstation.org
Independent Art Sessions, for ages 5-12, Monday thru Saturday
sessions – Kaleidoscope, 25th & McGee, 816-274-8300, www.hallmarkkaleidoscope.com
Kids Incorporated, activities and support group for parents
and children ages birth to 5, 2nd Tuesdays – First Baptist Church,
303 S Grove, Independence, 816-903-0188 or www.geocities.com/kckidsinc
Marble Crazy 2010 Marble Collectors Show, free, 9 am-3 pm, March 7 – Holiday Inn, 151st & I-35 (exit 215), Olathe www.kcmarbleclub.com
Mother Nature Reads, storytime for children 2 to 6,
Saturdays, ongoing – Lakeside Nature Center, 4701 E Gregory Blvd.,
816-513-8960
Nelson-Atkin's Art Classes, for ages 3 to 18, preregistration
is required and ongoing, call 816-751-1ART – Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art, 4525 Oak St., 816-561-4000,
www.nelson-atkins.org
Storytimes at KCK Libraries, Tuesdays for ages 4-5, Wednesdays
for ages 2-3, Thursdays for ages 2-3 and 0-18 months – West Wyandotte
Library, 1737 N 82nd St., 913-596-5800; Wednesdays for ages 2 and
up, Thursdays, storytime in Spanish for 2-5 year olds – Argentine
Library, 2800 Metropolitan, 913-722-7400
Weekly Playgroup, with the KC chapter of Mocha Moms,
a support group for mothers of color who do not hold full-time jobs,
every Monday – Roanoke Park, E Roanoke Dr. & Valentine Rd.,
816-531-0439 or www.mochamoms.org
Zooville, exhibits and interactive activities
for kids, with live animal shows and animal-themed short plays, ongoing – Kansas City Zoo,
Meyer Blvd. & Swope Pkwy., 816-513-5800 or www.kansascityzoo.org
SPORTS/HEALTH Back to Top
2010 NCAA Women's Basketball Regional Finals, varying times, March 28 & 30 – Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 800-745-3000, 816-949-7000, www.sprintcenter.com
2010 NCAA Volleyball Championships, varying times, Dec. 16 & 18 – Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 800-745-3000, 816-949-7000, www.sprintcenter.com
Bellator Fighting tryouts, mixed martial artst, noon registration, March 6 – Ringside Inc.'s John Brown Training Center, 14865 W 105th St., www.bellator.com
Free State Trail Run, 100k, 26.5 mi, 40 mi, April 24 – Clinton Lake, Lawrence, www.psychowyco.com
KC Curling Club, Monday night curling – Pepsi Ice Midwest,
135th & Quivira, 913-599-9965, 816-523-2345, www.kccurling.com
KC Chiefs – Arrowhead Stadium, 1 Arrowhead
Dr. off I-70, 816-920-9300, www.kcchiefs.com
KC Flying Disc Club, for games, events, courses –
www.kcfdc.org
KC Roller Warriors, – Municipal Auditorium,
301 W 13th St., www.kcrollerwarriors.com
KC Royals – Kauffman Stadium,
I-70 & Blue Ridge Cutoff, 1-800-676-9257, www.royals.com
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Spartans, basketball, ABA – www.kansascityspartans.com
KC T-Bones – Community America Ballpark, 913-328-BALL, www.tbonesbaseball.com
KC Wizards – All home games at Community America
Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK, 913-387-3400, www.kcwizards.com
KU Jayhawks – Kansas University Campus, Lawrence, www.kusports.com
Line Creek Community Center Ice Arena classes,
start Nov.3 – 5940 NW Waukomis Dr., 816-513-0760
MU Tigers – Hernes Center, Columbia, 1-800-CAT-PAWS, www.mizzou.edu
Missouri Mavericks, hockey, – Independence
Event Center, 816-252-7825, www.missourimavericks.com
National MS Society Events: Tai Chi for MS Wellness, 10:15-11:15
a.m., Turning Point, 8900 Stateline Rd., Ste. 240, Leawood, 816-942-2020;
MS Aquatics, 11-11:30 a.m., Grandview Community Center, 13500 Byars
Rd., Grandview, call 816-763-5524 ex.104 for specific dates–
www.msmidamerica.org
UMKC Kangaroos – UMKC Intercollegiate Athletics, SRC
201, 5100 Rockhill Rd., 816-235-1036, www.umkckangaroos.collegesports.com
Walk MS Johnson County, pledge minimum $25 donation, 8 am, April 10 – Shawnee Mission Park Theater in the Park, 7900 Renner Rd.; Walk MS Kansas City, April 17; Walk MS Liberty, April 24 – 913-432-3927, http://nationalmssociety.org/chapters/walk-ms-mid-america/index.aspx
World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA), Games held Thursdays
from 6:45-8:45 p.m., Southwest Charter School, 301-318-7073, www.kickball.com
YMCA MS Wellness Program, various days/times – Red Bridge
YMCA, 11300 Holmes, 816-942-2020
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